jQuery plugin to use CSS3 animations (animate.css)

A while back, I stumbled across a very nice set of CSS3 animations by Dan Eden which (if you haven’t already clicked the link and looked for yourself) are plug and play. All you do is add a class to the element you want to animate and it… well… animates. This is great! Dan recommends that… Read more →

HoverIntent jQuery plugin initiated by a click event

Let me start by saying that I am not a developer, I am a designer who dabbles in jQuery and as such my code will probably not be the cleanest or most efficient but it gets the job done. I will also assume you have some basic knowledge of jQuery. View the demo Recently I… Read more →

Graceful Degradation vs Progressive Enhancement

For years web designers have had to deal with compatibility issues across multiple browsers and for just as many years have had to accept content being displayed in slightly different ways. This is unlikely to change soon but the differences are becoming fewer and fewer. To make the most of this you need to choose… Read more →

WordPress, TimThumb & jQuery: Image Hover Effect

This post is about using TimThumb to create an on-the-fly, greyscale image thumbnail of the first image in a post and use jQuery to fade in a colour version on top creating a nice effect. Let me also say that this is not in-depth and is not for beginners as I’m not going to walk… Read more →