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jQuery date chooser

Providing a simple, consistent method for allowing your end-users to enter a date in a form is another great reason to use jQuery and jQuery UI. There have been many date selection tools created — you may have invented one yourself — but few are as great as the jQuery UI datepicker.
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Read the full article → May 12, 2009

jQuery tabs

I’ve finally had a chance to implement a solution with jQuery tabs and I was very pleased with the simplicity of creating a very simple tabbed interface. I’ve used several tab solutions before the jQuery UI solution, and I definitely prefer the jQuery solution (yet again).
To set up a basic tabbed layout, start with an [...]

Read the full article → April 30, 2009

jQuery modal dialog

Coming from the world of Windows software development, the concept of a modal dialog box is an absolute expectation. Most often such dialogs are used to gather required information from the user while ensuring that nothing is clicked or altered in the main application window. When moving to the web world, it’s a bit jarring [...]

Read the full article → April 9, 2009

Learn CSS

In yesterday’s post, Geeking out, I forgot to mention the most important concept for both web designers and web developers to learn: CSS. Designers probably already understand the advantages, but developers implementing any complex functionality for a web site really need to know CSS today because of the client-side Javascript libraries that depend on CSS.
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Read the full article → March 27, 2009