Archive for August, 2008

30 Days of Mootools 1.2 Tutorials – Day 14 – Periodical and Intro to Hashes

Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Periodicals and Hashes with Mootools 1.2
If you haven’t already, be sure and check out the rest of the Mootools 1.2 tutorials in our 30 days series.
Today’s tutorial is going to look at two areas, the first is .periodical(); and then we are going to get an introduction to hashes. Periodical will do pretty much [...]

30 Days of Mootools 1.2 Tutorials – Day 13 – Regular Expressions

Saturday, August 30th, 2008

Mootools and Regular Expressions
If you haven’t already, I’d suggest checking out the rest of the 30 Days of Mootools Tutorials before continuing on. For day 13, we’ll do a brief overview of regular expressions, then look at the functionality Mootools offers to make life easier when dealing with them.
For those of you not already [...]

30 Days of Mootools 1.2 Tutorials – Day 12 – Drag and Drop using Drag.Move

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Drag.Move – Drag and Drop with Mootools 1.2
If you haven’t already, be sure and check out the rest of the Mootools 1.2 tutorials in our 30 days series.
Welcome to Day 12 of 30 Days of Mootools. Today we are going to take a close look at Drag.Move, a powerful Mootools class that lets you [...]

SEO Tools: Six Firefox 3 SEO Extensions

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

This is part two of a three part series highlighting free SEO tools. Part one discussed SEO Bookmarklets. In this post, we’ll look at six useful SEO add-ons for Firefox 3.
In no particular order, here are my favorite Firefox extensions for SEO and internet marketing:
1) SEO Link Analysis
SEO Link Analysis is a very handy extension [...]

30 Days of Mootools 1.2 Tutorials – Day 11 – Using Fx.Morph, Fx Options and Fx Events

Thursday, August 28th, 2008

Mootools 1.2 Fx.Morph, Fx Options, and Fx Events
If you haven’t already, be sure and check out the rest of the Mootools 1.2 tutorials in our 30 days series.
Today, we are going continue exploring the Fx section of the library. First, we will learn how to use Fx.Morph (which essentially lets you tween multiple style [...]

30 Days of Mootools 1.2 Tutorials – Day 10 – Using FX.Tween

Wednesday, August 27th, 2008

Tween with Mootools 1.2
If you haven’t already, be sure and check out the rest of the Mootools 1.2 tutorials in our 30 days series.
Welcome to Day 10 of 30 Days of Mootools Tutorials, today we are going to look at Fx.Tween. Just like all the other Mootools functions we have seen, these are very [...]

30 Days of Mootools 1.2 Tutorials – Day 9 – Input Filtering Part II (Strings)

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

String Functions

Hey Folks, today we’re going to be taking a look at some of the additional functionality Mootools gives us to deal with strings. This is a partial view of the mootools string capabilities, and doesn’t include a few more estoteric functions (e.g. toCamelCase()) or any of the string functionality dealing with regular expressions. We’re [...]

30 Days of Mootools 1.2 Tutorials – Day 8 – Input Filtering Part I (Numbers)

Monday, August 25th, 2008

Hey folks, today we’re going to starting looking at how Mootools can make filtering user input a breeze. We’re going to be starting off with some basic number filtering today, and digging into the world of string filtering tommorrow. If you haven’t already checked out the rest of the 30 Days of Mootools tutorials, I’d [...]

30 Days of Mootools 1.2 Tutorials – Day 7 – Set and Get Style Properties

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

Set and Get Style Properties with Mootools 1.2
If you haven’t already, be sure and check out the rest of the Mootools 1.2 tutorials in our 30 days series.
Welcome to day 7 of 30 Days of Mootools. Today we are going to look at how to manipulate styles with Mootools 1.2 Combined with what [...]

30 Days of Mootools 1.2 Tutorials – Day 6 – Manipulating HTML

Saturday, August 23rd, 2008

Manipulating HTML DOM Elements with Mootools 1.2
If you haven’t already, be sure and check out the rest of the Mootools 1.2 tutorials in our 30 days series.
We have already looked at how to select elements within the DOM, how to create arrays, how to create functions, how to attach events to elements and today we [...]