Dan Wellman is an author and web developer based in the UK; by day he works for digital agency Design Haus, where he builds HTML and CSS front-ends, plays with jQuery and occasionally writes simple c#. By night he writes books and tutorials on varying web design topics including web server configuration, jQuery and jQuery UI, HTML, CSS, web standards, and anything else that captures his imagination.
Better Password Fields with jQuery
The ‘whether or not to show plain text in password fields for usability’ situation has never really been resolved to my satisfaction; plain-text fields are clearly much more usable and less confusing than obscured passwords, but what if the person using the plain-text field is sat in a public place? Showing their password for just [...]
February 8, 2010Review of jQuery 1.3 with PHP by Kae Verens
jQuery 1.3 with PHP by Kae Varens is a great book that shows you how to interface jQuery with PHP. It’s different from any other web development book I’ve read because it approaches things from the opposite perspective that I personally am used to – from the server to the client. It’s aimed at competent [...]
January 31, 2010Review of jQuery Enlightenment by Cody Lindley
jQuery Enlightenment is an e-book in PDF format written by Cody Lindley, an official jQuery evangelist since 2008 and talented front-end developer with over 12 years experience in the field.
The book is aimed at several different types of developer; the first is someone that knows the basics of jQuery and is ready to take their [...]
New Application – YUI Compressor Automator
I just wrote a wrapper application for Yahoo’s excellent CSS and JS minifyer YUI Compressor.
YUI Compressor is a command-line tool that allows you to minify one .css or one .js file at a time, reducing the filesize (quite drammatically in some cases) and increasing the performance of your site for first-time visitors (repeat visitors will [...]
December 13, 2009jQuery Plugin – jPoll
jPoll, with an accompanying nettuts+ screencast, provides a ‘poll’ widget which can be used to ask your visitors a brief question. The widget will create and render a form inside a designated container and then monitor the form for submission.
When the form is submitted,the results are passed to a backend file which processes the response [...]
jQuery Plugin – jMailer
jMailer is a plugin for jQuery I wrote that provides the visitor with a popup email form. It should be attached to a link element and when that link is clicked, the popup appears centered in the viewport.
Within the popup is a form which let’s the visitor enter an email address they want to send [...]
New Blog
Welcome to my new blog!
I thought it high time that I rolled out a fresh new theme for my site and decided to completely change the look and feel of it while migrating to a new platform for easier updating.
The new theme features several images that were obtained, with gratitude, from NASA. This site, and [...]
jQuery UI 1.7
Learn the latest version of jQuery UI with a detailed, step-by-step approach£29.99£23.79!Read more
jQuery UI 1.6
If you need to use jQuery 1.2, this book will show you how to leverage jQuery UI 1.6£29.99£23.79!Read more
Learning YUI
Discover how to use version 2 of the YUI to it's full potential£27.99£23.79!Read more