Optimise your site for mobile devices
With the advent of smart phones and more powerful handheld devices like the iPad are your mobile users having the best experience? The mobile arena introduces a layer of complexity that can be...
View ArticleAutomatically pull in user Gravatar images
I was browsing forrst.com and saw a pretty interesting code snippet from Chris Coyier from CSS-Tricks which is pretty useful for WordPress users and allows the gravatar of a commenter to be dynamically...
View ArticlejQuery list filtering
Here’s a clever little script that’s certainly useful if you want to give users the functionality to refine search results or filter product results. If you had a list of films with long titles this...
View ArticleDynamically updating times using jQuery
With the rise of Facebook and Twitter we’re so used to instantly updating data and being able to judge fresh content almost instantly. Facebook for instance automatically updates how long ago someone...
View ArticlejQuery UI Slider
I’ve been hugely inspired recently by the design work of Orman Clark from Premiumpixels.com and his generous selection of top quality PSD downloads. after seeing this beautiful design of a button and...
View ArticlejQuery Show / Hide Plugin
Due to popular demand here’s a re-written version of the tutorial I wrote over a year ago on how to show and hide content using jQuery. After I first published the post I’ve had a lot of requests as to...
View ArticlejQuery Fancy Switch
I wrote a post a while back on coding an iPhone style switch using jQuery. I’ve now put together a simple tutorial demonstrating how simple it is to build a switch that triggers two radio buttons in a...
View ArticleAnimate through a set of list items with jQuery
To start with lets have a brief explanation as to what we’re going to be doing. We have a set of items in a list, and we want to iterate though the list increasing and decreasing the font size. Here’s...
View ArticleAutomatic jQuery site subscription lightbox
I’ve had many of you email me asking for a tutorial that shows how to create the subscription lightbox that used to activate the first time you visit the site, and I’ve finally got around to writing it...
View ArticlejQuery dynamic number ticker
This is a fascinating little script that helps you display a dynamic JSON feed of numbers that automatically updates on the page by animating up or down to the current number. A great addition as part...
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