Archive for the ‘jQuery’ Category

A Pratical Guide to Using AJAX in Web Apps

Categorized in Web Development, jQuery on February 1st, 2010

I have been doing a lot of work recently on MakeSomeTime and my final year Uni project (which is a web app) and both use a substancial amount of AJAX to power them. So what I want to do here is build on a previous article and outline a practical solution to using AJAX in your web apps using, in this case, jQuery and PHP.

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HTML Forms to AJAX Forms The Easy Way

Categorized in Tutorials, Web Development, jQuery on January 12th, 2010

For a while now I’ve wondered if there is an easy way to “AJAXify” forms without taking away from the semantics and functionality of a normal HTML form. So I came up with a simple solution powered by jQuery. The main aim here is to be able to just drop the javascript on top of the HMTL form in a progressive enhancement style so that the underlying HTML form would work even if the javascript is turned off.

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Ultimate jQuery Slider

Categorized in Tutorials, jQuery on October 27th, 2009

Today I’m going to show you how to create the Ultimate jQuery Slider which is really more like a website template than just a slider. I first wrote this code for my portfolio website dev7studios so you can see an example of it being used in real life there. Although the jQuery itseld is a wee bit complex overall it’s not as hard an effect to achieve as you might think.

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jQuery Spotlight Released

Categorized in My Projects, jQuery on June 15th, 2009

I’ve just released my latest plugin called jQuery Spotlight. I’m not going to say too much here other than go and check it out!

jQuery Spotlight

As always comments and suggestions are always welcome. Enjoy.

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Introduction to jQuery Events

Categorized in Tutorials, Web Development, jQuery on May 27th, 2009

In the web development world there has been one Javascript framework which has really made it’s mark over the last couple of years. I am of course talking about jQuery. Everyone is using it including Google, Wordpress, Drupal, Mozilla, Digg… and the list goes on. And there is good reason for this, mainly that it is a very flexible, extendible and powerful framework for Javascript.

jQuery Events

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One of the most useful parts of jQuery is it’s ability to attach events to objects within a web page. When these events are triggered you can then use a custom function to do pretty much whatever you want with the event. So I thought I would share with you an introduction to jQuery Events.