Quickly find the answer to one of the most important questions of all – is it the weekend yet?! It’s completely pointless, made by yours truely, and so easy to use that you just have to load the page to find the answer.
Sprite Optimization
I know, I know, we’re english but the title is Americanised. But it’s worth it, because this post on Mezzoblue explains beautifully how to optimise your site bandwidth-wise by putting loads of graphics into a single image and using CSS to position and clip them. It’s kinda similar to my post Better faster rollovers with [...]
Creating your first jQuery plugin
It sounds like something that only javascript pros could do – make a plugin for jQuery. It took me a while before I even looked into it for the same reason. Around a year ago I tried it, and I want to show you just how easy it is.
AJAX is easy, but remember accessibility
AJAX is easy. It’s just javascript talking to your server to grab a little bit of content instead of the browser grabbing the whole thing. With this in mind, let’s get to work and build a simple AJAX application that will work with javascript turned off. We’ll do this by assuming that there is no javascript in your user’s browser, then use jQuery to change the DOM to add in the behaviours.
jQuery 1.3 is released!
After (for me atleast) a long wait, jQuery 1.3 has finally been released. It looks very promising and includes quite a number of cool new features including a new selector engine known as Sizzle. I will be writing a post about the new release in the very near future, so watch this space!
How to motivate creative people
Mark McGuinness has written a very inspirational eBook about how to motivate creative people. It explains how creative people need different things to make them motivated, how a creative environment is going to be more motivational than money and even what Iggy Pop can teach you about management. And the best part? It’s free!
Effective browser support
Paul Boag has written an excellent article about why you shouldn’t have a bunch of ‘supported browsers’, you should write clean HTML and CSS with NO HACKS. Then more advanced features like rounded corners in CSS3 for browsers that support it. And the stupid browsers will ignore the enhancements, but still be usable and accessible.
CSS SuperScrub
The description of CSS SuperScrub from the site says: This tool can significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names. And it’s not wrong.
