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The Programmers Hierarchy

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811 days
by in Programming
The Programmers Hierarchy

The Programmers Hierarchy

I hope you enjoy this ;)

Our of the oven Flash Templates:

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826 days
by in Graphic Design

Flash MintI was building a site for a relative new company a couple weeks ago, and they wanted "A professional looking, brilliant display" for their products, I know Flash, and can do decent stuff with it, but seriously, how long does it take to do something really cool?

So I headed to the only place where I know this can be found for sure, Flash Mint, it was right then when I realized how much I had grown accustomed to it, the ease of use and friendliness of the design, and always full of new stuff!

You can even customize the products, get full website designs, and many flash templates for almost anything (Along with HTML, CSS, WordPress themes... etc) the list looks almost endless haha

Not so long ago I even bought a WordPress theme for a client I didn't have enough time to spend on. He was looking for something like that and I told him I could offer him a better price if he bought a pre-made template, so I showed him the ones that best fit his description and he ended up getting the "Personal Blog Theme", which looked really nice and fitted my client perfectly,

So if you are in a rush, or simply need a professional-looking Flash Movie, Template, or anything of the sort, this is a great alternative!

Perfect jQuery UI rotating tabs

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840 days
by in CSS, Javascript

Tabs are nice. They create a very elegant interface, and jQuery UI does this marvelously, here we have a little preview of this:

jQuery UI Tabs

jQuery UI Tabs

How to do that?

Include the files

With jQuery and jQuery UI it is dead simple. First, load the JS libraries, I recommend using the hosted files at Google for jQuery:

<script src="http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/files/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"><!--mce:0--></script>
<script src="path/to/jquery UI" type="text/javascript"><!--mce:1--></script>

Remember to include also the CSS files for the UI Theme! Otherwise the tabs won't seem to work!

The HTML for the tabs:

We need a little HTML for our tabs to work:
A wrapper, a few divs with the content, and an unordered list with the tabs:

 
<div id="tabs-rotate">
<ul>
<li><a href="#tab1"><span>Tab 1</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#tab2"><span>Tab 2</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#tab3"><span>Tab 3</span></a></li>
</ul>
<div id="tab1">Tab 1 content</div>
<div id="tab2">Tab 2 content</div>
<div id="tab3">Tab 3 content</div>
</div>
 

The JavaScript:

Now comes the cool part, basically we want to have tabs. But although tabs are nice, people may not realize there is more content, or they might be just too lazy to browse through it, so, why not rotate through the tabs?
jQuery UI does that by itself with a very simple commant, but it is not perfect! So we need to program our tabs to rotate, unless the mouse is over them. This way when a user is looking for a link, the tab will wait!

So here is how this is achieved:

$(document).ready(function(){
	$("#tabs-rotate").tabs({ fx: { opacity: 'toggle' } }).tabs('rotate', 3000);
	$('#tabs-rotate').hover(function(){
			$(this).tabs('rotate', 0, false);
		},function(){
			$(this).tabs({ fx: { opacity: 'toggle' } }).tabs('rotate', 3000);
		}
	);
});

First we instruct jQuery UI to set up tabs in that div, and to rotate them. Then we use a hover event to control the rotation. On hover no rotation, and on out resume rotation.

Further actions:

Now you may want to stop rotation completely when a tab is clicked. This can be done "easily": First we will add a new handler for the onclick event to the tabs-rotate, which will remove rotation. But we also have to unbind the hover handler we had setup, using the unbind jQuery function:

 
$('#tabs').click(function(){
	$(this).tabs('rotate', 0, false);
	$(this).unbind('hover');
});
 

See it in action

You can see it working on the DJs Music homepage

As with the best stuff, it's terribly simple ;)

Hope you enjoy,
Alex

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