Posts Tagged ‘ui’
« Older EntriesSliding 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 [...]
Tags: form, javascipt, jquery, plugin, ui
Posted in Web Development | 53 Comments »
Books that made me a better designer
Friday, May 7th, 2010
This is a list of books that have had a big impact on the way I design & developer Web sites. A lot of the content in books now-a-days can be found on various blogs, but the books below all have something in them that I really haven’t been able to find anywhere else. Transcending [...]
Tags: ajax, books, CSS, learning, mobile, sketching, ui
Posted in Web Design | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Tags: advanced, forms, jquery, ui
Posted in Web Design | 115 Comments »
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 [...]
Tags: advanced, forms, jquery, ui
Posted in Web Design | 143 Comments »
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) [...]
Tags: advanced, javascript, jquery, ui
Posted in Web Design | 2 Comments »
Selectable RSS with SimplePie and jQuery
Monday, August 17th, 2009
I was building an RSS reader for a project last week and it turned out to be a cool little app. So I thought I’d share some of the code. View demo Download demo files Let’s start off with the HTML we need to get some user interaction with the form. It’s a pretty basic, [...]
Tags: advanced, ajax, rss, simplepie, ui
Posted in Web Development | 8 Comments »
Usable Accessibility
Tuesday, April 14th, 2009
Many times focusing on standards and guidelines puts the focus on the technical aspects of accessibility, and the human interaction aspect is lost. This problem can be avoided by adopting the broader definition of accessibility as a guiding principle. Instead of focusing only on the technical aspects of accessibility, it is important to recognize that [...]
Tags: accessibility, quote, ui, usability
Posted in Web Standards | 2 Comments »
Form Security with Autocomplete
Friday, April 10th, 2009
I was looking through my blog this morning because I could have sworn I already wrote this post. I know I’ve had this conversation with Phil Nash of Unintentionally Blank. But I guess I never wrote it down? Oh well… One of my pet peeves when filling out a form is when I click in [...]
Tags: forms, ui
Posted in Security | 8 Comments »
Analyzing Home
Wednesday, April 8th, 2009
The “Home” link has been a staple on almost all of the Web sites I’ve made in the past 5 years, but lately I’ve been wondering how important it is. I heard Steve Krug at An Event Apart Boston 2007 talk about how the “home” link should always be list first in your navigation, but [...]
Tags: ui
Posted in Web Development | 6 Comments »
Web Standards and the Shower Curtain
Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
Have you ever bought shower curtain rings and wondered if there were enough in the package to fit your shower curtain? Probably not. Why is that? Its because the shower curtain industry has standards, just like the standards we’re trying to implement on the Web. At some point in the process of creating shower curtains, [...]
Tags: business, content management, design, ui, Web Standards, Web Standards Curriculum
Posted in Web Standards | 5 Comments »
