jQuery is one of the best-known development tools available, and since its emergence just 10 years ago, it’s exploded in popularity. In fact, it powers roughly 65 percent of the top 10,000 most popular sites on the Internet. So what exactly is it, and is it worth learning? … [Read more...]
12 Old and New CSS Menu Techniques
A navigation menu, something unmissable in all websites, one of the most important factor besides content. You can have a simple navigation or a very intricate one, design and code wise. Once I learned some key navigation techniques I went on to learn how to work around WordPress generated navigation to still be able to use dropdown menus without extra plug-ins. In most cases I … [Read more...]
Friday Focus 08/13/10: Let Your Garden Grow
This week on Friday Focus: vines, blooms, and other foliage that do a great job of framing your website. Designs of the Week When doing vines on a sky background, it doesn't make much sense to have drop shadows, does it? The gradient on the tabs are a little severe but the translucent ones look great. I kind of want more blue in the background though, feels too … [Read more...]
Friday Focus 08/06/10: Sidebar Focus
Where sidebars are not an afterthought, and even steal the show. Happy Friday Focus! Designs of the Week Sometimes your product doesn't have to be presented in a MacBook, Cinema Display, iPhone, or Safari screen. You can just nudge it to the side of your layout and it will still make quite the impact. The bright shades of blue also help, and bonus points if that's … [Read more...]
10 Wonderful CSS3 Creations
We have already shown what CSS3 with HTML5 can do for your website. But beside websites CSS3 with jQuery can do a whole lot more. You can make animations with it that could only be done with Flash before and create designs only possible with Photoshop. Once FireFox and Internet Explorer have finally catch up with WebKit developers and designers will finally have more options … [Read more...]
