Dan Wellman is an author and web developer based in the UK; by day he works for digital agency Design Haus. By night he writes books and tutorials on varying web design topics mostly centered around jQuery and jQuery UI, HTML, CSS and occasionally, PHP.
Packt 2010 Open Source Awards
The 5th annual Open Source Awards from Packt are now open! There are six different ‘best of the year’ categories to vote in, which consist of:
Open Source CMS
Hall of fame CMS
Most promising Open Source Project
Open Source E-commerce Application
Open Source JavaScript Library
Open Source Graphics Software
Here’s a link to the main nominations page.
This is the first year [...]
jQuery Plugin – hoverFade
I just wrote a new jQuery plugin that adds a fading-in effect when you hover over certain elements. I’m using it to add the fading rollover states on the top nav and on the social boxes in the footer.
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hoverFade The original plugin, unminified, with comments. 1.4 Kb
minified hoverFade A minified version (it also contains the [...]
Adobe-style checkboxes
I really like the how layers can be selected in Photoshop and Fireworks by holding the mouse button down and dragging the cursor over the check boxes. I always miss this feature on web forms with more than a few check boxes on them, so I thought it would be a great idea if it [...]
May 28, 2010Review of jQuery 1.4 by Karl Swedberg and Jonathon Chaffer
I recently read through the newest revision of Karl and Jonathon’s amazing jQuery reference manual, which has just been updated for the latest release of the jQuery library itself. Even though it’s a reference manual used to refer to specific methods or properties of the library rather than a teaching book that takes the reader [...]
March 16, 2010
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