I love the Coda Slider plugin for jQuery. I’ve used it recently to build a couple of tabbed “widgets”. One here on CSS-Tricks in the sidebar to show Script & Style links, Featured Posts, and Popular Posts. Just kind of …
I wrote an article for NETTUTS that was published today. It’s called Building a Better Blogroll: Dynamic Fun with SimplePie and jQuery. In it, I make up a “widget” for pulling in recent headlines from the Envato family of …
If web pages were made out of wood, the grain would be running up and down. Vertical is the natural flow of web layout. When page elements reach the right edge of the browser window and go over, the flow …
Abstraction is an important concept in any language. You can think of CSS as a way of abstracting the design away from the content of a site. This makes the code for both much easier to read, understand and maintain. …
jQuery UI version 1.5 was just released, and it’s going to be a big one. For us designers and CSS coders, here are a couple of major highlights:
I’m calling this Part 2, because last week I began this adventure over on Tutorial Blog where we first designed a unique contact form:
Photoshopping a Unique Contact Form
Here we are going to pick up where that left off …
Polls are fun! They can help engage the readers of your site and give both you and the poll-taker valuable information. Let’s walk through building a poll from scratch. All the way from the Photoshop design to the PHP / …
…and the jQ’s have it! At the time of this writing over 1500 people have responded to our latest poll “What Javascript Library Do You Use?” making it our biggest poll yet. jQuery is the run-away victor with over 50% …
Pull quotes are wonderful. They can really draw a readers attention and they are a great opportunity for cool typographic work. On a blog though, pull quotes are particularly difficult to “pull off” (get it?!).
This is because of RSS. …
