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#54: Introduction to FLIR
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FLIR (Face Lift Image Replacement) bills itself as an “alternative to sIFR”. They are definitely in the same category. sIFR has some extra functionality, but is relies on more technology on both the server and client side. FLIR may be a little…
#55: Adding RSS Content with SimplePie
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The “Really Simple” part of RSS is sometimes misleading. What if you want to pull in content from an RSS feed and display it on your site? Doing that from scratch would be no-so-easy, but thankfully we have wonderful SimplePie to do the heavy…
#56: Integrating FoxyCart and WordPress
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FoxyCart is a very adaptable eCommerce system. Products are built on-the-fly as part of add to cart buttons that are just simple HTML. This means that you can integrate it with just about any CMS. In this screencast, we integrate it with WordPress. We…
#57: Using CSS3
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The latest wave of web browsers have pretty decent support for a variety of CSS3 stuff. Particularly Safari 4 and Firefox 3.1. This screencast covers many of the techniques now possible, focusing on the ones that can be used for progressive visual enhancement.…
#58: HTML & CSS – The VERY Basics
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This video is the VERY basics of what HTML and CSS is, for the absolute beginner. HTML and CSS files are, quite literally, just text files. You don’t need any special software to create them, although a nice code editor is helpful. You can create…
#59: Embedding Audio
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Putting an image on a webpage is easy, audio files, not so much. HTML5 will make it as easy as it should be, but until then, we have to resort to other methods. This screencast covers four methods/players. Two use both JavaScript and Flash, one just…
#60: AJAX Refreshing RSS Content
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In video #55 the end result was the FeedSmusher, which inserted content from external RSS feeds onto a page of our own. In this screencast, we will start there and use AJAX (with help from jQuery) to refresh that content without requiring a page refresh.
#61: Basic Table Styling with CSS
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Tables are great. They are perfectly suited for use on the web. That is, for displaying tabular data! In this screencast we’ll cover what that actually means, take a look at a table, the markup that creates it, quirks and things-you-should-know.…
#62: Advanced Form Styling & Functionality
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This screencast walks through the code that powers a fairly advanced web form. It utilizes jQuery to hide and show inputs as needed as well as power three plugins. One for applying fancy styling, one for validation, and one for the serializing of the…
#63: On Screencasting
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This is somewhat of a behind the scenes look at how I create and distribute the screencast. I go over the hardware and software I use, how it gets stiched together, and the sizes/formats it gets put into and why. Then I talk a little bit about the distribution…