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Parallax scrolling sites have been a pretty hot UX thing of late, being showcased on various blogs. Although the “ooooh! aahhh!”-ness of it all has subsided, I think this type of site is certainly a legitimate design and development option for many brands. To help you choose a JavaScript or jQuery library or plugin for doing this sort of thing (unless you’re a masochist and want to write one from scratch!)
Parallax Scrolling Scripts and Plugins
In February 2012 I started to write jQuery tutorials for my free tutorials newsletter . The year is coming to an end and I still receive tutorial newsletter sign ups every day. New subscribers are unable to see all of the previously sent tutorials.
jQuery and JavaScript Tutorials - http://www.learnjquery.org/tutorials/
What is Stately? Stately is a symbol font that makes it easy to create a map of the United States using only HTML and CSS. Each state can be styled independently with CSS for making simple visualizations. And since it's a font, it scales bigger and smaller while staying sharp as a tack.
Stately | The simple map font
Useful Software/websites
I always get sentimental this time of year. For me, the next few weeks will be a dizzying blur of aromatic turkey, neatly wrapped gifts, and family. In an effort to keep myself from becoming too wrapped up in the holiday shenanigans of black Friday sales and rushing to buy the last can of cranberry sauce, I have compiled a list of 20 web design tools that I am thankful for this year. I use most of these tools on a daily basis, and hope that you will find them as helpful as I do! 1- Firebug
20 Tools Web Designers Should Be Thankful For This Thanksgiving
The HTML5 revolution has provided us some awesome JavaScript and HTML APIs. Some are APIs we knew we've needed for years, others are cutting edge mobile and desktop helpers. Regardless of API strength or purpose, anything to help us better do our job is a step in the right direction. I recently shared with you 5 HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed in the hope that some of them would inspire you to improve your own web apps. I'd like to share with you 5 more lessor known HTML5 APIs -- hopefully you find some of them useful!
5 More HTML5 APIs You Didn’t Know Existed
The HTML5 Time Element Is Back and Better Than Ever
<img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-52218" title="html5logo" src="http://www.webmonkey.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/html5logo.jpg" alt="" height="240" /> The HTML5 time element pulled a disappearing act last year. HTML5 editor Ian Hickson deleted it from the specification , but then the W3C, the group that oversees HTML5, stepped in to override Hickson’s decision, adding time back to HTML5 . Now you see it, now you don’t, now you do again . The W3C didn’t just add time back though; they’ve improved it considerably. While nothing has changed with the human-readable part — that is, anything between <time> and </time> — the datetime attribute has been imbued with new superpowers.
Tutorial 3 - Nested lists - all steps combined There may be times when you want to open a side navigation list out, to show subsections within a section. The most semantically correct way to achieve this is by using nested lists. HTML CODE <div id="navcontainer"> <ul> <li><a href="#">Milk</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Goat</a></li> <li><a href="#">Cow</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#">Eggs</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Free-range</a></li> <li><a href="#">Other</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="#">Cheese</a> <ul> <li><a href="#">Smelly</a></li> <li><a href="#">Extra smelly</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> Step 1 - Make a nested list
Listutorial: Tutorial 3 - Nested lists
22 Handy HTML5 & CSS3 Tools, Resources And Guides
HTML5 and CSS3 are bringing new features to us and in this article you’ll be able to find some great tools, cheat sheets and much more you could need to master these new features. Maybe those new features aren’t yet supported fully, but it’s a very good thinking to learn new technologies now so you would be able to use them fully when they are supported. Be modern designer! After starting the testsuite it will automatically run a large number of small tests which will determine if your browser is compatible with a large number of CSS selectors.