Category Archives: Tutorials

  • Ultimate Site Logo 2 – For real this time

    After writing my first article on the subject, Ultimate Site Logo, I’ve come up with two significant enhancements.. With the original solution, there were two major flaws. The first one was a semantic one and the other one a more … Continue reading →

  • Populating Google Maps with Microformats revisited

    A few month ago I posted about a demo where I used content marked up with Microformats to populate a Google map using Javascript. Well, now I’ve improved that demo somewhat.

  • Polylines in Google Maps [Part 2]

    In part 1 I showed how to use and optimize performance on polylines in Google Maps using Javascript. In this article I will show you how to get even better performance by encoding the polylines on the server.

  • Bounding Box in Google Maps

    Normally when you initialize a new Google map you set the coordinates for the center of the map and manually specifies the initial zoom level. Sometimes, however, there’s a need to dynamically calculate the center point and zoom level for … Continue reading →

  • Polylines in Google Maps [Part 1]

    Polylines are used to mark out roads, borders and other things that are made of lines in maps. The Google Maps API offers a class for drawing these lines on a Google Map called GPolyline. In this article I will … Continue reading →

  • ASP.NET MVC and JSON

    In the AJAX community, JSON have become the preferred way of sending and receiving data. That’s not surprising since it’s lightweight, fast and easy to understand. Also, since it’s a subset of Javascript, it’s familiar territory for Javascript coders. In … Continue reading →

  • Effective Use of Custom Icons in Google Maps

    I’m currently developing a web application that uses Google Maps and have lots of markers with custom icons to mark different things on the map. To administer all these different icons is quite a chore and it took me some … Continue reading →

  • User Controls in ASP.NET MVC Preview Release 5

    I’ve had a little trouble finding out how to use User Controls in the ASP.NET MVC Framework and how to pass data to it. I haven’t been able to find a single article that clearly explains how to do this, … Continue reading →

  • Imagemap rollover

    Imagemaps was very popular in the early days of webdesign but seem to have fallen out of grace. Probably due to accessibility problems and the rise of CSS based designs. I think that it still has it’s place when used … Continue reading →

  • Looping with jQuery

    I’ve started working with the Javascript framework jQuery lately and I must say that I find it very enjoyable! I have previously mostly used Prototype and DOMAssistant, and although they excel in some areas I somehow find jQuery more fun … Continue reading →