Now that 2010 is over, it’s nice to look back and see how many things you’ve learned on the last year. In order to start stretching those muscles for 2011, here’s a review of the most interesting jQuery tutorials featured in ilovecolors during 2010.
One year is gone, but another year is born. TwentyTen was a year with a myriad of astounding things that would have been impossible ten years ago. What other outstanding things will 2011 have prepared for us?
To you, subscriber, visitor, client, friend: thanks for all the magic, it’s been awesome to have lived this year by your side. I wish you all the best of 2011, freedom, truth and love! It gets better every year!!
David Smith, whose site is already impressive in terms of lettering and ornaments, gives an insight on his creative process to forge beautiful ornaments with the reverse glass technique and golden leafs.
David also designed the lettering and ornaments on the Letterhead Fonts site.
Publishing with Tutorial9 in the past has been a great experience: David Leggett is a grea guy and he gives you complete creative freedom, resulting in works like the Cute Critters and the Watercolor icons. Today T9 published my Holiday Layer Styles to enrich your designs for this season! Thanks Tutorial9!
The excerpt is great for magazine sites where only a small bunch of words can be displayed on the home page. However, the lack of a character counting functionality for the field makes it hard to know how many you already typed in. In this tutorial we will learn how to easily add a character counter for the excerpt.
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Sometimes we need to include a feedback form but without making it too obtrusive to the user so we only want to add options when he is actually using it. In this tutorial we’re going to learn how to reveal hidden fields in a form when an option in a select combo box is selected using jQuery, the JavaScript library.
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Another week comes to an end and we have another selection of free fonts for your design work. We have two condensed beauties, Stahlbeton and Melbourn, one of them bold and the other one delicate, plus a cool geometric font, Nevis, and one slick serifed typeface, Jura.
A friend asked the other day how to create a featured posts section without using plugins, since most of WordPress plugins that you can find to create featured posts are a bit bloated, which isn’t neccesarily bad, since plugins authors try to address almost every situation in order to provide a more useful plugin. The drawback (with plugins in general) is that you end up with a lot of options that you seldom use. In this post we will learn how to create a featured posts section, using WordPress sticky posts and how to integrate them in a slider, using jQuery Cycle.
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Just in time for thanksgiving, WordPress makes version 3.1 available for download. The new version has some awesome enhancements such as Post Formats, a new dialog for link creation, Admin Bar, faster password reset, multi-taxonomy queries in the core and index pages for custom post types.
