8 Coding Playgrounds For Developers

Testing tools are essential for the developers as they constantly require to test their codes. Testing tools and codes play a vital role in the web development process in order to check the functionality and validate the codes. They are designed to help developers check and validate their codes and hence, save their time as… Continue reading 8 Coding Playgrounds For Developers

Chart.js A Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting for designers & developers

Chart.js was first introduced in year 2013, for 3 years of intensive development by many contributors, it has became quite a powerful open source Javascript charting plugin. It’s designed for both developers and designers. It supports 8 types of charts – Line, Bar, Radar, Polar Area, Pie & Doughnut, Scales charts. With version 2.0, you… Continue reading Chart.js A Simple yet flexible JavaScript charting for designers & developers

How to Integrate SmoothState.js Into a WordPress Theme

In our previous tutorial, we used the History Web API within a static site to serve smooth page transitions. In this tutorial we’re going to take things to the next level, by applying what we learned in a WordPress website. There’ll be one crucial difference; we’ll leverage SmoothState.js instead of building our own from scratch.  SmoothState.js will: Request pages asynchronously (AJAX) and… Continue reading How to Integrate SmoothState.js Into a WordPress Theme

How to Create an AJAX Driven Theme for ProcessWire

In this tutorial we will look at setting up a simple theme in ProcessWire, we’ll investigate delayed output (now the default theme strategy within ProcessWire), and setup our site to request new content using AJAX. To accompany this tutorial I have created a new theme for ProcessWire, making use of both AJAX and delayed output,… Continue reading How to Create an AJAX Driven Theme for ProcessWire

Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles

Cocycles is a new code search service that enables code to be found by functionality. In this article, Cocycles team member Jonathan explains the idea behind this approach to code searching. We’re all familiar with it: that moment when you’re forced to abandon your code editor, interrupt your workflow and open your browser to search… Continue reading Find JavaScript Code Snippets by Functionality with Cocycles

Building a Vertical Timeline With CSS and a Touch of JavaScript

First, we’ll create the basic structure with minimal markup and the power of CSS pseudo-elements. Then, we’ll use some JavaScript to add some transitional effects as we scroll down the page.  Let’s get an idea of what we’ll be building (check out the larger version on CodePen). This tutorial has been updated with another… Continue reading Building a Vertical Timeline With CSS and a Touch of JavaScript

How to Build a Pebble Application

What You’ll Be Creating The Pebble smartwatch has been around since its very successful Kickstarter campaign in 2012 and is a popular choice amongst smartwatch users. This is due to its excellent battery life, low price, various models to choose from, and compatibility with both iOS and Android. Pebble has had a developer SDK since day one, encouraging developers… Continue reading How to Build a Pebble Application

Optimizing Google PageSpeed to 100 in WordPress

What You’ll Be Creating How to Reach a PageSpeed of 100 Welcome to part two of our series on Google PageSpeed. In the first episode, I optimized the PageSpeed of my site’s then theme, MySiteMyWay’s Construct. I managed to get to 70 Mobile and 86 Desktop.  However, with MySite’s closure, I chose a new theme and reached… Continue reading Optimizing Google PageSpeed to 100 in WordPress

Selecting Parent Elements with CSS and jQuery

There have been occasions where I’ve wished I was able to select a parent element with CSS–and I’m not alone on this matter. However, there isn’t such thing as a Parent Selector in CSS, so it simply isn’t possible for the time being. In this tutorial we will walk through a few cases where having a CSS… Continue reading Selecting Parent Elements with CSS and jQuery

Hands On Improving Google PageSpeed

What You’ll Be Creating What Is Google PageSpeed? Google PageSpeed is a free tool that assesses the performance and usability of your website for mobile and desktop platforms. It’s extra important because Google uses it in determining key elements of our SEO ranking, i.e. how high we appear in their search results. If you want more background… Continue reading Hands On Improving Google PageSpeed

Chart.js – Flexible JavaScript Charting for Developers

Posted · Category: Charts, MIT License Chart.js is a simple yet flexible JavaScript charting for designers & developers. Chart.js merges configurations and options in a few places with the global defaults using chart type defaults and scales defaults. This way you can be as specific as you want in your individual chart configs, or change… Continue reading Chart.js – Flexible JavaScript Charting for Developers

Chartd – Responsive and Retina-Compatible Charts

Advertise here via BSA At StatHat, they make a lot of charts. They creates dynamic, autoupdating charts using JavaScript, but we also send charts via email and to external services like Campfire and Slack. Plus, they let users embed charts on their own web pages. For these situations, JavaScript charts either won’t work, are overkill, or could get… Continue reading Chartd – Responsive and Retina-Compatible Charts

