Inspiration for Article Intro Effects | Demo 1 We may define a food to be any substance which will repair the functional waste of the body, increase its growth, or maintain the heat, muscular, and nervous energy. In its most comprehensive sense, the oxygen of the air is a food; as although it is admitted by the lungs, it passes into the blood, and there re-acts upon the other food which has passed through the stomach. It is usual, however, to restrict the term food to such nutriment as enters the body by the intestinal canal. Many popular writers have divided foods into flesh-formers, heat-givers, and bone-formers. These last are not strictly foods, if we keep to the definition already given; but they are consumed with the true foods or nutrients, comprised in the other two classes, and cannot well be excluded from consideration. Water forms an essential part of all the tissues of the body. Mineral Matter or Salts, is left as an ash when food is thoroughly burnt. Flesh-formers, heat-givers, and bone-formers Soaking in cold water
SVG Drawing Animation A little experiment that explores the usage of SVG line drawing animations to precede the appearance of graphics or website elements, simulating the loading of them. View demo Download source SVG is finally becoming a more utilized and fun website component. It’s really powerful and there are many creative possibilities for fun effects on a website using SVG. Today we’d like to share two experimental concepts with you that make use of stroke animations, made popular by the animations on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One review sites. This technique was introduced and explained by Jake Archibald in his article Animated line drawing in SVG and also explored by Brian Suda in his article Animating Vectors with SVG for 24Ways. So, what concepts did we explore? The beautiful illustrations of the devices are by Pixeden and you can find the PSD files here: The traced SVG line drawings of these illustrations were carefully crafted by talented Emanuel Serbanoiu.
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When Design Best Practices Become Performance Worst Practices Your design team has come up with a gorgeous prototype for the next iteration of your home page. It conforms to known design and usability best practices, and your testers loved it in the lab. You push the design to your live site and the results are … well, a little disappointing. Not terrible, but your conversion rate hasn’t made the leap you expected. Why? If it’s any consolation, you’re not alone. The Relationship Between Page Speed and Business Metrics I’ll keep this short, in case you’re already familiar with the knowledge that there’s a direct relationship between how quickly a web application performs and how effective it is at doing whatever it’s intended to do. For example, an in-house Walmart.com study found that, for every one second of load time improvement, the site experienced up to a 2% increase in conversions. 3.5% decrease in conversion rate,2.1% drop in cart size,9.4% fewer page views, and8.3% increase in bounce rate. What’s the Sweet Spot? When Good Practices Go Bad
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16 Inspiring Examples of Interactive Maps in Web Design Interactive maps can be a a great way of displaying useful information in an engaging and attractive way by inviting the user to take action. With huge developments in GEO tagging over the last decade, the advent of Google Maps APIs and the introduction of Fusion tables, more and more websites are taking advantage of these comprehensive tools to showcase their data. We take a look at some interesting uses of these maps in 2013. The Music Map 50 Problems in 50 Days Mobile Bay Build with Chrome – Lego Flybe Route Map YCO Yacht The Global Transition GeocodEarth World of Merix Yvan Rodic – Cities Messages for Japan Startup Weekend Irrland Bluecadet Keystone Headhesive demo - Mark Goodyear Headhesive.js creates an on-demand sticky header. Specify where you want your header to become fixed and the rest is magic. Scroll to see it in action Soft southern pansy ne'ermind breadcake eeh gi' o'er be reet. Will 'e 'eckerslike tintintin ee by gum big girl's blouse nay lad shu' thi gob. Where there's muck there's brass tha daft apeth be reet. Bobbar ah'll learn thi ey up. Bobbar shu' thi gob a pint 'o mild any rooad god's own county tha daft apeth.
Getting Started With the WebKit Layout Code | Web Platform Team Blog I am a newcomer to the world of WebKit. Before starting here at Adobe I had never even looked at the source code, so I had quite a bit of learning to do once I started. I’ve done a few things in WebKit since then, but I’m definitely still in the early stages – it is a large, complex project! Out of this challenge grew the desire to do make it less challenging for others, and help my learning process at the same time. What is WebKit? The first thing that may stump a beginner is quite simply the definition of WebKit itself. In order to support all of these platforms, the WebKit code base is separated into platform dependent code and platform independent code. WebKit is further separated into components for different functions: WebKit is not only the name of the entire project, it is also the name of the API that’s used by browsers and other applications. What is Layout? When WebKit consumes a web page, it generates a DOM tree from the HTML source. Understanding the rules of layout What now?
Hide your header on scroll - Headroom.js Downloads Note: the sizes shown are after gzipping. What's it all about? Headroom.js is a lightweight, high-performance JS widget (with no dependencies!) that allows you to react to the user's scroll. Why use it? Fixed headers are a popular approach for keeping the primary navigation in close proximity to the user. Large screens are usually landscape-oriented, meaning less vertical than horizontal space. Headroom.js allows you to bring elements into view when appropriate, and give focus to your content the rest of the time. How does it work? At it's most basic headroom.js simply adds and removes CSS classes from an element in response to a scroll event: Relying on CSS classes affords headroom.js incredible flexibility. Usage Using headroom.js is really simple. With plain JS Include the headroom.js script in your page, and then: var myElement = document.querySelector("header");var headroom = new Headroom(myElement);headroom.init(); With jQuery/Zepto $("#header").headroom(); With AngularJS Options
How to find your niche Are you trying to grow your freelance web development or design business? Do you want to spend more time designing websites and less time trying to figure out what the client really wants and needs? By finding the right web design niche, you can increase productivity and revenue and make your freelance business more profitable. Web design is a competitive industry, but there are excellent opportunities for those with clear goals. A Google search on “freelance web developer United States” yielded over 51 million results, yet the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Outlook Handbook reports that IT jobs for web developers, information security analysts and computer network architects are expected to grow by 22% between 2010 and 2020. While the study focuses on jobs within IT businesses, the potential for freelance work is also clear. Advantages of niche working Instead of generalizing in many areas, niche web designers can focus their time and energy on narrower areas. Client benefits