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LavaLamp for jQuery lovers!

Hover above and feel for yourself, the nifty effect of Lava Lamp. What you just experienced is nothing but the LavaLamp menu packaged as a plugin for the amazing jQuery javascript library. I personally believe that the effect rivals that of flash – Don’t you? Especially considering the fact that it is extremely light weight. Just so you know, it weighs just 700 bytes(minified)! Often I have noticed, that the credits are usually granted towards the end. As User Interface developers, we know that one of the first widgets our visitors use is a “Menu”. I hope you agree that a typical HTML widget consists of 3 distinct components. A semantically correct HTML markupA CSS to skin the markupAn unobstrusive javascript that gives it a purpose Now lets follow the above steps and implement the LavaLamp menu for your site. Step 1: The HTML Since most UI developers believe that an unordered list(ul) represents the correct semantic structure for a Menu/Navbar, we will start by writing just that. Bonus

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leanModal - a JQuery modal plugin that works with your CSS 10 Excellent New Free Fonts Here at WDL, we know how important it is for our readers to have as many good resources as possible in their design library. That’s why we do our best to gather what is new out there and deliver it to you. So today we have a new round of free fonts to give you plenty of typography options for your upcoming designs. Enjoy! Nexa Maven Pro Corki Mission Script Balls Family Bouwen Pixa Type Family Frontage NeoDeco Signika About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 892 shares 10 Best New Free Fonts We’ve been on the prowl for some new free fonts to share with you. Read More 1136 shares 9 Free & Useful Fonts for your Designs Whether it’s PSD’s or icons, we love finding high quality free files and sharing them with our readers.

Perfect Full Page Background Image Learn Development at Frontend Masters This post was originally published on August 21, 2009 and is now updated as it has been entirely revised. Both original methods are removed and now replaced by four new methods. The goal here is a background image on a website that covers the entire browser window at all times. Let’s put some specifics on it: Fills entire page with image, no white spaceScales image as neededRetains image proportions (aspect ratio)Image is centered on pageDoes not cause scrollbarsAs cross-browser compatible as possibleIsn’t some fancy shenanigans like Flash Image above credited to this site. Awesome, Easy, Progressive CSS3 Way We can do this purely through CSS thanks to the background-size property now in CSS3. Works in: Safari 3+Chrome Whatever+IE 9+Opera 10+ (Opera 9.5 supported background-size but not the keywords)Firefox 3.6+ (Firefox 4 supports non-vendor prefixed version) View Demo CSS-Only Technique #1 Big thanks, as usual, to Doug Neiner for this alternate version.

jQuery plugin: Easy Image Zoom I have been working on a little script for a client of mine, that required product image magnification. The task was to create a script that will allow users to see large details of the product while moving cursor over medium sized image. During the process I decided to create a jQuery plugin and share it with you guys! Just as with all my script I try to keep things as lightweight as possible, and most important, as customizable as possible. I hope you’ll find this very easy to apply to your own websites. Take a look at the demo or Download the plugin Introduction First I suggest you check out the demo to see what the plugin is all about. Markup I usually start this section of my articles with the same sentence: "the markup couldn’t be simpler" The main idea behind this and other plugins I write is – keeping the markup as simple as possible. All you need for this plugin to work is anchor element containing the small image linking to the large image, but this structure is required: Options id

How to redirect your site to a mobile version through JavaScript « Sebastiano Armeli's Tech Blog The user needs to be redirected to the mobile version of the site (home page) if it’s trying to access the site from a mobile device. UPDATE 25/07/2011 : Version 0.9.5 released with support for “tablet_url”, “keep_path” and “keep_query” properties. Ipad and other tablet devices have been excluded from the list of mobile devices by default. You can use “tablet_redirection” and “tablet_url” parameters for tablets. To solve this problem, the best approach is implementing something server-side, and I find a good approach using the WURFL file to check the capabilities and features of mobile devices. Read here to know more about WURFL. Sometimes, a server-side solution can become difficult to implement especially if we have a CDN or reverse proxy (sitting in front of our Web Server) caching our pages. Here JavaScript comes to the rescue and I wrote a script that makes the redirection happen called ”redirection_mobile.js”. You can find the source here on Github. Go to main site

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