New Course: Advanced Animation With GSAP Plugins

What You’ll Be Creating The GreenSock Animation Platform is a powerful JavaScript library for animating HTML elements in the browser. In our new course, Advanced Animation With GSAP Plugins, you will learn how to take your GSAP animations to the next level using the plugins that come with the platform. What You’ll Learn Our recent GreenSock Animation… Continue reading New Course: Advanced Animation With GSAP Plugins

Advanced JavaScript Fundamentals

Without a doubt, JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world. While the web development industry is chock full of frameworks and libraries that simplify some aspects of JavaScript development, there’s something to be said about having the skills to write pure JavaScript. Frameworks, libraries and transpilers may come and go, but JavaScript… Continue reading Advanced JavaScript Fundamentals

Weekly Inspiration: Full-on Full Screen Home Pages

The full screen splash is one of the most familiar patterns on the web at the moment. Some love it, some loath it, but whatever your feelings let’s take a look at some noteworthy examples and talk about best practices while we’re at it. A Note on Design Convergence The term “design convergence” refers to… Continue reading Weekly Inspiration: Full-on Full Screen Home Pages

How to Work With Images in Shopify

When starting out with a new platform, such as Shopify, there’s a lot to learn. Whilst Liquid, the template language used in Shopify themes, is very readable and easy to get started with, one area of Shopify development which can often cause confusion for new theme developers is images. I believe the main reason for… Continue reading How to Work With Images in Shopify

How Good Is JavaScript for Building a Large Scale Web Application?

According to the most statistics that are recent on w3techs.com, significantly more than 89percent of sites presently utilize JavaScript as a client-side program writing language. As a cross-platform and programming that is lightweight, JavaScript makes it easier for programmers to build responsive websites and web applications that work with seamlessly with popular web browsers, operating… Continue reading How Good Is JavaScript for Building a Large Scale Web Application?

How to Make Floating Input Labels With HTML5 Validation

TL;DR Replace your JavaScript validation with HTML5 validation. It’s easier than you think, and gives you a ton of markup and styling control. Try this demo: What We’re Doing Here So you need to validate a form. You do the right thing and start with server-side validation. Then, if you’re a good web-designer, you add… Continue reading How to Make Floating Input Labels With HTML5 Validation

15 Useful Modern Front-End Web Components

Here is list of useful modern front-end web components that can be integrated into your web applications. These components provide a quick and easy way for web developers to create custom user interface without having to start from scratch. Collection of tasty CSS-animated hamburger icons. Also included is the source as a Sass library. It’s… Continue reading 15 Useful Modern Front-End Web Components

The 15 Best Material Design Frameworks and Libraries

Material design was developed by Google, with the basic idea to create a unified style for all of the company’s web and mobile apps. It is based on many principles including things like proper animations, responsiveness, and smart usage of colors and shadows. You can read about the guidelines in full detail here. Although Google’s design language is… Continue reading The 15 Best Material Design Frameworks and Libraries

IDevie Weekly News (week 10)

This is our popular weekly design news post where we share our favorite design related articles, resources and freebies from the past week. New Resources & Tools Hamburgers – A collection of tasty CSS-animated hamburger icons By Jonathan Suh. Intro.js – Step-by-step guide and feature introduction for your website. Balloon.css – Simple tooltips made of… Continue reading IDevie Weekly News (week 10)

50+ fresh resources for designers, March 2016

How’s it going, compadres? This month’s roundup hand-picked from all across the web includes icons, design assets, illustrations, vector artwork, UI kits, some really cool code snippets, fonts, templates, some awesome tools, and much much more. Sit back, relax, and enjoy the best freebies on the Web this month! The months of the year vector… Continue reading 50+ fresh resources for designers, March 2016

10 Best AnglularJS Frameworks For Developers

If you are worried about how to create a wonderful and innovative web application without any difficulty or trouble then do not worry any more just simply check out this awesome collection. In this collection you will find 10 best and superb AngularJS frameworks. With the help of this AngularJS framework web developers can easily… Continue reading 10 Best AnglularJS Frameworks For Developers

10 Stunning Ionic Templates

Ionic is a popular framework for creating modern, hybrid, mobile applications, using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Ionic is powered by AngularJS and Apache Cordova. Because developers can use technologies they are already familiar with (JavaScript, HTML, and CSS), the learning curve isn’t that steep. CodeCanyon offers a wide range of application templates to kickstart your Ionic development. In… Continue reading 10 Stunning Ionic Templates