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Posts Tagged ‘interface’

Improving Search Boxes with jQuery

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

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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Creating an OS Web Interface in jQuery (Part I)

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

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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Preview: Creating an OS Web Interface in jQuery (Part I)

Friday, December 12th, 2008

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! :)

Create a professional interface for your web applications using jQuery

Tuesday, October 21st, 2008

I am very excited to see that a lot of people are linking our tutorials and this the best way to get the motivation to continue writing more and more tutorials. So thanks all for the comments, referrals and for visit yensdesign.com daily :)

In this tut we will create a professional interface for your web applications using the killer javascript library jQuery, as we used to create the stunning and smooth popup in jQuery.

As always here you have a demo of the final result:

Image preview of the interface

Tested in: Firefox, Internet Explorer 6 & 7, Opera (old and 9.52) , Safari & Chrome (file menu doesn’t works well).

Let’s begin the tutorial guys!

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