The <label> tag is a rather commonly omitted element in HTML forms. Although the tag does not render text in it differently from those outside the tag, it provides a usability improvement for mouse users by duplicating common GUI features. More importantly, it couples an input element with a label for users of speech browsers. [...]
Dainis over at 1st Web Designer compiled a list of 35 elegantly designed, flexible and stylish Wordpress plugins built on jQuery UI. Some of the plugins may actually be very helpful and many improve the user experience on your site, such as the jQuery pagebar, a highly coveted feature once exclusively found in the Wordpress K2 theme.
So here we have, the eight teddy-risation WP theme in it’s fully glory. Just like the other write-ups that I do for my previous themes, I will be doing one for this one as well, no exceptions. Not only does this entry helps to catalogue my list of themes and my insights of designing them [...]
Jean-Baptiste Jung shares 8 ingenious jQuery-based javascript solutions on CatsWhoCode.comto circumvent the common CSS problems. While CSS is a semantically correct way of styling your webpages, not all popular browsers (like IE6, I know this comes very naturally for a designer) support CSS3 and there’s always this problem of cross-browser compatibility.
As javascript libraries becomes increasingly popular among designers and website visitors alike, your daily visitors are now expecting more than just static pages – they would be thrilled to see interactive, fluid pages. In 2006 A List Apart published an article on the holy grail of webdesign, which involves coding for fluid layouts in CSS. With the popularity of javascript libraries like jQuery, Soh Tanaka has written an excellent tutorial on teaching us how to incorporate fluid display options on our pages – allowing visitors to switch between different forms of display (think iTunes libraries). An interesting concept that is actually very simple, and can be easily done with a few lines of jQuery and CSS.
