Minimalistic Slideshow Gallery with jQuery. In today’s tutorial we will create a simple and beautiful slideshow gallery that can be easily integrated in your web site. The idea is to have a container with our slideshow and the options to view a grid of thumbnails, pause the slideshow, and navigate through the pictures. The thumbnail grid will […] View demoDownload source In today’s tutorial we will create a simple and beautiful slideshow gallery that can be easily integrated in your web site.
The idea is to have a container with our slideshow and the options to view a grid of thumbnails, pause the slideshow, and navigate through the pictures. The thumbnail grid will slide out from the top and allow the user to navigate through a set of thumbnails. So, let’s start! The Markup The main HTML structure will consist of the main slideshow wrapper that contains a container for the full view image (msg_wrapper) and one for the thumbnails (msg_thumbs): The alt attribute of the thumbnails will contain the path the full view image.
The CSS. Thumbnails Navigation Gallery with jQuery. In this tutorial we are going to create an extraordinary gallery with scrollable thumbnails that slide out from a navigation. We are going to use jQuery and some CSS3 properties for the style. The main idea is to have a menu of albums where each item will reveal a horizontal bar with […] View demoDownload source In this tutorial we are going to create an extraordinary gallery with scrollable thumbnails that slide out from a navigation. We are going to use jQuery and some CSS3 properties for the style. The main idea is to have a menu of albums where each item will reveal a horizontal bar with thumbnails when clicked. The thumbnails container will scroll automatically when the user moves the mouse to the left or right.
When a thumbnail is clicked it will be loaded as a full image preview in the background of the page. The beautiful photos are from Mark Sebastian’s photostream on Flickr. So, let’s get started! The Markup Our HTML is mainly going to consist of a wrapper and the menu list. Beautiful Photo Stack Gallery with jQuery and CSS3. In this tutorial we are going to create a nice and fresh image gallery. The idea is to show the albums as a slider, and when an album is chosen, we show the images of that album as a beautiful photo stack. In the photo stack view, we can browse through the […] View demoDownload source In this tutorial we are going to create a nice and fresh image gallery.
The idea is to show the albums as a slider, and when an album is chosen, we show the images of that album as a beautiful photo stack. In the photo stack view, we can browse through the images by putting the top most image behind all the stack with a slick animation. We will use jQuery and CSS3 properties for the rotated image effect. We will also use a bit of PHP for getting the images from each album. So, let’s start! The Markup In our HTML structure we will have several elements. The opacity of the album div is going to be 0 in the beginning, we will then use JavaScript to fade in the columns. The PHP The CSS Let’s add the magic!
P.S. Web development tutorials, from beginner to advanced. 45 Free eBooks for Developers and Designers | Speckyboy Design Magazine. Over the past year or so we have published several articles featuring a selection of the best free ebooks for web designers, with each post proving very popular and highly resourceful. Sadly, since then some of the fantastic ebooks we previously featured are no longer available or are no longer been offered as a freebie. But looking on the positive side many new web design ebooks have been released and, as you will see within this post, there are also a few ebooks, recommended by our readers, which we missed in those previous articles. Just as we did with the previous posts we have not offered a critique of each book only a description of the content, as we feel that if someone spends so much valuable time writing an entire specialized book and then offer it for free, in our eyes they deserve only praise and appreciation.
All of the 45 books in this post are completely FREE and can be either downloaded in digital format (PDF) or viewed as a web page (HTML). Better CSS Font Stacks →PDF → Tutorials. Realtime Chat with Node.js By Nick Anastasov | In this tutorial, we are going to build a realtime chat system with Node.js, Express and the socket.io library. Visitors will be able to create private rooms in which they can chat with a friend. Read more My New Favorite Technique ForHiding Overflowing Text By Martin Angelov | In this short tutorial, I will show you my new favorite technique which fades overflowing text gracefully into the background – a perfect addition to your new design.
3 Free E-Books on jQuery. jQuery is a JavaScript library designed to make designers and front-end developers' lives easier. According to W3Techs, jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library by far, and is in use by 33.1% of all websites. If you're a designer or front-end developer, it's definitely something worth knowing. Here are some resources to help you learn and master jQuery. jQuery Fundamentals jQuery Fundamentals by Rebecca Murphey is a free e-book available in HTML.
It even includes an overview of JavaScript as its first chapter, to help developers get up to speed. It also contains contributions by James Padolsey, Paul Irish, and others also contributed to the book. jQuery: Novice to Ninja jQuery: Novice to Ninja by Earle Castledine and Craig Sharkie is a book published by SitePoint. Essential JavaScript & jQuery Design Patterns Essential JavaScript & jQuery Design Patterns by Addy Osmani is a free e-book of design patterns for those who already know jQuery but want to take their skills to the next level.
7 Free JavaScript E-Books and Tutorials. JavaScript has never been hotter, thanks to projects like Node.js, JQuery and PhoneGap. You can now use JavaScript for scripting in the browser, for creating desktop and mobile applications, and for creating server side web applications. But how do you get started? We've compiled a list of six free books and tutorials for beginning programmers, but those with programming experience may find some of these resources valuable as well. Feel free to add more free resources in the comments. Experienced programmers may also want to take a look at this StackOverflow thread on the subject, but most of the resources there aren't free. 6 Free E-Books and Tutorials on HTML5. HTML5 is popular for building rich Web sites as well as cross-platform mobile applications. And it looks like with Windows 8 Microsoft is embracing using HTML5 and JavaScript as a paradigm for building desktop applications as well.
With everyone from Apple to Microsoft embracing HTML5 as "the future," if you don't know it yet, you should probably get started. If you want to take full advantage of HTML5, you will need to know JavaScript, so you might want to start with our round-up of free JavaScript books. Dive Into HTML5 Dive Into HTML5 probably offers the best balance of depth and accessibility to the would-be HTML5 developer that you can find online for free. HTML5 Doctor HTML5 Doctor has been publishing tutorials for the past couple years. SitePoint's HTML5 and CSS3 Tutorials You can download a free PDF sample of HTML5 and CSS3 for the Real World by Estelle Weyl, Louis Lazaris and Alexis Goldstein from SitePoint, but you'll have to swap your e-mail address for it.
W3C HTML5 Reference.