Trends in interactive design 2013 Parallax Hovering And Its Engaging Quality For Web Design Parallax effects are interactive by nature and still relatively new in web design. That’s why they are a great way to make your visitors curious, draw them in, and engage them with your website. On the web, as much as in the real world, we are quite cautious and like to be in control. At times, we are uncertain and appreciate instant feedback on our actions. Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight. – Source If we look at a close object from two different viewpoints, and against a distant background, we get a different perspective for each viewpoint. A while back we talked about parallax effects triggered by scrolling. Attract your visitors’ attention Regarding the visual and animated nature of parallax effects, they are a great way to attract attention. Parallax effects can guide your users’ line of sight. Use parallax hovering to attract your visitors’ attention. Create a sense of depth Entertain your visitors
Text Opening Sequence with CSS Animations A simple and fun text opening sequence effect with blurry letters using CSS animations. View demo Download source Today I want to show you how to create a fun little typography effect with CSS animations and text shadows. Maybe you know those eerie opening sequences of movie trailers where some text is being faded in on a dark background. After seeing Introducting Briefs (which is not a terror movie trailer but a preview for an interesting app) I got inspired for recreating the effect using CSS. The idea is to blur text and make it appear with a rotation while animating the space between the letters. So, let’s do it. Please note: this is highly experimental and only works as intended in browsers that support the respective CSS properties. The idea is to have a couple of sentences fade in with the aforementioned effect, so we’ll want to wrap every appearing bit into an h2: Remember, this is just a experimental effect; let’s not be too strict with markup best practices :) And the last one?
Sliding Boxes and Captions with JQuery One Mighty Roar via Ad Packs Jarek Kubicki ArtistMore Work Kamil Smala ArtistMore Work Martin Stranka PhotographerMore Work Florian Nicolle Graphic DesignerMore Work The Nonsense Society Art, Music, WordWebsite This is the Live Demo Go back to the tutorial for a full explanation of what's going on! Aloha Editor - HTML5 WYSIWYG Editor Javascript : 10 plugins que vous devez connaître - ressource-javascript Pour vous aujourd'hui, 10 ressources javascript pour vous aider dans vos projets. Chosen est un plugin javascript ajoutant de nombreuses fonctionnalités aux selects, tout en les rendant beaucoup plus jolis. Disponible pour jQuery et prototype. TypedJS est un outil de test pour javascript. Fancybox est un très bon plugin de lightbox, peut être le meilleur sur le marché. Turnjs est un clone de l'effet de page tournée de ibook sur ios. Jcrop est un plugin jQuery permettant de cropper une image en JS. Comment faire une timeline simplement en JS? Ce plugin permet de transformer simplement des données json un joli diagramme de Gantt Vos clients trouvent wordpress trop complexe? Codemirror est un éditeur de texte en ligne avec coloration syntaxique.
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25 free, scrolling plugins for awesome experiences The art of creating a website these days is learning how to create an online experience. Many of these experiences are extensions of a brand or person and are relayed via different colors, fonts, etc. Thanks to awesome advancements in technologies, we can do a lot of stuff with our websites that we couldn’t do a few years ago. One of the trendiest techniques to have fun with is scrolling. Many of these techniques are what is affectionately called parallax scrolling. That’s why today, we’ve put together a bunch of our favorite plugins to get even the least code-savvy started making some great scrolling sites… Scrolld.js Cool Kitten FoldScroll fullPage.js AnimateScroll Parallax.js Jarallax jInvertScroll jQuery Full Content One Page Scroll jQuery Parallax Scroll Path PageScroller Lite jquery-parallax Arbitrary-Anchor Portfoliojs Scrolling Parallax Scrollocue Scrollorama Scrolltab Scrolly Skrollr Sly Smint Super Scrollorama Have you developed a site based around scrolling?
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Javascript Mistakes You Must Avoid If you are new to JavaScript and you write raw JavaScript or use any framework (jQuery, Mootools, Dojo, YUI) with it, you must avoid few mistakes. Actually these are my experiences when I was learning JavaScript. Equality Operator You may know that in js, two operators are used for comparing values. Here are more examples. Some of the results are unexpected specially for those who don’t know how JavaScript evaluates == operator. Consider the first example (1 == “1″). In the second example (“true” == true) is false because if the string contain characters other than digits, convertion to number will return NaN which means Not a Number. You can check what value will be returned after conversion to number using the Number constructor. Now you maybe wondering how === operator works. Not Assigning null to Reference Types It’s common mistake that many js developers don’t assign null value to variables of reference types (object or Array) when there use is finished. Don’t Forget Keyword var
Iframe loading techniques and performance First publication: December 20, 2010 Iframe setTimeout() does not work in IE9 Chad Barnsdale of Unfinishedman.com mentioned to me on May 25 that the Iframe setTimeout() technique does not work in IE9. And he was right. The file that gets loaded into the iframe simply does not load. Nothing happens. I will dive into this sometime soon. Iframes are often used to load third party content, ads and widgets. Iframes block onload of the main page The main page and iframe share the same connection pool The onload blocking is the biggest problem of the two and hurts performance the most. How can you load an iframe without blocking onload and as a result improve page performance? This article shows 4 ways to load an iframe in a web page: Normal Iframe, Iframe After Onload, Iframe setTimeout() and Dynamic Asynch Iframe. Normal Iframe You all know this one. Using the Normal Iframe technique will result in the following behaviour in all browsers: Click for bigger version. Iframe After Onload Like it?