As we said in a previous post we’ll try to bring here some resources related to CSS shadows applied to images or boxes. CSS shadow kerfuffle “… in addition to just the plain old img element, an enclosing div plus four additional divs to handle the corners”. CSS Drop Shadows This technique uses an outer [...]

Shadows are a graphical improvements for design or the website’s usability. We may want to create a design with shadows under images or boxes, but shadows also can improve usability and accesibility for the text positioned over the images. Text shadows In this post we’ll try to present some css techniques for text shadows and [...]

When it comes to display sets of data the most common way to do this is in a table. Sometimes we need the ability to sort that tables, by a column, to help the user in his visit on out site. We can achieve this in 2 ways: a server side – method that require [...]

Tooltips are a nice way to display additional info for user, without breaking the flow of current article in your webpage. So a mouse over a highlighted word, or image, can give more information to user. We’ll try to present some of javascript tha can help us. JavaScript, DHTML Tooltips This is a cross browser [...]

Sometimes we need to present our sets of data on a webpage in a manner more friendly for the user. Graphs are suited for this. We can do this serverside, generating an image and send to browser, or make use of different scripts to draw the data straight in the browser. This is a very [...]

Javascript compressors or packers are tools that compress the javascript file saving bandwidth. There are several tools that can do this. We will try to show some of them. For tests I used Mootools v1.11 downloaded full with no compression. Javascript Compressor Highest compression level is with “high ascii” setting, “fast decode” unchecked and obtained [...]

Lightboxes are a nice unobtrusive way to display content in your page,without forcing the user to navigate through your site, and leave current page.You can use it for interaction with user (a login box for example), videos or even other html content. We’ll try to make a list with some lightboxes, with some properties. Suckerfish [...]

When we use forms we need somehow to validate the data user input. We can do this both server side  and client side. Client side part helps in user experience, and reduce bandwidth usage. Anyway, it’s not offering a good security so you ALWAYS should validate your input server side too. Below we’ll put some [...]

Javascript resources for rounded corners: Corner.js ShadedBorder – JavaScript Round Corners with Drop Shadow Anti-aliased Rounded corners with JQuery jQuery Corner Demo – more effects, not only rounded CurvyCorners Building Rounded Corners With CSS and JavaScript – more like a tutorial Rounded corners MochiKit Rounded corners -  editsite.net Let us know if you know other [...]

Some times, when we have a pretty big amount of pages on a site but don’t need or want to use a CMS so we take advantage of PHP and split the page layout in more includes like:header.php, content.php, footer.php – this way we do not need to write the same content (or copy paste [...]