Using Vectors for Header Design + 38 Websites with Vectorized or Illustrated Headers
Mar 15, 2010 Ajax, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Tutorials, Wordpress
Though issues of layout, typography, and various other page elements are bound to take up plenty of time for web designers, many take a special delight in the creation of headers. Whether for corporate web pages or personal blogs, forum indexes or e-commerce sites, a good-looking header can make a lasting impression on visitors, and is likely to be one of the most important concerns for design clients. Using vector graphics for header design has been gaining momentum as a design practice for several years, resulting in clean and attractive visual schemes that leave out the potential pixelation and fuzz of raster graphics.
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Tags: graphics-vector, header-design, inspiration, JavaScript, quick-tips, Resources, Tutorials, vector, vector-graphics, web design
slideGallery: Multifunctional Slide Carousel For MooTools
Mar 14, 2010 CMS, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Tutorials, Wordpress
slideGallery is a MooTool plugin that you can use to add highly customizable slideshow / carousels in your webpage. You can configure it to display one or more images in a single slide and move either in horizontal or vertical direction. slideGallery is a cross browser plugin that works in all popular web browsers.
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Tags: Facebook, friends, gallery/carousel/slider, mit license, myspace, really-useful, sergii kashcheiev, Slideshow, stumbleupon, Style, Tutorials, twitter
WordPress Theme Releases for 03/13
Mar 13, 2010 Ajax, CMS, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Tutorials, Wordpress
Sky Light A combination blue dark and black color, with sky image as a background Magazine theme The theme has widgetized header, front page, sidebars, and single posts. For better SEO results, the theme uses custom fields to pull images to the front page. Simple Things Fixed width, 2 column theme with a minimalistic style and a touch of typography Chirp Chirp is a Twitter inspired Wordpress Photoblog/Videoblog Theme.
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Tags: CMS, CSS, japanese, Plugin, press-personas, press-templates, press-theme, press-themes, simple-things, themes, Tutorials, windows
Online Tools for Cross-browswer CSS3 Rule Generation
Mar 12, 2010 CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Tutorials, Wordpress
This week has seen the announcement of a couple of new online tools for generating cross-browser CSS3 rules, CSS3 Please! and CSS3 Generator. CSS3 Please!, produced by Paul Irish and Jonathon Neal, aims to simplify the design process by allowing designers to enter one value, and have this instantly synced and normalised for each vendor-specific prefix,
Tags: CSS, css3-resources, firefox, HTML, nicholas-shanks, online, peter-gasston, presentations, Resources, windows
Quick Tip: How to Get Great HTML Meta Tags
Mar 12, 2010 Ajax, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Tutorials, Wordpress
When you’re reading around the web about what to focus on when creating a web page, and you’re sure to find a host of opinions which, in total, insist that every single page element holds the secret to attracting traffic, pleasing visitors, or simply “doing it right.” Though some page elements are necessarily more crucial in terms of their uniformity than others, designers and developers can count on the essential nature of the HTML meta tag on any given web page. Meta tags are capable of telling search engines and other interested parties key information about the contents of the page, the meta tag is arguably as important as the page’s actual title–yet it leaves greater room for taking advantage of keyword use and relaxing the rules of style. Of the many attributes that can be defined using a meta tag, the description tag is likely to be the most meaningful for modern sites.
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Tags: articles, copy-and-paste, Design, HTML, html meta tag, page-elements, page-meta-tags, quick-tips, Resources, search-engines, syntax, Tutorials
WordPress Personas For Firefox
Mar 12, 2010 Ajax, CMS, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Tutorials, Wordpress
What WordPress is to Blogging, Firefox is to browsing, so what happens when we can get both of them to get together? WordPress personas for Firefox WordPress has released a new set of Personas for Firefox themed around, well WordPress, which you can install and use on the browser. The personas were designed by Chad Pugh and are based on Vintage Press and Inkwell.
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Tags: Ajax, browser, CSS, firefox, HTML, keith-dsouza, press-news, press-plugin, Tutorials, videos, wikipedia, windows
Book Review: MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide
Mar 12, 2010 Ajax, CMS, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Tutorials, Wordpress
In the interest in full disclosure, I was sent this book by Packt Publishing in hopes that I would review it. I’m reviewing this book, however, in the interest of my audience. Unless you live under a rock or simply check my site for Christina Ricci pics every morning, you know I’m a bit of a MooTools fanboy.
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Tags: Ajax, browsers, CSS, extensions, JavaScript, jQuery, MooTools, PHP, review, stumbleupon, Style, twitter
CodeIgniter from Scratch: File Operations
Mar 11, 2010 Ajax, CMS, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Tutorials, Wordpress
In today’s episode, we are going to be working with several helper functions, related to files, directories, and downloads. We are going to learn how to read, write, download files, and retrieve information about both files and directories. Also at the end we will build a small file browser that utilizes jQuery as well.
Tags: articles, basix, become-a-fan, CMS, code igniter, CSS, Facebook, freebies, HTML, march-11, PHP, php framework, Tutorials, videos
WordPress Plugin Releases for 03/11
Mar 11, 2010 Ajax, CMS, CSS, General, HTML, JavaScript, PHP, Resources, Tutorials, Wordpress
New Plugins WP-ZoomImage With CopyProtect You can pop up an image or thumbnail by just clicking on it and it will disappear when you click it again Titled Comments Hikari Titled Comments enables each comment to have a title, so that commentators can give a subject meaning to their comments. Scroll to Top Plugin Integrate a jQuerry scroll to top control in WordPress manually Tweet my Script This plugin watches your Twitter RSS Feed for user-defined “launch codes” to trigger user-defined script URLs. Dojo Skew Gallery plugin for Wordpress This is a plugin to create a skew photo gallery utilising Dojo Toolkit Ajax.
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Tags: Ajax, japanese, linux-desktop, plugins, press-plugin, smarter-navigation, updated-plugin, windows
