In UI Design, the “Obvious” Solution isn’t Necessarily the Best Solution
One of the best examples of this is the Mac’s scrollbar control. Read why the obvious solutions isn’t necessarily the best one.
The Soul Of The Web - Why Ajax Standards Matter
I spoke on a panel at Mashup Camp this week on why Ajax Standards matter. I was quoted by Doug Henschen of Intelligent Enterprise as saying that we are locked in a struggle for the soul of the web, so I thought I would expand on that theme.
Tutorial - CakePHP Ajax “Quick Save” with jQuery
When you are in an administration panel, sometimes you want a “quick save” feature that allows you to save without leaving the page. Here is how to accomplish this with CakePHP and jQuery.
Momentum CSS Framework Released
Reusing code is a great way to save time and money over the course of a website development. One thing that I have been looking to add to my developer toolkit is a CSS file that is flexible, well-organized, lightweight, and easy to learn.
The result of my efforts to create such a tool, Momentum CSS Framework, is now ready to be released into the wild under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Flexigrid for jQuery
Flexigrid is a lightweight but rich javascript data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.
40+ CSS Generators
A great collection of online CSS generators.
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Centering a Body Background Image that Behaves
Script & Style recently ran into some window size vs. page element issues. Read up on how Chris Coyier remedied the problem.
Add Custom Values To Your WordPress RSS Feed
As most of you probably know, Script & Style was created by myself, David Walsh, and CSS-Tricks scribe Chris Coyier. We were both looking to create widgets for our website that would provide not only a link to the article submission page on Script & Style but also a direct link to the full article on the author’s domain. Since we were reading in the RSS feed to grab articles and links, we needed to add a custom XML key/value to the RSS feed so that we could retrieve the direct link URL. Here’s how we did it.
Automatically Generate a Photo Gallery from a Directory of Images
A photo gallery that builds itself dynamically from a directory of images. So when you want to add new photos, you simply drop the new photo and thumbnail in the directory and you are done! Removing photos just means removing the photos from the image directory.
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