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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Code to Create Custom Share Buttons for Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn & Delicious

May 20th, 2010 admin Posted in JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials No Comments »

Interested in sharing your B2B content on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn or delicious? Do multi-option social media sharing tools such as ShareThis seem like overkill? 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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Top 10 WordPress CMS Plugins

April 15th, 2010 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, Design and Layout, JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials, Open source, PHP & MySQL No Comments »

For moderately sized sites (including simple e-Commerce sites), WordPress does a pretty good job as a CMS, making it easy to maintain your site, and update your content. Of course, it does this best with the help of a good theme, and some great plugins. The strength of WordPress is the community of developers who have already done almost anything you can think of with it. Here are the best plugins we’ve run across, the ones we install for nearly all of our client’s sites. Read the rest of this entry »

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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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Superfish v1.4.8 – jQuery menu plugin

December 24th, 2009 admin Posted in CSS Tutorials, JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials No Comments »

Superfish is an enhanced Suckerfish-style menu jQuery plugin that takes an existing pure CSS drop-down menu (so it degrades gracefully without JavaScript) and adds the following much-sought-after enhancements:

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Create a shoutbox using PHP and AJAX (with jQuery)

April 28th, 2009 admin Posted in JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials No Comments »

Continuing with the tutorials about AJAX and jQuery we will create a stunning and dynamic shoutbox based in PHP and AJAX (using jQuery).

We will learn how to create a dynamic ajax based shoutbox with jQuery from scratch. It will be very interesting to know how to use the ajax function of jQuery and how it can be used to insert and recover data from a MySQL database via PHP in a way asynchronous. Read the rest of this entry »

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10 Open Source or Free Flash or Flex Code Libraries You Need To Check Out.

April 7th, 2009 admin Posted in JavaScript & AJAX Tutorials, Open source No Comments »

Build, steal, buy, or borrow… These would be the four basic ways you can make your applications a reality, pretty much regardless of the language you develop in. Flash and Flex development is no different in this regard.

Building will get you what you want, provided you have the skills to do it, but could take a load of time. Time obviously equals money. Stealing source code is of course unethical and I would never endorse it, for the obvious immediate moral implications. But furthermore, it is simply not a commercial option when developing work for clients due to long term legal issues. Buying code or components is often a great way to rapidly make progress that would otherwise take a long time to build. Borrowing code or the closest parallel I could think of, using open or free libraries, components, frameworks or APIs, is often the smartest thing to do when building an application of scale or one that requires a short timeline to deployment.

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