Hype: A Worthy Flash Alternative?

Hype, by developers Tumult, seems to have a rather appropriate title. There has been a great deal of talk about this web animation app since its release some months ago, and that can hardly be a surprise, given that it claims to allow the user to create “beautiful HTML5 web… read more

8 Fresh & Extremely Useful jQuery Plugins

8 Fresh & Extremely Useful jQuery Plugins

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CSS3 & jQuery folder tabs

CSS3 & jQuery folder tabs

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Best of Tuts+ in January 2012

Each month, we bring together a selection of the best tutorials and articles from across the whole Tuts+ network. Whether you’d like to read the top posts from your favourite site, or would like to start learning something completely new, this is the best place to start!

Psdtuts+ — Photoshop Tutorials

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Win 250 die cut business cards from UPrinting

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Learn jQuery in 30 Days

Sometimes, it’s easy to become overwhelmed by how much there is to learn in this industry. If jQuery happens to be on your personal “need to learn soon” list, then I’m happy to announce my new course: “Learn jQuery in 30 Days”. If you’ll give me fifteen minutes a day… read more

35 Highly Advanced Yet Simple To Use jQuery Plugins

jQuery is a speedy, succinct library that make traversing HTML documents, handling events, performing animations, and adding AJAX simpler. jQuery imparts web developers the opportunity to make websites better with incredible elements without the necessity to write down dozens of lines of code.

In this compilation, you will find top 35… read more

Smooth Scrolling To Internal Links With jQuery

Smooth Scrolling To Internal Links With jQuery

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15 Best jQuery Images Galleries Sliders and Template Tutorials

15 Best jQuery Images Galleries Sliders and Template Tutorials

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30 Image Gallery of jquery Tutorials to Be Professional

30 Image Gallery of jquery Tutorials to Be Professional

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.117)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and kepp up to date with the latest and greatest articles and… read more

50 Beautiful Yet Free HTML5 And CSS3 Templates

HTML5 templates are getting very popular these days because all professional HTML5 templates are compatible to all browsers with its functionality and features, and with the release of HTML5 / CSS3 it has become even more popular among designers because of the additional and great features.

At the moment, HTML5 and… read more

Smart Validate: jQuery Credit Card Validation Plugin

Smart Validate: jQuery Credit Card Validation Plugin

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Useful jQuery Plugins & Scripts

Useful jQuery Plugins & Scripts

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From jQuery to JavaScript: A Reference

Whether we like it or not, more and more developers are being introduced to the world of JavaScript through jQuery first. In many ways, these newcomers are the lucky ones. They have access to a plethora of new JavaScript APIs, which make the process of DOM traversal (something that many… read more

15 jQuery Calendar Date Picker Plugins

In this collection, you will see some of the best jQuery Calendar Date Picker Plugins that will allow you output planners and calendars even more easily. Majority of these plugins are built on jQuery and jQuery UI (User Interface). With this collection, we tend to help those who need frameworks… read more

How To Integrate Facebook, Twitter And Google+ In WordPress

Integrating social media services in your website design is vital if you want to make it easy for readers to share your content. While some users are happy with the social media buttons that come built into their design template, the majority of WordPress users install a plugin to automatically… read more

Win $1,000 in PSD to HTML services!

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Benefits and Pitfalls of Using Code Frameworks

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A code framework is nothing more than a collection of pre-formatted classes and functions. There are frameworks created for practically every language out there – even including frontend web development like JavaScript and CSS. Developers would be wise to follow these trends of working on… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.116)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and kepp up to date with the latest and greatest articles and… read more

What’s new for designers – January 2012

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Background Animations Using Jquery, Ajax

Background Animations Using Jquery, Ajax

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SlideMyPics: Create and Share Photo Slideshows for Free

Slideshows are a great way to showcase images on digital displays. Whether it’s a collection of old family photos, snapshots from my last vacation, or even my portfolio of professional photography, I always try to put together a picture slideshow for my audience.When the images advance in sequence by themselves,… read more

Usability Design for Online Web Forms

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Designers aren’t just creating pleasing graphics for the Internet anymore. As a web designer you need to consider other properties of user interaction and coding. UX design is possibly the most important topic to cover, and this is especially true designing web forms. All webmasters should… read more

Craftyslide: tiny slideshow built on jQuery

Craftyslide: tiny slideshow built on jQuery

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HTML & CSS Blog Layout – Theme Implementation for WordPress

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In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to adapt a simple HTML blog layout into a WordPress theme. We’ll be using this static page as starting point.

