By enhancing the way a site looks javascript reflections add an easy mode to reflect your images on the site without the need of an image manipulation program to be used on each one. A handy tool for very dynamic pages. Some of these scripts will be presented below. 3d image reflexion Based on prototype [...]

As we promised in earlier post, today we’ll try to present some javascript codes that are enhancing our designs with beautiful drop shadows. DropShadow This technique seems to be an improvement of next presented javascript :Onion Skinned Drop Shadows, by removing extra markup needed, and “enables you to apply any number of drop shadows to [...]

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 [...]

In completion to date pickers, we’ll present here some time pickers