Form Elements: 40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality TechniquesDesigning effective web forms isn’t easy, as we need to figure out more practical styling and functionality techniques to provide a great user experience. Recently there have been a number of noteworthy techniques such as styling different form fields, live validation, Context highlighting, trading options from field to another, slider controls and more - using CSS and different Javascript libraries. Below we present findings of search to more than 40 tutorials and demos to showcase the capabilities and robustness of CSS and Javascript. You might be interested to check other CSS related posts: 1-Styling dropdown select boxes- To style a dropdown select box is heavy work. This is an experiement on how you can style select box options items. 2--With a little DOM scripting and some creative CSS, you too can make your 3-Styling even more form controls-There are a lot of controls that can be used in an HTML form. Roger Johansson offers an extensive report on the ways you can use CSS to style web form controls. 4-Check it, don’t select it-The biggest problem with multiple-select boxes is that selecting multiple options is a pain, especially if there are enough to create a scrollbar within the box. Here is a good technique for replacing the cumbersome select box with a scrollable checklist. You can check the demo here. 5-DropDown - xHTML/CSS/Javascript replacement of classic selectbox-While there is no problem with styling input fields, styling selectbox is more complicated and solution isn’t perfect. This tutorial brought visualy better solution based on xHTML/CSS/Javascript called dropdowns. 6-Masked Input Plugin- A masked input plugin for the jQuery javascript library. It allows a user to more easily enter fixed width input where you would like them to enter the data in a certain format (dates,phone numbers, etc). It has been tested on Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox 1.5/2, Safari, and Opera. 7-Custom Checkbox with jQuery- Provides the ability to customize the design of checkboxes in your web forms. You can use the default skin and the Safari skin which are provided with the package. 8-LiveValidation- LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library for making client-side validation quick, easy, and powerful. It comprises of two main parts. Firstly, it provides developers with a rich set of core validation methods, which can also be used outside the context of forms. Secondly, it provides your visitors with real-time validation information as they fill out forms, helping them to get it right first time, making the forms easier, quicker and less daunting to complete. 9-FancyForm- FancyForm is a powerful checkbox replacement script used to provide the ultimate flexibility in changing the appearance and function of HTML form elements. It’s easy to use and degrades gracefully on all older, non-supporting browsers. 10-Styling disabled text inputs- A disabled text input usually has a grayed-out look, and the value is not able to be modified by user input. Here is how you can style them. You can also check this demo page for different examples Styling disabled form controls with CSS 11-PrettyCheckboxes- A simple jQuery plugin to customize the checkboxes and radio buttons. 12- Building a better web forms: Context highlighting using jQuery- Due to complexity of web appications, sometimes you often need to find a way to focus a user on a current context. Here is a nice way of achieving this effect. Check out the demo here 13-Control.SelectMultiple This control uses a combination of a standard select input, and a collection of checkbox inputs to create an alternative to the standard select multiple control. It’s primary benefit besides a vastly improved experience for selecting multiple items is that for single item selection, it behaves like a normal select input. 14- Justify elements using jQuery and CSS- When creating a web form you have to make a functional and visually aligned layout. You can do so by justifing all labels to have the same width. And the simplest way to do this is to use jQuery. 15-jQuery Form Input Example Plugin- A jQuery plugin to specify examples within form inputs (i.e. text fields and text areas) that disappear on user focus. Check out the demo here. 16-Jquery-Autotab- Autotab is a jQuery plugin that provides auto-tabbing and filtering on text fields in a form 17-jquery-asmselect- A progressive enhancement to “select multiple” form elements. Check out a demo here and here. 18-jQuery.AddToList- A very customisable plugin that hooks into select lists. An ‘open-form’ event or trigger value display a form (any dom element you specific, that contains a |
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| 13.Ağu.2008 (5 gün önce) DevSnippets has Officially Launched with a $4600 Contest PrizesThis week brings two big announcements for the site. First, we’re super excited to launch our new site at Devsnippets.com. As the name suggests Devsnippets.com serves as a public gallery about everything has to do with design and development stages, from HTML/CSS to javascript and ajax to things like WordPress hacks. And secondly, I’m also pleased to tell you that we are announcing Our First Launch Contest here at NOUPE.
DevSnippets LaunchFinally i was able to put the last brick in the new code snippet gallery site, Devsnippets.com.
