Replacement For target=”_blank” A real quick way to make all your external links open in another window. All you have to do to get this jQuery snippet to work is have the rel=”external”. With that this little bit or jQuery will open the link in a blank window. // Replace for target="_blank"...

The AJAX Libraries API provides your applications with stable, reliable, high speed, globally available access to all of the most popular, open source JavaScript libraries. Your application can use our very flexible loader google.load() or direct, path based access to the scripts. Using google.load() The...

In a recent project I had to implement what’s commonly referred to as a Legal Drinking Age (LDA) page. Basically what needs to happen is that the user has to enter their date of birth and thus ‘confirm’ that they are of a legal drinking age for their respective country. This brought me to an interesting...

This tutorial will teach you how to create pretty looking textual buttons (with alternate pressed state) using CSS. Dynamic buttons save you heaps of time otherwise spent creating graphics and will basically make you a happier person at the end of the day. Here’s what you’ll get: Sliding...

A tag-cloud is a great way of showing visitors to your blog the main topics of interest that are available. There is also additional information contained in a tag-cloud. Aside from the actual links themselves, which give people an idea of the subjects that your site covers, they can also show how popular...

At the moment I’m working on making a web application we just developed more user friendly and more appealing to the end users. The application uses a few ASP.NET Ajax controls so I was pretty surprised when the customer sent me an email saying that he liked all the dynamic loading and the fact...

After writing tutorial on Move Div – Images Vertically with Mouse Movements, I am writing the same tutorial with Horizontal Movements which also looks really great. There are a lot of cool flash scrolling menus out there, for example this or this one. But I decided to make a similarly looking...

A really nice vertical version of the menu which move the images with Mouse movements which is a fully reworked menu, with like text tooltips and loading message. As always this menu works in all major browsers and degrades gracefully when JavaScript is turned off. Creating markup We will begin by creating...

Password strength meters are becoming more and more popular amongst web services. Google uses one when creating a Google account. One can argue how useful these meters really are, but non-the-less they are fairly cool for users. So how does one go about making one of these meters? Well it’s fairly...

If you have been doing the other tutorials on this site you will notice that I have been teaching PHP and mySQL through projects. Projects that you can slot into your website, or if you are building a project, code that you can use within your project. I start from the ground up, assuming you have no...