Browses the web based on past exeriences and "internally" defined motivations. You can interact with this fully autonomous web browser using text or speech!

In this week's video tutorial, I'll teach you how to take a simple, boring contact form and add some animations and an AJAX post request to submit the form to your MySQL database asynchronously.

Ajax is a technique for handling external data through JavaScript asynchronously, without reloading the entire page. Maybe you have heard about Ajax before, or at least used an Ajax-based application for example Gmail. The use of Ajax techniques has led to an increase in interactive or dynamic interfaces on web pages.

Slide Box is a very lightweight jQuery Plugin that allows you to easily take any DIV and transform it into a top/bottom sliding panel. Slide Box is a cross-browser component that has been tested on Safari, Firefox and Internet Explorer.

There comes a time in every web designers life that he/she will need to use a calender or datepicker in a project, they are incredibly useful for scheduling, event management or for projects that have a booking function for example, and look much better than the old method of numerous input boxes or drop downs!

Lets look into the package and how to start using the new awesome features it provides!

Jarod and I have both been working on a FubuMVC application for one of our Guild 3 clients. It’s been great to have the opportunity to work with a different MVC framework and hopefully we’ll comment on what we did and didn’t like about Fubu in a follow up post. I should note at this point that the technique outlined below is not limited to Fubu, in fact it would also work with ASP.NET MVC or even Web Forms.

Pagination in the Wordpress Administration has always been a bit tedious when you have hundreds if not thousands of rows to go through. This is no longer an issue, the WP Additions - Pagination plugin converts the pagination for a variety of panels (posts, pages, comments, users) to an ajax pagination slider. This slider allows you to easily and quickly scroll your posts for example, getting right to what you want without the fuss.

Sometime, we are bored with the only-one style in our website, but today, we will make some changes. We will create a javascript to randomize the CSS every time we refresh the web page.

JQuery is a Javascript library that attempts to make things like editing styles, creating animations, and using AJAX much easier than it has been in the past. Let’s be honest: Javascript can be very occasionally be a nasty code to program with, and JQuery attempts to tone it down a little bit and make it much more manageable.

Building the fancy, web 2.0 / Ajaxy, user interfaces for a web application we’ve all come to expect is, frankly, a pain in the ass. Depending on the JavaScript library you’re using there’s usually some addon library to extend the functionality for UI which helps make it easier and ease the pain. If you’re using jQuery (and to be honest I’m more of a Prototype guy) a good library is jQuery Ui.

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Today Google released their new Closure Compiler, you can use it to optimize and minify your javascripts. Now i show you how to use the new Google Closure Compiler over the RESTful API with PHP5.

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This is an clean, unobtrusive plugin for jQuery which allows you to easily add date inputing functionality to your web forms and pages. Designed from the ground up to be flexible and extensible, the date picker can be used in unlimited ways to allow you to add calendar widgets to your pages.

jQuery Share It! Hides and toggles a group of social bookmark icons with a nice slide animation. CSS and JS calls

Jquery is a wonderful blessing for deveopers designers through which they can easily pour life, make stuff look techy and give good functionality to their sites. The best part is that its not even hard to understand or learn. Here are some of the best online freely availble jquery plugins and tutorials. Have fun!!

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Google created Easy tools for developing JavaScript code.

The jQuery UI Datepicker is a highly configurable jQuery datepicker plugin. The date format and language can be formatted, the selectable date ranges can be restricted and optional buttons and other navigation options can be added easily.

Build Beautiful thumbnail Hover Effects with Mootools

Even though jQuery is so simple to use and get started with there are great features provided to us that a lot of people is not aware of

Learn to convert a unordered list (UL) into an fancy social bookmarking sharing box. You will see how to style such box, how to add interactivity, and how to create jQuery plugin that will turn any UL into sharing box.

While in the process of redesigning 4wheelparts.com, I decided to explore new methods of working with our huge number of inventory and categories. I did some research and noticed a new trend for ecommerce sites in having what they call “mega drop down menus”.

I thought of sharing how easy it is to expand div layer and collapse panel using jQuery. When user clicks on the header, the content gets displayed by sliding down and when you again click on the header, the content collapses.