25 Useful jQuery Tooltip Plugins and Tutorials

August 26th, 2010 admin Posted in HTML & XHTML Tutorials, JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials No Comments »

If you are looking to give your readers the option of a little bit more information or optional extra navigation, a great solution is to use Tooltips. Tooltips are a “common graphical user interface element, that are used in conjunction with a cursor, usually a mouse pointer. The user hovers the cursor over an item, without clicking it, and a small box appears with extra information regarding the item being hovered over” (via Wikipedia). To give your tooltip extra functionality and vesatilty the best and simplest solution is using Javascript, especially jQuery.
In this post we have collected 25 of the best jQuery Tooltip Plugins and Tutorials to help with your next project.

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Perfect Full Page Background Image

August 20th, 2010 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, Design and Layout, HTML & XHTML Tutorials, JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials No Comments »

We visited this concept of re-sizeable background images before… but reader Doug Shults sent me in a link that uses a really awesome technique that I think is better than any of the previous techniques. Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 12 CSS Frameworks and How to Understand Them

July 28th, 2010 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, HTML & XHTML Tutorials No Comments »

A CSS framework is a library that is meant to allow for easier, more standards-compliant styling of a webpage using the Cascading Style Sheets language. Just like programming and scripting language libraries, CSS frameworks package a number of ready-made options for designing and outlaying a webpage. . Read the rest of this entry »

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Blueprint a CSS framework

July 28th, 2010 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, HTML & XHTML Tutorials No Comments »

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your development time. It gives you a solid foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, useful plugins, and even a stylesheet for printing. Read the rest of this entry »

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HTML 5

May 27th, 2010 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, HTML & XHTML Tutorials No Comments »

You’ve heard of HTML 5 by now. Probably the most common new features include the new elements, specifically <video>, <audio>, and <canvas>. Although those are amazing improvements, there are some lesser known features that are worth taking another glance at. Read the rest of this entry »

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Top 40 Jquery for Web Design: Navigation

May 7th, 2010 admin Posted in HTML & XHTML Tutorials, JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials No Comments »

We love Jquery here and use it a lot. Here’s our breakdown of ALL the jQuery options available today. Feel free to add more that you find in our comment section.

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5 Sliding Content Techniques, Examples & jQuery How to’s

March 21st, 2010 admin Posted in HTML & XHTML Tutorials, JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials No Comments »

The more intuitive layout structure is designed, the better users can understand the content. Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways. Read the rest of this entry »

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15 Best Examples of Free jQuery Content Sliders

March 21st, 2010 admin Posted in HTML & XHTML Tutorials, JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials No Comments »

With jQuery becoming ever more popular, the volume and quality of plugins and tutorials that developers are releasing and writing are increasing rapidly. Read the rest of this entry »

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Can We Prevent CSS Caching?

May 29th, 2009 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, Design and Layout, HTML & XHTML Tutorials No Comments »

When you are developing a site, there is a heck of a lot of “refreshing” going on. You start to get a pretty good feel for what your browser is going to pick up on a single refresh, and what it won’t. For example, I find that if I over-write an image file on the server, it will take me two refreshes for that image to update on the live site. Then maybe I’ll pop over into Opera and see how the site is doing over there, only to find on the first render of the page that is a really old version. Uh oh. Refresh. Refresh. Oh… there it is.

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How to Add a Skype Call Me Button to a Web site

May 12th, 2009 admin Posted in HTML & XHTML Tutorials No Comments »

1.Create a Skype Me Button

Navigate to the Skype Web site then click Share on the menu bar at the top of the window.

Locate and click on the Skype Buttons link at the bottom of the page under the heading Skype Share. Read the rest of this entry »

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