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Just recently used for one of our clients. Few too many files for my taste, but it works:
http://jquery.bassistance.de/tooltip/demo/

For anyone looking to become a content writer, check this out:

“Web content is a newer form of writing that demands its own sets of rules and etiquette. A good website content writer will know how to write content so that a viewer will be able to read without becoming bored or clicking to another site. There are several rules that all of the best web content writers follow.

Sentences

Short and to the point. Good web content is direct without using any unnecessary words. This goes for paragraphs and even for words, too.

Reverse Pyramid

A good web content writer will put the most important information, or the conclusion, at the very beginning, grabbing a reader’s attention.

Word Choice

Simple, easy to understand words are the best to use. A good web content writer understands that people of all reading abilities browse the web, and to connect to as many readers as possible, the simplest words should be chosen at all times.

Highlighted Text

The best web content writers put important words in color or bold so that a reader can scan the text and find the information that they want easily and efficiently.

Brevity

Again, probably the most important, good web content writers are careful to only include the most important information because long, wordy paragraphs will turn off the reader and end up in little readership. The Internet is a place where information is found quickly with little effort spent. The best web content writers always say what they are trying to say using the fewest words possible.”

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Pretty cool site that gives you alternatives to other software you use, found this originally on twitter and it’s pretty interesting to see what alternatives there are to software we use everyday!

“AlternativeTo is a new approach to finding good software. Tell us what applicatio

n you want to replace and we give you suggestions on great alternatives! Instead of listing thousands of more or less crappy applications in a category, we make each application into a category. Think of it like forever evolving blog posts about good alternatives to the software that you’re not satisfied with. And the “blog posts” are generated by you through suggestions, comments and votes. “

http://alternativeto.net/

“Delivering informative structure is the primary task an interactive user interface should be able to cope with. The more intuitive layout structure is designed, the better users can understand the content.

Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways. In this article we’d like to present 10 smart javascript techniques for showing and hiding content using different JS libraries.”

Whole post here

“We all have them – little coding tricks and snippets of knowledge that we’ve picked up over years of experimentation and evolution of our processes, that are now part of our regular routine and save us time, gnashing of teeth and allow us to work quickly and efficiently. Here’s some of mine – perhaps you know a few of these already – I’d be interested in hearing yours in the comments.”

Read whole article here

The Problem

Unequal column heights make CSS layouts difficult to manage when the height of content cannot be known in advance, particularly in scenarios where absolute positioning is in use. There are a variety of strategies to deal with this issue — here’s a jQuery based fix.

Read rest of the solution here, this is what we’re using:

http://michael.futreal.com/jquery/vjustify

Put this together for a client of ours, figured I should share it with the world:

Web-based meeting playground for white boarding over images and websites. check it out here

What is left for them to do??? Maps, email, word docs, excel sheets, blogs, app development platforms…. and now sites themselves!!!

Check it out, maybe the new LW site will launch here: http://sites.google.com/