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Mojalbum.com launch

Jan Hančič — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:18:21 +0000

I have updated my showcase page, notice the first item in the list: Mojalbum.com. This web page is not new (it was “born” more than 5 years ago), but our company has bought it earlier this year. And now we have re-realesed it after we have built it from scratch. All that is left is [...]

Change page title with jQuery

Jan Hančič — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:15:16 +0000

I just had a need to change the title of the page with JavaScript, and since I use jQuery I imediatelly wrote this: $( 'title' ).html ( 'new title' ); and it didn’t work. Ok, how about this: $( 'title' ).val ( 'new title' ); nope. So after some googling I found out that jQuery just can’t do that. [...]

Setting PHP variables from JavaScript

Jan Hančič — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 07:10:02 +0000

There’s a great deal of forum threads floating around internet where someone is asking “how to set a PHP variable from JavaScript/client”. In most cases the author just doesn’t know how the technology (html, JavaScript, PHP, http, …) he is using works. I’m assuming he somehow thinks that if he will (somehow) set/change a PHP variable from [...]

Pretty textbox jQuery plugin

Jan Hančič — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:00:05 +0000

Some time ago I made a pretty search box for our latest project (not yet released) and I thought I’d make it into a jQuery plugin and share it with you. The goal was to have a text input with some default text (search this, or search that) and a pretty magnifying glass image in [...]

Conditional CSS

Jan Hančič — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:14:32 +0000

CSS is a lovely thing, but it can get out of your hands very quickly (especially if you are programmer first and HTML code-monkey second). I often find myself having some element that appears on various sub-pages of a page, comments for example. HTML is stored in a template file and included where needed and styles, that make the comments pretty, [...]