HTML5 and jQuery provide mind-blowing functionality. Projects that would have taken hours of development and hundreds of lines of code a few years ago can now be completed in about the time it’ll take you to read this paragraph. If you wanted to add your own audio player on a web page in the past, [...]
jQuery plugins don’t have to be complicated to create. If you’ve stumbled upon this blog in pursuit of a guide to show you how to make a jQuery plugin, you might not believe me … It seems like there’s a chasm between the “haves” of jQuery plugin developers and the “have nots” of future jQuery [...]
If you think of JavaScript as the ugly duckling of programming languages, think again! It got a bad rap in the earlier days of the web because developers knew enough just to get by but didn’t really respect it like they did Java, PHP or .Net. Like other well-known and heavily used languages, JavaScript contains [...]
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I’ve written several blogs detailing the use of different jQuery plugins (like Select2, LazyLoad and equalHeights), and in the process, I’ve noticed an increasing frustration among the development community when it comes to building jQuery plugins. The resources and documentation I’ve found online have not as clear and easy as they could be, so in [...]
By now, if you’ve seen my other blog posts, you know that I’m fascinated with how much JavaScript has evolved and how much you can do with jQuery these days. I’m an advocate of working smarter, not harder, and that maxim knows no coding language limits. In this post, I want to share a pure [...]
Web developers have the unique challenge of marrying coding logic and visual presentation to create an amazing user experience. Trying to find a balance between those two is pretty difficult, and it’s easy to follow one or the other down the rabbit hole. What’s a web developer to do? I’ve always tried to go the [...]
In the late 90′s, web pages presented their information in a relatively structured fashion, with little concern on how “pretty” the content looked. To a certain extent, that was a result of available technology and resources being a little more limited, but much of the reason was probably because we had no idea what was [...]
Last month, I posted a blog about dynamically resizing divs with jQuery, and we received a lot of positive feedback about it. My quest to avoid iframes proved to be helpful, so I thought I’d share a few more esoteric jQuery tips and tricks that may be of use to the developers and designers in [...]
It’s no secret that iframes are one of the most hated methods of web page layouts in the web development world — they are horrible for SEO, user experience and (usually) design. I was recently charged with creating a page that needed functionality similar to what iframes would normally provide, and I thought I’d share [...]
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