Archive for the 'Better Plugins' Category

jFormer – Better Forms

There are plenty of tutorials on how to create, style and enhance forms and jQuery has very nice UI form components, but I wanted to feature a nice, simple plug-in that will help you to put out better form quickly, especially those sweet “multi-page” style forms. 

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Side-scrolling Web Site

At first I laughed at this idea from Sitepoint. You want to scroll right, like playing Defender? Weird. As per usual, I was all wet. Once I looked at a demo and started reading the article, the notion really did start to sound interesting. I have yet to think of a site on which I [...]

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Auto-grow Text Area

Sometimes you have to make compromises when designing forms. I never know how big to make a text area, but I want it to fit in my pretty forms without looking, um… deformed! But that really has little to do with the needs of the user. Scrolling has always been the fallback, even though that [...]

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List pagination with Pajinate

Data heavy web apps are my bread and butter. Lots of tables, lots of SQL, and very often that means pagination. However, I had never even thought of using pagination for lists, whether ordered or unordered. It just never occurred to me that lists could get long enough to need that. Then one day I [...]

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Sliding Form

Don’t you love it when you come across a site that has a really professional form for data entry? And don’t you hate it when a form looks like the browser puked? Give some form love to your site visitors. This little trick is not really a qualifying plugin and it is not a complete [...]

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Rocking and Rolling Rounded Menu

Today I was searching for a sleek nav bar drop down menu solution, something that hasn’t been done to death. The site I will be using it on is not very important, but it doesn’t need to be hum-drum, either. What I found is something that I’ve seen before but have never used… or seen [...]

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