Sortable Widgets is a plugin for Woardpress. When activated, this simple plugin allows visitors to change the order of those widgets displayed in your blog’s sidebar. As this plugin has a number of configurable options, you should be able to use Sortable Widgets with almost any Wordpress theme. Furthermore, each visitor’s preferences are remembered through the use of a single cookie.

I recently stumbled upon Dragon Interactive (dragoninteractive.com). It’s a pretty well designed site. However, the pièce de résistance is their rather cool animated menu. Now… had this been designed in Adobe Flash, I wouldn’t had paid much attention. A closer inspection revealed that the menu is plain XHTML, CSS and Javascript. This detailed tutorial will walk you through coding an animated menu, using the same principals as Dragon Interactive. Furthermore, just 13 lines of javascript are required.

So what exactly is jQuery? jQuery is a concise JavaScript library. The developers state that jQuery aims to change the way we write JavaScript. I like to think of jQuery as a tool that allows us to simplify JavaScript code. This “Getting Started Guide” is intended as a quick introduction to […]

The ability to set and read cookies is a very useful feature of many programming languages. Fortunately, JavaScript has this functionality. Klaus Hartl released a cookie plugin last year for jQuery. What I particularly like about this plugin is the simple syntax - synonymous with jQuery. Traditionally, one would create […]