Jun
18
2010

Create an Elegant Theater Interior with Illustrator

The keys to this richly-appointed theater interior are simple Gradient Meshes and a few well-placed gradient fills. Once you’ve created the basic building blocks, it’s easy to re-purpose them for every element in this illustration. Sit back and enjoy the show!

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Apr
19
2010

Visually Connect Elements on Web Page like Yahoo! Pipes

jsPlumb jQuery plugin provides a means for a developer to visually connect elements on their web page, in much the same way you might have seen on Yahoo Pipes. jsPlumb allows you to connect elements on the screen with “plumbing”, using a Canvas element when supported, and Google’s ExplorerCanvas script to support older browsers. Full transparent support for jQuery dragging is included, the API is super simple, and the compressed version of the script is just 10.5K.

jsplumb

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Apr
08
2010

Fun with Canvas: Create a Bar Graphing Plugin, Part 2

In this two-part series, we’ll combine the versatile canvas element with the robust jQuery library to create a bar graphing plugin. In this second part, we are going to convert it in to a jQuery plugin, and then add some eye candy and additional features.

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Apr
08
2010

Fun With Canvas: Create a Bar Graphing Plugin, Part 1

In this two-part series, we’ll combine the versatile canvas element with the robust jQuery library to create a bar graphing plugin. In this first part, we are going to code the core logic of the plugin as a standalone version.

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Feb
27
2010

TinyTips – Lightweight jQuery Plugin for Tooltips

TinyTips is a very lightweight jQuery plugin that gives the ability to add tooltips to pretty much any element on a page. Thoroughly documented and designer friendly. TinyTips is very easy to install and use. Simply include TinyTips and the latest release of jQuery in the <head>.  You can also give it a nice style by editing the stylesheet.

tiny-tooltips

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Feb
13
2010

The Skinny on CSS Attribute Selectors

CSS has the ability to target HTML elements based on any one of their attributes. You probably already know about classes and IDs. Check out this bit of HTML:

<h2 id="first-title" rel="friend">David Walsh</h2>

This single element has three attributes: ID, class, and rel. To select the element in CSS, you could use and ID selector (#first-title) or a class selector (.magical). But did you know you can select it based on that rel attribute as well? That is what is known as an attribute selector...

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