Rapid Prototyping with SketchFlow
Microsoft’s Expression Blend design tool includes a very interesting prototyping tool called SketchFlow. In this article, former Microsoft developer Shane Morris walks us through some of its unique features and shows us how to best use it for rapid application prototyping. There’s also a fun quiz at the end.
The Total Newbie’s Guide to jQuery, Part II: Progressive
Enhancement and the DOM
In Part I, Earle showed us some jQuery basics: how to select the elements on the page we’d like to play with, and how to manipulate their CSS properties. In this second lesson, we’ll move onto manipulating the DOM itself: hiding, revealing, adding, removing, and modifying elements. We’ll also touch on the theory of progressive enhancement and the basics of animation in jQuery.
The Total Newbie’s Guide to jQuery: Select Elements and Manipulate
CSS with jQuery
So you’ve mastered HTML and CSS, but now you want to take your site to the next level. You need to add some fancy user interface enhancements, but the thought of learning a full-blown programming language like JavaScript gives you the heebie-jeebies. Enter jQuery. In this article, taken from the new SitePoint book jQuery: Novice to Ninja, Earle shows us the ropes in the form of jQuery’s most elemental features: its selector engine and its CSS manipulation methods.
Star Rating Control with jQuery
Our newly released book, jQuery: Novice to Ninja, contains a wealth of great ready-to-use solutions, and teaches you both the basic and more advanced concepts of jQuery as you progress. As a taster, here’s an excerpt from Chapter 7 wherein Craig Sharkie shows us how to build a robust, sophisticated star rating widget using jQuery. It’s keyboard-accessible, and allows for half-star ratings.