Code a Single-Page Sliding Website Layout With Fixed Navigation

When constructing a simple webpage, it can often make sense to fit the content into a single layout rather than multiple pages. These single-page websites are beneficial when you have a small project or portfolio which needs some online presence. If you split up content into neat sections, then visitors might use a small sliding… Continue reading Code a Single-Page Sliding Website Layout With Fixed Navigation

30 Masonry WordPress Themes

A masonry layout can use jQuery and CSS3 to dynamically position your images and videos in a neat grid that is optimised and changed depending on screen sizes and the displayed content width and height dimensions. Many WordPress theme shops and authors are incorporating masonry layouts into their WordPress themes, this results in a dynamic… Continue reading 30 Masonry WordPress Themes

Beginners Guide to Working with jQuery Animation

In this tutorial, we are going explore the basics of jQuery animations for you to get prepared for advanced designs. Animations is the core functionality behind the interactive elements in web design. The design of a website plays a major role in attracting visitors on a consistent basis. Interactive designs get more attention compared to the… Continue reading Beginners Guide to Working with jQuery Animation

20 Useful and High Quality Web Design Tutorials and Resources

Web designers and developers must know various important components to develop a beautiful website. All tricks and tools can not able to learn within few days. It requires long practice and hard work. To help those guys I today going to present 20 Useful and High Quality Web Design Tutorials and Resources.   How to… Continue reading 20 Useful and High Quality Web Design Tutorials and Resources

How to Build a Dynamic Imgur Upload App Using jQuery & PHP

Many new online web services are providing backend APIs for developers. These allow anyone to connect into a web app and pull out specific information (or push or change bits of data). Today we’re specifically looking at the API for Imgur. In this tutorial I want to demonstrate how we can remotely mirror an image… Continue reading How to Build a Dynamic Imgur Upload App Using jQuery & PHP

15 Useful and Effective jQuery Lightbox plugins

jQuery is powerful and feature riched JavaScript library with nice event handling system, thus favorite among web designers/developers. Writing and using JavaScript is always a fun with jQuery for developers. jQuery and its plugins have made it possible to make web pages look appealing and user friendly. JQuery Lightbox plugins are used to overlay images… Continue reading 15 Useful and Effective jQuery Lightbox plugins

jQuery Easy Dropdown for Styleable Inputs and Menus

EasyDropDown is a jQuery plugin that effortlessly turns humble elements into styleable drop-down menus for use in forms or general UI/navigation. It’s like Chosen but with only the essential features: clean, semantic markup, form & validation compatibilty, full keyboard control with textual search, inner-scroll for long lists, degradation to native UI on touch devices. Requirements:… Continue reading jQuery Easy Dropdown for Styleable Inputs and Menus

Creating the New Google Play’s Multi-Level Navigation from Scratch

Google have recently released a new Google Play website complete with a new redesign and what caught my attention was the way they implemented their navigation bar. With the smooth animation and how they let users peek at the root-level menu by simply hovering a back button, I decided to build a similar navigation menu from scratch… Continue reading Creating the New Google Play’s Multi-Level Navigation from Scratch

Useful Tutorials for Web Designers and Developers

In this round up I present some useful tutorials which can be very much helpful to all designers and developers.   Understanding the Qualities and Characteristics of Color Creating Content Tabs with Pure CSS Creating a Modern Lightbox with CSS3 and JavaScript Making Draggable Webpage Elements using jQuery 30 Must Have Wicked Text Effect Tutorials… Continue reading Useful Tutorials for Web Designers and Developers

Showcase Of Fresh And Free jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

Plugins and tutorials are great designing resources for the designers. With the help of tutorials, designers can learn and practice new technique of using their designing tool and plugins are meant to simplify their designing work. In the recent times, jQuery has become simply miraculous seeing that with jQuery you can discover plugins to achieve… Continue reading Showcase Of Fresh And Free jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

Recreate Google Nexus Menu

Recently I stumbled upon Codrops’ tutorial regarding the recreation of Google Nexus navigation menu. That was inspiring and such a creative navigation system from Google. So, I decided to create a jQuery version to challenge to myself. I have been playing with the original Google Nexus Menu for a while. Based on my observation, I summarised its… Continue reading Recreate Google Nexus Menu