Grab the code from Github

The Brilliante Layout project source code for this theme is available on Github, including the… read more

I Am Not a Web Designer

I am not a web designer, and nor are you. Or a developer. Or a writer. Or whatever it is you think you are. You’re not – not in any meaningful way.

Full disclosure: I am actually a web designer, probably, but stick with me here.

I thought I was –… read more

Password strength verification with jQuery

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8 Responsive jQuery Slider Plugins

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Whether you’re already a pro at creating responsive web sites or your just learning what it’s all about, it’s good to have some scripts handy that you can easily integrate into your site. We all know how popular image and content sliders are now, and for… read more

Dig into Dojo: DojoX

Maybe you saw that tweet: ”jQuery is a gateway drug. It leads to full-on JavaScript usage.” Part of that addiction, I contend, is learning other JavaScript frameworks. And that’s what this four-part series on the incredible Dojo Toolkit is all about: taking you to the next level of your JavaScript… read more

Create a Full Page Background Image with CSS3

The other day we looked at 10 Awesome Websites With Full Screen Background Images.  At the beginning of the article I had mentioned that there were a few ways of approaching this effect, some developers prefer to do it with jQuery, some with CSS, and others with Flash.  In this… read more

10 Awesome Single Page Websites

These days it seems like the term “webpage” and “website” are thrown around loosely, often being used interchangeably. I can’t recall how many times I’ve been in a meeting with a client and had them tell me they’d like a webpage, which I interpret as a basic, single-page website that… read more

10 Awesome Websites With Full Screen Background Images

10 Awesome Websites With Full Screen Background Images

When it comes to web design my tastes walk on a very thin line. I like simplicity and visual stimulation, which is a very difficult balance to pull off. However, one of the easiest ways to do so is by featuring a full… read more

Fallback on Local jQuery If CDN Fails

Fallback on Local jQuery If CDN Fails

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32+ Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Web Designers

32+ Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Web Designers

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Our Top 20 Posts from 2011

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2011 has been Speckyboy’s best year yet in terms of growth. More great readers and followers, more great authors, more great sponsors. However, at the core is (hopefully) great content here on Speckyboy. And just to recap some of our best content, here are our… read more

Top 50 JavaScript, jQuery Plugins and Tutorials From 2011

Top 50 JavaScript, jQuery Plugins and Tutorials From 2011

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How To Create An Animated Scroll To Top With jQuery

How To Create An Animated Scroll To Top With jQuery

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Teach Them How To Hit The Ground Running And Faceplant At The Same Time?

A few days ago, a tutorial on how to Create A Christmas Wish List With PHP was published on Smashing Magazine’s Coding section that frustrated me. It frustrated me as it was incredibly easy to predict the comment reactions it caused. It also frustrated me as it was a classic… read more

Best Of 2011: Best Useful jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

jQuery is one of the most accepted JavaScript library that possesses an enormous collection of plugins which makes it even more powerful. On the other hand, there is a good deal of additional codes or modules, from simple alert functions to multifaceted galleries or form validation methods, that are hard-coded… read more

Excellent and Useful jQuery Plugins

Excellent and Useful jQuery Plugins

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Free jquery image sliders for any occasion

Free jquery image sliders for any occasion

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Theme Trust Hiring More Support Staff

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Back in May, Theme Trust hired it’s first support team member, who has worked out perfectly. However, since that time we’ve ran into a little problem…our sales have nearly doubled. Okay, I suppose that isn’t really a problem, but it does mean a busier support forum…. read more

