Today we are going back to basics. jQuery is an amazing tool for web site owners, designers and developers to use for enhancing the user experience (UX) of their site without having to deal much with the differences in the way various browsers work with Javascript. jQuery just works and there are thousands of plugins, [...]

Eventually, no matter what your specialty as designer or developer, you’ll need to save and retrieve data. Thanks fully, we are beginning to get to the point where that does not necessarily mean a bunch of server-side programming and MySQL work. With the new generation of “NoSQL” databases and Javascript getting to the point that [...]

Although jQuery Templating is not ready for prime time yet, a number of us have been playing with it. Over on nettuts+, Dan Wellman did a rather involved tutorial, basically creating a little app using templating and Ajax. Now is not the time to start reworking your projects with jQuery Templates, since there may be [...]

The web will move to HTML5 and CSS3 over the next couple of years. It will happen a little at a time, but before you know it you will be expected to be proficient with HTML5 on every platform. Don’t panic! And don’t try to move everything there right away. Take a more laid back [...]

Rebecca Murphey @rmurphey published a new video on jQuery Templates. It’s short, but chock full of good info. She covers more than one way to attack the templating issue, which means more choices for designers and developers (yay), and she even explains that jQuery is not the only way to do templating (horrors!) with JavaScript. [...]