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So I spent an extra hour over the last few mornings (Thursday and Friday) as well as a half hour Friday night working on a small tweak to my current blog.  I added a “splat” image whenever you move your mouse over an icon at the top of the page.  I did this primarily as I kept losing my mouse when I’d use the icons and I wanted to more clearly distinguish where you were on the menu.

I also did it as I need to use similar code on a few other projects I’m working on, but this site was the most suitable for it to be implemented in first and it was one of those things I could leave and pick up fairly easily without a huge loss if I didn’t finish it all in one sitting.

As to the process I went through it was fairly simple once I figured out how to best do it. Read the rest of this entry »

This is a quick sample of what one simple plugin (wp-wetfloor) and a few minutes of research can do. Now instead of having to redesign all of my icons at the top of my blog, I can simply upload the actual images and apply the class=”reflect” to them and they will automatically become reflective and transparent in the exact same manner as they are now, but they will do it on any color of background dynamically changing to fit their environment.

I LOVE CSS & JavaScript :)

I’ve never really had to write a mashup really, but I recently came across an urge (for whatever reason) to create a mashup, or simple interface, where one can supply Google Maps with a little bit of data, and return a very nifty result.

If you want to try it out - simply go play with my mashup or view the source code (.zip). Otherwise keep reading to get a feel for the input parameters and the intended results.

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