Now that 2010 is over, it's nice to look back and see how many things you've learned on the last year. In order to start stretching those muscles for 2011, here's a review of the most interesting jQuery tutorials featured in ilovecolors during 2010. Add a character counter for the excerpt in WordPress Reveal extra… Continue reading Best jQuery Tutorials in ILC in 2010
Tag: usability
WordPress 3.1 beta 1 available!
Just in time for thanksgiving, WordPress makes version 3.1 available for download. The new version has some awesome enhancements such as Post Formats, a new dialog for link creation, Admin Bar, faster password reset, multi-taxonomy queries in the core and index pages for custom post types. Post Formats One of the most interesting enhancements are the… Continue reading WordPress 3.1 beta 1 available!
The future of the internet does have room for web designers!
While I refrain myself from getting into discussions about something that somebody else said, the last article by Cameron Chapman on SmashingMagazine made me think. Ok, it got me angry because of the dangerous pretentious of the article: considering graphic design irrelevant and worst of all, unnecessary. After reading something I find so shallow and… Continue reading The future of the internet does have room for web designers!
How to reveal hidden blocks on WordPress posts
Imagine we have a group of speakers and we want to show a few lines about who they are and what they do, followed by a large chunk of information. But, we want this block to remain hidden until visitors click on a More Info link. We're going to create this using WordPress' shortcodes a bit of jQuery magic.
Piano Staircase
The Fun Theory was an initiative from Volkswagen to enhance everyday life by adding a dose of humor to it and one of the submitted projects was this staircase with piano keys for steps.
10 resources for a better interface design
The most important issues involved in the design of a web site or a web application are how the information is displayed to the user and how the user can interact with this information. In this post we will review a series of resources to achieve a better interface design.
Custom Navigation Menus in WordPress 3.0
One of the most exciting features in the upcoming WordPress 3.0, the custom Menus, has been updated and it now looks much more polished and integrated into the Admin back end of WordPress. You can now add a page, a post, media, tags, categories and even custom links with just a couple of clicks. There's… Continue reading Custom Navigation Menus in WordPress 3.0
WordPress 3.0 Menu Management UI
WordPress 3.0 will be boasting a brand new UI Menu Management to easily arrange your menu items in a sleek drag and drop interface.
Plupload: upload files using multiple technologies
Plupload is a tool for uploading files using Flash, Silverlight, Google Gears, HTML5 or Browserplus.
How to create drag & drop interaction with jQuery
One of the more interesting actions in visual interfaces is the ability to drag an object and drop it on a selected target. We will learn how to create drag & drop using jQuery displaying hidden attributes of the dragged element during the process.