Jun 2

Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS

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Sexy Drop Down Menu w/ jQuery & CSS

Studies show that top navigations tend to get the most visual attention when a user first visits a site. Having organized and intuitive navigation is key — and while most drop down menus may look aesthetically pleasing, developing them to degrade gracefully is also essential. In this tutorial I would like to go over how to create a sexy drop down menu that can also degrade gracefully.

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May 21

CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials

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CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials

With version three of CSS, many exciting features will be implemented. CSS3 leads to greater flexibility and makes it much easier to recreate previously complex effects. Many time-saving rules are being thought up for CSS3: text-shadow, box-sizing, opacity, multiple backgrounds, border-radius, border-image ,multi-column layout, etc…

Although only the most modern browsers currently support these effects, it’s still fun to see what’s around the corner!

In this post we will take a look at some interesting properties of CSS3 that you can put into practice in your website designs today.

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Posted in: CSS3

May 12

20+ Wicked Proof of Concepts for Better use of jQuery/CSS

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20+ Wicked Proof of Concepts for Better use of jQuery/CSS

The web is a perfect playground for lots of creative designers and developers. Static HTML is just boring and these days the user wants to see some more eye candy from/on the web. By using and/or combining awesome web techniques like JavaScript (and of course, jQuery), CSS(3) and Flash (or Adobe Flex) this kind of interaction can be achieved.

Since "the sky is the limit" with these techniques, the programmers can get really creative and innovative. Some really like to take it to the next level and want to show off their use of the technique, even if it doesn’t have any practical use. These Proof of Concepts are just created because they CAN. Most of them are just really for fun or just beautiful to watch.

These PoC’s (or experiments) show off some serious power and potential, but don’t have any real practical use (yet). They’re insanely cool to watch, but really seek some better use.

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Posted in: CSS

Oct 12

Using Javascript to Fix 12 Common Browser Headaches

Using Javascript to Fix 12 Common Browser Headaches

We advocate using CSS whenever possible, and we often successed. Modern browsers have very good support for CSS — it’s certainly good enough for you to use CSS to control layout and presentation. Sometimes however, certain page elements will appear differently in different browsers.

Don’t worry too much if you don’t know the reason why, play around with the CSS rules and check out this post: Using CSS to Fix Anything: 20+ Common Bugs and Fixes as well.

If that doesn’t work, you can fix it up with one of the 12 javascript solutions listed below and your Web pages should look great across all browsers!

In this article, we’ll demystify 12 javascript solutions for the most common CSS issues that you’ll encounter when building web applications.

You might be interested to check other CSS related posts.

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Posted in: CSS, Javascript, jquery

May 11

Exceptional Ajax/javascript Techniques (Recently Created)

Exceptional Ajax/javascript Techniques (Recently Created)

In this article we’d like to present a list of over 30 hand-picked Ajax and javascript techniques you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs. The best thing about this list is how fresh it is, you might have seen some of it but we guarantee not all.

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Posted in: Ajax, CSS, Javascript, Tutorial, Wordpress, jquery

Apr 21

Using CSS to Do Anything: 50+ Creative Examples and Tutorials

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Using CSS to Do Anything: 50+ Creative Examples and Tutorials

CSS can powerfully open the doors to a lot of rich and unique techniques. Today we are presenting a round-up of CSS coding, creative approaches and techniques. Read the rest of this entry »

Posted in: CSS, Tutorial

Apr 17

Multilevel Drop Down Navigation Menus: Examples and Tutorials

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Multilevel Drop Down Navigation Menus: Examples and Tutorials

Navigation menus are the most important element one should pay attention when designing a website. Web-developers can create user-friendly horizontal or vertical navigation menus using CSS. Javascript makes it possible to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible navigation to any website.

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Posted in: CSS, Javascript

Feb 29

Watch out: Web Designer’s Awesomeness in February

Watch out: Web Designer’s Awesomeness in February

February was a busy month, we have been watching great news, articles, tutorials, scripts, tips and lot of inspiration for web designers popping up everyday so we thought it would be a great idea to wrap all those resources in one package where you can check to fuel your creativity.

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