After reading Dave Shea's article on CSS Sprites using jQuery to produce animation effects, I felt like playing around with things to see what could be done but accomplish it with a simpler HTML structure (no need for adding superfluous tags) and simpler code, too.
Changing the position of the background image felt to be the best approach to creating the type of effect we're looking for (and I'm not the first to think so: see the examples at the end of this article).
Read more »Superfish is an advanced suckerfish menu plugin for jQuery.
It turns a standard CSS dropdown menu and tranforms it to a more powerful one (it gracefully degrades).
Read more »Anchor are really useful when you have alot of content, being able to jump 1 page of content can be really handy, that sometimes happen with corporate websites.
Unfortunately an anchor is just plain bad in design, when a user click on a link he pretty much always think that he will go to another page, but in this case, he just jump down the content, this can be really disorienting, even for me, when it is not clear a link is an anchor and not a normal link.
Read more »Web applications are becoming more prevalent and increasingly more sophisticated, and as such they are critical to almost all major online businesses. As with most security issues involving client/server communications, Web application vulnerabilities generally stem from improper handling of client requests and/or a lack of input validation checking on the part of the developer.
Read more »Its imperatively hard to determine bugs and fixes while development phase is in progress, keeping records drafting a bug sheet determining priority and severity will be a pain. Why not use automated test tools to test your web application.
Read more »Today is time to feature some good articles about AMFPHP. If you want to learn more on remoting Flash then the following tutorials are for you. These 14 tutorials will introduce you the AMFPHP, as also give you some skills by developing complete applications.
* Introduction
Read more »Building a calendar using xHTML and CSS can be tricky for some, so in this tutorial we’ll create a simple web calendar that:
Read more »Cheat sheets are helpful to have around because they allow you to quickly remember code syntax and see related concepts visually. Additionally, they’re nice decorative pieces for your office.
In this article, you’ll find 23 excellent, print-ready cheat sheets for HTML/HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (including MooTools and jQuery).
Read more »CSS grid systems have been creating a bit of a stir recently, so in this tutorial I’ll show you how simple and easy it is to utilise the Blueprint grid system when coding up your web pages.
Read more »Creating tabbed navigation system that works across all the main browsers can be troublesome at times, so in this tutorial I’ll show you how to create a fully functional tabbed content area for your website using CSS and the excellent jQuery.
Read more »If you’re designing a form with a number of different types of input element, such as checkboxes, radio buttons and drop-downs, then you’ve found the right place to start designing them well!
Read more »Let’s face it, we all love a freebie or two! The good news is, I’ve gone and found TWELVE places you can get your fix of free CSS template goodness.
Read more »Typechart is a simple site that lets you browse through examples of web typography and grab the css if you need it
Read more »Pixlr is a free online image editor, jump in and start edit, adjust, filter. It's just what you imagine!
Read more »The SimpleButton class is a sweet way to put sprites together to make a button. The SimpleButton is a light weight alternative to the heavier MovieClip object.
Read more »We all know the WordPress is a fantastic blogging platform, but did you know that you can use it as a total site CMS.
Read more »G. Scott Olson has been searching for a cheat sheet for jQuery for donkeys. So have a lot of others I bet.
Read more »Scott put together a great list of PHP (and other) cheat sheets from various sites. Bonus: smarty, wordpress, drupal, and cakephp ref sheets.
Read more »ie7-js
A JavaScript library to make MSIE behave like a standards-compliant browser.
