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]