It is compatible with MooTools 1.2.x. It does not depend on a specific data source (XHR, Json). Instead, the developer supplies the data which can come from anywhere. New TextboxList is now using Binary search for maximum performance. It supports new options, such as addOnEnter, which adds boxes upon pressing enter (useful for tags or categories widgets).
Requirements: Mootools 1.2.x
Demo: http://devthought.com/projects/mootools/textboxlist/
License: License Free
If you use Skype I am sure that you noticed that animated button for adding more people to a chat. When you mouseover on it, the icon on the left “jumps” for a few times. The animation looks really attractive.
Janko is going to show you how to create the Skype-like Buttons using jQuery and some simple CSS. The code is tested in Firefox, Safari and IE7.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.jankoatwarpspeed.com/examples/skype_buttons/
License: License Free
PHPanywhere is a web based free Integrated Development Environment or IDE for the PHP language, in other words it is an application that gives developers all the code editing capabilities they need to develop PHP applications online. It includes a real-time syntax code editor with support for all web formats and a powerful FTP editor.
PHPanywhere works in a browser, you can start coding right away, no need for installing anything. Best of all you can work from anywhere. You can also share your work and allow others to work on your projects on PHPanywhere easily.
Requirements: -
Demo: http://phpanywhere.net/
License: License Free
Ethan Marcotte has raised an issue about Fluid Grids, that working with non-fixed layouts can be more difficult once you introduce fixed-width elements into them. By default, an image element that’s sized at, say, 500px doesn’t exactly play nicely with an container that can be as large as 800px, but as small as 100px. What’s a designer to do?
He has wriiten a little script that makes Fluid Images. In short, it cycles through your document, swaps out the images for a transparent GIF, and applies the AlphaImageLoader property to each one. Then, whenever the window’s resized, the script automatically recalculates the proper, proportional height and width of the image, and resizes the spacer graphic accordingly. You can see it in action, and download the script.
Requirements: -
Demo: http://unstoppablerobotninja.com/entry/fluid-images/
License: License Free
Soh Tanaka has written a tutorial about making a Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect with jQuery. Basically all they are doing is animating the thumbnail’s size, absolute positioning coordinates (vertical alignment with css), and padding when we hover over. During this animation, they also switch the value of the z-index, so that the selected image stays on top of the rest.
It may not be as smooth as the flash version, but its definitely a neat effect. If you switch up the absolute potion coordinates, you can create various ways the hover effect pops out as well.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/examples/image-zoom/
License: License Free
Code reviews play an integral part in the development process for making quality software. We can find out security holes, memory leaks, poor queries and heavy file structures from code reviews. Unfortunately, these reviews are also very time consuming.
We spend a lot of time echoing queries, memory stats and objects to the browser just to see how they are being used in the code. To reduce this repetition, Ryan Campbell has invested some time creating the PHP Quick Profiler (PQP). It’s a small tool (think Firebug for PHP) to provide profiling and debugging related information to developers without needing them to add a lot of programmatic overhead to their code.
Now, we only need to toggle one config setting to true and we can have access to an automated tool to help create a faster and more consistent review experience. Since anyone can use it, PQP also gives the initial developer an idea of where their code stands before the review.
Requirements: -
Demo: http://particletree.com/examples/pqp/
License: License Free
Project Icon Set contains 18 beautiful icons related to project management. The set includes the icons address card, bar graph, calendar, clock / time, conference device, contact, documents, draft, mail, marker, milestone, notes, portfolio, project plan / gant chart, search / find, sitemap / flowchart, todo and user / resource.
The files are transparent PNGs, and vector Fireworks source files are included as well. As always, the set is completely free and may be used for any private or commercial project without any restrictions whatsoever.
Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/27/project-icon…
License: License Free
The web is full of resources, but they’re often hard to reach. This is the reason why I think it’s important to organize them with a coherent structure and share it with you. So just bookmark this page for whenever you’ll need it, it’ll be useful. Please also mention if I missed anything.
It may sound stupid to say that, but the ability to link is one of the best features of the web. It is then really important to make your links display as convenient for use as possible. In the following collection you’ll find some tips to make your links better looking and more usable.
