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Exactly How to Create a Custom jQuery Accordion
Yesterday, I saw that NETTUTS was looking for another staff writer. I figured that I would give it a shot and write a tutorial about creating a custom jQuery accordion (just like the one on the sidebar of my website). Well what do you know, they published it.
A List Apart: Issue 276
This issue focuses around one of the biggest problems in web development: education, or lack thereof. I know I would have loved to actually go to school for web development.
Design Share, an Event Series
Viget’s write up about the design share event that I attended and summarized. This one with video!
Web Development Project Estimator
“A simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.” Yes, all of this could be accomplished through other programs, but this is a pretty nice interface.
Use jQuery to Enhance your WordPress Comment Form
I have already completed a couple of tutorials on forms and jQuery (Ajax Forms with jQuery and Flexible and Semantic Forms with a Little jQuery), but I wanted to show another example of using a simple jQuery script to enhance functionality. This example will be about the comment form on a WordPress powered site.
Depending upon your configuration, WordPress will validate the comment form for requi…
CSS Testing of Selectors and Pseudo Selectors
A list of selectors and their supported browsers. There seems to be a trend of the non-supported ones…
The State of the Web 2008
The detailed report from the State of the Web Survey has been compiled. Wow, 62% of the people using JavaScript libraries are using jQuery; I love it.
Design Share
I had the pleasure of being invited to Design Share at Viget Labs Wednesday night. The idea of the event was that 6 presenters would each give a 5 minute presentation on design, and then there was a question and answer period. It was especially great since I am not really a designer. Always great to learn new things.
Brian Talbot National Geographic
Brian started the night off by discussing the…
Jason Santa Maria is Leaving Happy Cog
Probably my favorite designer out there right now is going freelance. Hey Jason, want to come work at my company instead?
A Plea for WordPress Help
I love using WordPress to power websites.
While it began strictly as a blogging platform, it has evolved into a pretty solid CMS, but there is one little thing that has been bugging me for a while now.
With the launch of my redesigned site, I was interested in using the WP-PageNavi plugin because I think it provides much better paging than the default WordPress previous/next.
The problem is tha…