Ok, so I was writing some validation code to stop empty submition of a form in a quiz/servey I was building for Natural Tys. The easiest was to do client side validation is by using the excellent Javascript frameworks that are available. My personal favourite is jQuery which has a excellent validation plugin available, you [...]

I have had a lot of people ask me how to use jQuery to pull information back using it’s AJAX functions. Personally I found it quite hard to believe that the documentation wasn’t enough to show them, but I suppose that if jQuery is completely foreign to you no amount of documentation will show you [...]

Ok, so it’s an old effect that has been done in javascript probably a million times, but I’ve seen it used on a few sites quite effectively. By typewriter effect I mean the sentence types itself onto the screen rather than just appearing. It’s really simple to do so let’s get going. If you want [...]

EDIT: There has been a report of this code not working in IE6. Well turns out it didn’t work in any of the IE browsers. Click here to jump to the fix. This post is all about how to make a image preload (load in the background) and then animate the box it will fit [...]