As I'm sure you know, it's very easy to set a different colour for a link when a user hovers over it using the :hover pseudo class – it's used pretty much everywhere....
When you search for a service in a specific location (for example restaurant in Edinburgh) on Google or Bing, you will often see a map of the area with local listings. It essential to appear on these listings if you are a business, especially if you work in a specific geographical area. If you appear on the map when a user searches, you will be at the very top of the search page, even if your standard listing is...
Sometimes it's the little things that make the difference in user interfaces. A seemingly minor change can have a massive effect on the look and feel. It is easy in jQuery to make an object expand in size on hover: simply attach an animate effect to a hover event. However, this doesn't result in a nice effect. The hover feels clunky awkward. Instead I wanted the icons to expand to meet the mouse as I moved towards it, giving a nice...
It can be a complete pain keeping up with every social media website. Facebook, Buzz, Twitter – it's a miracle if I get any work done at all just trying to keep everything up to date...
When using jQuery I find that I often want to wait for an image to be fully loaded before I perform an action. ...