The Parallax website, Vanilla Javascript and the .getBoundingClientRect

parallax

The parallax style website is pretty nice and I’ve seen a lot of people use it to show parallax effects seen in movies from Disney films or side-scrolling video games.  That sense of depth and the illusion that things are moving gives you nice browsing experience. So I did the basic one with pure vanilla […]

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Email Phishing, Spam, Passwords and Safety Tips

One of the biggest problems with having an email is getting spam but it’s not as bad as phishing.  If you think getting too much spam is bad, then you probably know that phishing is more like a horse kicking you up and down while you have your hands handcuffed to to a wall.  Sorry […]

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Use Google’s AngularJS Directives to quickly add Social Media Elements to your website

At first, Google’s AngularJS Directives sounds a little complicated but then I realized that its a great way to make small changes that will make major updates to all the pages without using the back end. Most advanced programmers would probably just use an “include” method and have the back end server do all the […]

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There is no Ninja, without them.

I’ve been developing for a while but I’ll never be as good as them and that’s a fact. As far as  programmers and computer scientists, we have to acknowledge the legends that came before us. The ones you learn about in school like Ada Lovelace, James Gosling, Richard Stallman, Bill Gates, Grace Hopper, Guido van […]

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Automatically Update the copyright year on your website with some Simple Javascript.

Most web developers would probably just do it with php/java/or C# but for those newbies that want something quick and dirty, I would recommend it with the client side so here’s a simple Javascript code that I put together. It was a small eye sore when I started noticing old school websites or even the […]

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Adding Custom Fonts to WordPress or any Website.

A majority developers that are asked to try custom fonts for WOFF and TTF for testing purposes might say “Nope, Nope, Nope, Nah, No, never, nay, NO!” I’m using Google fonts and stick it in the header. I know what you mean. That’s exactly what I would do if it’s not worth it. Why even bother […]

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Simple Vanilla HTML5/CSS3 Navigation with a Submenu

So I was looking around at new ways to make your navigation look better and there are tons of awesome links for people use with different techniques from excellent web masters with CSS3 animation and JQuery effects.  I think it’s awesome that we take the next step to make our websites more 3 dimensional but […]

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Secrets of the Javascript Ninja

John Resig and Bibeault are true Javascript Ninja’s I’m sure you know about John Resig, he’s the creator of JQuery. If you’ve built websites and you’ve never used JQuery, then I recommend starting doing that shit now. like yesterday.    The book gets into a variety of advanced Javascript concepts but it emphasizes the problems with […]

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How to use .htaccess to Rename the login directory or page of a Website

The URL layout configuration with the mod_rewrite (the apache module that handles URL rewriting) in the .htaccess file can be changed.  This is very common with CMS systems like WordPress that have a specific path and you want to rename it. RewriteRule ^login/?$ /wp-admin.php [QSA,L] RewriteRule ^login/?$ /wp-login.php [QSA,L] This will basically translate any request […]

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How to Forward your email to your Gmail account with CPANEL

So recently GMAIL changed their email forwarding server settings. You can not just do the Easy set up anymore as far as 2017. So basically it starts off like this. Login into your gmail account and click on the settings (located under the gear icon ⚙️) tab and create an account.  Connecting your gmail to […]

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