jQuery Quick Overview

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!jQuery is one of the more popular JavaScript-based code libraries used in developing websites. It’s CSS3-compliant and works cross-browser (IE6.0+, FF 2+, Safari 2.0+, Opera 9.0+). Here’s a very brief overview of jQuery.
The basics: The way jQuery works is to [...]

AJAX: Auto Suggest

If your a web developer looking to add some extra functionality to your clients website and look good while your at it, then than an auto suggest search bar is something you might consider. Ever since ‘Google Suggest‘ rolled out the labs, hundreds of clones have sprung up on a variety of websites, each with [...]

Creating a carousel with MooTools

You’ve probably seen it on various websites: those neat little inline slideshows that browse you through a gallery of images (or content if you want, too). Most people simply copy the code to use it on their own site, but I believe that by making it yourself, you learn new techniques and gain new insight. [...]

jQuery: Animation for Dummies

Introduction
Apparently, people liked the jQuery AJAX tutorial I wrote a week or two ago; so maybe a follow up into animation would be nice.
Animation is crap.
You may be wondering why I would use the word “crap” when writing a tutorial about a subject. It’s because I will start this tutorial off with one piece [...]

jQuery: AJAX Shortcuts for Champions

Introduction
Ah, AJAX. Tool for the best, buzzword for the rest.
Most web developers know the word but only some know what it stands for (Asynchronous Javascript And XML); others know the cleaning detergent and use it often. The rest of us simply run through our daily lives knowing something updated the stock ticker but not caring [...]

jQuery Resources - 8 essential sites

The use of javascript has been a contentious issue in the world of web development over the past few years; too much animation can give off a ‘tacky’ feel, whereas complete static sites just seem a little ‘under-done’.
With the rise of the equally contentious concept of web2.0, the use of javascript/ajax has come back to the forefront. However, [...]