Miscellaneous

How to include jQuery dynamically, aka, check to see if it exists

I cannot tell you how many times I’ve walked into a project that required the following: Fancy JavaScript alerts, dialogs, and validation. JavaScript assets that will distributed to subsites / satellite sites. Of these sites, some may or may not already have these assets already defined. What I’m referring to specifically is jQuery. While building a tasty and user-friendly form.. I...

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XZero Classifieds – jQuery Expanding Country List

XZero Classifieds – jQuery Expanding Country List

XZero Scripts has released a great tool for developer looking for a classified script – XZero Community Classifieds. With an strong and eager community helping to further the development of the script, many people have taken the liberty to release their own mods. One modification we thought would be awesome to give back to the community is the expanding drop-down city list in the right side...

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Is Content the King Still? (Who’s Taking His Place)

Is Content the King Still? (Who’s Taking His Place)

Since the very first blog, written around an ancient campfire somewhere in the moist foothills of Seattle, content has been crowned the undisputed king for ages. The king ruled over all that was written, be they blogs, articles, ads, fiction, or a killer love letter. All that was copy sat at the feet of the king. Nothing succeeded without content. Writing without it was cast from the kingdom,...

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Setup Gmail with Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook Express

Setup Gmail with Outlook 2003, Outlook 2007 and Outlook Express

Google Mail, the beloved backbone of many small business email communications. Gmail is seen as more professional than your average ‘@yahoo.com’ and ‘@aol.com’, but it shares the same favored monthly fee, free. One service Yahoo! does not offer for free is POP while Gmail does. POP does not mean anything to you other than a fancy name for soda? Click the...

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Magento Fontis FCKeditor WYSIWYG Transactional Email

Magento Fontis FCKeditor WYSIWYG Transactional Email

Fontis has released an extension for Magento (1.3.2.3 at the time of writing this) that allows for a WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get, aka, a MS Word like editor) for various sections of Magento. This generally allows you to format and style your product descriptions, category descriptions, etc. Only one problem, it doesn’t work in every section of Magento....

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Favicon – Do It Yourself, The Right Way

Favicon – Do It Yourself, The Right Way

Don’t you love it when you’re browsing the internet and all of a sudden you come across the most slick website imaginable… and the one thing that stands out above everything is a kickass favicon? What’s a favicon you ask? Click the “Faviwhat?” tab below. Creating the Favicon Show it off! Faviwhat? The creation: You have a snazzy logo and want the icon next...

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