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
ScrollMagic - The jQuery plugin for magical scroll interactions. 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
Infinity.js A ListView is a container that moves content in and out of the DOM on the scroll event. ListViews help keep repaint times of expensive pages down (and scrolling smooth) by making sure that there are never too many elements onscreen at a single time. ListViews excel at speeding up long lists of complex HTML elements, where new content is frequently appended to the end and existing content is rarely removed. ListViews are simple, and have several caveats: they can't be nested inside each other, and they can't have heights set via CSS. Note Because Firefox implements the unspecified behavior of <img> tags without src attributes differently than other browsers, if you're lazy-loading images inside of a ListView you should set their display to either block or inline-block, or Firefox will report the wrong height data to Infinity.
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)
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
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
The 10 best new web design tools in May No one enjoys debugging their work, so this month we've collected up a few tools that make it a bit easier. There's CSS Dig, a Chrome Extension that exposes your CSS in a useful format so you can poke around and find inconsistencies; ES Feature Tests, which you might see as an alternative to caniuse; and Vorlon.js which helps you to test your code on lots of devices. Don't miss this It's refreshing to see two cross-platform tools from Microsoft this month, a code editor and an educative development environment that enables complete beginners to get started with coding mobile apps. Also exciting is the news that whiteboarding tools have been added to Paper, the painting app for iPad, so now you can use its wonderful interface to draw diagrams as well as sketches. 01. HTML Arrows is a beautifully designed cheat sheet for HTML symbols that takes its inspiration from the minimalist Swiss aesthetic. 02. We're excited about this one. 03. 04. 05. Next page: five more of May's top web tools
Buffer's loading animation - CSS Animation I love finding examples of subtle animation in websites. Recently, when I was logging into Buffer, I noticed a nice loading effect in their logo. Here’s how to recreate it using SVG and CSS. Indicating activity When something takes longer than expected, it’s a nice idea to include some visual feedback to tell your visitor that something is happening. The animation is achieved using an animated GIF file. When the loading is complete, the animated GIF is swapped out for a static PNG version of the logo. It’s hard to make an animation in GIF format look just the same as a PNG, as they’re compressed differently, so we see a slight “jump” as the two are switched. Let’s see if we can get around this by creating the animation and finished state using CSS. Why use CSS? There are some significant advantages of using CSS instead of animated GIF files. CSS gives us the option to do more, while an animated GIF cannot be edited once created. Creating an SVG logo Here’s the result: Download this SVG here
15 Top PHP Coding Tutorials, Tips and Tricks PHP is a widely-used scripting language that is suited for web development and can be embedded into HTML. PHP is used in many websites on the internet. I have compiled a list of 15 top PHP coding tutorials and tips / tricks to help you better understand it. These should keep you busy for a while. They all can come in handy sometime when you are coding. Limit Characters From Your Text In this tutorial you will learn how to limit characters from a sentence without cutting words up. Create An Advanced Password Recovery Utility Learn how to create a very advanced password recovery tool using PHP. Login To Analytics API Using PHP Great little tip / trick that teaches you how to login to the Google Analytics API using ClientLogin. Error 404 Pages With PHP Auto-Mailer Website error pages are perhaps one of the most overlooked pages of a website. Resession (Session Manager) Check this out. Simple PHP Class For Parsing Markup How to: Create RSS Feed in PHP A basic Wikipedia scraper Zero Fill a Number