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How to Build a Kick-Butt CSS3 Mega Drop-Down Menu

How to Build a Kick-Butt CSS3 Mega Drop-Down Menu: " Often used on e-commerce or large scale websites, mega menus are becoming more and more popular, as they offer an effective solution to displaying a lot of content while keeping a clean layout. In this tutorial, we’ll learn how to build a cross-browser, awesome CSS-only drop-down mega menu, using nice CSS3 features. Step 1: Building the Navigation Bar Let’s begin with a basic menu, built with an unordered list and some basic CSS styling. <ul...
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Five Useful CSS/jQuery Coding Techniques For More Dynamic Websites

Five Useful CSS/jQuery Coding Techniques For More Dynamic Websites: Interactivity can transform a dull static website into a dynamic tool that not only delights users but conveys information more effectively. In this post, we’ll walk through five different coding techniques that can be easily implemented on any website to provide a richer user experience. The techniques will allow you to better display difficult content, help users find information more effectively and provide meaningful UI cues...
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Quick Tip: Working with the Official jQuery Templating Plugin

Quick Tip: Working with the Official jQuery Templating Plugin: " Just this week, the jQuery team announced that Microsoft’s templating plugin (along with a couple others) is now being officially supported. What this means is that the plugin will now be maintained and updated directly by the core team. In this video tutorial, we’ll review the essentials of the plugin, and why it’s so awesome. As a quick example, we’ll, again, refer to the Twitter search API example from Friday (think Bieber)....
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Progressively Enhance a Form to a Modal Form

Progressively Enhance a Form to a Modal Form: " With something as important as a contact form, you want it working properly for all visitors—even the JavaScript challenged. How do you handle this if you want to use a modal (pop-up) form? The answer is progressive enhancement; start with baseline, usable functionality; then increase the user experience for those who have browsers to support it. Step 1: Decide on the Project Goals Before starting any journey, it helps (most times) to have a destination....
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