New Development Tools Scripts for Martin Blackburn

There's a growing concern with Web developers because of how the terms "CSS framework" and "UI toolkit" are used.While UI toolkits are a large collection of ready-made UI widgets and components that can be used to prototype Web pages, they aren't "real"...

The Pretty Forms package implements basic form masking techniques, hiding the original, browser default style for the aforementioned form elements and allowing a developer to superimpose his own styles on top.Since radio buttons, drop-downs, and...

There are hundreds of slideshow plugins and tools around the Web these days and most of them are either over-bloated or not working anymore due to lack of support or interest from its original developer.If you're looking for a simple image slideshow...

jQuery Slider will help developers easily put together a featured image slideshow to add to their sites.It can be used for online photo albums, featuring news or stories, or as part of themes or templates.Developers can use a next/prev or numbered...

The "Responsive Google map" plugin (or jQuery-map) is a tool that (finally) adds the proper support for fluid page layouts.This makes it easier to build responsive Web pages without having to worry how Google's iframe embed code will display at various...

jQuery tabs is a simple, relatively fast way of building tabbed panels.The plugin supports deep-linking via #hashtags and also allows developers to place any type of content they want inside the panels without affecting the plugin. This means everything...

The "jQuery input placeholder text" plugin works in two ways, depending on the user's browser type and version.If the user's browser supports the new HTML 5 standard, and more precisely the HTML 5 placeholder attribute, the plugin deactivates itself and...