jQuery UI – Creating and Apllying a Theme to Your Page

The way that jQueryUI controls the way the elements look is through effective use of CSS. Choosing and using a theme is an important part of working and installing jQueryUI into your website. If you inspect the controls that jQuery creates it actually creates several HTML tags with classes. These classes will control the styles…

What if a client ask you not to use their work in your portfolio?

I former student of mine contact me on Linked In Recently. She was asking if I’ve ever had a client ask to not be put into their portfolio. This is scary for an artist/designer. It’s YOUR work, YOUR portfolio… but it’s also THEIR work, THEIR image. While this isn’t common, it’s not uncommon either. Let…

jQuery Plugins

One of the things that makes jQuery so powerful is that it can be “easily” extended via a plugin. You have some experience with Plugins for Photoshop, or another application. But you’re probably wondering “how does this apply to something like jQuery, which is just software code?” Well, plugins are designed to extend the functionality…

jQuery Effects – Sliding Elements into/out of View

In addition to hiding and reveling HTML elements, jQuery allows you to move elements around on the screen, over a given duration. Vertically Appearing / Disappearing Movements jQuery provides two commonly used methods to vertically add/remove an HTML element. .slideUp() and .slideDown(). .slideUp() will cause an element to remove itself from view, but sliding up…