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http://alistapart.com/article/responsive-images-how-they-almost-worked-and-what-we-need It’s our job, as designers and developers, to pick apart even the seemingly most simple tasks to find ways to improve them. When Ethan Marcotte coined “ responsive web design, ” he said that a responsive website is made up of three things: a flexible grid, flexible images and media, and media queries. In doing so, he opened up a world of new and exciting things to obsess over. I chose flexible images. <img src="M70o93H7pQ09L8X1t49cHY01Z5j4TT91fGfr" alt="">

Responsive Images: How they Almost Worked and What We Need

How Often Do You Try New Things?

Web design in complicated and requires a lot of time and knowledge — and patience. It's no longer just embedded text background images and slices; it's interactivity and dynamic content, it's HTML5 and mobile development, it's JSON objects and Local Storage. No, I’m not talking about trying base jumping, I’m talking about how often you try new things in web design. http://tympanus.net/codrops/2011/12/29/how-often-do-you-try-new-things/
Adding interactivity and animations to a design doesn’t have to be complicated or make the website inaccessible when you use modern Web standards. In this article, we’ll explore several examples and theories that employ CSS, HTML, SVG, the canvas element and JavaScript. Some of these techniques you’ll know, others you may not have considered.

Bringing Interactivity To Your Website With Web Standards - Smashing Magazine

http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2011/02/03/bringing-interactivity-to-your-website-with-web-standards/
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validate.js

http://rickharrison.github.com/validate.js/ Lightweight JavaScript form validation library inspired by CodeIgniter. No dependencies, just over 1kb gzipped, and customizable! validate.js (development - 10.5kb) validate.min.js (minified - 1.3kb)
JavaScript went on to become cult right after its launch due to its extensive list of features. It also gave programmers the chance to give their webpages a more eye-popping look and website visitors were happier than ever. Despite the large number of developers that sing the praises of JavaScript, there are those Internet users who see its dark side. Webpages using multiple JavaScript codes are slow to load and overuse of JavaScript contributes to making webpages look cluttered and ugly. In no time the smart use of JavaScript became a hot topic amongst programmers. Without further ado, let us dive into our list of JavaScript best practices that will save you from this unwanted criticism.

Top 10 “Must Follow” JavaScript Best Practices | Web development blog, news and reviews - Developer Drive

http://www.developerdrive.com/2011/08/top-10-must-follow-javascript-best-practices-2/

KeyboardJS Demo

http://robertwhurst.github.com/KeyboardJS/ Press some keys... A JavaScript library for binding keyboard combos without the pain of key codes and key combo conflicts. It can be used as both a standalone library or an AMD module (see RequireJS for details). KeyboardJS can support any locale, however out of the box it just comes with the US locale (for now). Adding a new locale is easy.
http://www.developerdrive.com/2011/10/how-to-change-a-pages-background-as-the-user-scrolls/

How To Change A Page’s Background As The User Scrolls | Web development blog, news and reviews - Developer Drive

jQuery is great for adding enhancing effects that would otherwise be impossible with just HTML and CSS. In this tutorial we’re going to use jQuery and two plugins to gradually change a website’s background as the user scrolls the page. We’ll be using the Color Animation and Waypoints plugins. The Color Animation plugin adds animations to the color properties of elements. jQuery already includes an animate function, this plugin simply extends it.
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