Hi, I’m Adrian Cooke. I manage and develop the alumni website at Wesleyan University. This site contains various notes, code and examples. I’m on LinkedIn, Twitter and Flickr, and my blog is Zero to One-Eighty. Get in touch at acooke@wesleyan.edu. (I’m also on Facebook, but it’s under duress.)
JavaScript
- Flickr
- Embedding a Flickr feed using jQuery
- Cookies
- Using cookies to display an alert on the first visit
- Show/hide
- Adding show/hide behavior using jQuery
- Embedding Twitter content via JSON
- Bookmarks
- Ma.gnolia, JavaScript and JSON
- Map 1, Map 2
- Google Maps API, two examples
CSS
- Adjacent-sibling
- Form validation warnings
- Curved Corners
- Promotions boxes
- Graphic EQ
tableelement- Flickr-style outlines using CSS image maps
- Highlighting areas of an element on hover to call out notes or other functionality
- Forms with
buttoninstead ofinput - Better form buttons, more styling options
- Search Feedback UI
- Suggestion for encouraging Web Search user feedback
- The CSS Box Model
- An explanation of margins and padding
Markup
- Doctypes
- HTML and XHTML page wrappers
- Events
- Example for University Calendar
- Feeds
- Adding feeds for channels defined in Channel Maker
- iframes
- Accessible includes
- Structure
- Markup recommendation for public pages
Content
- Combined feeds using Yahoo! Pipes
- Creating an aggregated Wesleyan University RSS feed
- How to Make a Facebook Page
- Focuses on customizing the sidebar using Static FBML
- Getting started with RSS
- Information about using feeds
Flash
- Slideshow
- Campus beauty gallery with full screen feature
- Standard YouTube video embedding
- Technique for embedding a regluar YouTube video
- High quality YouTube video
- Technique for embedding higher quality YouTube video
- Chart objects
- Data reporting using XML/SWF Charts
- Josef Albers color task
- With Mariah Klaneski
Server-side
- Main to sub-directory redirection with a FrontPage workaround
- Redirecting a main URL to a sub-directory using .htaccess
- Time-based redirection with FrontPage Server Extensions
- Changing page content using .htaccess
Hardware
- Backing up your Mac
- Using SuperDuper! and a FireWire drive
Conference notes
- Higher Education Web Symposium 2008
- July 15–16, Philadelphia, PA