Tipped - The Javascript Tooltip Framework | jQuery & Prototype Tooltips Tipped allows you to easily create beautiful tooltips using the jQuery Javascript library. Evolved from the popular Prototip library, Tipped takes tooltips to the next level by using HTML5 to give you full control over the look and feel of your tooltips. Canvas graphics The entire skin of the tooltip, from shadow to loading icon, is drawn using Canvas. Canvas based tooltips also have the advantage that they look great in every browser, even in IE6! Javascript API With the powerful API provided by Tipped it's possible to quickly create and control tooltips customized to your site, all it takes is a few lines of Javascript. And more... Check out the demonstrations below or head over to the documentation to discover more awesome features.
Build a Spiffy Quiz Engine | Tuts+ Premium | The best way to learn creative and technical skills. The first official Nettuts+ quiz was a massive success with an impressive number of developers participating and evaluating their knowledge. There were a non-trivial number of comments asking how the mini quiz engine was built. And lo and behold! That’s what we’re gonna learn today. A Word from the Author Quizzes are a great way to engage the community — just take a look at our recent quiz. I believe a demo is worth a thousand words. Today, we are going to look at how to implement this with, you guessed it right, our favorite JavaScript library, jQuery. Design Goals The design goal for this version are incredibly simple. We’ll something that looks slick and elegant — one that invites the user to take the quiz.This is no place for a long list of questions with radio buttons and labels. Some notable features that I’m opting out of: No post quiz reviews. That’s about it, I guess. Plan of Action We’ll now need to map out what needs to be done in a specific order. Core Markup
Download 21 Free Fun Fonts Download 21 Free Fun Fonts Here is an Awesome collection of Fun Free 21 Fonts that you can download for yourself which you could use for your next project of web, graphic, logo, or banner design. In this Free list of fonts you’ll be able to find Fun Free Fonts that resemble the theme for Terminator, Ice Age, Bugs Life, Star Wars, Batman, Coca Cola, Ferro Rosso, Hawaii, Flowers, Walt Disney, Hollywood, Jurassic Park, Tron, and more. Also, if you know of any popular movie or company fonts that are Totally Free for personal and commercial use, then please let us know in the comments section. 1. – Walt Disney Font 2. – Harabara Font 3. – Decker Font 4. – Circuitry Font 5. – Hawaii Lover Font 6. – Ferro Rosso Font 7. – Coca Cola Font 8. – Republika Font 9. – Jurassic Font 10. – Blomster Font 11. – Broken Font 12. – Insect Font 13. – Feena Casual Font 14. – Hollywood Hills Font 15. – Caribbean Font 16. – Terminator Font 17. – A Bug’s Life Font 18. – Ice Age Font 19. – Star Vader Font 20. – Tron Font
Google Plus Circle Animation With Jquery and CSS3 in Your Website — Tech Blog If you are a Google plus user, I am sure you will fall in love with Google plus circle animation. Google plus given an awesome user experience, specially circle’s animations. When I saw the rotation animation first time in Google plus, I was so excited to create my own rotation animation like Google plus. I have been working in these days to develop circle rotation animation effect with Jquery and CSS3. I have tried circle rotation animation effect with Jquery and CSS3. Click here to watch live demo T1 Click here to watch live demo T2 Circle CSS3 circle diameter 50px
30 Fresh FreeFonts for Designers “Since typography is a communication method that utilizes a gathering of related subjects and methodologies that includes sociology, linguistics, psychology, aesthetics, and so much more – we aim to educate that there is no single approach within typography that applies to everything.” Shelley Gruendler The purpose of this post was to provide you with an incredible selection of fonts that are completely free and don’t have ridicules prices ranging in the hundreds. A Collection of 27 High Quality Free Fonts 25 New High Quality Free Fonts jQuery: The Write Less, Do More, JavaScript Library
