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A jQuery powered HTML5 navigation menu
I was recently asked to knock-up a semantically simple (but elegant) navigation bar for a new open-source project I’ve become involved with (more on that soon!). Having done so with a reasonable amount of success, I thought I would also share it here for everyone else to use as well!
A set of simple CSS3 buttons
Having searched around for a while, looking for a set of CSS3 ‘buttons’ and not finding anything exactly right for my needs, I decided to create a set from scratch. Being the generous kind of bloke I am, I though that I’d share them here in case any other frustrated web workers are in desperate need of a button fix.
A simple jQuery powered image slider
This is another quick implementation of one of Orman Clark’s designs from Premium Pixels. As with the last previous slider I shared, this is based on malsup’s awesome Cycle jQuery plugin.
Accessibility and an introduction to ARIA
First of all, what the hell is ARIA and why should I care? Well first of all, that’s a rather rude way to start a conversation, but whatever dude; the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) is a proposed specification (currently in the working draft stage) developed by the W3C. What it does is set out a proposed structure for front-end developers to programmatically make their applications and pages more accessible.
So in short, it makes people who have trouble viewing normal pages lives a little easier.
CSS3 Media Queries and Mobile Devices
Having trouble with pages rendering poorly on modern mobile devices? Want to target those devices using just CSS? CSS3 media queries are the answer to your problems.