Tag Archives: JavaScript

10 Things a Website Should Never, Ever Do

As a designer of the world wide web, you are armed with the power to amaze, enlighten, entice, and captivate. The web is an easel for your creative aspirations, and the content you design for is the foundation of your … Continue reading

Input Prompt Text: A Better Way

It’s a very cool feature to have a form field that has prompt text such as Enter search keywords… right inside the input box, itself. It looks good, it makes sense to users, and it can save a lot of … Continue reading

The Perfect jQuery AJAX Request

If you’re into client-scripting, then jQuery AJAX is probably your thing (if it’s not, perhaps it should be!). jQuery has some fantastic support for AJAX, and implementing it into your web application is so easy it’s stupid. The AJAX functionality … Continue reading

Create a Lightbox with jQuery and CSS

The “lightbox” is a unique and useful design tool when used properly. It allows designers to present information that is totally independent from the site theme, and it is especially useful when displaying information that is loaded via AJAX requests … Continue reading

IE Corner Inserts via jQuery

I recently had a client whose design demanded rounded corners in a lot of different areas of their site. As I looked through the design documentation, the variety and color of these rounded widgets really started to add up. I … Continue reading

A Simple jQuery Tabs Template

I love jQuery; I use it all the time. I also love the great UI controls that come with the jQuery UI library. Unfortunately, I’ve found that a lot of these controls can be a little heavy in terms of … Continue reading

Create a DHTML Tab Strip

Tab strips are commonplace throughout the web, and they’re utilized in a wide variety of ways, such as in site navigation or form wizards. Organizing links in a tabbed format can add quite a bit of style and functionality to … Continue reading