Blog Has Moved

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

Since migrating my site to Drupal I now no longer use Blogger and hence my blog has moved here.

Video Tutorials

Sunday, February 15, 2009

Recently it has been getting increasingly challenging to keep up with the great emails that you all send me (questions, comments, feature requests & thanks). And it will surely not get any easier in the days ahead. My wife and I are expecting our first born (Hannah Lynn Jaeger) this June! Also we are in the midst of purchasing a "fixer-upper", where I will experience the thrills of being my own maintenance man ;).

So I have decided to create a series of video tutorials to help answer some common questions and show the basics of how to use my scripts. I have started this weekend by making two videos showing the basics of setting up and using MenuMatic. I plan to also add videos showing some advanced MenuMatic techniques, as well as video tutorials for MooScroll and MooColumns as well.

There is also a distinct possibility that I may set up a forum since there are many knowledgeable users of MenuMatic, MooScroll, and MooColumns. And it is always healthier to have an interactive community for these kinds of things rather than a one-man-band.

I still fully welcome all emails.. just be understanding if I don't respond right away :)

And don't worry, I am still actively developing MenuMatic and MooScroll and will probably release an updated MenuMatic next weekend!

Labels: MenuMatic, MooColumns, MooScroll, video tutorials

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Show Me Your Stuff

Sunday, February 08, 2009

I will be setting up a gallery of MenuMatic, MooScroll, and MooColumns being used in the wild. So, if you have used any of these in a project and want to show it off just shoot me an email with:

1. The design company(or your) name and link
2. a link to the site were it is being used
3. and "gallery submission" in the title

I will add the ones I like best to the gallery and of course there will be a link to your company(or personal) site and your client's site.

Labels: MenuMatic, MooColumns, MooScroll

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Multiple Columns with Javascript

Sunday, July 20, 2008

A while ago I thought it would be useful / fun to have a script that divides content up into multiple columns. I know that CSS3 will have this ability but that day is probably still a ways off. I tried several multiple columns solutions out there and they all seemed to break in IE or not work very well in one way or another. So I created MooColumns. With MooColumns you can choose how many columns you want, control how the columns and gutters look with CSS. Allow the script to auto-divide the content, or use column breaks (a span with the class of colBreak). It requires MooTools 1.2 and has been tested in IE6, IE7, Firefox 2, Firefox 3, and Safari 3. You can get the latest version of MooColumns from my MooColumns page.

Labels: javascript, MooColumns, mootools

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MooTools 1.2!

Saturday, June 14, 2008

It is finally here! Version 1.2 of the fantastic MooTools javascript framework is finally out of beta. I have been using 1.2 in professional applications for a while now, and have made a handful of useful classes. Now that 1.2 is official I will be polishing up these classes and releasing them for download soon. The major projects I have been working on/using are:

• MooMenu - a dynamic, accessible drop down menu system
• MooScroll - an easy way to customize what the scrollbars look like on scrollable areas
• MooFont - basically mixes Stewart Rosenberger's Dynamic Heading Generator + MooTools
• MooColumns - splits html content into multiple columns

Also I will be revealing a re-design of my site soon... good times :)

Labels: javascript, MooColumns, MooFont, MooMenu, MooScroll, mootools

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