Clientside is a Gedit plugin for those who work with CSS and Javascrip which can be used to minify and format/beautify Javascript and CSS. Further more, the plugin also includes jsLint and an option to Gzip the current file.

I haven't posted about Blogger in a while, but there was a certain bug in almost all the "related posts" widgets for Blogger I know, and today I finally decided to fix it for Web Upd8 and hopefully, this will also help other Blogger blogs out there.

Reducisaurus is a web service for minifying and serving CSS and JS files, based on Yahoo! YUI Compressor. Sure, there are lots of way of minifying javascript and CSS, but Reducisaurus is probably the easiest to use.


In case you don't know:

Minification is the practice of removing unnecessary characters from code to reduce its size thereby improving load times. When code is minified all comments are removed, as well as unneeded white space characters (space, newline, and tab).

December is that month of the year when 90% of the blogs teach you how to 'install' falling snow on your website (but they use the method described in this post to disable it for themselves) and about 0.1% tell you how to disable it.

Anyway, let's get started.

You can find a snow.js demo HERE (so you can test to see if you blocked it correctly).

There are two snow scripts (javascript) that I know of, which we are going to block using AdBlock Plus Firefox extension. After installing the extension, right click the AdBlock Plus icon and select "Preferences", scroll down to "Blocking rules", select any blocked item, select "Add New" end enter:

1. jQuery idTabs - comes with many styles



Demo & Tutorial




2. Ajax Tabs Content Script



Demo (3 examples) & Tutorial

[via h-online]

I recently came across a blog post on 911-need-code-help which explains how to insert (embed) multiple YouTube Videos into your blog posts. You can find both a demo and code to use, by visiting link above.

If you use Blogger, you can paste the JavaScript code directly into the post, so you won't increase the pageload for all of your blog's pages. But use draft.blogger.com as the normal Blogger doesn't publish JavaScript code correctly.

Alternatively, you could use Embedr to embed multiple videos into your blog posts which works with other websites too (not just YouTube).

Elastic Thumbnail Menu

Demo | Tutorial

Floating Menu

Demo | Tutorial

Tab Navigation with Smooth Horizontal Sliding

Demo & Tutorial