Junkie Tips: Disable Right Click Menu
June 4th 2011
Although this is not recommended from a usability standpoint, sometimes occasions call for the need to disable the browsers right click menu. Here’s a nice snippet to accomplish that:
Posts by Nate Smith
I am a 28 year old designer / developer from Peoria, IL who is very into PHP, WordPress, Django and jQuery. I have a huge passion for the web and love learning new things. You can follow me on twitter @imns81
Breaking Down a YUI3 Widget
May 31st 2011
YUI3 has these great things called widgets. For you jQuery guys, a widget is sorta like a plugin. Widget driven development is nice because it allows you to modularize your code, based on certain element of your site. You might for instance have a search results widget or an advanced search widget. Today I’m going [...]
Junkie Tip: Check If An Element Exists
May 27th 2011
A good way to see if the element you are looking for exists (with jQuery).
A Closer Look at jQuery’s delegate Method
May 26th 2011
jQuery has several ways to attach an event to an element, and sometimes which one to use is not so obvious. In this article I am going to be focusing on .delegate() and some of the benefits of using it. There are two primary times when delegate comes in handy. The first scenario is when [...]
Create a Simple Twitter Widget with YUI 3 and YQL
May 24th 2011
I have been working a lot with YUI3 at my day job lately. One of the coolest new things about YUI 3 is YQL. YQL has a ton of features, but the short version is that it standardize different api’s into one nice and easy to use format. Today I thought I would do a [...]
Junkie Tips: Using Protocol Relative URLs
May 1st 2011
If you’ve ever created a site that need https, then you have probably ran into this issue. In IE, you get a warning about some of the content not being secure. This warning is caused because you are serving some of your media, like images and CSS from a non https domain. A really quick [...]
Jobety the web design job search engine has launched
April 30th 2011
Jobety.com, a side project I am really excited about has just launched. Jobety is unique in that it’s the first job search engine to focus solely on the web design and web development industry. Designers and programmers that are seeking a employment should also be excited about Jobety, because it allows them to see jobs [...]
Tasty Canned Unicorn Meat Giveaway
February 23rd 2011
Jobety is giving away 3 delicious cans of unicorn meat. I bet your mouth is watering now! Jobety, which is still in development, is a job search engine built for web designers and developers. The site is scheduled to launch in early April 2011. All you have to do to enter is go to their [...]
The Ultimate Freelance Job Board List 2010
October 13th 2010
Ask most freelancers what the hardest part about their job is and they will tell you finding new clients. It’s a pain to do and takes up time you could be devoting to other more important things. One thing is for sure though, new jobs are what powers your freelancing business and you want to [...]
WordPress 3.2 Ditching both PHP and MySQL 4
July 23rd 2010
WordPress announced today that they will will be dropping support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4 with the release of version 3.2 of their software. This is a bold move for Automattic, because they have been pretty strong proponents of making their software work on almost every server. I guess at some point in time [...]
Create A Simple PHP Contact Form
Every site needs a contact form, but for a lot of beginners, the code can be a bit intimidating at first. In this article we are go...
The Ultimate Freelance Job Board List 2010
Ask most freelancers what the hardest part about their job is and they will tell you finding new clients. It's a pain to do and takes ...
Wordpress Custom Menus
Recently introduced in Wordpress 3 is the ability to create custom menus. For anyone who has ever developed a theme, this was long a ...
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Junkie Tips: Disable Right Click Menu
Although this is not recommended from a usability standpoint, sometimes occasions call for the need to disable the browsers right click...
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Breaking Down a YUI3 Widget
YUI3 has these great things called widgets. For you jQuery guys, a widget is sorta like a plugin. Widget driven development is nice b...
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Junkie Tip: Check If An Element Exists
A good way to see if the element you are looking for exists (with jQuery). ...
Create A Simple PHP Contact Form
Ya that is what I've been doing I was just hoping...
Create A Simple PHP Contact Form
The action just means submit the form to the current page...
Create A Simple PHP Contact Form
You can change the forms action to the URL of your...