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On April 9th I had given a jQuery Presentation on the basics of using jQuery and how to punch up your site with some minor animations. All in all the presentation went over well and I got a lot of good questions. Since my days at UPS I’ve never been real good at creating Power Points to give my presentations. I’ve always been better at just showing, planning what I want to talk about and then just letting the presentation flow. Which can be good and bad depending on if the crowd asks questions. With that said, I did not create any Power Points slided, but since a got a good amount of emails asking me to post them, I decided to just create a screencast that covers everything we went over, answering the questions that were asked during the presentation.

As you very well know by now, I have created quite a few image / photo galleries and the ultimate goal was to allow them to be as unobtrusive as possible. Well, the other day I got into a discussion with a co-worker and the questions he asked were, “How is that unobtrusive?”, referring to my gallery plugins, “The images are in list elements?” My answer to that was, “They can be styled to have each list element float and punched up a bit.” His rebuttal, “But what if styles were off also?” I hesitated for a second and he know he had won this conversation and silently walked away.

table{
border:10px solid #000;
padding:5px;
background:#fff;
}
table td{
border:none;
margin:2px;
}
table caption{
font:bold 12px Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
text-align:left;
}
table td a img{
padding:2px;
}
table td a:hover img{
padding:0px;
border:2px solid #f00;
}

The Gallery

$(document).ready(function(){
$(”table”).galleryTut();
});

After building my first few WordPress plugins I learned quite a few things that I just could not find good information on. So what I will be doing over a couple or so posts is explaining what the problem/issue was that I had and show you how I went about resolving the problem/issue.

v2.1 – 03.23.2008
- Bugfix : double images when using thickbox
- Added : better descriptive text to build gallery and manager page
- Bugfix : Missing code for DIV structures
- Added : an alternative for multiple uploading if flash is not currect or producing 403 errors
- Removed : Browse option from services
- Removed : Use large image from build gallery page
- Added : Large [...]

I am currently working on an update for WordPress 2.7+, compatibility for earlier versions will be limited do to the lack of time I have to make it work in all versions of WordPress and the need to provide you with a secure and easy to use plugin.
My comments sections has gotten way out of [...]

Better design; better accessibly; less suck. BenjaminSterling.com has been redesigned!!!

Ok, enough of the says pitch lets get to what has changed and what is better and what still needs to be worked on.

In my first post about jQuery Selectors call Select what you want, I went over some basic selectors that I use on a daily basis within a web based training framework I put together using jQuery. What I would like to cover are some of the situations I have ran into over the past [...]

In an earlier post I wrote about what are the fastest basic selectors and found out some interesting stuff with regards to speed for some basic selectors. In this post I am going to go over some not-so-basic selectors. I am going to try not to repeat what Karl has said in his [...]

Update 12/07/2007: per Brian Cherne comments, I decided to run these test again in Firefox with firebug lite instead of firebug and the execution times were dreastically different. So, to "level the playing field" I would suggest that you turn off firebug or disable it for the page and refresh, you will get the [...]