Web Development Tutorials & Resources

Making a jQuery Countdown Timer

By Martin Angelov | December 30th, 2011

Today we are going to build a neat jQuery plugin for displaying a countdown timer. It will show the remaining days, hours, minutes and seconds to your event, as well as an animated updates on every second.

What You Need To Know About TheHTML5 Slider Element

By Martin Angelov | December 9th, 2011

The new HTML5 slider control is useful for giving users the ability to conveniently modify a value without having to explicitly type it in a text box. In this short tutorial you will learn how to use it and how to emulate it in older browsers.

Shiny Knob Control with jQueryand CSS3

By Martin Angelov | November 30th, 2011

In this tutorial we will be writing a jQuery plugin for creating a shiny knob control, suitable for use in control panels and other administrative pages.

Lets Write Some Tests withTestify.php

By Martin Angelov | November 19th, 2011

In this tutorial you will learn how to test your code with Testify – a new open source framework for PHP with elegant syntax.

Chained AJAX Selects

By Martin Angelov | November 3rd, 2011

In today’s tutorial, we will build a set of chained select elements. Selecting an option in one of them will trigger an update on the page, showing you more choices to refine your selection.

Creating an iOS-like Home Screenwith CoffeeScript

By Martin Angelov | October 20th, 2011

Today we are going to create an iOS-like home screen using CoffeeScript, and the jQuery library. For handling of touch events, we will use the touchable plugin.

HTML5 File Uploads with jQuery

By Martin Angelov | September 26th, 2011

Today we will be developing a small HTML5 web application that will allow people to upload photos from their computers by dragging and dropping them onto the browser window.

jQuery PointPoint – APlugin For Pointing To Things

By Martin Angelov | September 12th, 2011

In this tutorial, we will be writing a jQuery plugin that will help you draw users’ attention to a specific part of the page, in the form of a small arrow that is displayed next to their mouse cursor.

Shuffle Letters Effect: a jQueryPlugin

By Martin Angelov | September 2nd, 2011

In this short tutorial we will be making a jQuery plugin that will shuffle the text content of any DOM element – an interesting effect that can be used in headings, logos and slideshows.