CSS-Tricks.com: Modal Login Pages
Over at CSS-Tricks.com, there is an interesting article about Modal Login Pages, complete with a tutorial to make your own.
These are common in desktop applications when a program needs an important decision made. They are becoming more and more popular in web applications thanks to the JavaScript “light box” (or one of it’s other many pseudonyms). Undeniably, they are overused. However, there are circumstances where modal boxes make sense and are used effectively to focus a users attention to the important task at hand. In some situations, logging into a website is one of these important tasks.
Nettuts.com – 10 Smart Javascript Techniques to Improve Your UI
Over at NetTuts.com, they’ve posted a useful arcticle discussing 10 smart javascript techniques to improve your UI.
Javascript can add a lot of special effects that can really improve the user’s experience. Here are 10 simple and clever Javascript techniques that add an extra dose of usability to any webpage.
Javascript is typically used as an aesthetic language in web development. This means that web developers should almost always be using Javascript for one thing only: Improving the visitor’s experience. There are many clever and useful ways to improve a site from the user interface perspective. A developer can find nearly any snippet of Javascript to achieve what he or she wants to accomplish.
Developer Works: Generate Flash movies on the fly with PHP
Rich Internet Applications is the new buzz-phrase for Web 2.0, and a key component of the substance behind Web 2.0 is Adobe Flash. Learn how to integrate Flash movies into your application and generate Flash movies dynamically using the Ming library. Web 2.0 promises Rich Internet Applications. But what does Rich Internet Applications mean? In [...]
Seven Ways to Keep Your Visitors
These days, having a website is absolutely essential for any flourishing company. But not all sites are necessarily good ones. Your website can either be very successful and get you a large number of visitors or it can so badly made that getting a single client can be hard. Generally, a good website is one [...]
Developer.com: Developing a Ajax-driven Shopping Cart with PHP and Prototype
On Developer.com, Jason Gilmore has posted This new tutorial that steps you through the creation of an ajax-enabled shopping cart that combines PHP and Prototype. In the latest installment of this ongoing PHP series, I’ll show you how to build a shopping cart using PHP, session handling, and the Prototype JavaScript library (introduced in an [...]
5 Web Design Tips You Can Not Live Without
The web design world is filled with excitement and experience, creativity and skill. Often, experienced web designers utilize a set of solid, proven techniques that others may not notice. Let’s take a look at a few of these techniques and how you can implement them into your own site quickly and easily. 1. Combating Internet [...]
Building An Expanding DHTML Menu With CSS and JavaScript
Introduction Today I am going to show you the different parts that make up a dropdown vertical menu for your website. This is not like your normal dropdown menu, which appears at the top of your content, however — these menus expand and remain visible until they are collapsed with the click of a mouse. [...]
