James Donaghue has released Peppy, the first release of his CSS 3 compliant selector engine that runs independent of one particular library (and can thus be used with any of them).

He has some bold claims on speed:

Noupe is doing a good job cataloging content, such as their post on great JavaScript CSS menu libraries which features:

Design a web application requires hard work and knowledge of HTML, CSS, database and javascript. What is a simple way to start developing PHP web applications for a newbie?

In the past months I received frequently this question. Some readers of this blog often asked to me to publish a "newbie-oriented" post about how to create a web application using PHP. With this step-by-step guide I want to

Are you looking for some ideas to design an original interface for your next website project using the most popular JavaScript Frameworks such as Prototype, MooTools and Scriptaculous?

Take a look at this short compilation which includes a Facebook-style lightbox; a nice interface library to develope advanced interfaces for web applications, web sites and widgets; a gallery/slideshow system

In March 2004, Dave Shea wrote about CSS Sprites, and now he is back with CSS Sprites 2. He walks us through using JavaScript to make this all work nicely, and picks jQuery to get 'er done:

After putting this together piece by piece, we end up with:

Navigation bar is an important element of website design: this is an example which uses a dynamic submenu to display sublinks of the main tabs.
This tutorial illustrates how to design an elegant glass style navigation bar with a nice toggle animation effect, using CSS and MooTools. The result is something like this:

Moving your mouse over a tab in the main menu, the submenu display several

We have all been talking about querySelectAll for awhile, but John Resig gives us a wrap-up that covers the state of play.

He talks about the browsers, and the libraries that wrap them and clean up shop via code like:

Jeremy Keith has been doing a great job blogging An Event Apart, and his writeup of The Lessons of CSS Frameworks by Eric Meyer caught my eye.

By Tony White

Some of you may remember the days when 30KB was the recommended maximum size of a web page, a value which included HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Flash, and images. I find with every new project with even the slightest bit of complexity, it’s not long before that 30 KB ideal is well out of my reach. With the popularity of CSS layouts and JavaScript-enriched web page experiences, it’s not uncommon, particularly for large sites, for the CSS files alone to jump well beyond that 30KB ceiling.