just keep tryin' ta get a little better

Some time ago I made a pretty search box for our latest project (not yet released) and I thought I’d make it into a jQuery plugin and share it with you. The goal was to have a text input with some default text (search this, or search that) and a pretty magnifying glass image in [...]

CSS is a lovely thing, but it can get out of your hands very quickly (especially if you are programmer first and HTML code-monkey second). I often find myself having some element that appears on various sub-pages of a page, comments for example. HTML is stored in a template file and included where needed and styles, that make the comments pretty, [...]