Top 20 Ajax Tutorials Ajax is commonly overlooked as a language that many newbies to web design don’t really understand. Well the truth is, Ajax can do wonderful things and give your website that extra special something. I have rounded up a collection of the top 20 Ajax tutorials I think will help anyone get their feet wet with Ajax. Let me know what tutorial you like best, and if you know of any other tutorials that have helped you master Ajax, then please by all means drop us a comment. A simple AJAX website with jQuery TutorialZine have posted this really great tutorial that teaches people how to create their very own fully functional websites that runs using Ajax. Including An External Page With Ajax This tutorial will teach you how to include an external page using Ajax Its a very easy to follow tutorial written by the people over at Javascript Kit. Create A Live Preview Display Learn how to create a live preview display when filling out a form, much like the one Digg.com use. Ajax Contact Form Ajax 101
40 Useful Bootstrap Tools for Web Developers If you are web developer, you must be conscious of the bootstrap Tools . If you present it to your website, your website’s admiration will get a boost for sure. Why? Therefore, if you are watching for small and big stuff to make your website look awesome, you should use the Bootstrap tools . There are a lot of benefits to use framework like Bootstrap tools, most of them aiming on the increased effectiveness for building modern and approachable websites. There are extreme more resources that useful for working with Bootstrap in one way or additional, but in this assortment we are aiming on those resources that help with making a visual design using bootstrap tools . Check out some of our previous posts : Kickstrap BootTheme PaintStrap bootstrap tools Built With Bootstrap Bootswatch Bootpag – Dynamic Pagination Bootstrap Modal Bootbox.js Bootstrap Tool Bootstrap Prompts Pines Notify Bootstrap Tool prettyCheckable Tool Bootstrap Tags Tool Bootstrap File Upload Tool Bootstrap Simple Color Picker tool
W3Schools Online Web Tutorials 10 Awesome jQuery and HTML5 Audio Players Want to play audio on your website? These jQuery and HTML5 Audio Players plugins will be very useful to you. They’re great for fullscreen websites which use audio to create a certain mood or feel or for band and DJ’s websites. Need more jQuery plugins? Check out these jQuery Pagination Plugins and Tutorials and WordPress Mobile Plugins. jPlayer jPlayer is the completely free and open source (GPL/MIT) media library written in JavaScript. jPlayer allows you to rapidly weave cross platform audio and video into your web pages. jPlayer’s comprehensive API allows you to create innovative media solutions while support and encouragement is provided by jPlayer’s active and growing community. Media Element js Instead of offering an HTML5 player to modern browsers and a totally separate Flash player to older browsers, MediaElement.js upgrades them with custom Flash and Silverlight plugins that mimic the HTML5 MediaElement API. MediaBox HTML5 Music Player with 3 CSS3 Skins Universal HTML5 Player MusicBox
jQuery.Shapeshift What is Shapeshift? Inspired heavily by the jQuery Masonry plugin, Shapeshift is a plugin which will dynamically arrange a collection of elements into a column grid system similar to Pinterest. What sets it apart is the ability to drag and drop items within the grid while still maintaining a logical index position for each item. This allows for the grid to be rendered exactly the same every time Shapeshift is used, as long as the child elements are in the correct order. Function > Form Shapeshift was designed to always render the same grid as long as the elements are in the same order. Features Column Grid System: All items flow from left to right, top to bottom.
