One of my daily tasks as a developer is to modify the default styles which come along with a new Wordpress theme chosen by our clients. I have to say that this task is made harder and harder by some obtuse practices followed by many theme developers when it comes to CSS. I don't want to be rude because I love your work, but you should consider the fact that your styles may be changed by another developer or user, so you should code your CSS accordingly. Here are some of these bad practices that make me feel frustrated.
jQuery: Wordpress dynamic menu
Yesterday evening I found a nice Wordpress theme with an interesting, cursor-driven effect on the main menu made with CSS. I decided to recreate it with the aid of jQuery in order to get the maximum benefit from its effects. Let's see the details.
jQuery: deferred objects and sequential animations
With deferred objects and the powerful pipe() method we can chain animations and run them sequentially and serially. jQuery allows us to do so through the Deferred object's syntax. Let's see the details.