Tugbucket - tugbucket.net
General Information:
Latest News:
Content to the front with jQuery 2 Jan 2010 | 02:23 am
I have been asked numerous times how I accomplished the sidebar and main content fading on this site. It’s a pretty simple snippet of jQuery. I decided it’s about time to just make a post about it. F...
Wordpress plugin: Multi-column Tag Map 7 Oct 2009 | 12:34 am
I’ve never been one for tag maps. I’ve never liked non-alphabetical listings of tags in sidebars. I never like lists of tags ordered by the “popularity” of the tag in question. All these make it extre...
jQuery first-letter hijinks 16 Aug 2009 | 05:31 am
This morning I was flipping through Memphis Magazine and noticed a pretty simple yet nice text treatment. They were over laying the first paragraph over a faint colored square that had the first lette...
Three column posts in Wordpress 30 Jun 2009 | 04:37 am
Here is a working example of this. Following up on my two column post hack for Wordpress, here is a method to doing it for three columns. There isn’t really too much different except a few small shan...
jQuery graphical header image replacement 2 Jun 2009 | 06:06 am
Several months ago I had a project that included feeding ad images into the sidebar of a page. Not a big deal but, there was an issue. These images were all coming from a third party. There was a smal...
Photoshop patchwork text effect 13 Feb 2009 | 07:28 pm
I played with a few settings and came up with a fun technique for making patchwork styled text. It’s a simple text effect and only takes a few steps to achieve. With more time involved, like anything,...
Fun with Wordpress categories 20 Jan 2009 | 03:51 pm
The truth is, playing with what you can do with categories in Wordpress is fun. Being one that doesn’t like to use plugins for most functions, I enjoy tooling around in the code and trying to make the...
JQuery cross-column pull-quotes 16 Dec 2008 | 01:00 am
Here’s something I’ve been wanting to figure out for a while now. How to make two column pull quotes that are actually usable for the most part. With the use of some pseudo-fancy CSS and a little bit ...
Wordpress offset archive hack 12 Dec 2008 | 05:12 pm
One issue I have found with Wordpress is that is doesn’t have a class of “offset” for the archives. While most of the time this isn’t an issue, I am currently working on a template that needed just th...
A Sunday trip to the Memphis Zoo 26 Nov 2008 | 09:01 am
Rakuette and myself went on a brisk Sunday morning to the Memphis Zoo. Had tons of fun. Played with the pigs. You know, zoo stuff. With my trusty cell phone camera I took some of the ugliest photos ev...
