Studies show that top navigations tend to get the most visual attention when a user first visits a site. Having organized and intuitive navigation is key — and while most drop down menus may look aesthetically pleasing, developing them to degrade gracefully is also essential. In this tutorial I would like to go over how to create a sexy drop down menu that can also degrade gracefully.
WordPress is a great blogging platform with a potential of being an easy to use content management system. This is the third article of our four-part series, „The Comprehensive Guide for a Powerful CMS using WordPress”. We are taking a look at 40+ quality and useful WordPress Plug-ins that will turn a simple WordPress site into a blazing fast dynamic one, with easily managed content, that you and your clients will love to use.
There is one big drawback to using WordPress as a CMS: the lack of custom content types/groups, an area where developers put restrictions on how clients insert content. This is fairly easy to do with some knowledge of custom fields, but can be a little complicated if your client is new to WordPress. Developers must create workarounds to keep the content clean, portable and relatively unbreakable.
More Fields is a WordPress plugin that adds boxes to the Write/Edit page. These boxes contains input fields, so that additional (more) fields can be added to a post. For example, if you write about books, you can add a box where you can enter title and author, etc. The boxes can be placed either to the right or to the left on the Write/Edit page.
When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of javascript you can produce some pretty smart results using the <form> tag. In an effort to help you take it up a notch, we’d like to share some methods for helping your site anticipate a user’s next move.
The post below is made up of 10 smart and intelligent ways of using <form> elements to produce some neat effects, components and plugins, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure. Give them a try.
In this tutorial you will learn how to create a poll using PHP and XHTML, then make use of some jQuery Ajax effects to eliminate the need for a page refresh, and to give it a nice little bit of animation.
<div id="poll-container">
<h3>Poll</h3>
<form id='poll' action="poll.php" method="post" accept-charset="utf-8">
<p>Pick your favorite Javascript framework:</p>
<p><input type="radio" name="poll" value="opt1" id="opt1" /><label for='opt1'> jQuery</label><br />
<input type="radio" name="poll" value="opt2" id="opt2" /><label for='opt2'> Ext JS</label><br />
<input type="radio" name="poll" value="opt6" id="opt6" /><label for='opt6'> mootools</label><br /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Vote →" /></p>
</form>
</div>