Mootools Slider With Range Indicator (two knobs)

I had been looking for a double pinned slider for one of my projects. My requirements were simple: I had to implement a slider with range marker.  I searched for hours and hours, and I did find some nice sliders on mootools forums but it wasn’t what I wanted. I finally changed my search keyword [...]

IconArchive.com icon repository and search trick

Icons are one of the most used design resources whether for web or application design. A quick search on Google for icons brings up millions of results, from freebies to pretty expensive licensed icon packs. IconArchive.com is one of the best repositories for application and web icons, allowing users to sign up and publish their [...]

Supersized – Full Screen Background/Slideshow jQuery Plugin by buildinternet.com

I found this jQuery plugin while searching for a non-flash background image slideshow for a project. Well it did the trick! Supersized is a jQuery plugin that automatically sizes (background) images to the size of the browser and runs them as a slideshow. It is lightweight and plays nice with all browsers. Features include image [...]

Color Scheme & Color Palette websites for web designers

I was searching for some cool color combinations yesterday for one of my new projects, and I found some great websites offering color combinations and palletes or just tools for you to create your wanted combination on the fly. I thoug it worth sharing with other designers so I made a list for everyone who [...]

jQuery Image Preview – New Plugin “imgPreview”

The ‘imgPreview’ plugin allows your users to preview an image before clicking on it and, out of necessity, will preload the image so when a user does click through to it there is no waiting time!

The image preview shows up in a tooltip-like box appearing alongside the user’s cursor when hovering over a link. The plugin is entirely unobtrusive; it does not require any hooks to target specific links (no non-semantic classes); it will automatically detect the anchors that are linking to images and will only apply the preview effect to them.

SitePoint CSS, HTML & JavaScript Online References

The SitePoint online CSS and HTML references have been available for some time now, and have already become a valued source of free information for web designers and developers around the world. Recently, Sitepoint has announced a shiny new look to the SitePoint Reference Site and the highly anticipated first release of JavaScript Reference Information.

The look and feel of the old reference site has been completely replaced with a brand new slick, easy-to read design, including interactive examples, improved navigation, page layout and much more…

URL Rewrite on AppServ

If you have an Internal Error while using the rewrite engine on your AppServ installed package, well, it might be a configuration problem.

An alternative to sIFR: FaceLift Image Replacement

Dind’t you have enough of Arial and Times New Roman and Verdana? Or maybe Tahoma as well? Well ME and some other briliant guys sure did have enough so the universe have given us sIFR. This sIFR thingie is an inline flash text replacement tool for web pages, so you can use any font-face you [...]

10 Useful Web Application Interface Techniques

More and more applications these days are migrating to the Web. Without platform constraints or installation requirements, the software-as-a-service model looks very attractive. Web application interface design is, at its core, Web design; however, its focus is mainly on function. To compete with desktop applications, Web apps must offer simple, intuitive and responsive user interfaces that let their users get things done with less effort and time.