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How to Open All External Links in a New Window/Tabs by using jquery

Do you ever know the way to open an external link in a new windows or tabs is one of The Top Ten Web Design Mistakes of 1999?

Opening up new browser windows is like a vacuum cleaner sales person who starts a visit by emptying an ash tray on the customer’s carpet. Don’t pollute my screen with any more windows, thanks (particularly since current operating systems have miserable window management).
Designers open new browser windows on the theory that it keeps users on their site. But even disregarding the user-hostile message implied in taking over the user’s machine, the strategy is self-defeating since it disables the Back button which is the normal way users return to previous sites.

I discovered right away is that the <a> tag does not allow the target attribute in XHTML Strict (nor does it in HTML Strict).

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However, the behavior of <a target="_blank"'> can be replicated in XHTML Strict with semantic markup and scripting.

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Google's Ajax Libraries API

Google CDN: use AJAX Libraries API to Speed up your Ajax apps

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Google's Ajax Libraries API

I don’t use a lot of JavaScript, but as you probably know, I’m a fan of offloading things to other people when it can save me the hassle of doing it myself.
A CDN — short for Content Delivery Network — distributes your static content across servers in various, diverse physical locations. When a user’s browser resolves the URL for these files, their download will automatically target the closest available server in the network.

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Animated Drop Down Menu with jQuery

25 sexy jQuery Drop Down Multi Level Menu

Drop-down menus and menu bars have been heavily used since the early days of graphical user interfaces. Their use has become ubiquitous, and even expected, in desktop applications, and the web has quickly followed suit. There are lots of drop down menus already out there. Here you’ll find 25 sexy jQuery and CSS based drop-down or just multi level menu tutorials with down loadable files and explanations as well.

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WordPress 2.9 Carmen With New Features Every Developer Must Know

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On December 18th, 2009, WordPress Version 2.9, named in honor of magical jazz vocalist Carmen McRae, was released to the public before the year ends. You can upgrade easily from your Dashboard by going to Tools > Upgrade, or you can download from WordPress.org. The WordPress 2.9 requires MySQL 4.1.2 or greater.
You can read the full list of new features, changes, upgrades, and improvements on the WordPress Codex. Following is our list of resources for more significant features/changes from developer’s point of view:

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Narga v6.5 Redesigned

Happy new year! 2010 and I’m back after website redesigned

I’ve rolled out a new design for Narga since yesterday evening. You may have noticed that I haven’t updated the blog for last months now. This is first post of this year to let you know that I’m back.

What happened?

I’m not going to lie to you, the main reason I stopped creating tutorials, themes and plugins is because I wasn’t very motivated and didn’t have much time either. The last redesign was one years ago, used table layouts, a lot of image files, and as a result was really sluggish. It’s definitely not good when your site takes almost ten seconds to load and you’re marketing speedy web hosting.

Narga v6.5 Redesigned
Narga v6.5 Redesigned

I started new design on this in mid October, 2009, the layout changed many times in the first couple of weeks before I (mostly) settled on what you see now. Since then though I’ve rewritten the ‘theme’ behind this half a dozen times, still not sure I’m entirely happy with it, but its better than before.

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