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About James Lao

I'm a student based in the U.S. I've been doing web development for a few years now and I'm the two-time Oregon Skills USA state web design champion. I will be attending Carnegie Mellon University in Fall 2008 as a computer science major.

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Build An AJAX Powered Online Shopping Cart

Build An AJAX Powered Shopping Cart

in Javascript / AJAX, PHP by James Lao

The NETTUTS community asked for it. So here you are! One of the innovations of the web is online shopping. It allows us to buy things without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. However, the most basic element of online shopping, the shopping cart, has not evolved much. In this tutorial, we’re going to make an AJAX powered shopping cart using PHP, jQuery, and a few nifty plugins.

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Text Replacement With FLIR

How To Use Any Font You Wish With FLIR

in Javascript / AJAX, PHP by James Lao

Last week, Philo showed you how to implement sIFR3. This time, I’m going to show you how to implement Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR), an alternative to sIFR that does not require Flash.

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How to Make a Featured Post Carousel for WordPress

in Working with CMS's by James Lao

It’s becoming more and more common for blogs to feature certain posts at the top of the page. In this tutorial, we’re going to show you how to implement this in WordPress. We’ll be using the default theme, Kubrik, as our base theme, but it should be adaptable to most themes with some modification. There’s very little code and featuring posts is simple.

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