Today we are building an animated navigation for a watercolor-styled website which will have links that appear to be painted when it is hovered on. The watercolor graphics were created in Photoshop and we’ll be using the popular jQuery JavaScript framework for the animation. via How to Build a jQuery Brush Stroke Navigation | Onextrapixel – [...]
February 5, 2010
Often, in your design or development tasks, you are presented with challenges that require a different approach than just plunging head over heels in coding. Research and experiments are a vital part of this process. This is why this week’s tutorial is structured in a slightly different manner than usual. First we are presented with the [...]
February 3, 2010
QUnit, developed by the jQuery team, is a great framework for unit testing your JavaScript. In this tutorial, I’ll introduce what QUnit specifically is, and why you should care about rigorously testing your code. via How to Test your JavaScript Code with QUnit | Nettuts+.
February 3, 2010
At first glance the Google Map API may seem scary, I mean, were do you possibly start? You probably only want to display a simple map that displays directions to your clients address, you don’t really want an all singing and dancing interactive map with more options than necessary. There has to be a simpler [...]
February 3, 2010
There’s no denying that the web has evolved and continues to evolve into something very different from what we had in mind a few years ago. Animation on websites has gone a long way, some time ago everything and anything that had movement on a website was automatically categorized as Flash, now we have these different [...]
February 3, 2010
It’s about time you started to learn something new right? Well here’s your chance. jQuery is the newest and coolest thing when it comes to websites. Everyone is using it these days, and why not when it’s so easy to do.In this tutorial you will learn just how easy it is by learning how to [...]
February 2, 2010
I’ve been working on a multiple select plugin on and off for the past couple months and finally have it stable enough for a first release. When I started this project my intentions were only to re-factor Cory LaViska’s MultiSelect implementation, but it quickly turned into a complete re-write with a focus on speed [...]
February 2, 2010
Late last year, I was working on the UI for a potential project and I needed a drop-down menu that displayed any content I needed, specifically a combination of images and lists. I didn’t feel that only using a UL style was semantic enough or gave me the flexibility I needed. So, jDiv was born. via [...]
February 2, 2010
Every couple of weeks I seem to find myself checking 9rules.com to see if they’re accepting new submissions as I’d like to submit this site. Any how on this occasion I couldn’t help but notice the browse by community section at the top of the page. Clicking the button reveals a section that contains a [...]
February 1, 2010
After I got a lot of feedback for the Beautiful Slide Out Navigation, I had some new ideas for a similar horizontal navigation. Thanks a lot to everyone! Like Stefan Matei pointed out, it might be quite cute but we don’t want the user to hover over all options first, in order to see what menu [...]
February 5, 2010
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