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Jake Rocheleau (119 Articles)

Jake Rocheleau is a passionate web designer and social media entrepreneur. He is frequently researching the latest trends in digital design and new-age Internet ideas. He's also an advocate for the social media revolution - follow his updates on Twitter @jakerocheleau.
Designing Custom Github Demo Pages

Designing Custom Github Demo Pages

The open source coding haven Github has grown tremendously in just a few short years. The founders have commented on setting up pages for new projects and this feature launched…

Beginner’s Guide to Animated Website Tours

Beginner’s Guide to Animated Website Tours

To make a compatible tour page for your website requires a lot of insight towards what your visitors need to know. Generally you can find a lot of examples using…

Building Animated User Interfaces with a Purpose

Building Animated User Interfaces with a Purpose

Direct animations and motion are a big part of the user experience. Not every website will include dynamic animations, but these tend to draw in a crowd of interested users….

Review of Popular Web Design Trends from 2012

Review of Popular Web Design Trends from 2012

The year 2012 has seen an immense burst of creative energy. Many web designers & developers will notice this energy is still carrying us over into the new year. But…

Dynamic Open Source JavaScript Libraries for Web Projects

Dynamic Open Source JavaScript Libraries for Web Projects

The open-source movement has created a sea of new code libraries to work with. You can’t search through Google without finding a heap of new open source projects based on…

Responsive Image Techniques & Resources

Responsive Image Techniques & Resources

Responsive web design has become a large topic of study over just a couple of years. Web developers are looking to keep up with trends and support the most common…

Web Development Techniques Focused on Scalability & Growth

Web Development Techniques Focused on Scalability & Growth

All websites are built to scale out in some level. When developing a new social network or webapp it’s all too common that developers will jump on the scalability issue…

Coding a Vimeo API Instant Search App with jQuery

Coding a Vimeo API Instant Search App with jQuery

In this tutorial, we show you how to build a small Vimeo API instant search web app, creating the front-end with jQuery and the backend on PHP.

How to Create Lazy-Loading Images for Your Website with jQuery

How to Create Lazy-Loading Images for Your Website with jQuery

Learn how to quickly implement lazy-loading images on your website with a jQuery plugin and customize it according to your needs with this tutorial.

The Future of Email Marketing & Newsletter Designs

The Future of Email Marketing & Newsletter Designs

Where has modern email marketing advanced into now in Q4 2012? In this article I’d like to look over some unique trends in current email marketing newsletters and see what…

Design Trends for More Accessible Mobile Content

Design Trends for More Accessible Mobile Content

When dealing with mobile interface design you have to consider a number of factors. Not all devices are built the same, and so each visitor will have a different experience…

Classic Digg-Style Radio Buttons with CSS and jQuery

Classic Digg-Style Radio Buttons with CSS and jQuery