jQuery for Designers - screencasts and tutorials

It’s the age old (well, in webby terms) issue of how to populate one select box based on another’s selection. It’s actually quite easy compared with the bad old days, and incredibly easy with jQuery and a dash of Ajax.

There are a few websites I’ve seen lately that have a left hand navigation automatically updates it’s selection based on where you’ve scrolled to on the page. This tutorial will show you exactly how to achieve just that.

Most of us have to make our web pages work in The Big Five browsers, so I thought it was about time I introduce you to the debugging tools for each of those browsers with a couple of tips thrown in to the mix.

As we build more and more Ajaxy applications, and our apps reside on a single page, the browser’s native back button can get more and more broken. This episode will show you how to re-enable the back button on your apps.

I was recently asked how keyboard navigation could be supported to move a slider backwards and forwards. I've created a few tutorials on how to create sliders and carousels but not mentioned keyboard supported navigation yet.

On visiting Apple’s web site an putting items in my shopping basket, I noticed (an old effect) where the shopping basket would follow me down the page. We’ll look at how to replicate the fixed floating sidebars or elements with very little jQuery.

The iPhone has a few unique UI features, one in particular are the static headings when you’re scrolling through a list, so you know the context of the content. We’ll see how to create this effect using jQuery.

Following on from the infinite carousel, there have been a number of requests asking how to make the scrolling action automatic, so I’ve gone ahead to explain how to achieve this.

jQuery makes it incredibly easy to add effects to your web sites, but there’s some effects you just don’t want: the hover repeatedly to make the effect go wild!

queue and dequeue are a pair of core data utilities that help you to add your own bespoke to animations.

With jQuery for Designer’s redesign I decided to add a scrolling carousel that worked in the same way the carousel worked on the Apple Mac ads page. This tutorial will walk through the fundamentals of the effect and how to recreate it.

When using slideDown depending on the layout of your page, you could still see the jumping effect, regardless of whether you fix the padding around the element.

Gareth Rogers asked how to achieve the effect on the latest BBC Radio 1 website, where the mouse rolls over the image block, tabs slide up and the image zooms a little to reveal more of the picture.

map and grep are two utilities that are extremely useful if you know how to use them, but more often that not, I see more convoluted code written to achieve the effect of these functions. Historically, I believe that John Resig was inspired by the Perl functions of the same name - which are basic building blocks of the Perl programming language. Let’s look at how you can use these functions.

Jonathan Diba writes to ask how the effects are achieve on Tim Van Damme's portfolio site, referring to Tim's site as one of the most compelling site design he's seen. The two key effects Tim is using are a simplified accordion and a hover effect. It's worth noting that the hover effect only works in WebKit (Safari & Chrome), but I'll show you how to create the effect using jQuery too.