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Long ago in a web far far away, Dingobytes.com was created to offer service to a special Niche of businesses. After a few years of blood, sweat and tears, the venture disappeared and the domain was lost. After squatters found this domain useless, it was purchased for sentimental reasons and is now the home to tips and tricks for developers, admins and designers.

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    This is our first wordpress plugin and although we did not write this from scratch (we ported over a previous plugin that only worked in FireFox), we did improve upon a previous product and made it our own. Read More

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    Inspired by a similar feature at Twitter.com, this jQuery Plugin will help you display messages at the top of your page with an assortment of options.

    Download the latest version 2.1 of the plugin at http://showMessage.dingobytes.com/download/

    Please see the site, as the information below is for previous versions. This has been updated!

    This is my first attempt at a jQuery Plugin, so although it works fine for my liking, I am sure there are many things that can be done more effectively.

    • Message displayed at the top of page (no scrolling to view error)
    • Multiple messages can be displayed
    • Options to automatically close the message after set delay
    • Message closes with blur/’esc’ key/’close’ link