Let’s start here: jQuery is a JavaScript library that, as their tag line suggests, allows web programmers to “Write Less, Do More.” In other words, jQuery is a collection of pre-written JavaScript code (aka, a library), bundled in ways that make exploiting its many possibilities easier for designers and programmers. So why is this good? [...]

I often get clients who are stoked about the idea of building a site in Flash so that they can… well… look flashy. If you’re in that boat, let me give you just one piece of advice: Don’t! Yes, technically speaking, you can do some pretty neat stuff with Flash, but there are three major [...]