Archive for February, 2009

Only a few years ago, if something was animated on a website it was automatically assumed to be Flash. However, this is not the case today. With the growing popularity and wide spread use of JavaScript frameworks, sometimes you have to take a closer look to find out what is powering all of those smooth [...]

When creating a User Interface, it’s important to make it engaging for the user not only from a visual standpoint, but also with interactivity. With so many JavaScript frameworks readily available, web designers and developers have many tools at their disposal to add slick effects to their UI’s. Now let’s take a look at these [...]

Achieving beautiful typography with CSS on the web is no easy feat, and there are many limitations to what can done with type on the web. However, there are generous people out there that have taken the time to build tools and write tutorials to help you overcome these limitations and create websites with beautiful [...]

In part 2 I will discuss the Widget elements that can be used with jQuery UI, these can be seen as custom controls to all you .net people out there. I’ve tried to go a bit deeper this time round, giving you home grown examples of usage in addition to the jQuery examples, as well [...]

jQuery UI is a fantastic library that sits neatly on top of jQuery enabling you to animate various elements for amazing front-end interactions. In the first of 3 articles, I will discuss the Interaction functionality, followed by Widgets, then Effects in part 3. Drag & Drop Drag and Drop is becoming more and more popular [...]


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