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A Beginner’s Guide to HTTP and REST

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the life of the web. It’s used every time you transfer a document, or make an AJAX request. But HTTP is surprisingly a relative unknown among some web developers. This introduction will demonstrate how the set of design principles, known as REST, underpin HTTP, and allow you to embrace its fullest power by building interfaces, which can be used from nearly any device or operating system.

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Manuals

HTML5 Parallax Slider Manual

In this article we covered the basic and advanced usage of HTML5 Parallax Slider extension. There are four useful tutorials, which are also video presented for easier use. The manual also contains the features highlights added in this Dreamweaver tool.

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HTML5

Introducing the HTML5 Datalist Element

Imagine you have a form and you want a user to input a string of text, like their name for example. You have the <input type="text" /> element, which will allow the user to type whatever he or she pleases. Imagine then that you want the user to enter his or her country of residence; you’d likely use a <select> element. This would limit the results to the options available (sometimes a good thing) and would also present the user with a potentially huge list to choose from. But what if you want the user to be free to enter what they please and at the same time being given some suggestions? This is where datalist comes in.

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Photoshop

Create a Colorful Fantasy Digital Painting in Photoshop

In art, there are no wrong answers. That is especially true with digital art. There are a million techniques to produce the same piece of art. Some designers start out with a sketch, others create their artwork without a plan of any kind. In this tutorial, Marco Casalvieri will explain how to create a fantasy digital painting without a sketch. Let’s get started!

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Tips & Tricks

Techniques for Creating Motion in Web Design

Everyone wants to create a page that is active and engaging and one of the best tools to achieve those goals is through motion. With a few great ideas and handy tips, a designer can create a great feel and sense of motion without any video or animation. This type of creative display can be just as active and engaging as video or animated design concepts. That’s not to say that video and animation aren’t great tools. They are. But they are also not the only tools available to you.

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Tips & Tricks

Tips for a Clean and Minimal Online Store Design

In the past, many online stores were often cluttered with information, and fonts and colors were overwhelming, they were quite simply over-designed. Now, many pages are ditching models, crazy colors, fonts and fancy photography for the simplistic style of just showcasing their products. It’s a trend that is taking over much of the web (not just e-commerce) with the emergence of responsive design models. More designers are embracing the trend that simpler can be better, while focusing on readability and usability.

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Server Side

Create an Address Book with PHP

MongoDB is a document database designed for performance and scale while remaining easy for developers to use. MongoDB provides two features that can be considered groundbreaking. First, it works with native language types, so the database works for you rather than you having to conform to it. It feels so natural to simply save arrays or objects that you’ll quickly forget you are using a database. Second, the schema is totally flexible meaning that each record can contain different fields.

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HTML5

Accessibility and the Main Element

HTML5 has a set of elements that make page structure more accessible to assistive technologies (ATs). The <header>, <footer>, <nav>, <article>, <aside> and <section> elements make it possible for ATs such as screen readers to identify the purpose of chunks of content on the page. But a growing school of thought says that there is one element missing from this set of semantically important tags.

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HTML5

All You Need to Know About the HTML5 Data Attribute

Prior to HTML5 we had to rely on using class or rel attributes to store little snippets of data that you could use in your websites. This sometimes led to problems and could cause conflicts between the styling and functionality of websites. The advent of HTML5 introduced a new attribute known as data. In this article Aaron Lumsden is going to be looking at some examples of how he would use this attribute as well as how it should be used correctly.

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Photoshop

Design a Sleek, Dark Mobile App Website

In this tutorial Eric Alli will be using Adobe Photoshop to design a sleek web interface that can be used for any mobile app website. He’ll be covering an array of techniques including shapes, textures, masks, custom icons, typography and much more that can be easily adapted and applied to your own web designs.

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