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The following articles deal with any technology that you might want to use to enhance your website. It might be a JavaScript best practice, or it could be the usage of the Papervision3D flash engine. The sky is the limit.

The difficulty will range from the basics, for every one and their mom to more advanced topics, for which a thorough knowledge of certain technology is necesarry. The order in which these trails appear will be entirely random.

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Trail 1. Integrating script.aculo.us effects in a WordPress blog

difficulty: for every one

In this trail, I will explain you how to add a button to your WordPress blog that can make certain elements appear and reappear. Using the effects available in the script.aculo.us library you can easily add spectacular effects to your site.

To start this trail, you need:

  • You should have directory level access to your WordPress installation, preferably via FTP (you need to add new files, please ask your site admin if this is possible)
  • Some basic knowledge of HTML and CSS would be very helpful

You will learn:

  • the very basics of WordPress themes
  • a few HTML and CSS features
  • how to integrate JavaScript in your WordPress blog
  • usage of the script.aculo.us core effects

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No matter what you want to add or change to your website. You will always find that the search engine is your best friend. The collected knowledge is vast. Use it to your advantage.

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