Recently this amazing Chicago calligrapher (okay she’s my wife) told me she wanted a new website. So we set about creating something. She’s on a purple kick so we used purple for the design.

She wanted something fun and different on the homepage, so I used jQuery to create some cards coming out of some envelopes. It’s just a few layer images, and one moving up and down.

Also there’s a sample page, where the images are enlarged for easier viewing. Again, jQuery came to the rescue, in a way similar to Lightbox – my own design of course.

You can check out the design, or her calligraphy, at gracefulquill.com

Recently I put together a tabbed color chart for a grout company. The problem was allowing customers to select the color and size before reaching their shopping cart. The backend is just a few php arrays so the colors and product IDs can be easily changed.

With jQuery this was a simple project. I created a few sections for the colors to go into. I use the jQuery to show the one that is selected.

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You can use AJAX through jQuery to search your MySQL database. It’s as simple as setting up a php file to handle the search input, creating the input, and a space for the results to be returned.

First, you’ll need to set up the input box and the return data div.

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