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Guess Those Beaver Biceps
We’d like to spotlight a site that we finished recently. Beaver Biceps is a web site sponsored by the Dairy Farmers of Oregon and Oregon State University. It’s a game where any Oregon resident can play...
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Back to the Basics
We have an intern coming in next week to hang out with us nerds. He’s a highschool student that would like to see what the day to day tasks of a web programmer are. I’ve talked to him about what he...
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Build A Better Dialog Box With jQuery
Let’s face it… JavaScript “alert” notifications are boring and can be annoying. They are ugly and make ding-y sounds when appearing. However, you still need to notify the user upon certain events....
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Utilizing Google AJAX APIs CDN
When using JavaScript libraries to perform a function on a public-facing web site, the traditional way of referencing your library is using something like this: <script src="/js/jQuery.min.js"...
View ArticleDo spam bots use mice?
The typical solution to avoiding spam bots from abusing your online forms is to use a CAPTCHA test. You know – the hard to read, wavy text that you must type in correctly to prove to the web page that...
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MODx Update: Fantastic new administration panel
We here at the Zoom Creates Nerd Herd (the development team) have always loved the modX CMS tool. It’s extremely flexible, has a great system for templates and code chunks, and is limited only by your...
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2011 Web Trend: Parallax Scrolling
First seen in side scrolling video games from the 80′s, Parallax Scrolling is a special technique that gives an illusion of depth in a video game, or in today’s case, a web site. Parallax scrolling...
View ArticleBeautiful, Dynamic Words with Aierbazzi, jQuery, and @font-face kit
Roberto Cecchi created and posted his Aierbazzi (which means “weeds”) font to his web site back in 2008. He has been experimenting with fonts creating illustrations in a simple format, and he has...
View ArticleAnimation with HTML and JS
We used to do a lot of animation in house with Flash and Action Script 3. There were some great tools and libraries out there to help with the position of items and opacity and all that...
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