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We all have seen all those fancy jQuery plugins and said wow. What if you just need to add a simple animation or transition effect to your design without the need to use any jQuery plugin. The jQuery library provides several techniques for adding animation to a web page.

To be unique and original, you need to have a good source of inspiration. You can get inspiration from music, family and friends, even other people’s work, to get a great design idea. To help, we bring you this collection of light and clean websites, separated into different categories

In this two-part series, we’ll combine the versatile canvas element with the robust jQuery library to create a bar graphing plugin.

In this two-part series, we’ll combine the versatile canvas element with the robust jQuery library to create a bar graphing plugin. In this first part, we are going to code the core logic of the plugin as a standalone version. Today, we are going to create a bar graphing plugin

You might have heard this metaphor before in some form: “Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants.” It means that a person making something new can benefit from work that already exists, leveraging and understanding the labor of people who have done it before them. I found out that this saying is old, almost a thousand years old—Isaac Newton popularized it. So when I hear clients say they don’t want to use open platforms because of reasons such as: They’re inferior to paid software They’re insecure because they’re open There’s no good support for these products I often wonder why they can’t see the seemingly apparent reasons for using open platforms.

In today’s video quick tip, we’re going to build a working, though very basic, to-do list in just a minute or two. Thanks to HTML5’s local storage, we can make advanced browsers “remember” what we type, even after the browser is closed or is refreshed. Subscribe to our YouTube page to watch all of the video tutorials! Or, watch this video on Screenr.com .

Mac app round-ups are a dime a dozen across the web. However, there’s one problem when you’re offered 100+ to choose from: you won’t use half of them

Chrome is the newest child added to the constantly feuding web browser family. Although Google Chrome is comparatively new, it has been producing some major buzz around web for its performance , minimalist interface, and usability. Another useful side of Chrome is the extensions that give the user added functionality for common web browsing tasks

This article and video tutorial will teach you how to setup a basic Fedora server for Rails and PostgreSQL deployments. First, we’ll setup Apache and PostgreSQL

Web hosting is a tricky business – there are a wide variety of options out there designed to fit a wide range of needs, but like with most things, there are trade-offs. Shared hosting is usually cheap and easy, but the resources are limited

When it comes to expanding per-project revenue, service businesses are at an immediate disadvantage. As our “product” is essentially our time, increasing income on a per-project basis almost always comes with extra work and an increased time commitment. Office hours increase, personal time slips away, and before we know it, the “extra” $300 weekly income has turned into little more than lost time.

In this tutorial, we’ll create inset type, a popular text treatment , using CSS. If you follow Six Revisions closely, you’re probably thinking: “Jacob already wrote a Photoshop tutorial on how to do that.” That is correct, but this time we are going to do it using only CSS. I set out to recreate the How to Create Inset Typography in Photoshop tutorial, and after experimenting with some fresh and new CSS3 properties, I was able to make a similar type treatment.

In this Tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a Custom homepage for your WordPress Theme using Page Templates: Complete with a featured content slider, and customizable Widgets. Quick Nav: Making a Template File Featured Content Slider JavaScript Custom Widget Areas in WordPress Templates Materials Needed: Wordpress Text Editor Note: any text editor will work

Whichever type of Mac user you are, today’s post will certainly help you in completing your day-to-day tasks, develop & code projects and make your Mac as fast and clean as possible. For this post we tried to get you the best selection of New Mac Apps that will help you be a more efficient designer. Though, not many applications mentioned here are free, you do receive a good range of features for your money.

Learn How To Design a translucent 3D Frosted Glass Box based on the Safari Icon in Adobe Photoshop. Quick Nav: Tutorial Download the PSD (Source Files) Step 1: Setting Up Make a new document with these settings: Next, select the fill tool (G) and fill it with #626262 . Now, we need to make a new adjustment layer

jQuery contains the fn.extend() method, which makes authoring jQuery plugins quite easy, allowing us to write code that is used in exactly the same way as other jQuery methods. jQuery UI also contains structures that make authoring custom jQuery UI plugins easy

Because of JavaScript’s dependence upon globals, it might be easy to forget that creating private variables can be accomplished quite simply, thanks to closures. In just a few minutes, I’ll demonstrate two common techniques which allow for private variables and methods in your projects. Watch on your iPhone The key to this particular method is to create a variable that is equal to the returned value of a function

As software developers, we spend a lot of time extracting and displaying data from many different data sources. Whether it’s a XML webservice of some sort, or a full featured relational database, we have been forced to learn different methods of data access. Wouldn’t it be great if the method of access was the same for all data sources?

I have written a book with Garrick Cheung about the MooTools JavaScript framework called ” MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide ” published by Packt Publishing . It’s a book for beginning web developers looking to make interactive websites and web applications rapidly with the help of MooTools. The book is formatted in a way that teaches you by way of practical examples that you can apply to real-world situations.

As CSS3 rolls out around the web, it is bringing some interesting new presentational techniques along with it.