User Interface Design in Modern Search Engines

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The search engine is our best tool for sifting through all of today’s websites. There are billions of domains online and many of them haven’t even been crawled by search engines! Google is certainly the pioneer of this industry. But over the years we have… read more

The Smashing Deals Countdown: Three More Days Till Christmas

As the end of the year approaches and the holidays near, many of you might already be pondering your new year’s resolution for 2012. Before you get back to serious business in the new year, you should lean back, relax, spend some quality time with loved ones, and give a… read more

30 Amazingly Great CSS Menu Tutorials

At the moment, we would like to give you an idea about some amazing and useful CSS menu tutorials that will help you in using CSS more efficiently and expertly. CSS for sure is the wonderful language for designing attractive and eye-catching navigation menus. It is able to be employed… read more

Christmas & New Year Special Giveaway: Prizes Worth Over $20,000

The end of this year is almost coming and Christmas is already on our doorsteps. It’s never too late to hang your stockings, keep milk and cookies and wait for Santa to drop in at your home with lots of gifts and Christmas cheer. It’s time for Santa’s gifts, for… read more

50 Fantastic Premium Business WordPress Themes From 2011

Whilst Joomla and Drupal are popular amongst website designers, WordPress is by far the number 1 used CMS in the world. Which is one of the reasons that WordPress themes are seen as such a hot commodity these days in the design world.

It’s popularity amongst design firms could explain the… read more

10 Incredible Examples of Responsive Web Design

With more people surfing the web from their mobile devices, designers and developers have been trying to figure out the best way to cater to visitors on both mobile devices and computers. When internet capable phones first began gaining popularity the method was to have two separate sites, a mobile… read more

PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide Giveaway Winner Announcement

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Last weeks PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide giveaway has now ended, and it is now time to announce the winners.

Thanks to everybody for all the comments and thanks to Packt for the books.

The Winners

All winners should have by now received their winner emails, if not please get… read more

Web design predictions for 2012

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Untangling the CSS3 :not Selector

The CSS3 :not selector may not be as flashy nor widely known as animations or media queries, but this simple pseudo-class packs a punch and is easy to use. Before we dig in, I’d like to point out (no pun intended) the excellent CSS reference section on the SitePoint… read more

Dig into Dojo: Dijit

Maybe you saw that tweet: “jQuery is a gateway drug. It leads to full-on JavaScript usage.” Part of that addiction, I contend, is learning other JavaScript frameworks. And that’s what this four-part series on the incredible Dojo Toolkit is all about: taking you to the next level of your JavaScript… read more

Our 50 Favorite Web Developers Resources and Tools from 2011

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As a developer, anything that can save you just a little bit of time is well worth its weight in gold. If you agree with that statement, you will love this. What we have for you is our selection of the best, the most useful… read more

The Smashing Deals Countdown For Christmas

Christmas is near and the spirits are rising but why not speed it all up a bit? To make the days prior to Christmas much more exciting, we’ll provide you with something to look forward to each day for the next ten days. This year, we’d love to help you… read more

The 30 Most Effective jQuery Plugins

The 30 Most Effective jQuery Plugins

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WordPress 3.3 Update Refines Features, Interface

Self-hosted WordPress users, get your update engines running: WordPress 3.3 is now available.

The culmination of five months of hard work, WordPress 3.3 offers a number of new updates and tweaked features.