Anybody can submit his favorite and most valuable code, design snippets and tutorials using the snippet and news submission form. Each entry will be moderated and checked for quality so each link that goes through is surely of interest and spam-free. The site is still empty at the moment, and this week I’ll start filling it up with some amazing code snippets and then sit back and watch what you guys can do to get the ball rolling. I’m going to be creating a little sidebar-widget here on NOUPE, where i will pull recent entries from Devsnippets.com. For the moment, feel free to head over, bookmark the URL, add the RSS to your feed, and submit a snippet. About the ContestBefore I tell you about the rules and guidelines I’m sure you’d like to know what prizes we got for you. PrizesFirst Place Prizes:
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Who Wins?It’s really simple to get involved in the Contest and have a chance at a great list of interesting prizes. Prizes go to the top 10 submitters who will be honored here at NOUPE as well by showcasing their websites. How to EnterTo enter this competition, submit in your favorite snippets between August 13th, 2008 until September 13th, 2008. Use our DevSnippets Snippet and news Submission form and submit your own or your favorite CSS, Ajax and Javascript code snippets and tutorials. Each entry will be moderated and checked for quality so each link that goes through is surely of interest and spam-free. Just don’t forget to register so our counter can count your submitted snippets, we have added a small registration widget at the top to ease your work. DeadlineEntries must be received before midnight Saturday, September 13, 2008. You have until midnight Pacific Time. Terms & Conditions
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| 04.Ağu.2008 12:53 Websites you Shouldn´t have missed in JULY 2008July was a busy month, we have been watching great news, articles, tutorials, scripts, tips and lot of inspiration for web designers popping up everyday so we thought it would be a great idea to wrap all those resources in one package where you can check to fuel your energy for creativity.
Today we have a round up of useful CSS, Ajax, Tutorials, tools, Graphics, WordPress and articles we’ve found in July that is worth your time. Photoshop and Illustrator Tutorials1- 15 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Product Advertisements A list of 15 tutorials that will help you to create more attractive and eye-catching advertisements with Photoshop. Check out his tutorials. 2- How to create the Sony-Ericsson logo - Photoshop tutorial This Photoshop tutorial will show you step by step how to create the Sony-Ericsson logo. Check out this post 4- Hell of tutorial in Photoshop An awesome tutorial teaching us how to create a 3D text with fire coming from the inside of the document like a hole. Check out this tutorial. 5- BOLT - Walt Disney Pictures How to make a very interesting Walt Disney wallpaper. Check out this tutorial 6- Text Effect Quickie: Vibrant Pop Text Effect In just a few moments, you can add a vibrant splash to your text that will really add some pop-culture flavor to your designs! Check out this post. 7- 3D Transform a Colorful Cube Design In this tutorial, you’ll learn one way to create a design using repeating elements in a style inspired by Sean Hodge. Check out this tutorial Ajax and Javascript8- Fantastic News Ticker Newsvine-like using Mootools This tutorial explains how to implement a News Ticker, with news vertical scrolling, using mootools. Check out this tutorial. 9- Wordpress Sidebar Turned Apple-Flashy Using jQuery UI If you love the sidebar on the Apple Startpage, this tutorial will teach you how to create one in your WordPress theme using jQuery. Check out this tutorial. 10- Garage Door Style Menu (using Animated Background Images with jQuery) Build a “Garage Door” style menu, where an image “slides up” to reveal another image behind it. Check out the demo 11- Create an apple style menu and improve it via jQuery Learn how to create a leopard style menu from scratch using Photoshop, HTML, CSS and then improve it via jQuery. Check out the demo 12- Check All/None Checkboxes Using MooTools There’s nothing worse than having to click every checkbox in a list. Why not allow users to click one item and every checkbox becomes checked? Here’s how to do just that with MooTools 1.2. Check out the demo CSS and XHTML13- Unit PNG Fix Here’s another solution for PNG fix for IE6 from Unit Interactive Labs. 14- Navigation bar with tabs using CSS and sliding doors effect A simple navigation bar with tabs using CSS and sliding doors effect. Check out this post. 15- Getting Started With CSS: 20 Awesome Introductory Tuts Don’t stress out with overly-complicated tutorials - here are 20 awesome introductory tuts to CSS. Check out this post. 16- Web-Based Tools for Optimizing, Formatting and Checking CSS Stylesheets can get large real quickly, both in terms of length and file size. To ensure that your web pages render correctly and quickly, here’s a compilation of some of the best free, web-based CSS optimizers/compressors, code formatters, and validation services. Check out this post. 17- How to make a list with rounded corners, auto width and hover effect This tutorial will teach you how to create a list with rounded corners. Check out the demo here. 18- Mega Awesome CSS Resource List! CSS Articles are posted every day on the web but the trouble is finding the quality ones. A well written article linking to CSS basics articles, writing good code, css frameworks, css layouts, navigation, forms, and of course cross browser tips Check out this amazing post Design19- How To Display Feedburner Subscriber Count In Text I believe you’ve seen websites and blogs that uses the text-based Feedburner subscriber count instead of the chicklet. I hope you are not getting the idea the these guys update their feed count manually. Instead, it can be done easily with scripts, and the reason why you want to do is - it gives you total flexibility in terms of design, styling and display. Check out the Tutorial 20- 10 Great Eco Print Companies Great article and resources about 10 great eco print companies. Check out this post 21- Improve Your Creative Process, Better Design, Quicker Approvals Discussing ways that could improve your approval process and improve your designs significantly. Check out this post 22- The Best Time Of The Day To Do Things As A Designer This article will go through the best time