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How to Scrape Web Pages with Node.js and jQuery

In this tutorial, we will scrape the YouTube home page, get all the regular sized thumbnails from the page as well as links and video duration time, send all those elements to a jQueryMobile template, and play the videos using YouTube embed (which does a nice job of detecting device media support (flash/html5-video).

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Triggering CSS3 Transitions With JavaScript

At the beginning of this month I wrote a post accompanied by five demo pages that showed that CSS3 transitions could be triggered with a number of different events/states in CSS. That alone should help you see how these types of simple animations work. But let’s take this a bit further. Read More
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Circular Content Carousel with jQuery

Today we want to share a simple circular content carousel with you. The idea is to have some content boxes that we can slide infinitely (circular). When clicking on the “more” link, the respective item moves to the left and a content area will slide out. Now we can navigate through the carousel where each step will reveal the next or previous content box with its expanded content. Clicking on the closing cross will slide the expanded content area back in and animate the item to its original position.

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Portfolio Image Navigation with jQuery

Today we want to create a portfolio image navigation template with jQuery. The idea is to show some portfolio items in a grouped fashion and navigate through them in all 2D ways (horizontal/vertical). Either the arrows or the little boxes below the current image can be used in order to navigate.

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Animated Text and Icon Menu with jQuery

Today we want to show you how to create a slick menu with a nice animation feature on hover. The idea is to make some elements slide out, change and animate the background color of the item and then slide the elements back in with a different color.

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Sliding Background Image Menu with jQuery

Today we want to share another jQuery menu with you. This menu will have several panels, each one corresponding to a different background image that will show on all panels when we hover over a panel label. Also, a submenu will slide out from the bottom. This menu comes with some configuration possibilities, such as the size of the image, the hover effect and custom default states.

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Create an Awesome Zooming Web Page With jQuery

Want to create a really unique and eye-catching effect for your site? How about an animation that zooms into a specific portion of the page when you click on it? It may sound like a lot of work but with jQuery and Zoomooz.js, it’s a snap! Joshua Johnson will walk you through the process step by step as you build a stunning zooming thumbnail gallery.

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JSON Basics: What You Need to Know

What is JSON, and what can it do? In this tutorial you learn how to use JSON to easily move data around the web. You also look at how to work with JSON using both JavaScript and PHP. If you've developed websites or web apps at all, you've probably heard of JSON, at least in passing. But what exactly is JSON? What can it do, and how do you use it?

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Moving Boxes Content with jQuery

Today we will create a website template with some really sweet animations using jQuery. The idea is to have little boxes scattered around at the top of the site and when a menu item is clicked, the boxes animate to form the main content area. We will use some different animation effects that we will add as options to the menu item.

The content area will custom scroll for which we will be using the really awesome jScrollPane Plugin by Kevin Luck. We will also use the jQuery 2d transformation plugin by Grady in order to rotate the little boxes while we animate them, and the the jQuery Easing Plugin for some spice.

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24 Best Practices for AJAX Implementations

Implementing AJAX technology can be a hit or miss thing. Do it well and you’ll have users raving over the slickness it provides to the general user experience, while, if you mess it up, you’ll be at the receiving end of their wrath. Here are 24 tips to guide through the process of implementing AJAX technology within your web application.

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