1. Display filetype icons
If you are linking directly to a file, why not let your users know about it? I’m always terribly annoyed when Acrobat launches by surprise. One way many thoughtful web writers deal with this issue is by adding (PDF) after the link. It would be even better if you used the proper CSS technique that does it automagically! Web-kreation has a good explanation on how to do that.
2. Show the target page’s language
Are you often linking to websites written in another language than yours? If it’s the case, you should consider using pseudo-classes to display a little notification for the link’s language. It can be either a little country flag or a bracketed abbreviation of the language [en]. I would recommend not to use country flags for this, it can be misleading or hurt some national sensibilities. My country, Switzerland, is a very good example for that. Linking to a Swiss page with a French or German flag would be inappropriate. Even for English, which flag would you use? American, British, Autralian,…?
If you still want to use this technique, here is a tutorial.
3. Highlight microformats with CSS
Highlighting the microformatted informations allows you to give a better view of your contact and personal information. It is definitely a good way to improve the usability of your website and to get more people contacting you.
Discover how to highlight your microformats on Hicksdesign.
4. Display an icon for external links
When browsing a website and clicking on links, I’m always thankful to webmasters that tell me whether I’ll be leaving their website or not. It is a nice way to indicate your website’s visitors where they are going.
5. Tooltips
Tooltips give more information to your website visitor about the link they are hovering. Most tooltips tutorials will use javascript, but did you know that you can create them with pure CSS? It is actually quite simple, as you’ll see on this page.
6. Learn to style visited links
I never know how to style visited links on the websites I design, this article gives some good ideas on how to do it.
7. Better link display on printed web pages
Linking isn’t limited to the online world, your links should also be visible on the printed version of your website. The most common way to achieve this with CSS is to display the URL next to the link text. Read this article to learn how.
There is however an even better way to display the links on a printed page, list them as footnotes. This article on A List Apart will teach you how, but it does take some scripting to achieve it.
8. Image replacement for submit button
It’s quite easy to customize your submit button with simple CSS, but replacing it by an image will let you integrate the button more.
For freelancing designers, the online portfolio is one the best ways to get some work. Every prospect will check it before hiring you for the job, so it must be good. JQuery can be a great tool to improve your portfolio, whether it’s for eye candy, usability or functionalities. In the following collection you will find some great jQuery scripts and tutorials that’s help you to get a better portfolio
Tabs can be a great way to make informations about a project quickly available without leaving the page. For example you can insert project details in a secondary tab because you know that only a few visitors will have interest in it.
If you want to show a project’s evolution, jQuery cycle could be the way to go. It is basically a slideshow with cool transition effects, and the ability to use different actions to move from one slide to another.
If you are going to use a tooltip to display further technical informations, do it with style. This script and tutorial teaches you to create a bubble just as pretty as the ones on Coda’s website.
If you have designs where the details have a lot of importance, you should use this script to let your site’s visitors know that you don’t neglect details in your designs.
Nice flipping effect for your divs, images, or whatever you want to put in it.
A cool carousel jQuery that allows you to display different media types, perfect for multimedia designers.
If you read a lot of web design blogs, you’ve probably seen this one over and over. I still could not leave it out of this list as it’s a great way to display design work.
Nifty little effect for menus, can also be used for other things if you are creative (and I am sure you are).
If you have a lot of projects and designs to show, this could be the right navigation to use for your portfolio.
Excellent tutorial to create a filterable portfolio with jQuery.
Beautiful menu effect that captures your attention towards the menu element you are hovering.
Want to get rid of people with too low budgets? This could be the way to go. The jQuery Calculation plugin could allow you to give an estimate of what their request will cost.
Tired of receiving incomplete form submissions from your portfolio site? Try the jQuery form validation plugin and the people trying to contact you will not be able to send a message if they didn’t fill in the form properly.
In your portfolio you will probably want to emphasize on your content and images. Accordion menus can be a good way to declutter your sidebar and give more space to content.
It’s good to explain your workflow on your portfolio website, it gives your potential clients a good indication of what they can expect when working with you. Using a sequential list is a good way to do this, learn how in Web Designer Wall’s tutorial.
Good form styling does not only look nicer, it’s also often more usable.
If you are really proud of your studio, you can give a good feel of what it looks like with this virtual tour jQuery plugin.
To give informations about an image or project, image notes are the perfect solution. You can easily point out details and give in-context explanations.
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