Create a Slick and Accessible Slideshow Using jQuery By Jacob Gube In this in-depth web development tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a usable and web accessible slideshow widget for your site using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (jQuery). In the process, you’ll see the concept of Progressive Enhancement in action. Final Result Clicking on the image below will take out to a live demonstration of the slideshow widget in action. Scandinavian Freelance Web Designer If you like what you see here I am available to do work like this for you! Hire me! @font-face Our Google Announcement :( Google have recently announced that they are also entering the web-font market - with the same free, hosted model as ours. Although we have put 100's of hours into the design, development and readying of 150+ fonts (x4 formats = 600!)
25 jQuery Slider/Image Gallery Tutorials and Plugins This post was originally published several years ago. As technology and trends have changed over the years, the content of the post became outdated. So we’ve updated the post with all new examples that will be more relevant for modern design and development. 50 Incredible Photography Techniques and Tutorials - Smashing Ma Advertisement Over the recent months we’ve been presenting various showcases of photography – while many readers hated the showcases, most readers found them inspirational and perfect for a lousy workday’s morning. However, what we should have done in the inspirational posts is not just provide you with some inspiration for your work, but also present useful photographic techniques which can help you to achieve optimal pictures for your designs. And as requested by many of you, now it’s time to correct our mistake. In this post we present useful photographic techniques, tutorials and resources for various kinds of photography.
31 Free Clean Icon Sets For Minimal Web Design All clever things are usually very simple. Sometimes you just want to stay with the old valuables and keep it subtle. These icons will look great with clean and minimal web designs and also notice since almost all of them are monochromatic you can put different colors, create your own letterpress and different effects without spending time to create your own actual icon. I think minimal and letterpress effects currently are very popular in webdesigns and many designers will find this collection useful and worth bookmarking! Two New Series So, before I ask for your opinion on what’s next – the next screencast will be covering animations (of sorts), fundamentally similar to the jQuery Coda Slider, but being used in completely different ways – this should be online next week. I’ve been thinking about the next lot of tutorials, and I’ve been thinking about introducing two new ‘series’ of screencasts, in addition to the existing request based tutorials: Playschool for jQueryLearning the jQuery API
Goo.gl: Google Launches a URL Shortener, Too It looks like today has quickly become URL shortener day. Just moments ago, we learned about fb.me, Facebook's new URL shortener. It's already in use for mobile and page link sharing and spreading quickly. One of Facebook's mortal enemies couldn't let the social network have all of the fun and attention, though. Google has just launched Goo.gl, the official Google URL shortener of the world's largest search engine.In a short announcement, the tech giant revealed that the Google Toolbar and the FeedBurner syndication service now utilize Goo.gl for link sharing. The company also made sure to preach the strengths of its URL shortener and why it should be chosen above others.
28 Beautiful and Awesome Windows 7 Themes By default, Windows 7 comes with several themes. You can choose an Aero theme to personalize your computer, the Windows 7 Basic theme if your computer is performing slowly, or a high-contrast theme to make the items on your screen easier to see. Somehow, those themes don’t look appealing at all.
Best of CSS Design 2009 Since 2007, every year I do a round up of best of CSS from Best Web Gallery (check out 07 and 08 collection). Well, it is the time of the year again — Best of CSS Design 2009. This year I've selected another 50 nicely designed web sites. Featured Website Design of the Week 05-16-09 The Featured Website Design of the Week is a weekly feature of great Websites with great design done by awesome designers. Here are some nationality influenced pattern inspiration for your website design. In this week, we will feature the websites, Made In Space, Foehn, Weberica and Lebloe. Get to know about the website and some information about the designers. Made In Space: Web & Flash development
Amazing Examples of Vexel Artwork Vexel is a neologism for an entirely pixel-based form of raster art that imitates the visual appearance of vector graphics technique (i.e. sharp-edged lines and areas of flat colour or smooth gradient fills). The main difference is that vexels are created using raster layers while vectors are created using vector layers. The word itself is a portmanteau derived from a combination of “vector” and “pixel. The different nature of raster programs over a vector-plotted approach gives some vexel images a unique appearance when compared with traditional rasterized vector graphics, however, the increased flexibility comes with a loss of image scalability for print media, which is often a source of criticism.
Web Design » Blog Archive » 24 Most Inspiring 3D Flash Websites Posted by admin in 3D, Flash For those of you with keen eyes and passion for flash, you will notice that 3D flash websites are penetrating into our flash world today. Thanks to the open source 3D engines that do wonders to help create these 3D flash websites, we flash lovers have the luxury of seeing, admiring and getting new perspectives out of these sites. Here are the 24 picked 3D flash websites that we think will inspire you. Glass and a Half Full Productions 99 Graphic Design Resources Below is a list of 99+ graphic design resources, in English and (and a few other languages), that all designers must know about. It is sorted by category (click to go to category): For more resources you can check out the 101 Places To Get Design Inspiration. Also don’t forget to subscribe for more graphic design resources.