Last night, I was building a little thing in jQuery to slide a menu off to the left of the screen.  What I wanted to do was queue the following effects so that the rest of the content on the page could take up it’s space once it has gone: Adjust the ‘left’ position of the menu <div> to slide it off the screen. Hide the menu <div> so that the content can move in. The second step seems to be necessary as adjusting the left position of the <div> alone does not allow the content to move in (I‘m working on that bit still). So lets take a second to look at what I ... [More]

Its about time I stopped being scared of the ‘new’ things on the internet that are not written in C# and started to embrace them.  As my previous post alludes to that fact that I am starting to take a closer look at front-end web design (or at least how to implement it!). One thing I’m really keen to do is start having a play with jQuery, as this also ties in quite nicely with a project I am writing the functional specification for this week. Sliding Vertical Menu The first thing that I wanted to do was to have vertical navigation element that the user could hide, giving them more room to v... [More]

I’ve been involved in some web design builds recently, which has been somewhat of a learning experience for me.  Last time I was really involved in knocking up the front-end of a site everything was done in tables an that was just that way it was (a fair few years ago!). I started my journey by reading and/or flicking through a couple of books: Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholme.  I read this one cover to cover, it’s well written and covers all of the basics if you’re just getting started or are incredibly rusty (like me!). CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland.... [More]