Archive for the ‘user interface’ Category

Forms needs a solid visual structure, a profound hierarchy of form elements (Fields and Labels), powerful techniques and Functionality (AJAX) to make the form look and work creatively. There is a great bunch of creative, outstanding and individually designed from scratch forms.
Thanks to AJAX, we can provide real-time feedback to our users using server-side validation [...]

Filament Group is sharing a method of “creating CSS tooltip pointers with no images” that we’ll probably see in the upcoming jQuery UI widgets.
It uses Polygonal CSS, a trick to display non rectangular shapes, for creating the tooltip pointer (a triangle).

Although the method looks experimental, it is cross-browser & provides ease for creating flexible solutions by [...]

Splashy Icons is a free set of 460+ icons where new ones are added regularly.
The icon set contains almost any image, from arrows to actions or user icons to e-mail icons, that makes it ideal for web applications.

Icons are in PNG format & 16*16px size. They are totally free to use.
The whole set can be previewed [...]

Trend #1 – Tabbing System

Tabbing systems are becoming increasingly popular in all forms of web design, not just Wordpress. This is expected, as they are a very unique and effective way of displaying alot of content in a small amount of space. Common uses of tabs in Wordpress include displaying popular posts, recent comments, post [...]

This updated accordion script is powerful and lightweight at only 1.4kb. It now includes multi-level support, the option to allow multiple panels to expand concurrently, and a hide/show all toggle. I have reverted the markup to a div based structure to eliminate any validation issues with the definition tables in the previous version. Check back [...]


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