of the day to do things in relation to your mental state of mind which in turn will make you more productive as a designer. Check out this post 23- The Emergence of Gradient Grunge Design Let’s take a look at some of the characteristics that make up Gradient Grunge design trend today. Check out the post Freebies24- Free High-Res Texture Pack: Grungy Watercolor 25- Free High-Res Texture Pack: The Anatomy of a *Really* Old Book 26- Free vector african animals set 27- Web Design Resource - 25 Sites to download Free Web Templates Check out these 25 websites that offer quality website templates for free download (under creative-commons) - some of these sites give some stylish web designs that’s worth to download and have a look Check it out 29- Brush Stroke Freelance30- How To Cope With Rejection As A Freelancer A well written article about positive thinking and coping with rejection as a freelance writer. Check out this post 31- Putting Twitter to Work For Your Freelance Writing Business Twitter is some kind a strange marriage between a blogging platform and an instant messaging client. This posts highlights different ways you can use to put twitter for Your Freelance Writing Business. Check out this post 32- The creative brief: improve your project workflow A creative brief is a questionnaire for your client, that covers all the information you are going to require to be able to go ahead and begin site architecture, mood boards & wire-framing (if necessary). One tool we use to capture this data is a creative briefing document. Check out this post 33- How to Make Your Design Project Successful Every Time Tips for getting to the root of the your client’s business objective, so your design work can actively solve it. Check out this post Free WordPress Themes34- Free Theme: Outdoorsy Theme Now Available to Download . The theme is called “outdoorsy” and it’s perfect for the individual who wants something “slightly” different from your usual standard free theme. This theme is very unique, and quite graphics heavy, which we are aware of. Check out the online demo 35- Tigerpress: A Free Wordpress Theme Tigerpress Wordpress theme has 2 columns and provides a simple and very user-friendly Mac-alike interface (design based on Apple’s Tiger Mac OS X). Check it out 36- Free WordPress Theme: Old News Now Avaliable To Download The design is simple 3 column layout with inspirations from scrap paper. This theme would be perfect for someone looking to make an easy to simple and easy to read blog. Check it out WordPress37- Amazing WordPress hacks part 2 The second part of Amazing WordPress hacks article, you will see how to set Post Expiration time and date in another way, Secure your wp-includes folder and how to make Wordpress Static HTML Template. Check out this article 38- 15 Awesome WordPress Resource Sites There are tons of tutorial sites out there that provide tips, tricks, and resources to teach both beginner and advanced users more about WordPress. Here are 15 of the best WordPress resource sites on the ‘net. Check out this post. 39- How To Create WordPress Themes From Scratch Part 1 How to create a wordpress theme from scratch in these 3 parts of tutorial series. Covering Structuring, designing in Photoshop, slicing, coding into fully css based html, and finally wordpress implementation. Check out this Tutorial 40- How To Make Your Own Default Avatar in 5 Minutes The avatars are a great way to make things more personal and create some variety between the different comments.This tutorial will teach you how to create your default avatar image for people who don’t have an avatar. Check out this Tutorial Inspiration41- 24 Design and Inspiration Websites Collection of design and inspiration websites. Check out the post 43- July’s Best : 15 CSS Design on CssLeak New Launches44- DesignMag Steven Snell of VandelayDesign has launched another great website, DesignM.ag. A useful and resourceful site for the web design community. Starting with amazing posts offering great resources and tips for the design community. Check out the community news section and the design gallery. 45- Script & Style Script & Style is going to be a user-driven stream of links, which anybody can submit to using the article submission form. There will also be exclusive tutorials from time to time. Check out this new site Resources46- 200+ Free Grunge Photoshop Brushes Photoshop brushes are one of the most useful and often under-rated aspects of the program. Here is a collection of some of the hottest and newest free grunge Photoshop brushes from a variety of brush sites. Check out the Tutorial 47- 11 of the Highest User Ranked Free Fonts There are an infinite amount of resources and lists for great free fonts. Here is a great list of 11 quality free fonts. Check out this post 48- 13 Most Unusual Search Engines You Should Remember Every search engine listed here has some different way of searching or unusual presentation. Check out this post 49- 50 Absolutely Killer Flash Templates Sit back and scroll through this amazing post, 50 Killer Flash templates. Check out this post 50- 42 Resources of Inspiration for Graphic Designers and Lovers of Design Resources of Inspiration for Graphic Artists and Designers and Lovers of Design. Check out this post Textures and Brushes51- Oriental Photoshop Brushes And Vector Images For Mysterious Designs This is a collection of oriental Photoshop brushes & vector images for more mysterious designs. The collection includes Chinese dragons, Japanese, Chinese & Arabic texts, people, houses, mosques & various figures. Check out this post 52- 350+ Brushes, Textures, and Fonts: Massive Hand Drawn Roundup Interviews53- Favorite Design-Related Sites of 21 Designers DesignM.ag is a new site that aims to meet the needs of the web design community. Here is a collection of design-related sites that are visited frequently by other designers. Check out this post 54- An Interview With Paul Boag An interesting interview with Paul Boag of Boagworld. Check out this interview 55- An Interview With Morgan Porter They Don’t Teach Business in Design School: An Interview With Morgan Porter. Check out this interview 56- An interview with James White SEO and Web Traffic57- 17 fast and easy steps to more web traffic Anyone who has ever looked at a successful blog, or website will tell you that the reason it is probably successful, is because of the content. You need to set your goals to improve your traffic. Check out this post |
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