25 jQuery Drop Down Menu Scripts
Navigation is a critical aspect of any website. Many larger sites use drop down menus in effort to make it easier for visitors to find what they are looking for.
25 jQuery Drop Down Menu
In this post we will feature 25 scripts that you can use on your own sites for jQuery drop down menus.
Add post Usability tips for visualizing Ajax requests
The usage of Ajax in web applications and web sites is rapidly increasing. If not handled properly Ajax fucntionalities can break users’ expectations and conventions. This is why it is important to help users easily identify what is going on with the system and prevent them to make errors during Ajax operations.
Keep users informed
Usability tips for visualizing Ajax
Ajax indicators are very important tools that help users to have an understanding of what is going on with the system and what are responses from the system. Indicators should be shown as soon as request starts and hidden when request ends. I’ve seen so many times that indicator is visible even when it was obvious that request is finished (or even worse, in some cases there were not any visual clue of what is going on).
Simple indicators
The Internet Is Still Not For Everyone
Since the early days of the Internet, the number of users who have access to the network has been growing with a highly exponential trend. Within a decade in fact, it has gone from 360 million users of year 2000 to the current 2 billion users: an increase of 444% worldwide.
The Internet Is ...
However, although the data show a substantial increase in the ten years we considered (2000-2010), a strong gap is still obvious if we consider the ratio between the global population and those who actually have access to the network of all networks.
According to figures from the first half of 2010 and published on Internet World Stats the rate of penetration of the Internet on the entire global population does not exceed 29%.
15+ Community Based Portfolio Websites to Showcase Your Work
Being involved in creative industries like graphic or web design requires talent and good marketing, especially if you are a freelancer. With the common internet connection and social media these days, sharing anything online is just as easy as snapping your fingers. By virtue of these advantages, having an online portfolio is now obligatory.
15+ Community Based Portfolio Websites
Most of us prefer to create a website to showcase our work using a custom domain, hosting, website theme, etc. But some others prefer to sign up for a community based portfolio website. Well, the benefit of using a community based portfolio is that you can receive feedback directly on your work, get connected with other designers, no need for you to take care of the domain, hosting and other self-hosted methods.
Web Performant WordPress
In January, I interviewed Kyle Simpson on Episode 4 the ATX Web Show. We discussed Web Performance and Google’s plan to “Make the Web Faster”. Since then, Google has announced they will start rewarding your site’s page speed. And in their Webmaster Tools they hint that the bar is set at ~1.4 seconds.
80% of the time users wait for a web page is because of the frontend.
Web Performant
I was sort of thunderstruck with fear. Although we always strive for better, I typically found a 3-5 second page load great and up to 7 seconds acceptable. After recording the show, I stayed up a few hours that night fiddling with The ATX Web Show and increased site performance by ~500%1.
Since seeing those results, I only think about Web Optimization. I see the web in milliseconds now. If you’re like me and never considered optimization a necessity maybe now is the time to re-evaluate that. And don’t act like this isn’t your problem because 80% of the time users wait for a webpage is because of the frontend2. The goal isn’t to fit under some imaginary kilobyte threshold, the goal is to make sure that everything is as small as possible. Reduce Filesizes, Reduce Requests, and Enable Caching.