BkgSlider is a jQuery plugin giving you the opportunity to have a CSS background-image gallery. Demo You can check out an example on the demonstration page. Usage There’s nothing simpler than to use BkgSlide : you just have to include the jQery library and the BkgSlider plugin in your page and instanciate the plugin with [...]
After long and boring researchs on how to automatically add a trailing slash ( ‘/’ ) after my web sites’ addresses, I thought some people might enjoy sharing the results of this quest… For those who would wonder the purpose in that, it’s once again about search engine optimization. Indeed, for a search engine, http://www.webagency.com/name [...]
Introduction Recently, I’ve been looking at what is called “elastic” css layout. Basically, il’t about using the “em” unit instead of the pixel. This unit is a relative unit, as the “%”, but it is relative to the current font size instead of the container size. To understand its usefulness, one has to know that [...]
Today we’ll see how to manipulate DOM elements with php. We’ll take for example a very useful function which is oddly kind of hard to find : how to add a specific attribute to some HTML elements. This can be useful for example to add a rel=”nofollow” attribute to some links to let the search [...]
Javascript is a very useful language for many things nowadays. Unfortunately, each browser implements it in a different way, and of course they don’t offer the same way of handling events ! Let’s take an example : you’ve just made a div that you can drag at will with the mouse. We click, the dragging [...]
What would we do if we didn’t have Internet Explorer to help us torture our brain ? We would risk getting bored ! It appears that in the 7th version of this browser beloved by masochists deveveloppers, we still don’t have the useful possibility of disabling an option in a ‘select’. Hopefully, javascript (enhanced by [...]
You’ve decided to use url-rewriting to have more readable and ‘user-friendly’ ones. That is probably a good thing, given the fact that search engines too prefer them this way. But careful, there are some pitfalls to avoid ! Indeed, with this type of configuration, we don’t make a good distinction between content and directory… and [...]
What to do when we have several domain names pointing to the same site to handle best the referencing ? Be it to protect the closest names (ex: mysite.com and my-site.com) or to take advantage of the various TLD (Top Level Domain) (ex: mysite.com and mysite.org), there are good reasons to use several domain names [...]
When trying to optimize a site for a better referencement on search engines, one quickly dives into the underground world of SEO (Search Engine Optimization). There is in that world a lot of common sense and a few tricks to know, along with some concepts flirting with the sacred, like the well known Google’s PageRank. [...]
In the world of computers like in any other, good ideas exist that spread slower than others. The ‘pickwhip’ used in the Adobe After Effects application is one of those. It’s a tool the allows you to link an element to another in a simple way. This can be useful to link the color of [...]
