Archive for April, 2009

CSS For Bar Graphs April 30th, 2009
by Munazza

Recently we’ve had to tackle some interesting visualizations which we coded in XHTML and CSS. The method we used, while fairly simple, was a big help to the engineer and created a very flexible and inexpensive solution. We thought we would share our solution and code in case anyone else ran against similar situations. Basic [...]

A Mac OS X-style Dock In JavaScript April 29th, 2009
by Munazza

Apple’s Mac OS X operating system is renowned for its fluid graphical effects. One impressive feature is the dock’s ‘fish-eye’ effect, whereby icons expand and contract as the mouse moves over them. Achieving this effect in JavaScript is difficult, but the MacStyleDock function allows this feature to be implemented easily. An example is shown below [...]

BarackSlideshow – Lightweight slideshow script April 29th, 2009
by Munazza

I guess pretty much everyone has seen Barack Obama’s website by now, which is clearly one of the prettiest of all candidates we’ve heard of so far. Not only is it an example of state-of-the-art design, but it’s also nice to navigate and interact with. The creation I took my previous class (SlideList), and made [...]

AJAX powered shopping cart April 28th, 2009
by Munazza

One of the innovations of the web is online shopping. It allows us to buy things without ever leaving the comfort of our homes. However, the most basic element of online shopping, the shopping cart, has not evolved much. In this tutorial, we’re going to make an AJAX powered shopping cart using PHP, jQuery, and [...]

HTML Validation: Does It Matter? April 25th, 2009
by Munazza

The web is, to put it charitably, a rather forgiving place. You can feed web browsers almost any sort of HTML markup or JavaScript code and they’ll gamely try to make sense of what you’ve provided, and render it the best they can. In comparison, most programming languages are almost cruelly unforgiving. If there’s a [...]