If you look after any large sites you will likely know how frustrating it can be when you need to make even minor changes. This can be something as simple as adding a new page to the global navigation. Traditionally you would need to manually edit every page on the site by adding the relevant code to each page, then uploading each page to your server. (more…)

I’ve been using Yahoo! Pipes quite a bit recently, partly because it’s so easy to use, and partly because it outputs data in RSS and JSON format.

For instance, if you decide to use the RSS output, you can use SimplePie to parse the data and display it, or you can output the JSON feed using jQuery. I’ve found the later method to be very quick and efficient, and it avoids the need to setup cache folders and cronjobs to automatically parse your feeds at set intervals. (more…)

If you want to display a number of photos on your website, jQuery Infinite Carousel is a very good option. This carousel works really well when you have a list of images on your page, but it threw up a number of problems when calling images dynamically on page load (I.e. your latest Flickr Photostream or set). (more…)