A little while back there was a guest post about Ajax image previews . It’s a nice technique but it left myself and a few other commenters thinking: wouldn’t it be cool if you didn’t have to upload the image at all to preview it? After all, the image is on the persons computer already why can’t we just snag the local file path and use that as the src of an image.

Here is a very useful list of Firefox Addons for Web developer.

Google Chart Tools provide several ways to easily add charts to any web page. Charts may be static or interactive, and in this tutorial, we’ll learn how to use both of them. Static vs Interactive Charts There are two different types of graphs that Chart Tools can generate: image charts (static graphs) and interactive charts .

One of the articles I updated during “May is Maintenance Month” was an article about dynamic content. The idea was a simple website where clicking a link would fade out the existing content and fade in new content that it fetched via AJAX. The old article didn’t encompass what I now consider to be best practices for this kind of thing. 1) Works fine with JavaScript disabled. 2) It is possible to “deep link” to specific content. 3) The browsers back button and forward button work as expected

Ajax is a powerful technology that allows you to coin websites with amazing functionality all without your users having to refresh the web page they’re on. However, there do exist a few “bumps” on the road when trying to implement Ajax, and within this article we plan on exploiting the most common mistakes as well as solutions for them. This will create a much more usable environment for your users free from errors.

by Obaid ur Rehman For Web design projects, you may find yourself sometimes scrounging around for a simple yet useful image gallery and slideshow. But imagine having a huge collection of AJAX, JavaScript, Lightbox, CSS and Flash-based image galleries at your fingertips. Hopefully, this post will do the trick and provide all the resources you might need. Free Slideshows And Lightboxes Scripts Polaroid Gallery v.1.01 Polaroid Gallery is a free open-source Flash gallery developed by Christopher Einarsrud. Active Slideshow Pro Create dazzling multimedia …

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jQuery is totally cool. I’ve been using it for a year now and I find myself constantly learning new tricks and running into great improvements.
 The amount of plug-ins and resources out there is great, too, making this powerful javascript library either a must-use (for many developers) or a very-cool-thing-I-like for the others.

 However, many people want to know how to write better code. 

Here, my friend, are some tips. 1. $(document).ready () All The Way Everything inside it will load as soon as the DOM is loaded and before the page contents are loaded. It lets you attach…