I recently had the need for some client side form validation and happened to find the jQuery Ketchup plugin. It’s a simple and flexible plugin that can be modified and styled for your own needs, plugin modifications are encouraged although the ‘out of the box’ code will work just fine for your basic needs. You’ll need to download the plugin files to get started. once download follow these simple steps to implement it into your application.
Step 1
include the files in the plugin as shown …

A quick search on Google for the term ‘Social Media’ currently retrieves over 203,000,000 results. Just before Facebook started to make a name for itself and emerged on the scene back in late 2006 the buzz word on the internet was ‘Web 2.0,’ even then people were quick to chime in with there 10 pence worth and were happy to give you their opinion on the next best thing on the internet. This unfortunate movement also bought with it a hell of a lot of …

Whilst working on my most recent project ‘We deliver’, I had the need for a simple logo that wasn’t overly fussy but still slick contemporary and simple to design. I thought I’d put the design stages together into a short blog post explaining the simple technique.
The most important part of typographical logo design in my view is the font. A great free resource for fonts is DaFont.com, in fact this is where I found both of these fonts. the main font for the logo is …

I’ve been meaning to do something sporadic and creative for a while now but have never got around to it until now. I decided to challenge myself to build a site (wedeliver.papermashup.com) in under 24hrs from concept and design through to development. The site is a silly idea based on a simple delivery website with the twist of allowing users to deliver their precious package by an animal of their choice, much like we did in the war with carrier pigeons. I started by working …

I’ve recently been working on a large project that required a lot of JSONP encoding and parsing. To be honest its been a bit of a nightmare because of one simple problem. the formating that JSON spits out onto the page is non-existant its like a printing out a PHP array and viewing it in your web browser, however with an array you can either view the page source and see the formating or simple print_r($array); within pre tags which will format the array visually …

When I first started using jQuery to make AJAX requests event delegation always caught me out as I never understood what it was or how to use it. If you’re manipulating the DOM you will surely come across the problem of when you dynamically add an element to a page you can’t just go and add an event handler to this new element and expect it to work. For instance say I have a list item which is clickable with the aid of a click …

Every couple of weeks I seem to find myself checking 9rules.com to see if they’re accepting new submissions as I’d like to submit this site. Any how on this occasion I couldn’t help but notice the browse by community section at the top of the page. Clicking the button reveals a section that contains a list of category names. I thought this would be a good example to base this post on, and to show how simple it is to achieve this effect. I’ve …