Using SquishIt in an ASP.Net MVC3 web application.

SquishIt is a fantastic library that allows you to easily combines all of your CSS files into a single file and also minifies it to boot! It also does the same thing on your Javascript.

Check out the difference:

Let’s see how to use it in an ASP.Net MVC3 application.

How to make a category menu using jQuery UI’s Accordion and pure HTML.

Today I’ll show you how to make a nested category navigation menu.

It’s very lightweight and looks something like this:

We’re going to use jQuery UI’s Accordion widget to make the categories collapse and expand when necessary and we’ll use some clever javascript and HTML markup to make the menu look useful. To see the nested category menu example, follow the link at the end of this post to go to the JSFiddle example.

Creating a testimonial ticker using jQuery and setInterval.

Today we’ll see how to create a testimonial ticker using jQuery and setInterval to switch in and out of different texts.

It’ll display one testimonial at a time before cycling through to the next testimonial. It’s very light weight, fast and easy to understand.

Let’s get to it!