Providing instant feedback is the in-thing right now. Why limit yourself to checking usernames and email addresses? Why not extend this to provide quick visual feedback about the strength of the password the user has input? In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at how to create a simple password strength checker using the jQuery library, regular expressions and a simple algorithm.

In this web design and development tutorial, you’ll get a walkthrough for creating a “Call to Action” button sprite in Photoshop as well as how to use jQuery to animate it. This tutorial is broken up into three sections: Photoshop, HTML/CSS, and JavaScript.