The CSS Grid jQuery Plugin
CSS grid frameworks are a handy solution for rapid development of page layouts. One minimal CSS grid framework that I have taken a liking to is Grid – a minimal CSS Grid utility. As pointed out in Javascript HTML CSS’s article on Grid Grid is limited to the number of columns declared in the CSS [...]
Colour Clock – jQuery/CSS3 rebuild
The original Colour Clock is a brilliant idea by Jack Hughes representing time as a hexadecimal value. I rebuilt The Colour Clock using jQuery/CSS3. Check it out at www.joelpeterson.com/clock
jQuery Miniature Plugin – Custom First Letters
I came across the jQuery Miniature plugin over the weekend as I was building out a print-like design template. jQuery Miniature is a simple plugin that applies an inline span tag with a couple of classes to the first character of the selected item or items. The result is a super easy to use highly [...]
Overriding CSS without !Important – Specificity
CSS is a simple yet powerful tool that can greatly reduce the headaches that go hand-in-hand with web development. But the knife that is CSS cuts both ways – CSS can be the bane of your web-existence and cause many such headaches. In my experience I have found the CSS headaches start to come into [...]
2 easy ways to frustrate Spam Bots without using CAPTCHA
Our innocent forms of yester-year have become subject to an onslaught of “bots”. A spambot is an automated computer program designed to assist in the sending of spam. These programs populate the unsuspecting form with (at best) a solicitation and submit the form – thereby emailing or posting the solicitation. Since 2000 the most popular [...]