Author Archives: Jared

Awesome WordPress Feature of the Day: Add Theme Support

This has become one of my favorite features when I build a new WordPress theme. It seems like such a simple thing, but when I started coding my themes with this function in mind everything melds together so nicely. ( more )

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First Impressions: Genesis Theme Framework

Lately I’ve been doing a lot more work with WordPress, and it’s given me the opportunity to work on lots of different themes and theme frameworks. Given the choice I would much rather start a new theme from scratch. Of … ( more )

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JSON vs. XML: What Should You Use?

Lots of people have asked me this question: which is better when loading data via an ajax request? JSON is my favorite. I’m going to try and explain the benefits of JSON over XML. ( more )

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jQuery's document.ready(), What is it and Why is it Useful?

The document.ready() function is the first thing anyone should learn about jQuery. This function will allow you to take all that ugly behavioral javascript out of your markup. ( more )

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Adding Twitter to your site with jQuery Part 2

This series of articles will explain how to retrieve information from Twitter using their API, and ways you can display it on your website in an attractive way. In Part 2 we will add some simple CSS to the tweet to make it look nice, and display all the data the twitter API returns. ( more )

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Adding Twitter to your site with jQuery Part 1

This series of articles will explain how to retrieve information from Twitter using their API, and ways you can display it on your website in an attractive way. Part one we will go over the basic of the Twitter API and look at some simple code that will print out a list of tweets. ( more )

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We're attending the jQuery Conference!

That’s Right! We are signed up to join 298 other web professionals in Cambridge for this years jQuery Conference. The conference will be held September 12th and 13th at Microsoft New England Research and Development Center in Boston, MA. ( more )

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Reading XML with jQuery

Welcome to my first of many articles for Think2Loud! Today I thought I’d start with something simple that will lead into several other topics. So here we go, head first into reading XML with jQuery. ( more )

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