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jQuery Facebook Like Plugin

Jake Rutter — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 02:40:59 +0000

The Facebook Like button has become very popular with the recent release of the Open Graph API. This plugin allows you to add the Facebook Like button to any website and use all of the options associated with the Facebook [...]

One Show Hide – a jQuery Plugin

Jake Rutter — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 02:42:46 +0000

I have been spending a good amount of time lately playing around with jQuery plugins. It can very useful to create a plugin, especially if you are going to be reusing the functionality in many different pages/sites. I have created [...]

jQuery Accordion Tutorial

Jake Rutter — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 02:33:24 +0000

If you are looking for an easy way to create a jQuery Accordion and don’t wish to use the jQuery UI Accordion, I have created something much simpler that you can use.

I ended up building my own jQuery Accordion after [...]

jQuery Tips: How to get value of selected option in Select Box

Jake Rutter — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:48:56 +0000

I recently had to pull together some jQuery to get the value of what was selected in a select box. Its pretty easy to do with jQuery. There are probably a few ways to accomplish this, I chose to use [...]

@font-face and CSS3 Solution

Jake Rutter — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:08:25 +0000

I feel like I have been waiting for support for @font-face for years now. How many times have you had to make an image because a client wanted a specific type-face or have you had to limit your sites to [...]

How to setup Bronto Tracking Pixels with JavaScript

Jake Rutter — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 01:57:57 +0000

Recently at my job, I had to setup Bronto email tracking pixels on our order confirmation page. The tracking pixels came in the form of an image tag and had to be populated with some values from our shopping cart. [...]

jQuery Highlight Navigation Menu v.02 Script

Jake Rutter — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 02:49:18 +0000

I have found a simpler way to add class=”selected” to any navigation menu by checking your URL path against links on the page. I’ve only tested this with page slugs in wordpress. But it works very nicely.

// Highlight Tab v.02 [...]

jQuery Image Cloning Script

Jake Rutter — Fri, 29 May 2009 13:57:51 +0000

I recently ran into an issue at work where we have been spending countless hours making 6 and 12 bottle shots by hand in Photoshop. We would take one bottle and copy/clone it over 6 or 12 times, then save [...]

JS Conf 2009

Jake Rutter — Mon, 04 May 2009 02:47:25 +0000

Last weekend I attended JS Conf 2009 in Washington D.C. with a good friend of mine, we actually brought our wives too. The plan was to attend the conference while our wives saw the sites and toured the town. We [...]

jQuery Highlight Navigation Menu v.01 Script

Jake Rutter — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:55:46 +0000

A few months ago, I created a little script using the jQuery library which will add class=”current” to tabs, allowing you to highlight your menu for you users. Its pretty basic, but it searches the URL, if it finds a [...]