The first of these is a redesigned dashboard, which features menus and toolbars that are more cohesive and easier to… read more

10 tips and resources for creating a stunning web presentation

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.115)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
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Web Design Trends in 2012

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It’s that time of year again, where we look into our crystal ball to see what will be the hot trends in web design for the upcoming year. It’s no secret that trends come and go, with some hanging around longer than they should. (Yes, splash… read more

30 Best jQuery Image Gallery Plugins for Your Portfolio Website

30 Best jQuery Image Gallery Plugins for Your Portfolio Website

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What’s new for designers, December 2011

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How To Build A Slideout Feedback Form In jQuery

How To Build A Slideout Feedback Form In jQuery

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18 jQuery Mobile Development Tips and Tutorials

18 jQuery Mobile Development Tips and Tutorials

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We have two copies of the book PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide to Giveaway

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Today we have another fantastic book giveaway for you. We have two copies of the paperback book PhoneGap Beginner’s Guide, written by Andrew Lunny for two lucky readers. All you have to do for a chance of winning one of these books is leave a… read more

Switch Stylesheets With jQuery

Switch Stylesheets With jQuery

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35 Cutting-edge Development Tutorials – jQuery Slideshow & jQuery Image Gallery

35 Cutting-edge Development Tutorials – jQuery Slideshow & jQuery Image Gallery

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Best Free UI PSDs of 2011

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So far in our Best of 2011 series, we’ve shown you our picks for the best free fonts and the best jQuery plugins. For this week, we’ve went back through all the UI PSDs that’s been released over the past year and picked our favorites. We… read more

Interview: Meet ZURB

Managing successful paid web apps and client design work while still releasing free apps and resources regularly would be tough to handle for any company. ZURB’s one company in the world of web apps that has always excited us with their dedication to quality and the sheer number of apps… read more

20 Amazing Implementations of HTML5 Canvas

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In this article, we explore some of the most awe-inspiring implementations of HTML5′s canvas element so far. From all of the new HTML5 tags, canvas is likely to be the most powerful.
In a nutshell, the canvas element is a drawable region defined in… read more

Animate a Custom Dialog Box with CSS3 and jQuery

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I am a particular fan of the jQuery UI library and have been following the team since it’s release. It features dozens of examples of how to pull together the best animations from such a small library of code. However in a lot of websites these… read more

The 50 Most Useful jQuery Plugins from 2011

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What an exciting web development year we have had (OK, its not quite finished, but almost). HTML5 and CSS3 have forced there way into the mainstream, responsive layouts techniques are rapidly moving towards being the standard, sites like Dribble, Forrst and GitHub have offered a… read more

Randomr jQuery Plugin

Randomr jQuery Plugin

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jQuery HTML5 Music Player

jQuery HTML5 Music Player

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.114)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and kepp up to date with the latest and greatest articles and… read more

Hover Image Zoom With JQuery

Hover Image Zoom With JQuery

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jQuery 1.7 Visual Cheat Sheet

The new edition of my jQuery Visual Cheat Sheet, the most popular cheat sheet about jQuery over the internet, is here! The new edition includes all the reference you will ever need for jQuery 1.7.1 API.

Download the PDF File (also available for the iPad) or the Scribd Version.

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Auto-Save User’s Input In Your Forms With HTML5 and Sisyphus.js

Editor’s note: This article is the third in our new series that introduces new, useful and freely available tools and techniques, developed and released by active members of the Web design community. The first article covered PrefixFree; the second introduced Foundation, a responsive framework that helps you build prototypes and… read more

50 Awesomely Useful Yet Free jQuery Tooltip Plugins

Tooltips are used to inform the users about the expected results of a button or option and are particularly helpful in making them learn how to use a product, software and website. Fundamentally tooltips are employed to put up additional information on website. With the help of jQuery, where loads… read more

Create a Windows-like Interface with jQuery UI

Have you ever wanted to create an interactive user interface for your application, but didn’t know how to? In this tutorial, we’ll create a Windows-like interface quickly and easily, by getting down and dirty with jQuery UI, a user interface library built on top of jQuery. What Exactly is jQuery… read more

Quick look at some of the Popular Web Design Trends from 2011

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Looking back over the past year we can pick up a lot of fresh emerging trends. Web designers around the world are connected like never before through a seemingly endless supply of social networks (big thums up to Dribble). Thus it’s much easier for new… read more

30+ Crispy Fresh jQuery Tutorials

30+ Crispy Fresh jQuery Tutorials

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Path inspired jQuery radial menu

