Every web developer needs to wrap some text around image. It’s a must – we dont want to have content all linear – some text, then image, then text…, afcourse we want to do it more nicely.
The old way was to to use html like this:
<img src=”IMAGE URL” align=”left” /><p>Your text goes here.</p>
And then you got an image on the left and the content on the right. Very simple.
And soooo boring and limiting. What is we want the text closer to the image? We could use some css, put an image in the background, and some text over it… but again a lot of limitations – its hard to do it with some CMS, like wordpress for example, and you can’t put content really around the image.
Really around the image?
Did we say really around the image? Like new jQuerry plugin jQSlickWrap does it, like this:
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Posted in: Effects
Pdf to flash page flip is a free web service wich converts your PDF files into a flash flipping book movie.
It uses free and open source projects Dynamic Page Flip v2 and SWFTools, so its is basically a front end to these two open source software solutions.
Interface is simple and self-explanatory: Insert Pdf, width, height, pages…, you also have some interface option (colors, language, hard cover).
Posted in: Flash
XML is an integral part of AJAX – it means “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML”, so its important to know how to parse XML on the fly.
Till now, we could write our own javascript functions – or better use jQuery to parse XML. You can find few tutorials if you search for “jquery xml parse“, so its not hard to do it.
But now it became even easier – there is a plugin called jParse, wich is doing just what we need: it allows you to quickly and easily parse XML.
With the jParse jQuery plugin, you can parse XML that is returned from an jQuery Ajax request. jQuery .ajax method does not allow for cross domain Ajax requests, so the XML that you would like to parse must be on the same domain from which you are working.
You can pull many types of information from an XML document like the value of an XML node, the value of an attribute of an XML node, or the number of <items> in an XML document.
Life became a little easier again ;)
Posted in: Scripts
Bookkeeping is surely not the most exciting thing when you run your own business. It is usually the most tedious work, and nobody likes it. But when tax people come to your door, you can have a BIG problem if you didnt keep your books nice and celan. Who can remember some expenses half a year ago?
So here is simple and elegant solution to make that problem go away: OutRight – Free online bookkeeping.
Streamlining the work involved with owning a business, helping entrepreneurs pay the right taxes, record financial transactions, and keep their businesses on track and growing.
Believing business owners spend too much time and effort on the least enjoyable part of running one’s own business, Outright goal is to make it simple, helping entrepreneurs track all of their income and expenses to get their taxes done accurately.
Posted in: Invoice Tool
