Horinaja : Slideshow for jquery and scriptaculous

July 30th, 2009 - Frontend, jQuery - No Comments

Horinaja is a slideshow plugin for Scriptaculous and now for jQuery as well. With horinaja you can create a standard slideshow with the ability to scroll through the elements using your mousewheel. A paging system is also available for custom scrolling. Mousewheel support is provided throught the jQuery mousewheel plugin.

Drop down menu with CSS and jQuery

July 29th, 2009 - CSS, Frontend, jQuery - No Comments

jankoatwarpspeed.com released an excellent tutorial on how to create an alternative drop down menu using only CSS and jQuery. HTML’s Select element is really useful but impossible to style it the way you want (Hello IE). The other drawback is that it only supports text. With Janko’s solution you can use images too.

Definitive Guide to Taming the IE6 Beast

July 28th, 2009 - Browsers, Frontend - No Comments

Ah, IE6. I can imagine that conversations like the following will take place even 50 years from now:
“Well son, back in my days there was a browser called ie6 and people refused to give up using it. Web was a different place using this browser. It was like entering a museum of modern art. Everything looked random and abstract, user experience that companies invested millions was optional for this browser but millions of people were still using it. It was like a drug. Because people knew there were better alternatives but they couldn’t take the step.”

Back to reality now, Six Revisions released an excellent guide to “taming the ie6 beast“. Conditional stylesheets, hacks, the box model and all these stuff that need extra care and probably an extra timeline only for IE6.

Smoke Effects: 42 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes

July 24th, 2009 - Design, PS Brushes - No Comments

I have to agree with the author of this excellent set of brushes that creating the smoke effect in Photoshop is a time consuming process and most of the times, requires 3rd party plugins to achieve a realistic effect. Well, now it’s not a problem as Colorburned released an excellent set of 42 high resolution photoshop brushes that you can grab and use for free.

AnythingZoomer jQuery Plugin

July 21st, 2009 - Frontend, jQuery - No Comments

AnythingZoomer is a jQuery plugin that lets you take a closer look at things on a web page. It can be an image, a chunk of text or both.