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Following are 10 Useful jQuery snippets for any website. To use these snippets, you must include jQuery library in your page first and then add the snippets inside DOM ready function as follow:
$(document).ready(function() {
// add your snippets here
});
1. Display Warning Message for IE 6 Users
if ( (jQuery.browser.msie) && (parseInt(jQuery.browser.version) < [...]

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August 19, 2010 – Sydney, Australia – Anansi Web Development announces its latest iPhone web app project, Store Locator for iPhone, a powerful yet simple and easy-to-use Store Locator web app for iPhone users. Store Locator for iPhone offers a hosted solution for franchise owners and service providers who are looking to have a [...]

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We have recently launched our latest iPhone app project, Store Locator for iPhone (http://sitelocator.mobi). It’s a hosted web app solution designed for franchise owners and business in multiple locations in Australia like Woolworths, Kmart, Coles, JB Hi-Fi, Pizza Hut, KFC, WestPac, ANZ, Vodafone, Optus, Medibank, Westfield etc. Have a look at our proof-of-concept [...]

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Problogger is having a 7 Link Challenge and inviting all bloggers to participate. The idea of the challenge is to create a blog post that links to 7 different posts on your blog or other people blogs. It sounded fun and so I thought I’d give it a go for this Web Development [...]

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WordPress 3.0 was released a few days ago, and it’s more powerful than it has ever been. And if you are thinking of using WordPress 3 for your blog or even as a CMS, I recommend a self-hosted version rather than the free version hosted on WordPress.com.
So, what are the server requirements [...]

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The following Javascript will clear default text value in input boxes when you click on them. To trigger the Javascript, you’ll need to specify both title and value attributes and set class of the input field to “text”. jQuery library is required for this to work.
Javascript

$(‘.text’).focus(function () {
if ($(this).val() == $(this).attr(“title”)) [...]

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I was looking to buy a premium WordPress Theme for one of my projects a while ago and I came across ThemeForest and WooThemes. There are other premium WordPress Theme stores like Elegant Themes, Templatic, Template Monster, etc, but ThemeForest and WooThemes are leading the market. After looking around for a while, [...]

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In this step-by-step tutorial, I’m going to show you exactly how to code an HTML email; be it an HTML Email Signature or HTML Email Newsletter.

1. Changing the background color

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" bgcolor="#333333">
<tr>
<td>

</td>
</tr>
</table>

2. Setting a fixed width and background color for [...]

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iPad was released a month ago, and is made available in Australia a few days ago, but already, I am seeing a lot of big name companies and brands trying to optimise thier websites for iPad. While I have yet to optimise a website for iPad, I have put together some notes about designing [...]

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I needed a script that copies a text (in my case, coupon code) onto clipboard and then open the web address associated with the coupon in a new window for my Coupons for Webmasters page. For the clipboard copying, I’m using ZeroClipboard script written by Joseph Huckaby. ZeroClipboard is a free and [...]

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