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PSD.tutsplus. 40 jQuery and CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques :Speckyboy Design Magazine. In this article you will find a comprehensive selection of tutorials and techniques that make use of some exciting and fresh CSS3 properties and injected this with some innovative jQuery. You will some truly creative image galleries/sliders, a marvelous selection of innovative navigation techniques, a handful of original form solutions and the rest of the tutorials cover almost all aspects of web design.

Hope you find them useful. Why and how to create Microsoft Office Minibar In this tutorial you will learn how to recreate a variation of MS Words (2007) toolbar that exposes context-related functionality. When user makes a selection in the input field, a Minibar pops up, semi-transparent, above the selection. It disappears when user clicks anywhere in the input field or performs an action by clicking on a Minibar button. View the Demo → Making a Sleek Feed Widget With YQL, jQuery & CSS3 View the Demo → A Sexy Vertical Sliding Panel Using jQuery And CSS3 View the Demo → View the Demo →

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.45) :Speckyboy Design Magazine. This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our RSS feed. As always, if you have any cool links that you would like to share, do not hesitate to share them here: Submit News.

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How to Create a Drop-down Nav Menu with HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery. In this tutorial, we’ll take a look and see what we can achieve with HTML5 and CSS3 when it comes to the staple of current web sites: the humble drop-down navigation menu. We’ll also use jQuery to handle the effects and add the finishing touches for us. HTML5 brings to the spec a dedicated <nav> element that should be used as the container for any major navigation structure, such as the main vertical or horizontal site navigation menus, or an in-page table of contents for example. IE unfortunately doesn’t support this new element yet, but there is a simple fix we can use, of which I’m sure you’re all aware. Using CSS3 we can do away with what would have required the use of several background images and possibly an additional wrapping container or two and rely (almost) purely on some of the new style properties, such as rounded corners and drop-shadows for example, that are available to supporting browsers.

Again, not all browsers (cough, IE!) Step 1. Step 2. the Underlying Page Step 3. Guacamole, HTML5 JavaScript VNC Viewer. Ways to debug your jQuery or JavaScript codes. Debugging your client code is rather a normal procedures for any web developers. Everyone will shout Firebug! Yeah, me too. But Firebug is great for syntax detection but how about logic problem? In this article i will share with you some of the ways i used to debug my JavaScript or jQuery codes when I’m developing my web application. I will also share with you a trick that i used on my code to alert me that a bug occurs in a particular script since i don’t get many helpful users nowadays. Alert Them Out The most simple and basic way of debugging is by using JavaScript alert function. Log them up Well, if you are using WebKit browsers for your development (FireFox, Chrome, Safari) you may want to try this.

What this does is to log the string ‘The Bug is killing me’ into the console such as Firebug. Log them with jQuery The above two methods work both in jQuery and JavaScript. The above creates a function, ‘log’. Try and catch Catch them all Summary Like this post? No related posts. About Clay. Web Design Tutorials – CSS Tutorials, jQuery Tutorials, SEO Tips, Beginner Tutorials, Intermediate Tutorials, and more. | Los Angeles Web Designer & Front-end Developer - Soh Tanaka. TutorialShock. 5 Useful Coding Solutions For Designers And Developers - Smashing Magazine. Advertisement This post is the the next installment of posts featuring “Useful Coding Solutions for Designers and Developers“, a series of posts focusing on unique and creative CSS/JavaScript-techniques being implemented by talented professionals in our industry.

A key talent that any Web designer must acquire is the ability to observe, understand and build on other people’s designs. This is a great way to develop the skills and techniques necessary to produce effective websites. With that in mind, let’s look at some clever techniques developed and used by top professionals in the Web design industry. 1. Designing a timeline is one of the tasks that frequently need to be solved when it comes to the design of portfolios. How is this done? Here is the HTML: <div class="timeslot"><span>2009</span><p>Duis acsi ullamcorper humo decet, incassum validus, appellatio in qui tation roto, lobortis brevitas epulae. And here is the CSS: 2. One website that is truly unique is Jason Santa Maria’s. 1. <? 40 Useful jQuery Techniques and Plugins - Smashing Magazine.

Over the last year, Smashing Magazine has evolved. We’ve been publishing fewer lists and more in-depth articles about design and Web development. We have invited professionals and high-profile developers to write for us. We’ve been investing more resources in the quality and relevance of our articles. We’ve also explored new formats; and on weekends we’ve been publishing more inspirational pieces, leaving the in-depth articles to weekdays. We’ve tried our best to fuel the growing appetite of our readers for more advanced articles, but recently we’ve been receiving more requests for carefully selected, useful round-ups.

We are not big fans of lists either, but the format is useful and — if the resources are relevant — can be extremely helpful. In this post, we present 40 useful but obscure jQuery plug-ins that will hopefully help you improve the user experience on your websites. jQuery Slider plugin (Safari style) 3jQuery Slider is easy to use and multifunctional jQuery plugin. Forms Link.