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All Things Music used a theme from Elegant Themes with almost no modifications. The client has added their own content and required very little maintenance or change from us. A perfect example of the power and ease of use WordPress provides to the client. No need to keep paying the “webmaster” every time something changes. Popularity:...
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The Public Interest Projects web site is a semi-custom theme. It started with a pre-made base theme that’s been so heavily customized not much is left. The PIP site was also a challenge in that the project suffered from regular scope creep. One of the items added was a feature with Google Maps API. The client wanted to show where they were supporting projects, but not give out the...
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In Part I, I showed how to get jqModal and jQuery 1.4.x to play nice together. That was huge for me. Then I wanted to use jqModal in WordPress. It wasn’t working. Drove me nuts. Yet the way to resolve it was simple… of course if you’re a javascript ninja, you’re probably laughing at me. But this post isn’t for javascript ninjas… it’s for...
read moreFrom the jQuery Web Site: jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript. Popularity:...
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I love jqModal for adding cool AJAX effects. It’s light, flexible and does a TON of cool modal lifting. Except it didn’t play nice with jQuery 1.4.x. It would break. It drove me nuts. I’m OK at jQuery and Javascript, so it wasn’t quickly obvious how to fix it. Thanks to Oleg responding to a sort of related post at StackOverflow I now, too, have the answer! Oleg...
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