I use jQuery UI a lot. I’ve used it at work on internal projects, I’ve used it on some pages in ferretarmy.com, and it’s integral to blaqdesign.com. It’s a great set of rich UI controls and behaviors that work well and are easily integrated into a webpage. I can’t say enough about the toolset.
However, there’s [...]
I’ve just released my latest plugin, the jQuery UI Image Carousel! The plugin is a standard-fare image carousel, and it’s also fully compatible with jQuery UI. It’s got a few options that make it fairly versatile – from a minimal look all the way to a collapsible version with a custom header.
The JavaScript itself wasn’t [...]
Most of the time when you want to cancel an action on a web page, such as a button click, you’d return false in the client-side button event handler, as such:
<a href=”blah…” onclick=”return DoAction();”>Link</a>
…
function DoAction() { /*Do Something */ return false; };
However, there’s a better way, using the event.preventDefault() method. I had the need to [...]
I’ve been focusing a lot lately on demonstrating some CSS animation techniques. That’s all fine and well, but there is definitely a need for some instructional material on the web. To that end, check out this CSS animation tutorial that I just finished. It will teach you some techniques that are useful today in a [...]
I’ve been working on some demonstrations on how to combine jQuery UI and CSS animations for some pretty neat effects.
Not to pimp my other businesses too much or anything, but check out blaq design if you want to see an eCommerce site done up with jQuery UI as well.
The jQuery UI themeroller is a fun way to experiment with theme creation for the jQuery UI widgets and other visual elements. Even better, you can distribute a theme solely via URL. Here’s an example of a theme I created – let’s call it Desperately Wanting 3D.
The jQuery framework has been around for about three years now. It’s rapidly becoming the go-to JavaScript framework – it has the most plugins, serious support from the likes of Microsoft and Nokia, and it is easier to use than many other frameworks. There’s an even cooler technology out there nowadays, though – jQuery UI.
jQuery [...]
