Create a simple Ajax RSS Widget with Jquery
Alex Holt
A medium to advanced tutorial for using Jquery to display a set of RSS headlines as links in a widget on your page. There are code samples on this page.
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This is a collection of the articles I've written over the past 8 years, I've edited and tidied them up for clarity. I also got rid of a lot of older, less relevant (read: stupid) articles. I'm going for clean, and quality.
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Digital Color Meter
Alex Holt
Digital Color Meter is basically your Photoshop colour picker for your entire mac desktop. Gone are the days where I needed to open a PSD just to work out the hex codes for a colour off a site.
Read MoreCreating an accessible navigation menu from a UL
Alex Holt
A really simple (and old/obvious) tutorial for building an accessible HTML menu using a CSS styled UL - common practice. Styling the nav of a site is something we do.. well, everytime we build a site. The nav of a site is one if the most important (and often most neglected) elements. So what can we do to make sure our nav is as accessible as possible?
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