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55 jQuery Navigation and Menu Plugins. Navigation is one of the most important elements in web design. It has to be neat, usable and creative at the same time in order to not scare your visitors away. jQuery is one of the most powerful tools to enhance your navigation and make it stand out. With jQuery you can bring together both the creative and usable. This article will cover 55 fresh and superb jQuery plugins that will make your menus look awesome.

Note that all of the listed plugins have been released in the last six months. 1. mb.verticalSlider jquery.mb.verticalSlider lets you show a long list of elements managing pagination, it can work with elements already in the DOM of your page or load them via Ajax when needed, it also works with a mouse wheel. Demo 1.1. With this script you can make nice and interactive drop down menus. View Demo 2. Fly SlideShow is a jQuery Slideshow script to present images as an automatic slideshow with a nice “fly” effect. It also features: Demo 3. Demo 4. Demo 5. Highlighted features: Demo Demo Demo. WordPress theme - The Anatomy, an Infographic. Index.php – home The index file controls what the homepage of your WordPress theme looks like. By default it is a loop that queries and then displays the most recent blog posts, with a link in the bottom to view previous posts.

Alternately, you can specify in wp-admin -> settings -> reading to have the home page be a page you created yourself in WordPress. In that case, you specify a different page/URL for the regular blog posts to appear on, and that page is generated by index.php. single.php – individual posts The display of individual posts in your WordPress theme is controlled by a little file called single.php. You can specify if you want sidebars (and which you want), if you want it to look different than the other pages on the site. page.php – individual pages Page.php controls what pages look like.

WordPress also allows you to create different page templates within your WordPress theme for different types of pages. Archive.php, category.php, tag.php – archives The Loop comments.php. How to Code an Awesome Categories Menu for Your WordPress Site. Categories vs Tags - SEO Best Practices for Sorting your Content.

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Responsive Web Design for WordPress Theme Designers. Responsive web design really took off in 2011 and I can see it becoming the standard by the end of 2012 – there really is no reason not to include it in your planning and build of new web sites these days. I have previsously looked at free responsive WordPress themes and Premium Responsive WordPress themes so today we’re going to look at how you build your own. If you feel daunted by the process or feel you are being left behind by this new technique then dont worry – bookmark this post as it contains everything you need to get up and running. I have split it into 5 key sections : Responsive Web Design Demystified Responsive design is a relatively new idea, and it is rapidly evolving. It’s full of rather confusing terms, such as responsive layouts, adaptive layouts, media queries and viewports.

Where to begin? Responsive Web Design Demystified » Awesome tutorials to master responsive web design Awesome tutorials to master responsive web design » Responsive Web Design Guidelines and Tutorials. Responsive Web Design Demystified. Tutorial by Matt Doyle | Level: Intermediate | Published on 30 September 2011 Categories: What exactly is responsive design, and how do you create a responsive website? This tutorial explains the concepts, and walks you through the basic steps for creating a responsive website layout. Responsive web design is a hot topic these days, especially as websites need to adapt to the growing number of mobile devices with their relatively small screens.

Many designers and developers want to create new websites with responsive layouts, or modify their existing sites to incorporate responsive elements. However, the whole topic can be somewhat bewildering at first glance. In this article, you get a gentle introduction to the world of responsive web design. Ready to explore the world of responsive design? Responsive design in a nutshell The basic idea of responsive web design is that a website should "respond" to the device it's being viewed on. The www.elated.com layout is fixed-width.

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