For a long time, the only way to write custom controls in jQuery was to extend the $.fn namespace. This works well for simple widgets, however, as you start building more stateful widgets, it quickly becomes cumbersome. To aid in the process of building widgets, the jQuery UI team introduced the Widget Factory, which removes most of the boilerplate that is typically associated with managing a widget.

The Polaris UI Pack is a set of beautiful UI components, which includes Edit Boxes, Check Boxes, Radio Buttons, Page Navigation, Menu, Buttons, etc. You can use this set in any of your projects, and even learn with it, by examining each component to see how it is put together. As usually, you can use the set for all of your projects for free and without any restrictions.

Mary Lou wants to share another 3D experiment with you: a gallery room in 3D. The idea is to create a realistic environment for an image exposition using CSS 3D transforms. Images are hanged along a wall which will have an end. Once the end of the wall is reached, a rotation will happen and you’ll be turned to the next wall with more images. To give a real sensation of being in a room, she only have four walls and corners. Each image will have a little description tag with a small-sized font and when clicking on it, a larger version will appear from below.

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a set of bubble gum inspired blog buttons by using Drop Shadows and the Appearance panel in Adobe Illustrator. Andrei Marius will go through each step and show you variations in the symbols and how to add text.

Jake Rocheleau is going to look at building a simple HTML5 and CSS3 threaded comments layout. He won’t be using any jQuery effects on the comment blocks (although it is possible to extend this functionality). He will look into structuring the HTML5 document and how to position elements using CSS. From this base template it should be easy for developers to pick up their own customizations and implement a threaded comment block into any website layout.

With over 9 billion indexed sites on the web and counting, sites are having to do more to get noticed and encourage users to spend time on them. Color is becoming more and more important in making your page stand out. Here are some sites that do just that: use interesting colors in unusual combinations to stand out from the billions of standard color schemed sites out there.

Before HTML5, if you wanted to implement drag and drop features in the browser you had to use libraries such as jQuery and MooTools. Now you have HTML5 Drag and Drop, which gives you the ability to drag, drop, and transfer data natively within the browser. While Drag and Drop is a new API included in HTML5, it was – amazingly – first implemented in IE5, back in 2005 when Ian Hickson worked on the HTML5 API.

One thing Hugo Giraudel has always been missing is the possibility to handle click events with CSS. Actually, some people think you shouldn’t have this option since interactions are more like a JavaScript kind of stuff. He understands the idea, but it always bothered him to have to use JavaScript for a very simple click event. Anyway, as of today, CSS doesn’t provide any official way to handle a click event in CSS. But there are some very interesting tricks that he can use to detect a click using CSS only, without a single line of JavaScript, and this is what he is going to talk about today.

The buzzword CSS4 came out of nowhere, just as Andrzej Mazur was getting used to the fact that CSS3 is here and will stick around for some time. Browser vendors are working hard to implement the latest features, and front-end developers are creating more and more tools to be able to work with the style sheets more effectively. But now, on hearing about CSS4, you might ask, Hey, what about CSS3? Is it over already?

In the following tutorial you will learn how to create a price range filter which would look great in a mobile phone app or website interface. Andrei Marius will be working in Adobe Illustrator with some basic tools to create an essential element for any designers portfolio.