The biggest shortcoming of my flip-counter script is the difficulty in modifying the appearance of the counter—any styling changes require altering 70 different sprite states. I am constantly asked for a nice layered template that would make updating the counter easier, but unfortunately none exists. The best way to make the counter’s appearance easily customizable is to get rid of the images entirely, and that was the goal of this experiment. Read the rest of this entry »
Posts Tagged ‘JavaScript’
Logging Disqus Comments with Clicky
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011
When someone makes a comment on my site, I like to see it in the visitor’s action list on Clicky. If you’re using Disqus with WordPress, here’s an easy way to log comments.
Scrolling Content with jQueryUI Slider
Saturday, February 5th, 2011
My first step when thinking of ways to create scrollable content was a Google search that lead me to a good post outlining how to use jQueryUI Slider to scroll a div. This solution required altering the jQueryUI source, which I felt was unnecessary, so I came up with a simple solution.
Creating Apple’s New Slide Menu with jQuery
Sunday, January 30th, 2011
I don’t know how long it’s been there, but I noticed yesterday that Apple has a new product nav menu that replaced their old horizontal scroller with some new animated candy. I was impressed to see that all transitions and animations are CSS-based. Unfortunately, it will take some time before all major browsers even support this cool new CSS wizardry. Never fear—you can create a similar menu with jQuery that works in every browser, even IE6.
Apple-Style Counter Revisited
Monday, November 15th, 2010
My original post detailing how I recreated Apple’s flip-style counter is a popular one, and I get many questions about how to properly implement it. It didn’t take long before I saw some shortcomings to the original technique I used, so I thought it was time to revisit my Apple-style counter and make some improvements.
YouTube Event Logging
Sunday, April 25th, 2010
A few months ago, a project bid had me looking at YouTube’s JavaScript API for ways to manage a video library through a custom interface. Most of the videos were over 30 minutes, and I thought it would be great if I could provide some analytics on how users were interacting with the videos. Were people getting bored and leaving at a certain spot, rewinding interesting parts, or maybe randomly scrubbing through it?
Clicky Monitor, AKA ClickyChrome
Sunday, March 14th, 2010
A Chrome Extension for Clicky Web Analytics
Clicky is an amazing web analytics service. Its killer feature is the ability see data in real-time, allowing you to watch your visitors as they browse your site.
I love Clicky, and I love their API. Because the analytics data is available immediately, I found myself wishing I could have a constant notification of how many visitors were on my site without having to leave a tab or window open all the time.
I also love Google Chrome. As soon as LastPass made an extension for it, Chrome became my default browser. After reading a little about Chrome extensions and how they were just HTML and JavaScript, I knew what my next project would be… ClickyChrome.
Update: A year after releasing ClickyChrome, I’m changing the name to Clicky Monitor to comply with Google’s new branding guidelines.
Apple-Style Counter
Friday, February 12th, 2010
When I saw the 10 billion song counter on Apple’s website yesterday, I immediately right-clicked on it to see if it was flash. No big surprise to see that it wasn’t, this being Apple, and when I saw it was done using JavaScript I knew how I’d be wasting the next few hours.
