As the unemployment rate continues to rise and is forecasted to increase by the end of the year, many workers are finding it harder and harder to have a sustainable job. A slowing economy has forced many large corporations to cut down on and restrict resources, and unfortunately it looks like the situation will only get worse before it gets better . A recent Goldman Sachs survey shows that “CIOs will most likely look to cut their resources first from lower-value augmented [contract] IT staff” in 2009 . The increasingly harrowing state of our economy is forcing people to seek out new ways of making money, whether it is online or in the real world.
So what is Entrepreneurship?
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After I wrote my basic primer to Ajax (see Ajax Primer), I found that a lot of people were searching on Google for a simple guide that shows exactly how the sliding shelf effect is achieved. So, without further ado, I will provide the code and method used to create a shelf with whatever content you’d like.
How is this different than other methods out there?
The shelf effect I use on my site is achieved using the moo.fx javascript library. Although I’m certainly not the first to use it for a WordPress shelf (see the Asymptomatic tutorial), my scripting is not exactly the same as the ones I’ve seen so far. This may prove useful to a handful of people who might have had difficulty with other methods.
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This WordPress plugin will add a live search much like the one found in the Ordered List tutorial. The key difference, however, is that this plugin uses the moo.fx library which is much lighter than the Script.aculous and full Prototype framework.
I have also made it simple to use and customize all of the functions of the live search.
Download SearchLite 1.4 (moo.fx Edition)
It should be in working order now - try it out! Unfortunately, this plugin is out-dated and no longer supported.
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In an attempt to make the perfect Asides that were both manageable through the admin panel, clean and efficient, I went through a TON of different plugins and suggestions. My needs were very specific - I wanted to create an aside link that would consist of both the title of the link and the description. In other words, I wanted to make it so you could click either the title or description and be redirected to an external link. The title would have to be differentiated from the description and I wanted to add a bit of style, so I decided to test my luck.
I tried a couple of plugins at first, thinking someone had conquered my woes. I quickly found out that it was harder to find what I was after then I had thought. Ultimately, I decided to take a spin at Miniblog, a plugin that creates a Write Miniblog tab and allows you to create short posts that link to external sites in differentiated categories. It seemed like the perfect plugin!
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If you haven’t tried the ‘Client Login’ link in my header, give it a shot now. If your browser is up to date, you should see the whole page slide down to reveal a friendly login box.
This effect was achieved - you guessed it - with the power of Ajax. Before this site, I had seen many dynamic Web 2.0 sites that took advantage of Ajax but I didn’t really understand how it worked or the benefits it poised.
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