Have you ever seen those two things (in the title) being used in jQuery? Here is a simple example: $(“a”).click(function() { $(“body”).append($(this).attr(“href”)); return false; } That code would append the href attribute as text to the body every time a link was clicked but not actually go to that link.

Among the most popular superheroes that have ever been launched, Spider-Man (Peter Parker) may be considered as one of the most successful fictional characters of all time, possibly even second only to Superman . It has been almost fifty years since his first appearance, but Marvel’s number one superhero is still going strong, especially in the minds and hearts of today’s designers

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Chances are, you know what a database trigger is, at least in conceptual terms. Chances are even greater that you know that MySQL supports triggers and has supported them for quite some time

Illustrator is a full-featured drawing program that provides sophisticated tracing and text manipulation capabilities as well as color separations. Presently, designers are into learning the various techniques and effects that can be generated with the software. We have collected a Compilation of Fresh Adobe Illustrator Tutorials that you can learn from and read through to enrich your knowledge.

Every user interface designer is familiar with this procedure to some extent: creating a prototype and evaluating it with potential users to understand how the user interface should look and behave. Users will tell you what nags them and should therefore be improved before you code. So, at the beginning of any UI design process, you can expect your prototype to have to be modified in order to work.

Because you (and your client) want the changes to be as cost-efficient as possible, you are better off adopting change-friendly prototyping methods and tools. This is especially true in the early stages of the project, when your ideas for potential solutions are rather vague. In this early phase, most often you don’t even know the exact problem for which you are hunting for a solution. You are still analyzing more than designing.

Innumerable websites these days have registration and login systems that allow fans and members to further navigate their networks securely. Since designers as well as programmers recognize the critical importance of login forms in web usability and interface design, similarly innumerable innovations have been made to make this crucial web element as prominent, helpful, and aesthetically pleasing as possible. This next post on 30+ Examples of Login Form Designs showcases several effective and creative log in forms for sites, blogs, and other network systems

Have you ever seen a tabbed content area in a sidebar that was a little “jerky”? The jerkiness can be caused by a bunch of things, like the content in the tabbed areas are of different heights, or maybe the way the switch happens the current one is hidden for a brief second before the new one shows up and the content below it jumps up and back down quickly. For lack of a better term, I’m calling tabs that behave more smoothly organic tabs .

Otherwise known as “resolution dependent layouts”. Single website, different CSS files for rearranging a website to take advantage of the size available

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