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Quick Tips – jQuery: Giving your selectors some context

Jul 12th

Posted by Andy G in Tips

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The jQuery function allows for a second, lesser known about, parameter which tells the function to only search for the element within the context of the given element.

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Quick Tips – CSS: Page breaking for print

Jul 9th

Posted by Andy G in Tips

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The following code snippet will allow you to set the page breaking behavior to break before every h1 element, giving you a lot of control over how printed versions of your website will be displayed.

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Quick Tips – CSS: Change Text Highlight Color

Jul 6th

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With CSS, on the standards compliant browsers such as Firefox, Chrome or Safari, you can decide what color shade the highlighted text appears for users

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Ultima Online – An Isometric Trip Down Memory Lane

Jul 5th

Posted by Andy G in Games

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Double click pickaxe. Click ground. Wait. Fail. Double click pickaxe. Click ground. Gather.

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Adding custom post types to Wordpress 3

Jul 1st

Posted by Andy G in Development

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In the latest version of the Wordpress blogging platform, the developers have (finally) introduced Custom Post Types, allowing it to become more of a CMS without extensive use of plugins. Unfortunately, after installing the latest version, you’ll probably have noticed that there doesn’t immediatly appear to be any way to create your own. That’s because

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