Using jQuery to allow users to preview form data before submitting it to the database, or for creating a widget. Includes a demo and download.

With the rising popularity of my AJAX/RSS Feeder plugin for jQuery I’ve gotten a lot of questions about how to make AJAX requests across domains which will be discussed in this post. In a perfect world cross-browser AJAX requests would just work, unfortunately they do not. Attempting to request remote files with AJAX will cause errors in the script and can be a pretty big hurdle in some cases and can be very frustrating. However, there are a few things that I have come across, in looking for a solution to this, that I would like to share.

Google have finally made an API available for Google Analytics although it’s currently in beta and the specs are subject to change. I’ve been playing around this morning logging in using ClientLogin Username/Password Authentication with PHP and CURL and show how to do this here.

These days it is very easy to have your content scattered all over the web - you’ve put stuff on Facebook, stuff you’ve put on Twitter, blog posts etc. You get the idea. This screencast shows you how to create a ‘lifestream’ - something that puts all of your stuff in one place.

This PHP script will query your MySQL database’s table where you keep your news, articles and such and basically create an XML file from that information. Once you look into the file itself, you can see that the query would need to be changed to suit your needs, but that’s pretty much the end of it.

Easy to use PHP script to handle multiple forms with little configuration.

Imagine a situation in which you enter a new site. The content you are desperately searching for doesn’t seem to be loading. You don’t know whether something is actually loading, or if it is just not there. You finally decide to exit the page. This situation can be very typical when websites require large files to be downloaded. In order to combat such a situation, a load icon may be used to signify that something is loading.

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Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty neat effects. 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.

Yesterday I was searching for new social networking icons in web, suddenly I found a beautiful website Monkey Works. It’s really fantastic drawings I love these drawings.

Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. This post is made up of the best 20 PHP + jQuery Components and Tutorials that you will likely need in many of your projects, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure.

Today, we’re trying to recreate the effect from that Apple.com by creating a fancy apple.com-style search suggestion. Make sure you check out the demo (or visit Apple.com) to see this awesome effect work. This tutorial makes use of jQuery, PHP, HTML/CSS, AJAX and MySQL.

Search is usually the primary or secondary means of navigating a website. Because of it’s wide use, it makes sense to allocate some time to designing a user friendly search. In this post, I discuss what makes search results effective and include popular examples to reinforce the ideas presented.

This article shows you how to markup, style and add very simple yet effective sort options to tag clouds.

A good introductory post to the PHP web framework Code Igniter. It shows you how to install it as well as configure it.

Visualizing data is a difficult task, but it does allow for some very interesting design elements. The problem with such visualizations however, results from a less usable result than had the data been formatted normally. Displaying statistics is an obvious example of situations where data visualization is necessary and important in order to grasp trends and analyze such data.

Various plugins that utilize Google APIs such as spell check, image/video search, analytics, language translation and more…

Learn how to create a chatting page nicely styled in a real “chat conversation” way. This is achieved by placing the text in text (or speech) balloons, using avatars and making it look pretty fancy. It’ll make the conversation more visually attractive.

As screen resolutions get both smaller (mobile) and bigger (larger monitors), having some knowledge on adapting to semi-liquid layouts will most definitely be a plus in your arsenal.

James Hall saw the good news in Bugzilla that CSS3 multiple backgrounds are now in the Firefox tree, and you can test a Firefox Nightly (Minefield). Firefox joins Safari in the support.