jQuery

Expanded Google Analytics Plugin

by Jason.

Despite numerous requests, I have either been too busy or too lazy, or both, to update my gaTracker plugin to support the new ga.js script from Google Analytics. Hence, I am very interested in trying out dvdsmpsn’s jGoogleAnalytics plugin, which not only converts my original plugin to work with ga.js, but also adds a slew More »

jQuery File Tree

by Jason.

Cory S.N. LaViska over at A Beautiful Site has created a very nice jQuery plugin for displaying file trees called, naturally, jQuery File Tree. The great thing about it is its simplicity. It doesn’t have an overabundance of bells and whistles, but it’s super easy to integrate with a simple API (it even includes Lasso More »

jQuery Combo Select Redux

by Jason.

As a followup to my previous post on creating comboselect boxes in jQuery, I have automated the process of transforming a normal multiselect input element into a comboselect with the (aptly named) comboselect plugin. With the plugin, you start with a normal select input, and transform it using a few simple options. You can decide More »

Combo Select Boxes In jQuery

by Jason.

Although the standard <select> input for HTML forms supports a “multiple” attribute which allows users to select multiple options by control- or command- clicking, it’s easily one of the most confusing concepts for users to grasp. It’s also fairly clumsy, especially when the list of options is long. It’s difficult for users to see which More »

Google Analytics Integration with jQuery

by Jason.

Google Analytics is now an essential part of every site we produce. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you should know that Google purchased Urchin, an industry-leading web analytics package, a few years back, and made a web-based version of it available for free. (Thanks, Google!)In contrast to traditional web log analyzers, Google Analytics More »