20 jQuery Cheatsheets, Docs and References for Every Occasion
A few months back jQuery was updated to version 1.4, with loads of new features and improvements. Yep, jQuery is now even more indispensable, and with more functions, methods and arguments to try and learn and remember.
Trying to remember all of the jQuery functions is impossible. It doesn’t matter how experienced you are, or how much you use jQuery, we all need a handy and useful reference to refresh the memory and guide us. That is were cheatsheets come in.
This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.30
This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week. Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up to date with loads of design news and resources. As always, if you have any cool links that you would like to share, do not hesitate…
HTML Email Newsletter Toolbox – Tutorials, Templates and Inspiration
Whatever your personal feelings are about HTML emails, they do work effectively as a communications and marketing tool. And worst of all, you can’t ignore them, you just know that at some point a client is going to ask you to create a template for them. If you have never designed an HTML email template before you may be thinking: “Whats the big deal? You use some basic HTML with…
Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.34
This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think.
Pixmac.com Free Subscription Competion Winner Information
Last month we published the competition Win 1 of 5 Free Subscriptions to Pixmac.com worth $199, the competition has now ended and it is now time to announce the winners. All answers and comments that we have received were great, unfortunately we could only pick five winners, which may it very very hard to choose. And for everyone that hasn’t won, all we can say is that better luck next…
50 Examples of Large Photography Backgrounds within Web Design
The first thing that springs to mind when thinking about large photography backgrounds within web design are of simple photographers portfolio website or even that of a design company. Upon researching this article, the surprising thing was that this type of background does not seem to have any limitations, it is equally suited to e-commerce sites, restaurant sites, web design agencies.. basically all types of web sites, as you will see from the collection below.
Photoshop Tutorial – Face Transform with Type
In this tutorial, written again by Violet Bag, you are going to learn how to change a normal and basic image of a little kid and transform his face so that it appears to be constructed with text.
There are fifteen easy to follow steps to complete this tutorial and should not take you any longer than 30 minutes to complete.
This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.29
This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.
Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: @speckyboy.
10 Blank/Naked WordPress Themes Perfect for Development
If you have to develop Wordpress themes on a regular basis then I have no doubt that you too have experienced the tedium that goes with re-writing the same code over and over again. It doesn’t matter how excited you are about a new project or even how much you love web design, having to repeatedly do the same basic coding for every single theme can be really, really annoying.
Weekly Web Design and Development Inspiration – N.33
This is our selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, some sites we discovered, but the most of them have been recommended by our readers.
Thanks for all your recommendations, and we hope you like the selection of sites as much as we do, feel free to comment and let us know what you think.
12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books
There are a multitude of books (whether in digital format or print) that cover every possible aspect of web design, each one is unique and offers a personalized opportunity for the author to both educate, inspire, and guide the reader through there knowledge. In this post rather than offer all of my favorite web design books, I have listed 12 books that I have either downloaded and read (or at…
How to build a Cool Animated CSS3 Menu with no Javascript
This tutorial is about understanding, learning and mastering the some of the new features and properties of CSS3.
You will learn how to build a cool rounded navigation menu, with no images and no Javascript, and effectively make use of the new CSS3 properties border-radius and animation.
40 Detailed Drawing Tutorials for Adobe Illustrator
Adobe Illustrator can at first seem a little bit intimidating and daunting (speaking from first hand experience) to work with, whereas it is in many ways similar to working within Photoshop (or any other graphic editor), but in others very very different. And the thing is, quite often certain design techniques with Illustrator may seem at first complex, but in actual fact are very very simple – Its just about learning these techniques.
