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Sliding Labels Official Plugin Release [ver. 3.2]

Tuesday, June 29th, 2010

View Demo Plugin Minified Plugin Version: 3.2 – Added a “className” option so you don’t have to use “.slider” as the wrapper Version 3.1: Changed “children” to “find” so it will work with a UL. Thanks to Oro for the feedback Version 3 of Sliding Labels brought some big changes, the largest being that I [...]

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Sliding Labels v2 – Patch

Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010

window.location = “http://www.csskarma.com/blog/sliding-labels-plugin/” Please use version 3 of sliding labels with updated options and bug fixes at: http://www.csskarma.com/blog/sliding-labels-plugin/ Last week I wrote an article about sliding form labels that got quite a bit of attention. Many of the commenters brought up a couple good points/bug in the Sliding Label code that I wanted to address [...]

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Form Design with Sliding Labels

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Please use version 3 of sliding labels with updated options and bug fixes at: http://www.csskarma.com/blog/sliding-labels-plugin/ A few weeks ago I was reading an article on form UI by Luke Wroblewski of Yahoo!. For those who aren’t familiar with Luke, he (quite literally) wrote the book on good form design. In the article, one certain section [...]

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Conditional Animation Speed in jQuery

Friday, January 8th, 2010

For years (and by “years”, I most likely mean “the years since I started using jQuery… maybe 2″), there’s been one aspect of jQuery that’s bugged the crap out of me, the animation speed. View demo We’ve all probably seen the problem that happens in many drop down menus of varying height. We set slideDown(300) [...]

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Quick Tip #2 – Bringing Back Search with jQuery

Monday, June 29th, 2009

This is something I use on all my projects now. It’s designed for a search box, but can be used with any sort of input field. The great thing about this is that the field value “Search” will only come back onBlur if the field is empty (or doesn’t say “Search”). So if you started [...]

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This Week in Links 12/2

Monday, December 8th, 2008

CSS Deployment 101 Reinhold Weber talks about how to compress a CSS file before you push it to the server. this will shave off some load time by reducing everything to one line and removing much of the white space. It also allows you to modularize your CSS without it effecting HTTP requests, because this [...]

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This Week in Links 11/11

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

Krop.com I figured with the economy what it is and a lot of web folks looking for work I’d help out and post my favorite job site, Krop.com. I like this site for a few different reasons: I found my current job there They have a very simple interface You can sign up for e–mail [...]

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This Week in Links 10/27

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Better CSS Font Stacks A good article on how to jazz up your stacks to try and take advantage of users who have more fonts installed. I’m all for this, and as long as it’s done carefully, can get a nice version of progressive enhancement. 5 Terrible SEO Ideas Richard Bradshaw goes over some trendy [...]

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This Week in Links 10/15

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

One Click, The Importance of UI Many times my link lists back up a few weeks and I have to revisit an article to really remember what it was about. When I did that to this one, I moved it up to the top of the list. It’s a very interesting article on user interface [...]

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Active navigation with jQuery

Wednesday, October 8th, 2008

I was building a site last week and came across some jQuery code for active navigation. It’s very simple and works real well. I’m using it on some secondary navigation and still using my body class for the main nav. Active navigation with a body class body.home #nav ul li.navhome{font-weight:700;} So I’m still doing that, [...]

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