Creating 3D worlds with HTML and CSS by Keith Clark Last year I created a demo showing how CSS 3D transforms could be used to create 3D environments. The demo was a technical showcase of what could be achieved with CSS at the time but I wanted to see how far I could push things, so over the past few months I’ve been working on a new version with more complex models, realistic lighting, shadows and collision detection. This post documents how I did it and the techniques I used.
5 Tips To Improve Your Design Skills It doesn’t matter how good you are today. What really matters is how fast you progress and what steps you take every day to improve your design skills. Recently, I tried to sum up my last several years of being a graphic designer in order to discover what really brought me to the level I’m at today. Nothing happens overnight.
Using Git Inside of Sublime Text to Improve Workflow Improving workflow and increasing productivity is very important to us developers. Every second counts since the time we spend on small tasks adds up. Small tasks like our Git commands are something that we do on a daily basis.
A JavaScript library for building user interfaces A Simple Component React components implement a render() method that takes input data and returns what to display. This example uses an XML-like syntax called JSX. Input data that is passed into the component can be accessed by render() via this.props. JSX is optional and not required to use React.
40 CSS jQuery Charts and Graphs Data visualization is the modern equivalent of visual communication and involves the creation and study of the visual representation of data. It transforms information in an abstract, schematic and visual form. Data visualization’s goal is to communicate information clearly and efficiently, and this is done via charts, graphs, plots etc. These use dots, lines, or bars, to visually communicate a message.
Designers checklist advices — Project by Adrien Heury 06/07Build your portfolio & your client base Brijan PowellDesigner • Rally interactive • SLC As I mentioned earlier, posting your work on as many different networks as possible really does get your name and your work out to more than just other designers. Many designers I know get a lot of business inquiries from people who have seen their work on the previously mentioned design communities. Also mentioned above is the fact that your work should be your very best every time.
AJAX with jQuery — Flask 0.11-dev documentation jQuery is a small JavaScript library commonly used to simplify working with the DOM and JavaScript in general. It is the perfect tool to make web applications more dynamic by exchanging JSON between server and client. JSON itself is a very lightweight transport format, very similar to how Python primitives (numbers, strings, dicts and lists) look like which is widely supported and very easy to parse. It became popular a few years ago and quickly replaced XML as transport format in web applications. Loading jQuery Top 23 Best Free JavaScript Frameworks for Web Developers 2016 The JavaScript community experienced some really big changes last year. ECMAScript 6 was finally standardized and published, and most popular compilers and web browsers are working hard to adapt to all the new changes and regulations. To fully understand such a huge update (the last ES update was in 2009), it’s necessary to immerse yourself within a solid step by step guide that discusses all of the aspects of the new standard, and the best such guide we could find comes from Lars Kappert who shared his ES6 list of changes post at Smashing Mag. In terms of implemented ES6 features into browsers themselves, Mozilla Firefox (85%) and Google Chrome (71%) are currently leading the pack for everyone else to follow. But JavaScript is much more than just a standard, some really great apps and platforms have been built and published for the public this year, one of the latest being OS.js — a fully functional cloud platform that integrates Desktop Computer features within the browser.
CSS Effects: 150 Cool CSS Examples And Tutorials We have put together a smart collection of cool CSS effects to help you learn the nitty-gritty details so that you can use it to create more beautiful web sites. Enjoy! 1. Swatch Book Tutorial with CSS3 & jQuery [Demo] If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel Mercury Venus Earth 50+ Beautiful CSS3 Buttons with Effects & Tutorials - freshDesignweb Same effect can be used on navigation bars, buttons etc., and these look great in every major browser except Internet Explorer 8 and below as they do not support the gradients and box shadows. Please take a look at the source code to understand more about them. Enjoying wonderful new CSS3 properties we can create some amazingly elegant and stylish buttons styles without the smell of an image and have perfectly adequate fall back styles for older browsers. You may like to create your buttons directly in CSS, or you may like to head to your layout tool of choice, but it is important to consider how your button design lives in context .
Simple Solar Circuits Simple Solar Circuits: How to get started adding solar power to your small electronics projects. Use the sun to power small solar and battery powered night lights, garden lights, and decorations for halloween. The first part of a solar circuit is… a device for collecting sunlight. To keep things simple, we’re using a single nicely made small solar panel for all of these circuits. The panel that we’re using for these circuits is this one, part number PWR1241 from BG Micro, about $3 each. Specificity - SitePoint Specificity is a mechanism within the CSS cascade that aids conflict resolution. The concept of specificity states that when two or more declarations that apply to the same element, and set the same property, have the same importance and origin, the declaration with the most specific selector will take precedence. Consider this example:
Introduction Hey there, it appears your Javascript is disabled. That's fine, the site works without it. However, you might prefer reading it with syntax highlighting, which requires Javascript! About this tutorial This is the beginning of Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good! Reading this tutorial should be one of your first steps in learning Erlang, so let's talk about it a bit.