CSS and Netscape 4.xx Issues Netscape 4.xx is now more than 4 years old and has been developed when CSS was in the planning stages, and it shows! That means that NN 4.xx does not correctly interpret or render many simple CSS styles. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, has been consistently upgraded...

Whether your main business is Web design or backend development, chances are you spend a fair amount of time creating forms for user input. So you already know that the default appearance of forms isn’t always appropriate for the look and feel of your site. In this article we’ll look at how...

A bit of a friendly challenge was put to me by Chris Heilmann, a London based Yahoo developer and JavaScript guru / author. So, I have updated this little demo with improved expand / collapse toggle behavior. I have also made it so that each portlet can be dragged and dropped, ala Netvibes. This was...

Bubble Tooltips are an easy way to add (via a bit of CSS and javascript) fancy tooltips with a balloon shape to any web page. Before we begin, here it is the example: just roll over any link to see them in action. They operate this way:

This is an XHTML compliant, CSS-formatted menu script, designed to work with the current generation of standards-based websites. The menu data is stored in the HTML document itself (unlike other JavaScript menus) as either nested lists or disparate DIV tags, and the script manages the showing and hiding...

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...

CSS sprites are all the rage these days. And why shouldn’t be? They’re easy to implement, have great upside, and usually take little effort to create. In his post he outlined a method for enhancing the CSS sprite menu with jQuery. I loved his post so much that I converted his jQuery CSS sprites menu...

Creating a custom 404 error message page, seeing as they’re so dull! What better way to do this, than with some sexy jQuery UI animations, and a snipsy bit of jQuery? This tutorial isn’t limited to 404 error pages, you can use this animation technique anywhere. Here’s the premise – a 404 that’s...

I often qualify a great website by one that pay attention to detail and makes all of the “little things” seem as though much time was spent on them. Let’s face it — FAQs are as boring as they come. That is, until you go the extra mile and use MooTools sliders.

Ever want to alert your users to a really important message? Ever care to have some effect that looked like dasboard? I wanted to do this for numerous sites so I finally I decided to scan the web for some resources. I didn’t find any real conclusive matches on Google. I mean what do you search for?