To that end, I whipped up this simple script in jQuery that does the trick and is so far testing well in all of our target browsers. The HTML would look something like this:

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<form>
	<p class="radiogroup">
		<!-- This is one radio group -->
		<input type="radio" name="group1" value="1" /> Item 1<br />
		<input type="radio" name="group1" value="2" /> Item 2<br />
		<input type="radio" name="group1" value="3" /> Item 3<br />
 
		<!-- This is a separate radio group -->
		<input type="radio" name="group2" value="1" /> Item 4<br />
		<input type="radio" name="group2" value="2" /> Item 5<br />
		<input type="radio" name="group2" value="3" /> Item 6
	</p>
</form>

And the script looks like this:

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<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
	// Turn multiple radio groups into one
	$('form').delegate('.radiogroup :radio', 'click', function() {
		$parent = $(this).closest('.radiogroup');
 
		$(':radio', $parent).attr('checked', false);
		$(this).attr('checked', true);
	});
});
</script>

Basically the script detects the click action within a set of radio buttons wrapped with a parent element with a class of ‘radiogroup’. It then does a blanket uncheck on all radio buttons inside the wrapper. Finally it adds checked=”true” to the radio button that was clicked.

View the Demo

Hope this is helpful. Happy coding!

Highcharts javascript-based charting in use at Campaign Monitor

Campaign Monitor, one of the popular email marketing services, recently announced a move away from Flash-based charting tools.

Here at StatsMix we couldn’t agree more. In the last few months since the iPad came out we’ve been going to meetings with Tom’s and it wasn’t possible to demo the current version of the site — that’s a big problem when you’re trying to impress potential investors.

Like Campaign Monitor, we’ve moved to Highcharts as our primary charting platform and we couldn’t be happier with the performance and flexibility. Highcharts allows us to do everything we did with Flash-based charting with the added benefit of increased device support and better control via CSS and jQuery. A win all around!

Check out the original post from Campaign Monitor.

Easy

Although modern web services are making things easier by the day, it’s still a time consuming process to assemble a quality dashboard view of your important metrics. One of our guiding principals for this next release has been to make the process of assembling a dashboard as quick and easy as possible.

Customizable

StatsMix wants you to be able to do what we say — mix your stats. Only you know what your important metrics are so you should be able to view them the way you want.

Dashboards

Yes, that’s plural! We’re introducing the ability to create as many dashboard views as you want. Slice and dice your data with different modules (we’re calling them “widgets”) and a custom time frame so you can find the story in your metrics.

We’ve created a simple drag-and-drop interface that allows you to visually build a custom dashboard and start seeing your data in minutes. You’ll be able to choose from eight initial widgets that include graphs, sparklines and simple text. Simply drag them onto your dashboard and you’ll be prompted to configure them with a name and the service or services that you want to see. Then you’ll be able to arrange them in any order you like.

Under the hood everything is running on jQuery and jQuery UI which is a fantastic library for fast and stable front-end development.

We’re super excited to get this release out and see how its put to use!

Underneath the distractions lay an impressive list of speakers and panelists. Some endured the Bartz treatment, but most were permitted to opine unobstructed and it was quite a treat. Between techies like Foursquare founder Dennis Crowley, Napster founder Sean Parker, Google evangelist Don Dodge, and investors like Ron Conway, Ben Horowitz, and Fred Wilson were inserted Troy Carter and Scooter Braun. These two discovered and manage Lady Gaga and Justin Bieber, respectfully. I certainly was confused by their presence at Disrupt and was a bit annoyed that even a techfest like Disrupt wasn’t far enough away from the influence of the two pop stars.

Carter and Braun, however, captivated the audience by reinforcing an obvious but very important message. As both unnecessarily introduced the artist they each represent, it became clear how crucial a role social media has played in the advancement of their clients’ careers. Both artists cause a staggering amount of the daily traffic on both Twitter and YouTube. Braun explained how his client’s discovery and success has solely YouTube (and his mom) to thank. Both artists continue to rely heavily upon these two outlets for their career advancement.

Though they are not alone in owing their success to social media outlets the unusual magnitude of their success highlights the ability of social media to catapult a business. Neither Lady Gaga nor Bieber, in seed stage, needed to track their social media metrics to capitalize on their brands. Their brands were powerful enough to evoke all the necessary attention to go big. Your company however may not be the next Google, Gaga, or Bieber.

If that’s the case, like most of us, you’ll have to carefully and efficiently allocate and focus your resources to ensure maximum positive web exposure. Most of us are not social media statisticians nor do we have much spare time. Fortunately, data visualization tools now exist to very simply show us the metrics we want to see as well as those that we never knew we wanted to see. For the first time we can easily see how external conditions affect internal conditions and vice-versa. With investment dollars in short supply, it pays to use tools that make expanding your company more efficient and more affordable.

We’ve been busy here at StatsMix making lots of exciting progress towards our next release. This won’t be just the addition of a few new third-party services — no way. We’re cooking up a whole new user experience with some great features that we can’t talk about just yet.

It’s hard to keep it all secret, so the image above is a little teaser.

Placing profiles into categories will allow StatsMix to provide relative performance data based on your industry. Category info is not shared, but aggregated anonymously for our calculations.

Of course while this is a required field when filling out the form, you can always select the “other” option, but we highly encourage you to select an appropriate category.

The category list is currently a best effort as it’s hard to create a canonical list of what constitutes categories for websites. If you happen to feel that your site doesn’t fit into any of our categories, please contact us.

Instead of displaying any blank tabs, StatsMix only shows tabs for service categories that actually contain services you’ve added to each profile.

Here’s the list of what’s new:

Facebook
StumbleUpon
Campaign Monitor
YouTube
Vimeo
Viddler

The full list can be found on our help site.

As an aside, we’ve been announcing each new service as it has been added on Twitter. So if you’re looking for the most up to date news on StatsMix, please follow us on Twitter.

One of the most requested features in StatsMix’s beta has been the ability to examine data by week and month. StatsMix now displays weekly and monthly charts (in tabbed views) for each service. In addition, above each chart we now show the weekly and monthly change for each service.