50 Free Books for Web Designers & Developers There are thousands of books available for web designers and developers online. There has been no language, no point of discussion, or no trend that has not, at one time or another, been extensively explored and analyzed, and eventually published as an eBook. The great news is quite a lot of these books are available for free! I’ve completely rewritten and updated this article for 2017, adding quite a few new eBooks and updated the rest to reflect the latest trends in technology and web design. To help you quickly find what you’re looking for, I’ve organised the free ebooks into the following categories: CSS & HTML, JavaScript, PHP, WordPress, Git, UX, Miscellaneous Web Design and finally, a selection of Older, Yet Always Relevant Books. The Web Designer ToolboxUnlimited Downloads: 500,000+ Web Templates, Themes, Plugins & Design Assets CSS & HTML Essential Learning Resilient Web Design By Jeremy Keith (HTML) Adaptive Web Design By Aaron Gustafson (HTML) Magic of CSS By Adam Schwartz (HTML)
Unheap - A tidy repository of jQuery plugins 21 Beautiful And Creative Navigation Menus Website Navigation Design all comes within the website interface category. Its crucial to make it easy to use, and find for the client. This doesn’t mean it has to be simple though. I have looked at some amazing websites, that have integrated some creative navigation menus designs into their website. They have been original with their designs, and made it easy to use and beautiful at the same time. Before I proceed, though, I want to let you know that you can you can create a free flash website with Wix that will look like a very professional website and gives you total control to create awesome navigation menus. Branded07 This is a simple navigation menu design, but what makes it interesting is the hover effect and the added textures. SohTanAka What I like most about this navigation menu is the way it has the RSS icon incorporated. Aprefolio Aprefolio’s navigation bar has a tab-like appearance. Project Vino This navigation bar is somewhat similar to the one above. Nitram Nunca Kupferwerk
bigSlide.js What is bigSlide? bigSlide is a teeny tiny (~1kb compressed) jQuery plugin for creating off-screen slide panel navigation. It will slide the navigation panel as well as any containers given the .push class (or a class of your choosing in the settings). Getting Started In your document, include a link to toggle the navigation: <a href="#menu" class="menu-link">☰</a> And your nav menu: <nav id="menu" class="panel" role="navigation"><ul><li><a href="#">Home</a></li><li><a href="#">The Ballad of El Goodo</a></li><li><a href="#">Thirteen</a></li><li><a href="#">September Gurls</a></li><li><a href="#">What's Going Ahn</a></li></ul></nav> Reference jQuery and the big-slide.js file: To initialize the plugin,: <script> $(document).ready(function() { $('.menu-link').bigSlide(); }); </script> Options Other notes Although bigSlide will automatically position your menu off screen, I recommend adding the following to your CSS to prevent a flash of the menu on load: License
10 Parallax Plugins and Tutorials Parallax scrolling is used to create an animated illusion of depth and it is getting pretty popular in web design. Want to know how you can achieve the same effect in your designs? The Parallax plugins and tutorials below will surely help you better understand this technique. Want some more inspiration? jQuery Parallax Plugin This jQuery Parallax is a script that helps you create an awesome parallax effect. jParallax Parallax turns nodes into absolutely positioned layers that move in response to the mouse. Layers Slider LayerSlider is a great parallax effect slider. Parallax Slider with jQuery Tutorial The parallax principle to move different backgrounds when we slide to an image in order to create some nice perspective. One Page Website – Vertical Parallax Tutorial On this tutorial you’ll learn how to create something inspired by Nike’s website using jQuery and CSS. Build a Parallax Scrolling Website Interface with jQuery and CSS Animated Header Background Paradigm Slider About the Author
Creating a Digital Clock in Flash Using ActionScript 1. Before I begin – for those of you who want an easy way out of this tutorial, you can create a free, professional website with Wix that will look like a very professional website. Now for those who are still interested in going through with the tutorial, I will continue. 2. click on the text tool is the one with the letter “A” on it make sure is on static text and type the following “time”, “today”, and “date” 3. 4. 5. follow that step again for the next two boxes. 6.The next step click on the first static box and convert it to a symbol to do this select it and press (F8) make sure movie clip is clicked and name it whatever you want. 7. 8. 9. 10. onClipEvent (enterFrame) { This part of the code loops the actions contained within it every time the movie is accessed. myTime = new Date(); This creates the Date Object that will be used to retrieve the information from your system. nSeconds = myTime.getSeconds(); nMinutes = myTime.getMinutes(); nHours = myTime.getHours(); onClipEvent (load){
FlexPaper - The web pdf viewer solution Smart Forms with jQuery Html5 & CSS3 Smart Forms is a responsive professional Form Framework / pack with a clean consistent Form UI. The framework includes a variety of form Widgets such as Datepickers, Timepickers, Monthpickers, Colorpickers, Numeric Steppers, UI Sliders, Google maps, toggle switches validation, masking among other features. Features: Multiple form inputsFile inputs / uploadersCSS3 checkboxes + RadiosCSS3 toggle switchesCSS3 review & ratingTooltips + vector iconsNotification alertsCSS3 multi shape buttonsAnimated progress barsSimple pricing tablesAjax form processingInput maskingPHP CAPTCHA with refresh support40+ starter templates includedDate & time picker widgets Tags: Captcha, Checkbox, Color Picker, DateTime Picker, File Upload, Form Submit, Form Validation, Mask, Notification, Progress Bar
Making Better Select Elements with jQuery and CSS3 Martin Angelov When creating your web designs, you are always striving for a consistent look across the different browsers. Unfortunately, one of the most fundamental elements of your website – the browser controls – also prove the most difficult to style. This is why, today we are building a script that is going to take an ordinary select element, and replace it with a better looking, markup powered version, while keeping all the functionality intact. Per popular demand, this script is now available as a stand-alone jQuery plugin. The HTML As usual, we are start with the HTML part of the tutorial. select-jquery.html You can see that we are using the data attributes to embed information in the option elements of the select. I’ve set an arbitrary data-skip attribute on the first element, so that our script knows not to include it in the generated list. A Better Select Element with jQuery & CSS3 The jQuery Now lets take a closer look at how this code is generated. js/script.js The CSS Learn more