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		<title>QuickFlip 2: The jQuery Flipping Plugin Made Faster and Simpler</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:15:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I'm happy to announce the release of QuickFlip 2, a major reworking of the jQuery plugin that flips any piece of HTML markup over like a card.  The new version is faster and even easier to use&#8212;simply call the flip animation through a jQuery selector and the QuickFlip will flip the front panel to show its back.  The flip effect is similar to the UI animation on the iPhone

<a href="http://dev.jonraasch.com/quickflip/download" class="dlButton" rel="nofollow">Download QuickFlip 2 for jQuery</a>

<a href="http://dev.jonraasch.com/quickflip/docs">Read the QuickFlip documentation</a>

QuickFlip works by using an animation shortcut that is barely noticeable when flipped quickly (hence the name).  This shortcut improves performance while allowing the flip effect to work smoothly with any piece of markup regardless of images, backgrounds or CSS.   

It provides an attractive alternative to other slower and more resource heavy Flash and jQuery flip animations.  However if you want a smoother option with a depth effect try <a href="http://lab.smashup.it/flip/" rel="nofollow">jQuery Flip!</a>, although this only works with background colors (not images) and hides the panel content before flipping.]]></description>
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		<title>Contact-Pop: Contact Form Overlays with a Simple jQuery Plugin</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 15:52:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Contact-Pop is a jQuery plugin that makes contact forms with grayed out overlays incredibly easy.  The basic script grabs any links that point to your contact page and flags them for the Contact-Pop popup.  When these links are clicked, Contact-Pop grays out the page and pulls in the contact form using AJAX.  That means that with just a few lines of code, you can convert your site to use Contact-Pop's form and overlay rather than your current contact page.

While there are a lot of options for producing grayed out overlays in jQuery, Contact-Pop provides a more robust and specialized solution for in-page contact forms.  The main advantage is ease of use: simply flag any links to your current contact page by href or jQuery selector, and ContactPop does the rest.  Combining this simplicity with a plethora of customizable options, Contact-Pop is a useful plugin for newbies and seasoned developers alike.  

Additionally, Contact-Pop has the benefit of being totally unobtrusive.  Since the plugin replaces the normal contact links on your page, even if a user doesn't have Javascript enabled they will at least be routed to the normal contact page.

Finally, although Contact-Pop leverages a PHP file, this is just to make it easy to plug into your website.  If you want, you can easily write a custom PHP, ASP or any other backend page to serve and process the form as leveraged by Contact-Pop's AJAX.
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		<title>Translate-It: Easy Translation for Multiple Languages</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/translate-it-easy-translation-for-multiple-languages</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:14:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Translate-It is a free tool that makes multi-language translation easy to implement on any website.  With just a few lines of Javascript you can quickly include up to 34 languages of internationalization on your site.

<a href="/downloads/translate-it.zip" rel="nofollow">Download Translate-It.</a>

The web is a global community with rapidly growing international markets.  Translation allows sites to reach broader audiences, and tools like <a href="http://translate.google.com/" rel="nofollow">Google Translate</a> and <a href="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/" rel="nofollow">Yahoo's Babelfish</a> have made the web more accessible.  While accessing these translation tools is often too cumbersome for your site's visitors, leveraging these tools is relatively simple for developers.

<span class="more-link"><a href="http://jonraasch.com/blog/translate-it-easy-translation-for-multiple-languages#more-31" title="Continue reading this entry" rel="nofollow">(more...)</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>normalurl.com: Free URL Redirection</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/normalurl-free-url-redirection-service</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[general web]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analytics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's nothing worse than those long, ugly URLs with twenty variables in the query string.  In recent years there have been a number of websites offering a free service where users can create shorter links to these complex URLs.  While a short URL is great, the links provided by most of these sites are computer generated and impossible to remember.  

This weekend I programmed a simple tool to allow users to create their own links and normalize ugly URLs called <a href="http://normalurl.com">normalurl.com</a>.  Just like other URL rewriting services, this website is completely free and allows anonymous users to easily create new URL redirects.  However this ... <a href="http://jonraasch.com/blog/normalurl-free-url-redirection-service" title="Continue reading this entry" rel="nofollow">(more...)</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Too much Javascript?  Here comes WebKit and the new Safari</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/too-much-javascript-here-comes-webkit-and-the-new-safari</link>
		<comments>http://jonraasch.com/blog/too-much-javascript-here-comes-webkit-and-the-new-safari#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 18:42:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[general web]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[apple]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let it not be said that I never fall victim to a web fad: AJAX, jQuery, SEO‚ÄîI was there with bells on. So when everyone started hating Flash and doing all web animation with HTML/Javascript, I jumped right on board. I thought it was just great! You didn&#8217;t have to lose any SEO, and most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lumifi &#8211; Web Search Without a Web Browser</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/lumifi-web-search-with-a-standalone-application</link>
		<comments>http://jonraasch.com/blog/lumifi-web-search-with-a-standalone-application#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:34:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There‚Äôs a new search engine being showcased on Apple.com‚Äôs widget download page, lumifi¬Æ , which, unlike other search engines, does not run through a web browser. With web search being so integral to our computer lives, is it preferable to search through a website or an application? Lumifi‚Äôs marketing department provides one answer : ‚Äúlumifi [...]]]></description>
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		<title>jQuery Animation and SEO</title>
		<link>http://jonraasch.com/blog/jquery-animations-and-seo</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Mar 2008 07:02:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[SEO]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I put a bit of jQuery on my site, animating the links in my art portfolio section. Check it out. I really like jQuery actually, it looks nice, and its a great way to liven up a site&#8217;s visuals without using Flash and losing all that SEO. The problem is that jQuery, which is essentially [...]]]></description>
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