CSS References, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets, Conversion Tables and Short Codes | Speckyboy Design Magazine Whether you’re a CSS guru or a CSS novice you will always need some help, some resources, some tutorials, some references and, of course, some cheat sheets. In this article we have collected the best resources for answering all possible CSS questions as well as how to understand CSS and how to use it properly. There are also CSS property references, cheat sheets, not only typical cheat sheets, but also cheat sheets for CSS frameworks, conversion tables and CSS short-hand. CSS Reference and Learning Core CSS: Part I Most people have learned CSS the same way they’ve learned HTML—by viewing source, copying template codes, reading books and articles. Core CSS: Part II Core CSS: Part II covers CSS 2.0/2.1 selectors. Core CSS: Part III To understand and manage attractive design and layouts, gaining an appreciation for the how to manage the CSS Box Model, Floats and Positioning is paramount. SitePoint CSS Reference CSS Basics CSS Basics is a fantastic CSS learning and reference resource. Cheat Sheets
12 Unit Testing Tips for Software Engineers - ReadWriteWeb Unit Testing is one of the pillars of Agile Software Development. First introduced by Kent Beck, unit testing has found its way into the hearts and systems of many organizations. Unit tests help engineers reduce the number of bugs, hours spent on debugging, and contribute to healthier, more stable software. In this post we look at a dozen unit testing tips that software engineers can apply, regardless of their programming language or environment. 1. A newbie might ask Why should I write tests? The idea behind unit testing is to create a set of tests for each software component. As your system expands, so does the body of unit tests. 2. When you start unit testing, always ask What Tests Should I Write? The initial impulse is to write a bunch of functional tests; i.e., tests that probe different functions of the system. The focus of the test is one component at a time. 3. As with any code, there will be common things all your tests need to do. 4. 5. 6. There are a couple of ways. 7. 8. 9.
24 CSS (in some cases with jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials | Speckyboy Design Magazine For the most of us, the most difficult aspect of building a responsive layout is the planning and coding of the navigation. As there is no truly tried and tested universal solution, the style of the menu you use will depend on the type of site you are building. If it is a small site, a <select> drop-down menu or a basic “three line” toggle menu will probably be suffice. So, no matter what type of site you are building, in this post we will hopefully have the solution for you in the form of these free responsive navigation jQuery plugins. Sidr Sidr is an easy to use plugin that will create a responsive Facebook-a-like side menu. Sidr →GitHub → Navgoco Navgoco is a simple plugin that can turn a nested unordered list of links into a beautiful vertical multi-level slide navigation, with ability to preserve expanded submenus between sessions by using cookies and optionally act as an accordion menu. Navgoco → FlexNav FlexNav → scrollNav.js – Scrolling Resposnive Side-Nav scrollNav.js → Flaunt.js → Naver
Amazing Retro Rainbow Curves | Tutorial9 - Tutorial Bliss. In this tutorial, I’ll show you how to design some amazing vector based Retro Rainbow Curves using Adobe Photoshop. These retro artifacts have become a popular trend in modern design! What We’re Making You can get an idea of what we’re going to be creating in the example below. Getting Started Before getting ahead of ourselves, it’s probably a good idea to pick out a color scheme for our design. White – FFFFFF c9402d a9362f Background – 312620 Go ahead and Create a new Document (I’ll be creating a 600x480px document), and fill the background with your background color using the Paint Bucket Tool. Enable the grid display, and setup your grid to have a gridline every 20-50px, with 1 subdivision (I’m using a grid line every 30px since 600 and 480 are both divisible by 30). Creating the First Line We’re Teaching a Technique Here! In this tutorial, we’re trying to teach the technique used to create these wonderful designs. A few things to take note of here. Now, let’s deal with those inner curves.
Stripe Generator - ajax diagonal stripes background designer Design Blurb » Web & Graphic Design Resources Nice ‘n’ Simple Subscribe Badges » Free Photoshop Tutorials | PhotoshopStar There have already been quite a few tutorials around documenting the making of these sleek, supermarket-style badges, but none of them have made them into subscribe badges! Well I actually have no proof of that assumption, but anyway. In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll be making those cool supermarket-style badges, then we’ll be turning them into subscribe buttons for your website, a must-have for any blog! 1. Well, the background obviously isn’t very important, but we’ll make something nice and simple for our badges anyway. I’ll be using a document size of 800 x 600 pixels for this, pretty small easy to work with size. OK, after you’ve got the background color set, you might be happy with that, or you can find a nice wood texture and put it on the background as well. OK, so if you want some nice wooden board textures, you should check out CG Textures. You may need to repeat this step a few times using different layer modes and opacities. 2. Let’s create the base of our badge now. 3. 4.
50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider | chrisbrogan.com For those of you already pretty much deep into social media applications, skip ahead and blaze through the list. If I’ve found five sites/applications that you haven’t seen or considered, leave a comment and give me a point. For the rest of you, here’s a list I put together the other day when thinking about just how much of my computer use is spent online and attached to the web. Some of the applications I point out aren’t things I use currently, but I have used them, and/or have an account there. For those of you who are getting involved in social media a little bit at a time, consider this a list of things you might check out a little bit at a time to see what appeals, what fits into your workflow, and what you can dismiss as unnecessary for your needs. AND, if you have some resources you think would be good to add to the list, feel free to add them in the comments section. 50 Online Applications and Sites to Consider Blogging Blogger – free blogging and hosting. Photo credit, klynsis
Top 50+ graphic design blogs | David Airey :: a logo designers logo design portfolio Update: 02 November 2010 I published this collection back in 2007, albeit with a few minor updates here and there. Today I shared a new post showing the design blogs on my subscription list. That’s a more up-to-date selection. It’s not easy finding talented graphic designers, but it’s fair to say the best have a healthy online presence. So to make things easier, here are my top 50 graphic design blogs. I’ve listed them by Google PageRank — Google’s way of determining a website’s authority, but don’t read into it too much, as many have an authority far beyond a single digit. Design Observer: writings about design & culture Smashing Magazine – a weblog dedicated to web-developers and designers Core77 / design magazine + resource / Authentic Boredom – by graphic designer, Cameron Moll Coudal Partners: a forum for creativity and experimentation CR Blog – News and views on visual communications from the writers of Creative Review Dexigner – popular design portal featuring the latest design news
Spyre Studios » 25 Kick-Ass Blog Designs (My Favorites) There are a lot of really slick blog designs from very talented designers out there. So I thought I’d make a list of my all time favorite ones, hopefully you’ll find some you’ve never seen on this list. Here we go: A List Apart is probably one of my favorite blogs because of the quality of the content but also because of the clean and (always) fresh design. Armen Thomassian put this new design online not so long ago and I must say I totally love it! Blogsessive has this cool mascot/character in the header. I just love this design! Design Reviver is fairly new and caught my attention immediately. DevLounge has to be one of my favorite minimalist design. Don’t Trust This Guy has very nice typography, I’m not a big fan of sIFR though but this design is just great! Gotta love the background images on Evan Eckard’s site! iDesignStudios has a very dark design with pattern background. Left aligned, content/sidebar/sidebar layout, Josh Spear is just great! Click on ‘about’ in the top menu!