My Playground

Anytime I want to try something out or really just play around with the vast power of the web, I will post it here. Most of the times, it is not going to be anything groundbreaking, just me trying things out. I always welcome feedback on how to make things better.

• Improving a Flickr Plugin with jQuery
  • WordPress Flickr Plugin
  • Enhancing the Plugin with jQuery
• Input vs. Button
  • 3 Different Examples of Using Images as Submit Buttons
  • Regular Input type=submit with CSS Applied
  • Fixing the styled Input type=submit buttons for IE
  • Fix the Hover Effect in IE6
  • Buttons with Different Name Attributes
• Handling WordPress Trackbacks with jQuery
  • Show/Hide Trackback Visibility
• 6 Important CSS Techniques
  • Get a Consistent Base Font Size
  • Get Consistent Margins
  • Set a Float to Clear a Float
    • Set a Float to Clear a Float: Fixed
    • Set a Float to Clear a Float: Fixed More
  • Image Replacement
  • Faux Columns
  • CSS Sprites
• Using PNGs
  • Example 1
  • Example 2
  • Example 3
  • Example 4
• Turning a regular form into an AJAX form
  • Basic Form
  • AJAXed Form
• Helvetica at Different Sizes
  • Helvetica Test Page
• Centering Absolutely Positioned Items
  • Centered Absolutely Positioned Item
• Dynamic Bread Crumbs
  • Test Page with Bread Crumbs
  • breadcrumbs.php
  • buildbreadcrumbs.php
• Image Replacement
  • Image Replacement Navigation
  • Image Replacement Navigation, Fixed for IE6
• Calculating Font Sizes
  • With Equal Margins
  • With Custom Margins
• JavaScript Striper
  • Orginial Splintered Striper
  • My Improved Splintered Striper
• CSS Forms
  • Un-styled
  • Styled

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Who Am I?

I’m Trevor Davis, a 24 year old Front-End Developer. Basically, I make web sites.

By day, I work for Matrix Group International in Alexandria, VA, and by night, I freelance.

Feel free to get in touch with me about anything.

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