yensdesign – Tutorials, Web Design and Coding

Hi there guys! We continue writting tutorials to try to improve our website’s interface. Search boxes are in the air and in our days they become a very important part of our websites, so it will be interesting if we can do them a little better.

This time we will learn how to improve a little more our sites by adding some additional interactions to our search boxes like autofocus, highlighting, autoreplace default text and more by using jQuery.

As always I show you a preview image linking the final result:

You can try the living example before continue reading the tutorial.

Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, Safari & Chrome.

Let’s learn guys!

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Continuing with the tutorials about AJAX and jQuery we will create a stunning and dynamic shoutbox based in PHP and AJAX (using jQuery).

We will learn how to create a dynamic ajax based shoutbox with jQuery from scratch. It will be very interesting to know how to use the ajax function of jQuery and how it can be used to insert and recover data from a MySQL database via PHP in a way asynchronous.

Here you have a preview image:

You can try the living example before continue reading the tutorial.

Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 (bad display of PNG icons, IE bug) & 7, Opera, Safari & Chrome.

Come on guys, let’s dive into the tutorial!

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Ey guys! We want to share with you a new tutorial called How to load content via AJAX in jQuery and as you may suppose it will be focused in learn how to load content from other files by using jQuery.

It’s a simple but useful tutorial for those who need to know how to load dynamically some static content in their websites via AJAX. I have decided to write it because Cyanade ( an user from our forums) asks some questions about dynamic content and ajax in their post Integrating jQuery into an app.

Here is a preview image:

You can try the living example before continue reading the tutorial.

Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, Safari & Chrome.

So I hope He and You find it useful!

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As you may notice we love jQuery over here because in addition to being one of the best javascript libraries on the web It can be extended so easily, from the basic to the advanced features.

In this case We will learn the basic theory about plugins in jQuery and how to create them with 2 real examples: a simple alert plugin & other plugin that will highlight all inputs in a page when them get the focus.

So get ready to learn guys!

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Finally here you have the First Part of this series of tutorials to recreate an OS Web Interface with our lovely jQuery javascript library.

As you could see in the preview of this tutorial we will focus to create the drag & drop interaction, the double click on icons and a basic taskbar with a start disabled button and a real clock of the system.

As always, here you have a preview of the final result:

It will be very interesting how we can achieve all our goals without using thir party plugins etc.

You can try the living example before continue reading the tutorial.

Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 (bad display of PNG icons, IE bug) & 7, Opera, Safari & Chrome.

So let’s go guys!

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Hi there guys! Since some of you are asking about the next big tutorial, here you have a brief of the first part of the tutorial in a video:

As you can see, it’s about creating (one more time) interfaces in javascript, this time we will try to recreate an operation web system from scratch without third party plugins as UI jQuery or the draggable.js.

We will release the first part tutorial this Monday, so stay tuned!

Hi there guys! While I was working in the next tutorial I have been encountered with a problem: How can I block / cancel the context menu when I do right click on the screen?

There are a lot of examples and scripts in javascript, but one more time jQuery makes it easy! Here you have the code:

[code language="javascript"]
$(document).ready(function(){
	$(document).bind("contextmenu",function(e){
		return false;
	});
});
[/code]

This code works in: Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, Safari & Chrome.

One more thing guys… the next tutorial will be released on next Monday as a part of serie of tutorials that will be very very BIG, interesting and useful

See you soon!

Hi guys! As we have said many times, websites are evolving to rich online applications and tabbed menus can be very power and useful to show content to our visitors.

In this case, we are going to learn how to create a smooth tabbed menu with our lovely jQuery library. With simple and clean layout we can have a great tabbed menu for our websites.

As always, here you have the live demo before starting the tutorial

Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, Safari & Chrome.

Interesting…? Just continue reading!

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What’s up guys? Today I am very proud to announce a BIG & INTERESTING tutorial focused on improve the user’s interaction in your web applications.

We will create an amazing music player coded in xHTML & jQuery that made use of mouse gestures and hotkeys. You can Click & Drag with mouse to interact with interface’s music player or use directional keys & spacebar instead of mouse.

Because I told you that it’s a big tutorial, this time I will show you a live working example in this video:

But as always, you can test the real demo over here

Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, Safari & Chrome.

So guys, come with me and jump into the tutorial

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Hi again folks! As you can see, the amount of publications is increasing daily, it is because we realized that everyday more people come to read read the blog to learn about web design. So, we decided to spent more time to share our knowledge with you.

In this tutorial we will see how to create an AJAX website without lose the reference to the URL. What is that not lose the reference? If you have created some full AJAX website you have realized when you change the web content, the URL is not updated, so, the URL reference is lost. Services like Gmail uses it to increase the navigation’s user experience.

It can be very very useful to create awasome ajax based sites such as Gmail web application from Google, users will appreciate it so much. As always we will use jQuery to do the ajax part easier for all

Update: Now with loading division while you are waiting to load the current section!

You can test a working live example over here:

Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera, Safari & Chrome.

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