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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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Colorbox is flexible enough to be used to display a video player as content. We'll link out to a YouTube video, then add some Colorbox magic to display the video in a Colorbox.

In this section, we'll dive into using AJAX for the first time. In case you aren't familiar, AJAX is a method that is used to fetch some new content from the server and displays it to the site visitor without having to completely refresh the page. As the browser only gets and displays just the bit of information the site visitor needs, it's often much faster and snappier than loading a whole new page.

Just a quick note before we dive into AJAX for the first time. Modern browsers have several security rules for AJAX requests. You won't be able to simply view your ajaxified HTML files in a browser as we've been doing up until this point. In order to view AJAX in action, you'll either have to upload your files to a server before viewing them, or you'll have to set up a server on your own computer. For an easy...

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contacted on 10 may '16 _______________ Natalie MacLees is the founder of Purple Pen Productions (purplepen.com), an interactive agency based in Los Angeles, California. She has been designing websites since 1997 and is a passionate advocate of both accessibility and usability. She loves teaching and sharing her knowledge, both in seminars and workshops and also with her clients. She discovered WordPress a few years ago as a flexible, extendable, and quick way to build robust websites that clients could manage on their own. She is the organizer of the Southern California WordPress Meetup Group. She is also a Google Analytics Qualified Individual.
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