The web development discussion for today will be about dynamically adding HTML elements using DOM and Javascript. We will be emulating a feature you’ve probably seen all over the web, most notably on GMail when it let’s you add attachments to emails. GMail presents the user with an attachment button. The user can then click [...]
I’d like to introduce resident “digital home entertainment” expert and personal friend Travis Marceau. A little background. Travis is a 19 year old freshman at Texas A&M. He’s majoring in Computer Science, and has (by far) the coolest dorm-room I’ve ever seen. When I asked Travis if he’d be interested in doing a guest article [...]
I’ve got a real simple tutorial today, but this will hopefully be really useful to anybody searching for this type of effect. What we’re going to make today is a notification system that will show certain messages to the user. We will then let the user dismiss this notification by clicking the close button. The [...]
It’s almost May, and you know what that means? It’s almost summer. And you know what that means? It’s almost time for college (if you are an ‘07 senior). I’ve been counting down the days, and I have started to list all the things I want to bring and all the things I need to [...]
I’ve never been one for the rumor-guessing, but I’ve got some info here that might be of interest. I know what a lot of people are thinking. I have no former reputation for rumors, and to that I can’t really prove what I’m posting is reliable. All I can say is that my source informed [...]
Right now, blogs are still in their infancy. Look back just a few years. It was just a handful of the population. They were relatively useless and basically brushed off. Now we have large companies backing blogs (see Google’s Blogger). We have solid, open-source, “poeticly-coded” software like WordPress. Blogs also are increasing in prestige and [...]
OS X has a lot of great effects. These are great building blocks for creating effects for the web. You might have seen my previous tutorial on creating a Dashboard-Like effect using JS and CSS. This tutorial will show you how to create a Spotlight-Like effect for your search boxes. Take a look at the [...]
Dustin Bachrach is an 18 year old Rice student and developer for both OS X and the web. He also deals a lot with design work and Photoshop. He blogs technology, Apple, programming, and life.
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