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MooTools 1.3 Cookbook – book review

Constantin Boiangiu — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:40:52 +0000

Once again Packt publishing asked for a book review and I must say I’m happy to see that more books on Mootools begin to appear on the market. MooTools 1.3 Cookbook is written by Jay Larry G. Johnston (from the author description he is a moohoolic, exactly my kind of person) and right on [...]

Featured Articles Lite – how to create custom themes

Constantin Boiangiu — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:54:00 +0000

As you may or may not know, Featured Articles Lite is a Wordpress plugin that displays slideshows in any page of a Wordpress blog. It’s lightweight, fast and has many capabilities, probably the most important being the ability to create new themes for it to truly make it part of the blog displaying it. It [...]

ZoomIt – JavaScript image zoom for MooTools and jQuery

Constantin Boiangiu — Mon, 30 May 2011 11:00:16 +0000

ZoomIt is a JavaScript image zoom developed for MooTools 1.3 (1.2 compatible) and jQuery that allows display of detailed, large images based on smaller images that can be placed into the context of web pages. A new approach, different from the previous one (that can be seen here) allows easier placement and implementation along [...]

Wordpress featured content plugin

Constantin Boiangiu — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 10:56:37 +0000

Featured Articles Lite for Wordpress is a powerful plugin that enables a very easy and intuitive setup for a JavaScript slider that will display and rotate posts or pages. Having plenty of options that can be set directly from Wordpress admin, it allows an imaginative use to suit the style of the blog displaying it. [...]

SlideItMoo Wordpress Plugin

Constantin Boiangiu — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 12:08:03 +0000

SlideItMoo plugin for Wordpress implements the MooTools plugin having the same name into an easy to use plugin that allows you to set image galleries into your posts and pages with only a few clicks. The JavaScript source can be found here with various examples and implementation instructions. If you know SlideItMoo, you know that [...]

MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide – book review

Constantin Boiangiu — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:01:56 +0000

As I enjoy using MooTools and since almost all my work here is centered around it, I was pleasantly surprised when Packt Publishing asked me to review “MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide” by Jacob Gube and Garrick Cheung. Now, that I read the book, I must tell you that things would have been a lot [...]

MooTools Fancy Animated Tabs

Constantin Boiangiu — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:19:44 +0000

There are times when we need to display a bit too much content in a small space. One way to do it is by using tabs. Fancy tabs is a tabs navigation display that tries to cover most situations, from AJAX loaded tabs to auto navigation and multi purpose usage. To make things easier [...]

Styling select box – SelectoMoo

Constantin Boiangiu — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 16:12:56 +0000

Developed using MooTools 1.2, SelectoMoo is a plugin that replaces the default select box element from a form with a stylish, CSS/JavaScript based select box. It offers the possibility to completely change the appearance by only using CSS style sheets so changing design turns into a pretty simple task. The behavior tries to mimic the [...]

Wordpress YouTube playlist plugin

Constantin Boiangiu — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 20:07:47 +0000

WP MyTube is the Wordpress plugin implementation for YouTube MooTools player embed with attached playlist. Simply put, this plugin will allow you to easily insert YouTube videos into your Wordpress blog posts based on username or video id only. The attached playlist will display the user videos giving you the possibility to add several [...]

YouTube player embed with attached playlist

Constantin Boiangiu — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:41:23 +0000

MyTube is a MooTools 1.2 plugin developed using the available player API and data API from YouTube. Basically, if you’re an YouTube publisher or simply someone who wants to display some videos pulled from YouTube on his website, this is for you. For example, if you want to display some related (or not) videos [...]