As a tech-challenged blogger myself, I appreciate that for many people, "tech basics" can seem quite advanced and appallingly dull. Hopefully on this occasion, a trip through some javascript tricks will open your eyes and leave you with just enough knowledge to be dangerous.

If you have a lot of opinionated but lazy readers, install the javascript code for rating an article A simple click on 1 to 5 stars can do wonders for interactivity. Hitting 1 to 3 Ed heads does wonders for anger management.


Not all javascript is put to sensible use. In fact, here are some incredibly stupid javascript scripts!! They really are dumb, as opposed to the headline grabbing, but very useful Coocool Stupid Web Tricks Tool


Gather round for this brief report on a rotating banner javascript code. I know this will sound sacriligious to bloggers with 12 feet long sidebars, but with this code, in theory, you could pack all your images, meme links and throbbing avatars into one itty bitty box.


And javascript is the brains behind The Pisstakers Funny Quotes widget, as well as the Text Effects Random Funny Quotes script. (They are both great, except one is a bit prettier than the other. Can you spot which form has no styling!)

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