Seven Smooth Steps to Superb Grids
One of the new trends among web designers has to be grid design. While grid design is a simple concept, there are now so many tools and ways of doing it that it might get confusing for newcomers. So here is my Sacha Greifs way of doing things, i.e. how Sacha would explain grid design to someone who’s never heard about it.
Create a timed stylesheet using PHP
My thanks to Harry Roberts for this little article on creating a timed stylesheet using PHP.
Basically this tiny PHP script will show you how to make a stylesheet switch depending on the time of day, similar to the one found here.
Ajax Pagination script
This script lets you draw content from multiple pages and display them on demand, using Ajax. Pagination links are automatically created, with each page downloaded only when requested (speeding up delivery and saving on bandwidth. An overview of this script now:
- The pagination interface for each Ajax Pagination instance is “free floating”, meaning it can be positioned anywhere on the page and repeated multiple times as well.
- Each page within the paginated content is fetched individually and only when requested for sake of efficiency.
- The settings for each Ajax Pagination instance is stored neatly in a variable object for ease of portability. This variable can be manually defined or easily dynamically written out based on information returned from the sever, such as via PHP/ MySQL.
- The entire paginated content can be refreshed with new data on demand, with the pagination links updated automatically as well.
This script is ideal for showing multi-page content such as “user comments” without reloading the rest of the page each time a comment page is requested.
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Accessible News Slider
Accessible News Slider is a JavaScript plugin built for the jQuery library by Brian Reindel. It meets the accessibility requirements as outlined by WCAG 1.0.