Manipulate Smoke to Create Hyper-Real Images Learn to apply the Warp Tool effectively and a few other tricks to make smoke look like a skull. This technique has a variety of outcomes and works well with water, clouds and a whole bunch of other stuff. This is probably more for intermediate users, as I guide you through the process well, but not every Warp Grid point handle move. Let's get started! Final Image Preview Take a look at the image we'll be creating. Video Tutorial Our video editor Gavin Steele has created this video tutorial to compliment this text + image tutorial. Image Assets Smoker - from my personal collectionSkull - thanks to Martin Land for thatSmoke 1, Smoke 2, Smoke 3, and Smoke 4 Step 1 Open up Smoker image. Step 2 Open the Skull image and draw a path around it using the Pen Tool (set to Paths not Shape Layers). Make a selection from your Path (Command-click the Path icon on the Paths palette) and copy and paste it into the working document. Step 3 Step 4 Change the "CIG_SMOKE" Layer Blending Mode to Screen. Step 5
50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques - Smashing Magazine Advertisement CSS3 is coming. Although the browser support of CSS 3 is still very limited, many designers across the globe experiment with new powerful features of the language, using graceful degradation for users with older browsers and using the new possibilites of CSS3 for users with modern browsers. In this post we present 50 useful and powerful CSS3/jQuery-techniques that can strongly improve user experience, improve designer’s workflow and replace dirty old workarounds that we used in Internet Explorer 6 & Co. Visual Effects and Layout Techniques With CSS3 CSS3 Analogue ClockAnalogue clock created using webkit transition and transform CSS. Use CSS3 to Create a Dynamic Stack of Index CardsWe will create a dynamic stack of index cards solely with HTML and CSS3 and use such CSS3 features as transform and transition (for the dynamic effects) and @font-face, box-shadow and border-radius (for the styling). Navigation Menus With CSS 3 CSS 3 Transitions and Animations CSS3 Galleries
Spritebox - Create CSS from Sprite Images Beautiful/Decay Cult of the Creative Arts Gabriel Moreno does beautiful work with such basic materials: a pen and a brush. His illustrations begin in black and white, upon which Moreno builds, adding layers of color and images of other places and people tattooed into their skin. Flowers, birds, and faces organically expand from his subjects, as if a rush of creativity, or a dream, is escaping them. 25 New Illustrator Tutorials That Will Make You A Master Of Vector Art Just because you can usually get a similar effect in Photoshop doesn’t mean the end result will be as good as using Illustrator (depending on the project). If you are like me (and I will bet most of you are) you will go ahead and use PS because you know it much better even though the final project will not be as good or as functional as it could be. Well it’s time to buck up and get this learning curve completely out of the way so you make the right choice next time. Below are some sweet Illustrator tuts that will leave you in vector heaven once your done. Adobe Photoshop is one of the most popular photo editing programs that has ever been created. This tutorial teaches you how to make a portrait of William Shakespeare in Illustrator using text. Article Link Advertisement A very interesting tutorial, from Design Instruct, that takes you behind the scenes and shows you the illustration process from start to finish. Article Link Article Link Article Link Article Link Article Link Article Link
27 Must-Have Starter Kits For Web Designers Starter kits are great timesavers for web designers and they are particularly useful for those who often create mock-ups for project pitching on daily basis. If you are a designer-cum-programmer think of it as your code snippets So what’s in a starter kit? We think it varies – depending on what each designer routinely worked with. In today’s article, we attempt to show you some of the best design starter kit we’ve come to know. GUI, Form Elements and Web Components From form elements like checkboxes, input fields, textareas to web design components like buttons, arrows, icons, badges and more. Yahoo’s Design Stencil Kit Probably one of the most complete kit for designers. Web Form Elements With all these tabs, buttons, dropdowns in one single PSD file, it’s sure going to give you a kick start in interface design. Browser Form Elements PSD Browser Form Elements PSD for Mac Firefox 3 and another for Vista IE7. Flex Dark Skin Sleek dark skin interface elements. Turquoise PSD Vista elements.