Experiments – JDM Digital

Bootstrap 3 Secondary Dropdown Menu

Bootstrap 3 navbars don’t support secondary dropdowns, but we can certainly make them. Better yet, we can even make it work for the WordPress menu system.

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Drag & Drop Line Chart Demo

Interactive line chart demo allows you to drag & drop projected data points to better visualize data.

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AMP with Progressive Web Apps in WordPress

Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) and Progressive Web Apps (PWA) in WordPress work best when combined. Here’s how.

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Linking to pages or posts in WordPress is easy but, linking to an uploaded PDF is cumbersome. Here’s a little script that allows you to link to uploaded PDFs (or other media) in the exact same way you would “link to existing content.” The “traditional” route for linking to an uploaded PDF is confusing, especially …

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Handy Share Links Reference

Those pre-built widgets are cool and all, but they don’t style well. So, it’s a pretty common thing to custom-build your own social sharing buttons. For your coding pleasure, here’s a reference of some basic HTML and a little JavaScript to get you started. I’ve also thrown in a little PHP for those of you …

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Screen Resolution

Responsive websites are great for websites displayed on all sorts of devices, but one thing it doesn’t do all that well is manage your screen resolution.

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iPapers Bring PDF White Papers to Life!

For decades, B2B marketers have used PDF white papers to present their thought-leadership to interested prospects. The problem? PDFs are not reliable, trackable, digestible, sharable, or interactive. In fact, they downright stink at anything more than just flat content and static images. As part of a joint venture between JDM Digital and the B2B content …

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A Brief History of IE Compatibility Mode

Microsoft introduced “Compatibility Mode” to allow really old websites built for Internet Explorer (IE) to display correctly in more standards-compliant versions. Since then, IE users and web designers have had the almost impossible challenge of “backwards compatibility.” Here’s a brief history of how we got stuck with Compatibility Mode.

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SPDY: Experimental Protocol for a Faster Web

SPDY (pronounced “SPeeDY”) is a protocol developed by Google for web content delivery. SPDY manipulates web traffic, with particular goals of reducing web page load latency and improving web security. As part of the “Let’s make the web faster” initiative, Google is experimenting with alternative protocols to help reduce the latency of web pages. One …

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Change Default IIS Page

If you’re using a windows small business server for email (Exchange, probably), you’ve noticed that the default page is pretty boring (see above). Here’s how to change that.

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Why Website Max Width 960px?

Responsive websites are here to stay, but why do they always have a max-width of 960px? Isn’t that SO 2009?! Should we get away from the 960 standard width in lieu of a max-width of more like 1140px? The answer is nerdy, but interesting for you math lovers. Today, the most common maximum screen resolution …

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What’s Your ProScore?

JDM regularly encourages (and sponsors) employees to take on side projects that either benefit the community or challenge us in new and innovative ways. Today, we’re proud to announce the launch of our latest project, ProScore. ProScore is a free site scorer unlike any on the web today.

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