OpenSocial is useful for websites to start hosting social applications. Apache Shindig is an OpenSocial container and helps you to start hosting these apps on your website. OpenSocial is not just about gadgets and widgets for your Website. With it, your website can be a container or can store persistent data and publish notices/alerts called activities. OpenSocial has vast verity of uses including social mashups, social websites and applications, gadgets/application creation, CMS and social...
jQuery is great for adding enhancing effects that would otherwise be impossible with just HTML and CSS. In this tutorial we're going to use jQuery and two plugins to gradually change a website's background as the user scrolls the page. We'll be using the Color Animation and Waypoints plugins. The Color Animation plugin adds animations to the color properties of elements. jQuery already includes an animate function, this plugin simply extends it. The Waypoints plugin allows us to execute a function...
jQuery is an actively-developed JavaScript library with a fairly rapid release cycle. As well as general enhancements, performance tweaks and bug fixes, new methods are frequently added to the library. In this article we’ll take a look at the new methods that have been added to the 1.6+ release and some of the enhancements. Delaying the ready event with the holdReady() method ... The holdReady() method is used to delay the firing of jQuery’s ready event, a cornerstone event which is popularly...
Despite the high expectations placed on them at times, developers are human. They were the last time we checked anyways. As humans, we are bound to make mistakes from time to time. And simple, common mistakes often slip past our filters the more comfortable we become with something. Think about it, when you first started writing code you most likely checked every line to make sure things were perfect. As you grow more comfortable with the process, little things often get overlooked and mistakes are made....
Image slideshows are a dime a dozen on the web. You see them used for advertisements, featured articles, product showcases, and plain old photo reels. Today, we're going to quickly implement a slideshow using the jQuery plugin Cycle by Mike Alsup. Cycle is a great plugin with years of development behind it. We're going to use the Lite version. It lacks some of the features of the full version (like different transitions), but it is super lightweight. While the full version is 49kb, the lite version weighs...
With an emerging market of innovative mobile devices it has become more important to create responsive designs. In my last article (Part 1) we started with the setup of our HTML and our media queries. The pad.css was the easiest to format due to the change in the screen resolution. I saved the formatting of the handset for the last part of this series because it's the device that will start to see changes to our fluid layout. Every site developed without flash content is mobile compatible but is the content...
AJAX earned its share of stardom once industry giants like Google Maps, Zoho Writer and Y!Mail Beta started to actively implement AJAX into their services. Though many webmasters out there are already using AJAX yet there is that section which is still unaware of its advantages. This tutorial will help the latter part enjoy hands-on experience with AJAX and PHP. I won’t be using jargons yet I am assuming that you understand the basics of HTML, PHP and JavaScript. What is AJAX? ... Well, AJAX won’t...
There was a time when Netscape and Internet Explorer were the only browsers a web developer had to worry about. But in those days, a website primarily consisted of some text, a few images and some hyperlinks. Remember, tables were still all the rage back then. Nowadays a user may have a few different browsers to choose from, multiple computers running different screen resolutions, a tablet device and a smartphone. And websites, they are a bit more complex than the good old static days. So to meet the needs...