Very simple Jquery tooltips

UPDATE: I’ve made a couple of changes to the script to make it easier to use and there’s now a demo available.

A few weeks back I was looking for a nice simple way of adding tooltips to some buttons on a site – sometimes an image alone doesn’t quite convey what the button does in [...]

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Jquery page peel script

Just recently I needed a page peel script for a client. A look around the ‘net lead me to a script that seemed to do everything I needed it to, but it used the document.write method which I’m not a big fan of, and it all seemed a bit inefficient.
My client was already including jQuery [...]

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First impressions of YAML

Okay, I’ll be honest I’m a bit of a magpie when it comes to web development, and in particular css frameworks. One week I’ll be telling everyone that’ll listen (which isn’t many people) about how great YUI is, and the next week I’ll be waxing lyrical about the excellent Blueprint framework.
So with that little disclaimer [...]

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IE6 on Vista the easy way…

It seems that there’s two main reasons why people still need good ol’ IE6 running even though they’ve gone all new fangled and got Vista installed:

Some old Intranet programs just refuse to work with ie7 or Firefox. Some don’t even try and fail as soon as they see the browser isn’t ie6, others try and [...]

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