Daily Web Tools » DHTML http://www.dailywebtools.com Every Day, Another Web Site, Tool or Tip to Help the Internet Entrepreneur Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:53:05 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 jQuery – Get Stuck In http://www.dailywebtools.com/2008/10/20/jquery-get-stuck-in/ http://www.dailywebtools.com/2008/10/20/jquery-get-stuck-in/#comments Mon, 20 Oct 2008 09:39:10 +0000 Liz Jamieson http://www.dailywebtools.com/?p=784 The web is awash with beautiful, clean Web 2.0 style sites each accentuated by Ajax enabled user focussed embellishments.

Pages no longer need to refresh in their entirety to reflect user ineractions.  Ajax – asynchronous javascript -  can make this happen quickly and in front of your eyes.

Study the jQuery web site – this is an library of javascript routines that make javascript coding that little bit easier to learn.

jQuery supplies a series of easy to use APIs – one weekend of study should see you on your way to enlivening your site.

]]> http://www.dailywebtools.com/2008/10/20/jquery-get-stuck-in/feed/ 2 13Styles by David Appleyard http://www.dailywebtools.com/2008/08/26/13styles-by-david-appleyard/ http://www.dailywebtools.com/2008/08/26/13styles-by-david-appleyard/#comments Tue, 26 Aug 2008 10:46:08 +0000 Liz Jamieson http://www.dailywebtools.com/?p=455 It’s always good to see a well made site, put together by someone with a real passion for what they do. David Appleyard’s 13styles is just such a site. A web designer with a particuluar interest in web site navigation and CSS he provides 13styles as a meeting place for CSS menus.

Some menus are supplied free of charge for you to down load an use on your sites, or you can buy the use of  all available source Photoshop files for a very reasonable one-time fee. This enables you to change the colours of the menus. Well worth it and you’ll become familiar with CSS styling in the process.

If you use any of the free menus supplied on the site, he asks for a link back in return.  Add this site to your toolkit of web building sites.

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CSS and DHTML Scripts

Whenever I want to make a menu, check out a neat CSS styled button, or generally get ideas for navigation or straightforward cut and paste AJAX scripts, I go to the Dynamic Drive web site.

It is an essential helper site for all amateur and professional web developers.

On the home page you’ll also find a link to a neat tool for creating a favicon from any image. In fact I used it to make a icon for this blog from an image of a paperclip.

A small thing but when you create a favicon for your web site it appears in the top left hand corner of the browser window and next to any links on your site that are book-marked.

This can make your site stand out and do a little bit to help create a brand. It’s worth doing.

Cut and Paste CSS

The CSS section of Dynamic Drive is very useful for getting hold of cutting edge CSS, but also for improving your understanding of CSS. There are some great scripts for CSS menus and button bars.

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