Tag: customizing

A jQuery snippet to hide unnecessary support

We had a list of links that wouldn’t sit still. The client would occasionally change the links, including some to PDF files. To accommodate users, we added a link to Adobe Reader. But when the list had no PDFs, the Reader link became superfluous. Conventional wisdom would have left the Reader link on the page [...]

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Building a useful not-found search results page

The trouble with complex search tools is all the dead ends. When a client asked for a way to search their inventory, I went a step further: A search tool that doesn’t leave people guessing what might yield results.

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Using JavaScript to populate select lists through the ages

When two different clients had the same problem, I knew a bit of portable code would solve both. But would it work next year?

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CSS button recipe

Making clickable text stand out from non-clickable text has been a staple of the web since the web was called the mesh. How do you make a button look tappable — without graphics? By using CSS3.

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Validate email with regex in PHP

Did a user enter a valid email address, or just a bunch of letters and numbers? Learn how to check emails in PHP with this handy function.

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Selectively changing paragraph margins

How do you apply HTML padding everywhere except where it’s in the way? With one of four CSS.

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Cunning changes to Titanium iOS keyboards

How do you access different preset keyboard layouts for iPhones and iPads with Titanium? Refer to this visual properties list.

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The difference between copying and stealing

What makes copying easier than stealing? Thought and effort separate those who push their medium from their copycats.

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