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Posted: February 27th, 2012, 10:00pm MST
jQuery Impromptu jQuery Impromptu is described as a way for you to improve your forms by implementing spontaneous prompts for user input. In essence, it provides a guide for users as they fill out forms and makes for an overall better user experience. Impromptu can be used to replace standard alerts, prompts, or confirmations that you'll usually find in forms. It has quite a few options packed into its feature set, making it a solid jQuery plugin for you to add to your forms arsenal. As for examples of where it could be used, add it to a finance calculator form. If a visitor types in a...
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Posted: February 22nd, 2012, 10:00pm MST
Minimit Gallery Plugin Minimit Gallery is a plugin that is intended for more advanced JavaScript programmers. The reason for this is that the animations involved and the gallery's CSS must be coded. With that being said, you can use the plugin to create slideshows, galleries, carousels, and more. There are plenty of customization options that you can tweak to fit your site's needs, and all of the functionality is achieved with less than 10KB. The possibilities offered by Minimit Gallery are extensive. Besides typical slideshows, you can also leverage the plugin's power to create eye-cat...
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Posted: February 21st, 2012, 10:00pm MST
Oracle currently holds the position of being the world's second largest provider of business management software, while SAP is the leading provider of conventional software programs that clients install on their computing systems. Despite its trailing position in the traditional software market, Oracle's cloud computing offerings have grown in recent years thanks to a proactive strategy employed by company CEO Larry Ellison. Oracle purchased RightNow Technologies, a provider of cloud-based customer service software, for $1.5 billion last month. According to Evercore Partners, its current $1....
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Posted: February 14th, 2012, 10:00pm MST
PHP amp; jQuery Image Upload and Crop Placing image uploading and cropping functionality on your site can come in handy in many situations. As visitors upload images to your site, you can expect better traffic and increased participation. The possibilities are virtually endless. This jQuery plugin was created to answer the need for an image upload and crop tool by the authors and the end result is a solid one. The plugin comes equipped with several options that you can tweak to fit your site's needs, and it even offers a preview function to make the feature more user-friendly. Link: ...
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Posted: February 13th, 2012, 10:30am MST
Indeed, things get more complicated when it's necessary to construct a navigation bar (in any of its abundant flavors) that displays some form of animated behavior. In many cases, the process requires you to work with the complexities of raw JavaScript, or to climb the learning curve of one of the many JavaScript libraries available. A good example of such a situation is the development of the so-called accordion menus. There are jQuery plug-ins that allow you to build these popular user interfacing elements quickly and unobtrusively, while leaving the markup clear and pristine. Sometimes, ...
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Posted: February 8th, 2012, 10:00pm MST
jQuery Tutorial for Beginners The previous tutorial in this list focused on practices, and we said it was different from most. This particular tutorial is exactly the opposite, as the author chose to skip any specific concepts or principles in favor of showing code examples that illustrate the power of jQuery. So, if you are looking to jump right into things without being lectured, this is the tutorial for you. The main value of the tutorial is its format, which lets beginners really immerse themselves into jQuery in as little time as possible. By offering snippets of jQuery's power, you ca...
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Posted: February 6th, 2012, 6:00am MST
If you're constantly in search of newer and more efficient methodologies that permit you to improve the overall quality of your CSS code, then take a peek at combinators. This underrated feature, bundled with the specification for a long time, will let you define the visual presentation of your web page elements by using fewer CSS classes and selectors. In this way, it can help you keep the markup much cleaner and unpolluted. If you've already read the two previous parts of this tutorial, you now have a solid background on how to work with CSS combinators. In those pieces I developed some exam...
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Posted: February 1st, 2012, 1:00pm MST
Let's face it: developing HTML5 websites that can be rendered consistently across most mainstream browsers is a challenging task (even for experienced developers). The standard is still immature, and many browsers do not support certain features of the specification. It's no surprise that Internet Explorer is the worst offender here. Fortunately, there are a few tools that will help you to make the development process much less painful, trust me. A good example of such a tool is HTML5 Boilerplate. This powerful, full-featured HTML5 template permits you to deal more easily with the aforementio...