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Site re-design/re-brand + launch of my own company

It's been quite an incredible year...

  • I made a LOT of websites
  • I've gotten married
  • I bought a car
  • I became a permanent resident of Canada
  • I learn a lot of XHTML/CSS/PHP/jQuery (thanks google)
  • I had a sweet vacation in south of France
  • I learnt a lot about making nice user experiences
  • Got on the first page of Google for many keywords
  • Built several really useful web apps from scratch
  • and finally...

  • I quit my job and started my own company

Dim the lights script - jQuery

Sweet light bulb

Another useful for script for somebody!

This makes the most of flash's WMODE and the jQuery library to create a sexy "turning the lights off" effect.

When the "WMODE" of a flash object is set to "window" (or maybe "opaque") the flash object will sit above every other element on a page. Sometimes this is annoying... but sometimes we can use it to our advantage!

The demo for the script is here

Sorry for the weird video... its the only .flv i could find to test with!

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