Learning from Twitter
An issue popped up on Twitter this past week that caused the web site to be generally unusable for many users. It appears as if attempts to scroll were unbearably slow and caused the site to be unresponsive. The Twitter team investigated and determined that if they reverted the version of jQuery that they used back to 1.4.2 from 1.4.4 the site would be responsive again. After more investigation they determined that the code that was slow was doing a contextual selector search for an item by class name, for example: $something.find(".class").
How To Build an Animated Header in jQuery
Home > CSS, Front End Development, HTML, Javascript > How To Build an Animated Header in jQuery Why not give a little flair to your header. This tutorial will show you how to animate your header’s background image using jQuery to give your website that little extra something. What We Are Building We are going to build a header that animates it’s background.
zLayer jQuery Plugin - Orientate Elements
zLayers is a jQuery parallax plugin that allows you to orientate an element based on the position of your mouse to the page’s window, or element’s parent. zLayer is perfect for interactive illustrations and rich user experience through creative methods through a parallax effect. Best part about zLayer is how easy, lightweight, and quick the plugin is! zLayer Example – Art By: Brandon Zomora
Parallax Tutorials. Roundup from DesignFloat
The WOW effect is the very thing that can make the public interested in your online project. You can achieve this effect using parallax, for instance. Today’s roundup features Parallax Tutorials that can teach you how to create cool parallax effects using clear examples. Following them step by step, you’ll learn how to develop the awesome websites that will attract plenty of visitors. Browse this tiny but useful collection of Parallax Tutorials and try them in order to start your own effective projects!
Code a Responsive Navigation Menu
Navigation menus used to be a fairly simple thing. Code up an unordered list, float it left and you’re good to go. With responsive design being all the rage these days though you’re faced with some new challenges when creating a menu design. Follow along as we start from scratch and code a simple but effective responsive navigation menu that you can easily modify and reuse in your own projects. What We’re Building If you’re the kind of person who likes to skip ahead, here’s a sneak peek at what we’re building.
What The Heck Is Responsive Web Design?
Responsive websites respond to their environment Adaptive (Multiple Fixed Width Layouts) or Responsive (Multiple Fluid Grid Layouts) Recommended Approach Go All In On Responsive Make pages that look great at any size.
One page website
Once in a while, something new shows up that has the power to shake the world and stimulate all people to keep moving instead of stay still, this quote applies for practically every instance in life and business. A while ago, Nike released an astonishing website named “Nike Better World” to support all the athletes around the world; the design itself was brilliant and it generated a lot of positive reviews, but the real breakthrough came thanks to the navigation system that these guys made, a fantastic vertical Parallax system. On this tutorial we’re going to undress the structure of this website and then we’re going to create something inspired by Nike’s website using jQuery and CSS. View Demo Download Source
SUPERSCROLLORAMA
SuperScrollorama is powered by TweenMax and the Greensock Tweening Engine. Go to greensock.com for documentation on how to use it. Why Greensock/TweenMax? Great performance, ease-of-use, expandibility and basically because it is awesome. First, link to the jQuery CDN and then embed TweenMax.js and SuperScrollorama.
ColorBox
A lightweight customizable lightbox plugin for jQuery View Demos Released under the MIT License, source on Github (changelog) Download
Create Your Own Trendy Parallax Website Layout
Advertisement Introduction Apart form the pinterest dynamic fluid layout and big background image layout, parallax layout is still one of the trend in web design simply because it's a great technique to showcase product/service through an automated presentation by using scrolling.
