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Comparison of the Lightbox Effect Rendering Plug-Ins – Champions versus Challengers

May 11th, 2013

The jQuery Lightbox effect is a WOW-SOME way of displaying photos on your website. You’ve probably seen this effect countless times without realizing that it is the Lightbox effect. When viewing an image gallery, if you click on an image and it opens in a new box on top of the webpage, then you’re seeing Lightbox in action. This effect can be styled and configured to give you a custom, professional looking effect on your website’s images. JavaScript and jQuery plug-ins continue to simplify the task of presenting images and photos on the internet in a fully customizable style. Below, we showcase... Read More

Exploiting the Power of LESS CSS

April 20th, 2013

Why LESS? With CSS Style sheet language being so simple and plain makes the World go round on the web but yet it has a few restrictions and becomes difficult to manage in few scenarios. LESS is a well groomed language that eases the task of web developers by providing them the privilege of using dynamic CSS. For instance if a developer wants to make use of Dark Peach Color on any particular web page then he or she will have to use #FF9F94 code wherever he or she needs a Dark Peach Color but rather wouldn’t it be easier if they... Read More

Weights And Styles With The @font-face

February 16th, 2013

If people are on your website, they’re probably either skimming quickly, looking for something, or they’ve found what they’re looking for and want to read it as easily as possible. Either way, keeping text readable will help them achieve their goal. Weights and styles help our visitors to read our content, we should make sure they work! And getting weights and styles to work correctly using the @font-face declaration can be a bit crazy-making. Let’s look at two popular approaches to setting weights and styles with the @font-face declaration. I’ll show you why they are not the best solutions, and show you... Read More

How To Create Your First iPhone App (2012 Edition)

October 3rd, 2012

Since the iTunes App Store launched in 2008, over 500,000 apps have been approved by Apple, and thousands more app ideas are scrawled on napkins across the world every day. But question remains, how can a person with limited technical skills create an iPhone app? Full article: http://mobile.smashingmagazine.com/2009/08/11/how-to-create-your-first-iphone-application/ Read More

Sticky Menus Are Quicker To Navigate

September 12th, 2012

Most designers would agree that navigation is one of the most critical components of a website. Despite this, it is not always easy to use or access. Traditionally, users must scroll back to the top of the website to access the navigation menu. I recently wondered whether sticky menus makes websites quicker to navigate, and I conducted a usability study to find the answer. Let’s look at the results of the study, a few implementation techniques and some related challenges. http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2012/09/11/sticky-menus-are-quicker-to-navigate/ Read More

Please Upgrade Your Browser

July 11th, 2012

Shopping. Social networking. Emailing. Reading. Finding directions. Banking. Researching. Those are some of the most common tasks people perform on the World Wide Web. You’ve probably done all of these things yourself at some point. So if you’re like many people, you probably do these things every single week (and many of them even every day). Full Article: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/07/10/dear-web-user-please-upgrade-your-browser/ Read More

Old Web Browsers

July 10th, 2012

Because of how far certain Web technologies like HTML5 and CSS3 have brought us, many would say that—from a Web platform perspective—the future is now. Sounds like a cliché, I know. At the very least, it feels like the future is starting to bubble up to the surface… but it’s just not quite there yet. Read More

CSS Grid Frameworks

March 18th, 2012

With the advancement in the usage of Cascading Style sheets, CSS Grid Frameworks are also gaining popularity as they allow web developers to prototype designs at a faster pace. The main motive behind the usage of CSS grid frameworks is to help you in achieving faster results by heavy lifting all the recurring tasks you ought to do again and again on each web site. With the use of CSS frameworks, the web developers can get to the fun stuff at ease. Wondering what features you need to look for when choosing CSS frameworks!!!The main features one needs to look for a... Read More

Fluid Responsive HTML/CSS

February 12th, 2012

In this modern era of technology, having a website to promote your business operations is a must. If you are into a business where you cannot accept anything below average then it is time for you to have a look at your existing website and check if it is producing you desired results or not. If it is producing you expected results then well and good but if not then it’s time for you to make changes in your web design technology. Are you new to web design? Don’t know what latest technology or approach to follow to attract traffic to your... Read More

Seven wondrous tips to make wonders with your mobile web design

November 19th, 2011

There are several people who design and build websites for the World Wide Web however the fact that designing and building a mobile website is a much more difficult task than building any normal standard website remains true any day. There are voluminous differences between any standard normal website & a mobile website such as screen size, accessing, situation of the customer and so forth. These differences can be termed in other ways as listed below: - A mobile phone being the most common portable communication device known to mankind has its own limitations when compared to a personal PC. - When... Read More

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