How To: Add Social Networking 'Share To' Links To Your Site It seems like everyone is now connected by some form of social network, people are sharing a colossal amount of data between each other over sites such as Twitter and FaceBook. With this potential reach, allowing users to easily share web pages they come across is a very beneficial idea. This blog runs on the WordPress CMS so adding social link sharing functionality can be done easily with various plugins. If you are not on a CMS with easily available plugins and want to share links, you can use traditional links to send your page details to the respective sites. Its very easy to do, here is how to do it for the popular social networks. Note: I was in two minds as to publish this post, there are many plugins for WordPress that can do this, and its VERY simple to implement.
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Add a Mobile Landing Page to Your Site Give mobile visitors a way to quickly access your company phone number, email, or just directions to the office. Why Have a Landing Page? Having a mobile specific layout allows on-the-go visitors to quickly access to telephone numbers, email addresses, and directions – exactly the sort of thing a visitor from a mobile device might be there for. This tutorial isn’t about creating an entire mobile version of your site, although some of the stuff you’ll see here today can be used for exactly that.
Inspiration Web Design Inspirational Cocktail #86 inShare1 Nowadays, the development of new site designs is not standing on the same place. Web designers use various tools, their skills and when they get inspired they create a new masterpiece. If you do not have new ideas or just want to look at the work of other authors, then you should certainly see our weekly selection of the best web site designs for inspiration. Here you’ll find some amazing, funny, creative and sometimes unusual designs. 14 Most Useful Web Design Cheat Sheets A well rounded web designer’s day is spent immersed in multiple graphic design programs and writing front end code. All of this moving from one environment to another can make it hard to memorize such things as hot keys and shortcuts for each. This is where cheat sheets come into play. A cheat sheet is simply a printable reference or guide to a particular software package, language, framework, etc. Here are 14 of my favorite cheat sheets.
The BIGGEST ever list of design resources! - ProofHQ Following the huge success of last year’s “World’s Biggest Ever List of Graphic Design Blogs”, we’ve decided that we should turn it into an annual event – after all, more people than ever before are blogging and the talent pool continues to grow. This year, we’ve added in some additional categories including typography and image sourcing sites to help you along your way. The list is at least 40% larger than last year and is the one stop shop for all that you could need in terms of inspiration, reference material or tools for you to use. So, without further ado, ladies and gentlemen…. drum-roll please!
Quickly & Easily Manipulate HTML5′s Canvas Element With jCanvas However, creating such interactive content is never as easy as pie, and that rule doesn’t exclude HTML5‘s main element that does all the work: canvas. If you’ve been following what the latest browsers have to offer, some of them may include a GPU-accelerated experience that makes the canvas element run a lot better. There are frameworks available that try to make the canvas element a little bit easier to develop for, notably jQuery. But even then, jQuery makes you type quite a bit. Web developers, here’s something better for you.
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