Creating your first jQuery plugin means that you’re no longer a beginner. You can now create something that you can use over and over again, or even package and sell to other developers. It may seem hard, but in reality creating a jQuery plugin is actually a simple process. In this article I’ll show you how simple by creating a simple tooltip plugin. The markup ... Any jQuery plugin requires some kind of markup and in our case all the plugin will need to be able to run properly is an anchor tag that...
Mac OSX is able to display message notifications — still referred to as Growl messages, despite the fact that the big cat moniker is no longer applied to versions. Many applications send Growl messages to the OS to let the user know that an action has just occurred. Wouldn’t it be nice to use messages like this on our websites? I think so. In this tutorial we’ll construct a notification like this with HTML, CSS3 and a little jQuery. Growl message functionality ... When more than one message is displayed,...
In the first part of this mini-series we requested an for an API key from Tumblr, then we used it to retrieve data and the avatar for a blog. In this concluding part, we’ll retrieve some posts that are a little more complex. Getting posts ... So far our calls have been simple, because there was no json to interate through. But now, because we’re looking for a single post from multiple posts, we need to do a little more to arrive at our data. Our first step is to determine our URL (replace your-api-key with...