blur.js 40 Useful jQuery Techniques and Plugins - Smashing Magazine Over the last year, Smashing Magazine has evolved. We’ve been publishing fewer lists and more in-depth articles about design and Web development. We have invited professionals and high-profile developers to write for us. We’ve been investing more resources in the quality and relevance of our articles. We’ve also explored new formats; and on weekends we’ve been publishing more inspirational pieces, leaving the in-depth articles to weekdays. We’ve tried our best to fuel the growing appetite of our readers for more advanced articles, but recently we’ve been receiving more requests for carefully selected, useful round-ups. In this post, we present 40 useful but obscure jQuery plug-ins that will hopefully help you improve the user experience on your websites. TipTip jQuery PluginTipTip detects the edges of the browser window and will make sure the tooltip stays within the current window size. jQuery Slider plugin (Safari style) 3jQuery Slider is easy to use and multifunctional jQuery plugin.
14 Best CSS Editors for Web Designers & Developers 20.1K Flares Twitter 25 Facebook 0 Google+ 0 StumbleUpon 20.1K Pin It Share 0 20.1K Flares × CSS definitely provides you the ease of changing the appearance of your entire website by just modifying a single file. What makes the entire process of changing the CSS files more easy is the use of CSS Editors. Other Interested Articles: Btw, for high quality brochure printing in full color at PsPrint.com Stylizer Stylizer is a web browser that creates CSS ridiculously fast. XylescopeXylescope transparently converts pages with markup errors in the source code into well-formed XHTML. Style MasterStyle Master is the leading cross platform CSS development tool. Rapid CSS EditorWith Rapid CSS Editor you can quickly and easily create and edit cascading style sheets of any size and complexity. EngInSite CSS Editor EngInSite CSS Editor is a fully integrated Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) development tool, designed to save your time and unleash your creativity. About Author Andrew Smith
jQuery Before/After Plugin About a month ago I was reading the New York Times online and they had an article which showed a road in Brooklyn that had been reconstructed to make it safer and more pleasing to the eye. To show the difference in the reconstruction project, they showed a before and after picture using Flash that let the visitor drag a slider over the images, which were sandwiched with one on top of the other, so that you could easily see how dramatic the changes were. I immediately thought that this could be done in JavaScript using jQuery, so I set out to do it. Here’s the result: Pretty slick no? The possibilities for this plugin are endless. Download Go to the Before/After download page What’s So Great About this Plugin? Slick effect, no Flash neededIt’s just 7K (4K compressed)Reusable on multiple containersDegradable. How to Use First, your before and after images must be the same size. That’s it! Options The following options are configurable: Options are added when calling the script: Enjoy! Demos
Latest tweets tooltip plugin with jQuery Whilst browsing my feeds I found an interesting post by Cody over at Codrops on how to add a twitter tooltip popup on any paragraph of text. You can find the main plugin here: jQuery Twitter Search Plugin or view the demo The Code Oh well there’s not much to brag about here but here’s how to initialise the plugin. The popup box that appears can be dragged and resized. 10 jQuery Transition Effects: Moving Elements with Style Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways. In this article we’d like to present 10 Brilliant techniques using some jQuery magic to grab the attention of your users with a simple, rich user experience that gets them excited about your website. 1. Fluid Navigation – How to create an informative menu-bar with jQuery & CSS Learn how to create a menu that appears like a standard menu bar in it’s default state, but which on rollover pulls down an information area that covers both the original menubar item and has an expanded section containing the text we want to display. 2. Roundabout is a jQuery plugin that converts a structure of static HTML elements into a highly customizable turntable-like interactive area. 3. A simple image slider using HTML/CSS/Javascript. 4. jQuery Quicksand Plugin With Quicksand you can reorder and filter items with a nice shuffling animation. 1. 5. jQuery Magic Line Sliding Style Navigation 6. 8. 9. 10.
How to Create a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design in Photoshop In this Photoshop web design tutorial, you’ll learn, step-by-step, how to create a stunning and clean web layout. You’ll be using some basic to intermediate-level techniques to build your very own sleek "Web 2.0" style web design that uses the 960 Grid System. This is a two-part series that will teach you how to create the layout in Photoshop, and then how to convert it to a standards-compliant (X)HTML web design. Final Result Clicking on the image below will take you to the full-scale version of the web layout that we’ll be designing in this tutorial. Setting up the document 1 Create a new document in Photoshop with the dimensions 1200px x 1050px. Creating the background 2 Now, we will be creating the background. Placing the Grid System into the document 3 On a new layer, create a 960px wide grid – 12 bars, each bar at 60px wide. Making containers for the logo and navigation items 4 We will now be creating the containers for the logo and the navigation items. 9 Duplicate the separator.
Tutorial: Create a Beautiful Password Strength Meter Martin Angelov In this tutorial we will be creating a beautiful password strength indicator. It will determine the complexity of a password and move a meter accordingly with the help of the new Complexify jQuery plugin. Only when a sufficiently complex password is entered, will the user be able to continue with their registration. A PSD file is also available, so you can customize the form to your liking. The HTML We start off with a standard HTML5 document that will include our registration form. index.html <! We are including the latest version of jQuery, the Complexify plugin and our script.js right before the closing body tag for better performance. Password Strength Meter jQuery The jQuery code below is quite straightforward. assets/js/script.js With this out of the way, we can move on with the Complexify plugin that will validate the password. By tweaking the strengthScaleFactor property you can allow simpler passwords to be used. assets/css/styles.css We’re done! by Martin Angelov Tutorials
AutoSuggest: An AJAX auto-complete text field : CSS . XHTML . Javascript . DOM, Development : Brand Spanking New kk said Jeffrey Ropp said Nicely done. For some reason, my results dont appear within a scroll area? I've also found that my results aren't always qualified by the first character provided. Try an "S" first. Any thoughts would be appreciated! Thanks, Jeff Robert said Very interesting. peter said Hi, is it possible to submit the form after clicking on some of the results? Josh said I tried that, I can't seem to get it to respond right. in order for the dropdown to be clickable you must change the code above from: this.fld.addEventListener('blur',function () { pointer.clearSuggestions() },false); to this.fld.addEventListener('blur',function () { setTimeout(function () { pointer.clearSuggestions() }, 300) },false); I figured out how to make the autosuggest show on when focused and clear when the field loses focus. replace line 24: this.toID = setTimeout(function () { pointer.clearSuggestions() }, this.oP.timeout); with function createIEaddEventListeners() { if (document.addEventListener || ! Enjoy
Coding a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design from Photoshop In this web development tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a web page template from a Photoshop mock-up from a previous tutorial called "How to Create a Clean Web 2.0 Style Web Design in Photoshop" using HTML/CSS and the jQuery library. This is the second part of a two-part series that will teach you how to create the layout in Photoshop, and then how to convert it to a standards-compliant (X)HTML web design. Final Result Click on the figure below to see the live demonstration of the web design that you’ll be creating in this tutorial. Download Jan Cavan, who wrote the first part of this tutorial, has provided us with a Photoshop source file that we’ll use to build the site template. clean-web-2.0-source.zip (ZIP, 3.4 MB) Introduction In this tutorial, we’ll create a fixed-width web layout using some basic coding techniques. Prepare for a long journey and make sure you have your favorite caffeinated drink handy, because this tutorial will be a very long one! Setting up the file structure