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Wordpress Lavalamp Navigation Tutorial

   Posted: March 10th, 2010    By: Devin Walker   

jQuery, Lavalamp, Easing and WordpressLavalamp is an awesome jQuery plug-in that makes really cool effects for Wordpress-based menus and navigation links, and as a bonus it is very lightweight. It can be a bit tricky to implement in Wordpress, but after you read this tutorial hopefully you’ll be implementing it with ease. Follow along and let’s get your site’s navigation using the jQuery lavalamp effect (super cool)!

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Wordpress Fix: Attribute “role” is not a valid attribute

   Posted: December 4th, 2009    By: Devin Walker   

WordPress IconI like to design websites that are W3C Compliant.  WordPress out-of-the-box requires some tweaking to be valid.  One thing error I kept receiving was: Attribute “role” is not a valid attribute. Did you mean “frameborder” or “scrolling”?  I will show you how to correct this error. 

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JavaScript Email Address Validation

   Posted: December 4th, 2009    By: Devin Walker   

Email VerifyJavaScript makes it easy to validate form fields such as the commonly used email address field.  For web designers trying to validate the email field, this simple script provided by Smart Webby works great.  I thought I’d pass this along, it can be used to easily validate the email field of your contact, comment, etc. forms.  Please let me know what you think or if you’re having trouble.
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Top-10 Free Website SEO Analysis Tools of 2009

   Posted: December 1st, 2009    By: Devin Walker   

SEO Tools

There are many useful website graders available for free on the web.  You don’t have to pay for quality tools, you just need to know where to look.  I’ve used plenty of SEO tools on my website, the key is to review the results objectively and compare the reports with one another.

Some tools didn’t make the top-10 list and I’ve provided an explanation as to why not below each. Please enjoy my top-10 list of website SEO analysis tools for 2009!  Hope you enjoy… please leave a comment.

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Easy Masked Input Forms

   Posted: November 10th, 2009    By: Devin Walker   

Masked IconsI recently did some freelance work that required using masked forms on common field inputs: credit card information, phone numbers, dates, etc. To satisfy this request I used jQuery and meioMask – a jQuery plug-in.

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