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.
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.
While I refrain myself from getting into discussions about something that somebody else said, the last article by Cameron Chapman in SmashingMagazine made me think. Ok, it got me angry because of the dangerous pretentious of the article: considering graphic design irrelevant and worst of all, unnecessary. After reading something I find so shallow and biased, I decided to write a response to it.
Let’s imagine this scenario. We have a group of speakers and we want to show a few lines about who they are and what they do, followed by a large chunk of information. But, we want this block to remain hidden until visitors click on a More Info link. We’re going to create this using WordPress’ shortcodes a bit of jQuery magic.
Fact: most people choose the escalator instead of stairs leading to small rows of people waiting to jump on the escalator (ok, I’m one of them too). The Fun Theory was an initiative from Volkswagen to enhance everyday life by adding a dose of humor to it and one of the submitted projects was this staircase with piano keys for steps. I don’t need to mention how fun that would be. One more example proving that users love fun stuff!
The most important issues involved in the design of a web site or a web application are how the information is displayed to the user and how the user can interact with this information, whether it is to obtain more information about a particular topic, dismiss irrelevant information or process the information that he currently has. The rest is purely ornamental. In this post we will review a series of resources to achieve a better interface design.
One of the most exciting features in the upcoming WordPress 3.0, the custom Menus, has been updated and it now looks much more polished and integrated into the Admin back end of WordPress. You can now add a page, a post, media, tags, categories and even custom links with just a couple of clicks. There’s also a widget for you to drop your menu wherever you want.
The upcoming 3.0 version of WordPress will be featuring a sleek interface to arrange the menus in a drag & way interface. There were some mockups posted on the ticket for this feature. Let’s take a look at them.
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One of the more interesting actions in visual interfaces is the ability to drag an object and drop it on a selected target. Pretty much like what we do in real life at the supermarket. Grab a beer – drag to cart – drop it in the cart. But there are attributes in the product that it would be interesting to unveil in an application. For example, when you grab a beer you can feel if it’s cold or not, and when you get to the checkout you pay the price of the bottle, which is a hidden attribute of the bottle. Today we will learn how to create drag & drop using jQuery and adding hidden attributes to the draggable items.
