HTML + CSS + JavaScript

Occasionally I see specific searches that bring people to my site and I wonder if people actually found the answers they were looking for in my code articles. Sometimes I think they probably did, but sometimes I’m not so sure. So… I figured why not answer some of the more interesting pleas directly? Lord knows if anyone will ever need to do such a thing again, but if they do I’ll be ready for them (and I get to problem solve in public 🙂 )
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For the current EforAll Expo*1 web site, the designer suggested that we use a flash piece for the background. It’s a kind of hip event, for gamers and other technophiles so we made some assumptions about our user base and decided it was worth a go. The onus fell on me, as these things do, to set up this effect.

I’m not sure whether or not I’m proud or completely ashamed of this one. On the positive side, it was interesting to script and it looks kind of cool. On the negative it adds nothing to the site other than some pizzazz and therefore feels like a goofy script from back in the dHTML days.

I’m sure you all have your own opinions on the matter 🙂
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Why I never wrote this function before is a mystery.
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For what it’s worth the kernel of this article was dictated into my phone on my drive into work this morning. I got the idea, had the framework and figured- why the hell not just talk to myself for a while. It was actually pretty efficient, so I might do more of it and if I get good enough at this sort of extemporaneous dictation I might turn it into a podcast 🙂
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