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Gifts - London Graphic Centre - Gifts & Stationery. Thu, 06/14/2012. Thu, 06/14/2012. An HTML5 Slideshow w/ Canvas & jQuery. Martin Angelov You’ve probably heard a lot about the new HTML5 canvas element.

An HTML5 Slideshow w/ Canvas & jQuery

As the name implies, this is a special element that allows us to create and modify graphics. In addition, we can also use it like any other element on the page – apply jQuery animations on it, listen for events and integrate it deeply into our layouts. All uses of canvas you’ve come so far are probably limited to games and other proof of concept demos. Today, however, we are doing something practical – we are making a progressively enhanced slideshow with a fancy transitioning effect, which is perfectly functional in older browsers as well. Update: Per popular demand, you can now download an auto-advancing version of this slideshow. The Idea With JavaScript, we are going to apply a special filter to every image in the slideshow.

How the Slideshow Works When the user chooses to proceed to another slide, the canvas is shown with a fadeIn animation, creating a smooth lighting effect. The HTML html5-slideshow.html <! Create a Grid Based Web Design in HTML5 & CSS3. Follow this step by step walkthrough of the making of a sleek website design for an eyewear brand in HTML5 and CSS3.

Create a Grid Based Web Design in HTML5 & CSS3

We’ll build the HTML structure with the latest elements then style up the appearance of the site with CSS3 affects to match the original Photoshop concept with minimal use of background images. The design we’ll be coding up is for a fictional eyewear brand named OPTIK. If you’re interested in seeing how the design concept was created in Photoshop, head over to Blog.SpoonGraphics so see part one of the tutorial.

Essentially the page is based on an underlying grid and features a few key focal elements to direct the user towards the various ranges of eyewear. View the Photoshop design tutorial I know I mentioned we’d build the website with minimal background images, but there’s still a few graphics that need pulling out of the Photoshop concept that just can’t be recreated in HTML or CSS (…yet!). In the original concept we saved two versions of the range graphics. <! <!

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Infographie. QRhacker.com - Pimp your code! Web Developer Resources: A Mega-Compilation. The Internet is constantly growing and there are hundreds of thousands of collective resources for upcoming web developers.

Web Developer Resources: A Mega-Compilation

From online articles, tutorials, tools, guides, to videos, you can learn just about anything over the Web. It has really never been easier to jump online! Below I’ve put together a huge collection of some very helpful web developer resources. These include beginner’s material for HTML5/CSS3 along with more complicated theories for JavaScript and PHP programming. It’s possible for a couple of enthusiastic developers to study these languages and build wildly popular web applications similar to Twitter or Tumblr. Helpful Online Magazines The blogging world has exploded with hundreds of thousands of new writers taking to the Internet.

Depending on what type of language you code, it will determine your interest in any of these blogs. There are certainly many others to consider. jQuery Plugins Galore Building in HTML5 & CSS3 CSS Designers Customizing Themes with WordPress.