Tutorial: How To Build Input Fields with Tag-Style Item Blocks

Many newer social media communities and web applications are pushing the boundaries of interface design. Form inputs have changed a lot over just the past 4-5 years. One such feature is the tag select input field, where users can enter tags which appear as block items within the field itself. For this tutorial I want… Continue reading Tutorial: How To Build Input Fields with Tag-Style Item Blocks

How To Build a Range Slider Input with jQuery UI

Looking at the HTML5 range input element you can see a number of advancements. Forms are able to take in restricted information from users sliding between number segments. But unfortunately these HTML5 inputs are only supported in modern browsers. So although there are a few limitations we can try to work around them. I want… Continue reading How To Build a Range Slider Input with jQuery UI

Web Design Trend Showcase: Big Video Headers

Following on from my recent showcase of websites featuring full screen videos, today’s post looks at the sub-trend of big video headers in web design. HTML5 and jQuery make it easy to add dynamic video content to your site without bogging down the browser with Flash. This means designers can start to play with video… Continue reading Web Design Trend Showcase: Big Video Headers

Create a Simple jQuery Image Lightbox Gallery

When building your own WordPress theme, there are a number of items to consider. One such page element is a dynamic image gallery, either using a lightbox or some type of sliding panel. Both of these user interfaces mesh nicely into the content of an article. Since they can both work on typical websites it… Continue reading Create a Simple jQuery Image Lightbox Gallery

15 Excellent jQuery Animations for Web Developers

jQuery animations are the key concept in the current time web development, there are many JavaScript frameworks available but jQuery single-handedly side out the remaining. jQuery is the fastest and easy to implement framework and the most adorable JavaScript library to the date. jQuery animations are created with the help of these JavaScript libraries to… Continue reading 15 Excellent jQuery Animations for Web Developers

20 Free Open Source CSS3 User Interface Kits

  The power of CSS3 design offers unique trends for building custom website interfaces. And with the help of the open source movement, it is now easier than ever to make your own customized layout design. CSS3 user interface kits have become more common and you can find these published within various websites and blog.… Continue reading 20 Free Open Source CSS3 User Interface Kits

10+ Mobile Friendly Responsive jQuery Slider Plugins

One of the hottest trends in the web design space, started by the popularity of mobile devices, is design of websites with responsive layouts. Indeed, if you are planning to build a website, it is an advantage, if not a must, that you go for a template design for your web page that can conveniently be viewed by mobile internet users whose number is increasing by leaps and bounds.

Top 10 Skills Employers Look For In A Graphic Designer

Thanks to the digital revolution, graphic designers are now more in demand than ever in 2013. From logo and banner creation to newsletter and app design, graphic design roles today can be extremely diverse and can vary wildly from employer to employer. Despite this, the sector still remains one of the most competitive in the… Continue reading Top 10 Skills Employers Look For In A Graphic Designer

11 Amazing Responsive jQuery Sliders

jQuery’s launch was nothing less than a blessing for the designing and development community. JQuery has totally changed the way one used to create sites as it makes all the work extremely easy and quick. The best thing about jQuery is the availability of plugins which saves your precious time and energy as implementing them… Continue reading 11 Amazing Responsive jQuery Sliders

10 Powerful Responsive Lightboxes

Lightbox has always been one of the great method to display images without having to refresh a page. Nowadays, with the booming of responsive websites, lightboxes also have evolved to adapt nicely with the trendy responsive layout. Here we have 10 responsive lightboxes. Its modal window resizes itself to fit into the window viewport. We… Continue reading 10 Powerful Responsive Lightboxes

Super Smooth CSS Transitions for jQuery

Transit is a super-smooth CSS transitions & transformations for jQuery. You can make transition on any CSS property. They will happen much smoother than if you were to use jQuery’s default .animate(). You can easily translate, rotate, scale, skew and etc.Transit degrades older browsers by simply not doing the transformations (rotate, scale, etc) while still… Continue reading Super Smooth CSS Transitions for jQuery