In many modern web applications, developers look for ways to make it easier and more intuitive for users to interact. A drag and select function can help your users select multiple objects quickly.
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Build An AJAX Powered Shopping Cart
The NETTUTS community asked for it. So here you are! One of the innovations of the web is online shopping. It allows us to buy things without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. However, the most basic element of online shopping, the shopping cart, has not evolved much. In this tutorial, we’re going to make an AJAX powered shopping cart using PHP, jQuery, and a few nifty plugins.
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Evening Tip: Force IE6 To Display Alpha Transparency
We’re running short on quick tips! That means we need your expertise! For tonight’s evening tip, I’ll simply refer you to the “2 Minute Video Tip” that I created on my personal site, Detached Designs, this morning. We’ll be back to the normal format tomorrow. Keep reading if you have some ideas.
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Build Your First Facebook App
So you want to build a Facebook application and reach literally millions of users. Well luckily, writing an application using the API isn’t too hard to learn (for the basics, anyway). In this tutorial we will write a Facebook app that generates a random quote to display on the user’s profile.
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Build An Incredible Login Form With jQuery
One struggle that still remains today in web design is displaying all of the redundant information on every page. For example, a login form. What if there was a way to easily make the content accessible on every page, but keep it hidden until needed? Well you can, by making a top panel that when clicked, will reveal its self and its content. But we need to make this look nice, so we'll also animate it.
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Learn How To Develop For The iPhone
Today I’m going to show you how to build an alternate page and style sheet for the iPhone and iTouch. We will cover how to detect if the user is using an iPhone to view your page as well as the orientation of the device – whether it be landscape or portrait. To accomplish this we will be using javascript, and some Safari mobile specific CSS tags.
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Weekend Tip: Author Comment Styling In WordPress
An often-used feature in WordPress blogs is the ability to style comments made by the post’s author differently from the others – helping replies to stand out. Here, we will edit the default WordPress to add some subtle styling to author comments.
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Evening Tip: Use jQuery To Retrieve Data From An XML File
In this quick tip, I’ll show you how to load data from an XML file onto a blank page. We’ll work with the $.get function and will also implement a loading gif while the information is being retrieved. We’ll be displaying a simple list of recommended web development books. Let’s go ahead and get started.
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Evening Tip: Save Time By Using Multiple Classes.
One of the most exhausting aspects of web development is writing out endless amounts of CSS styling for various elements – that differ only slightly in style from one another. It has taken the life (or will) of many a talented designer. Well, why give each element its own unique CSS entry, when you can mix match and add re-usable CSS styling to elements using multiple CSS classes?
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