Path inspired jQuery radial menu

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Dig into Dojo: NodeList Modules and Ajax

Maybe you saw that tweet: ”jQuery is a gateway drug. It leads to full-on JavaScript usage.” Part of that addiction, I contend, is learning other JavaScript frameworks. And that’s what this four-part series on the incredible Dojo Toolkit is all about: taking you to the next level of your JavaScript… read more

Easy CSS3 & jQuery tooltips

Easy CSS3 & jQuery tooltips

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40 Beautiful Free HTML5 & CSS3 Templates

Over the last few years there has been great collections of quality free HTML & CSS templates published on Noupe such as 50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates (2009) and 40+ Elegant Free CSS/(X)HTML Templates (2010).

There have been some great free templates released over the last year so… read more

Create Awesome Photo Galleries with CSS3 & jQuery

Create Awesome Photo Galleries with CSS3 & jQuery

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The Smashing Guide To Moving The Web Forward

Many of us rely on open source tools, technologies and standards to help improve the work we do on a daily basis. None of this would however be possible without the hard work, commitment and dedication that others, just like you, have invested in giving back to the Web community… read more

How to Design Functional Sub-Navigation Menus

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JavaScript libraries such as jQuery have fundamentally shifted the course of web development. It is now easier than ever to prototype UI functionality, animations, slideshows, and of course dynamic navigation. I feel this tremendous growth is allowing for developers to build page elements with less… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.113)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates and kepp up to date with the latest and greatest articles and… read more

40+ Useful and Fresh jQuery Plugins

Plugins are there to assist you and let you perform the desired action in a more convenient and speedy manner. Therefore, today we decided to come up with an exciting and interesting collection of 40+ fresh and cool jQuery plugins for our reader’s convenience. This compilation is targeted at the… read more

60+ new WordPress themes: Autumn 2011

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Are jQuery Users Fools?

We should get this out into the open. There seems to be a commonly held belief that jQuery users are ignorant, and, more often than not, designers. Where did this come from, and is it true? Roots The JavaScript community wasn’t nearly as vibrant and passionate as it is today…. read more

Should Designers know how to code? What do you think?

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Designers who know how to code well (or conversely, code poets who know what the hell Gaussian blur even is) are sometimes referred to as “unicorns” due to their rarity – and rightly so, given the complexity of the types of tasks they can accomplish,… read more

How To Set Up A Print Style Sheet

In a time when everyone seems to have a tablet, which makes it possible to consume everything digitally, and the only real paper we use is bathroom tissue, it might seem odd to write about the long-forgotten habit of printing a Web page. Nevertheless, as odd as it might seem… read more

How To Create Web Animations With Paper.js

The Web is just starting to use animation well. For years, animated GIFs and Flash ruled. Text moved and flashed, but it was never seamless. Animations had boxes around them like YouTube videos. HTML5 canvas changes everything about Web animation.

The canvas element makes it possible to integrate drawings and animations… read more

Best jQuery Plugins of 2011

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jQuery was first released in 2006. Nearly 5 years later, it’s still going strong – due largely in part to the community that’s been built up around it. This community of developers constantly releases plugins that allow web developers to easily add amazing functionality to their… read more

WordPress 3.3: The 11 Most Important New Features

Brian Casel is the founder of CasJam Media, a web design shop that works with clients worldwide designing custom WordPress CMS sites. Connect with Brian on Twitter @CasJam.

For those of us who work with WordPress every day, it has been exciting to watch our beloved content management system evolve over… read more

68 jQuery Slider Tutorials to Make Your Online Portfolio Stand Out

68 jQuery Slider Tutorials to Make Your Online Portfolio Stand Out

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jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery Book Competition – Winners Announced

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On the 13th of November we published the competition for two copies of the book jQuery UI 1.8: The User Interface Library for jQuery. The competition has now ended and it is time to announce the winners. Thanks to everybody for all the comments.

Remeber even… read more