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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Addicted to Analytics

Monday, September 22, 2008

I am pretty sure I am addicted to Google Analytics. Ever since I first installed it on my site over a year ago ( and on every site I've built since ). I'm not sure what it is, since I am not a math geek, there is just something very interesting about trolling through the analytics of several different sites and comparing trends and see who is getting traffic from where and such.

On a completely unrelated note, I updated MooScroll over the weekend. Of the 3 projects I have released for download, MooScroll by far was the most raw. I hammered out several bugs and it should be much more stable than before. I also added an extra demo page with an OSX style layout.

Labels: MooScroll

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MooScroll Updated!

Sunday, September 07, 2008

I just released MooScroll version 0.53 beta which has several enhancements over 0.52. It should now be much quicker and easier to plug into a design as it now plays nicer when the original element is positioned. Version 0.53 also has the following improvements.

fullWindowMode option You can use the fullWindowMode option to "replace" the window's scrollbar.

refresh function The refresh function lets you update the scrollbar (if, for instance, you change the size of the MooScroll object ).

loadContent function To dynamically update the content of a MooScroll object, just call the loadContent function passing in the new content as as string.

You can check out the updated examples to test it out:
Main MooScroll Example Page (including loadContent function demo)
fullWindowMode Example Page

Thanks to Bob Ralian for his contributions! Still on my To Do List is to add the ability for horizontal and/or vertical scrollbars (instead of just vertical). As always, you can email me or post a comment if you run across any bugs, or have any feature requests!

Labels: javascript, MooScroll, mootools

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MooScroll

Saturday, August 02, 2008

MooScroll lets you customize how the scrollbar looks on scrollable divs. Just customize the images and tweak the CSS if necessary and you have a customized scrollable div. You can have multiple instances on a single page. If the end-user does not have javascript enabled, they just see a regular scrollable div so it degrades gracefully.

Labels: javascript, MooScroll, 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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