As we build more and more Ajaxy applications, and our apps reside on a single page, the browser's native back button can get more and more broken.

It's been a while since I've been in touch, so I wanted to let you know what's going on in the jQuery for Designers world, what to look out for and what's coming next.

I was recently asked how keyboard navigation could be supported to move a slider backwards and forwards.

On visiting Apple's web site an putting items in my shopping basket, I noticed (an old effect) where the shopping basket would follow me down the page.

I'm sure your familiar with a bit of JavaScript now that you've subscribed to my screencasts and hacked and played around with jQuery.

The iPhone has a few unique UI features, one in particular are the static headings when you're scrolling through a list, so you know the context of the content.

Following on from the infinite carousel, there have been a number of requests asking how to make the scrolling action automatic, so I've gone ahead to explain how to achieve this.

jQuery makes it incredibly easy to add effects to your web sites, but there's some effects you just don't want: the hover repeatedly to make the effect go wild!

queue dequeue are a pair of core data utilities that help you to add your own bespoke to animations.

With jQuery for Designer's redesign I decided to add a scrolling carousel that worked in the same way the carousel worked on the Apple Mac ads page.

This September dConstruct will return the UK again, running 2 days of workshops and one full day of talks.

It has to be said that it's been a little quiet around the jQuery for Designers web site for the last month.

When using slideDown depending on the layout of your page, you could still see the jumping effect, regardless of whether you fix the padding around the element.

Gareth Rogers asked how to achieve the effect on the latest BBC Radio 1 website, where the mouse rolls over the image block, tabs slide up and the image zooms a little to reveal more of the picture.

map and grep are two utilities that are extremely useful if you know how to use them, but more often that not, I see more convoluted code written to achieve the effect of these functions.

I wanted to post a short note to let those of you who subscribe to the jQuery for Designers feed that I've not forgotten my pledge to get new videos out each week,

Jonathan Diba writes to ask how the effects are achieve on Tim Van Damme's portfolio site, referring to Tim's site as one of the most compelling site design he's seen.

A common question for beginners coming to jQuery is:

Is there a way to return true or false if an element exists?

There is, and it's (very, very) simple to do.

I wanted to share a few news items with regular (and new!) visitors of jQuery for Designers.

Last month I showed you how to create a spy effect as seen on the first version of QuickSnapper (though they've since changed their site design with to release the release of Little Snapper).

Ajax is made incredibly simple with jQuery. There's a number of helper functions to get in to the nitty gritty of Ajax, but if you want something that's quick and simple to get going with the .

As the first in the series of API screencasts, but also as a good beginners tutorial, this short episode shows the difference between filter and find.

A few years ago Digg released a very cool little visualisation tool they dubbed the Digg Spy (it's since been upgraded to the Big Spy).

Background

Making use of the overflow and scrollLeft DOM property to scroll elements is a much more effective use of the CPU, over animating using CSS top/left.

First up, an apology for not being able to get the September article released. September was the peak of my work load (working evenings and weekends for a long while) and poor old J4D slipped by.

jQuery has got good base level support for effects out of the box. Setting them up and using them to reveal and hide elements is exceptionally easy.

This episode is revisiting the image cross fade effect, in particular Dragon Interactive has a beautiful little transition for their navigation that some readers have been requesting.

Background

Although Panic didn't really invent the effect, the sliding panels on the Coda is great implementation of this effect.

The next post is waiting in the wings, but before the screencast is recorded I wanted to get your opinion on how I can improve jQuery for Designers.

Background

A frequent query and request I receive (and have myself) as a developer is: "how can I fade one image in to another?".

In particular, Nathan Wrigley of pictureandword.