Javascript

Polishing the user interface is far to often categorized as "if you have time" which, from my experience is almost, always never. I am just as guilty, putting it off until crunch time. My own site is on a whole other level of "if you have time" as I am not making money from this, and quite often I am using it as a sandbox (slowly getting away from this, I'm finally using GitHub!) Today, I decided to fix the featured carousel on my homepage.

Another developer used jQuery Uniform in a project I am building, and it has really made me a much happier person. Uniform styles "hard-to-reach" elements: Selects, Radios, Checkboxes, and File Upload Inputs, the latter being what I am most happy about. If you have every tried to style these, you will know that it is not an easy undertaking and requires blowing away the element visually and replacing it with images. Uniform does all of this for you AND gives you the .psd files to easily create your own theme. Enjoy saving lots of time and impressing your co-workers.

Recently, someone showed me LESS, a dynamic stylesheet, and never having used any type of CSS framework, I decided to give it a try. To add it to your site it is as simple as adding the javascript file in your header, renaming your stylesheet with a .LESS file extension and changing the rel to rel="stylesheet/less".