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RSSYou have spent time designing your web site. Now spend time designing your dialog boxes. Here is a way to create them using CSS and JavaScript.
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Archive for June, 2008
Dialog boxes that blend with your design
A beginners guide to AJAX
AJAX stands for “Asynchronous JavaScript and XML”. What AJAX lets you do is send and receive data to and from a remote source, and render it in your application, without reloading the page.
If you know your JavaScript this will be a piece of cake for you. If you don’t know JavaScript you should start by mastering that. As this is a beginners guide I’ll keep things simple and demonstrate with an easy example.
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CSS Sprites: What, why and how.
What are sprites?
I would explain it like this: Multiple graphics in a single image file.
I.e. both the “before” and “after” graphics of a rollover effect or all your icons in a single image file and then using techniques to position the image in such a way that only the desired portion is visible.
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