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Spice up Your Personal Site with jQuery

Personal sites tend to be the one area where people allow themselves to truly unleash their creativity. Joel Besada is going to use one of his own plug-ins, jQuery Scroll Path, as a tool to transform a conventional site layout into something that resembles an interactive presentation. The sections of the page will be spread out and rotated across a two-dimensional plane, and bound together with a path that the browser window follows when the user scrolls the page.

Ivo Rangelov

1513

Usability

40 Handy and Free UI Kit PSDs for Smartphones

In this collection, Jameel Khan is presenting some handy and useful smartphone UI Kit PSDs that you can download for free. With these mobile user interface kits, designers can enhance their creations and make their mobile user interfaces look more interesting and appealing. Using them, you can design visually interactive and appealing user interfaces. All of them are available in PSD format for easy modification.

Ivo Rangelov

3505

Design

Create a Vector Film Slate Icon

In this tutorial, Rype will show you how to create a vector film slate icon with the help of Adobe Illustrator. The tutorial uses some basic shapes, some gradients, and even a blend. Moreover, you can easily customize this tutorial with your own logo or typography.

Ivo Rangelov

2353

Design

Comparing Adaptive and Responsive Layouts

A responsive layout is in theory always better than an adaptive layout, but in some cases an adaptive layout is a more pragmatic solution. An adaptive layout will give you more control over the design because you only have a handful of states to consider. In a responsive layout you easily have hundreds of states — sure, most of them with very minor differences, but they are different nonetheless — which makes it harder to know exactly how your design will look.

Ivo Rangelov

1597

Tips & Tricks

5 Web Design Colors That Encourage Visitors

People are still debating whether, or not, that content is king. If you ask James Richman, he totally agrees with it and his opinion is based on his own experience. Regardless, whether or not content is king, there is something that is just as important! What is it, you ask? It is a book’s cover that counts too, everyone likes to say don’t judge a book by it’s cover, but how else are you planning to grab someone’s attention other then with a fancy cover? Obviously, once you have someone’s attention, you can leave the rest to content. It’s all about web design colors and how you manipulate them.

Ivo Rangelov

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JavaScript

Check Out the New jQuery Mobile 1.2

Not too long ago, the jQuery team released jQuery Mobile 1.2. This new release has some fantastic changes! In this article, Andy Matthews is going to review some of the new widgets available to developers, take a look at changes made to existing widgets, and glance over a few impactful enhancements that could affect your jQuery Mobile application. Firstly, you need to download the bits and bytes. Head over to the jQuery Mobile download page and download the option that best meets your needs.

Ivo Rangelov

1818

Server Side

The Whens and Whys for PHP Design Patterns

There are plenty of articles that explain what design patterns are, and how to implement them; the web doesn’t need yet another one of those articles! Instead, in this article, Patkos Csaba will discuss the when and why, rather than the which and how. He will present different situations and use-cases for patterns, and will also provide short definitions to help those of you who are not so familiar with these specific patterns.

Ivo Rangelov

2316

Tips & Tricks

Working with SASS and Bootstrap

Twitter’s Bootstrap is undeniably popular – and if you’re a fan of CSS preprocessors you’ll love the fact that it’s built on LESS. Unfortunately, if you enjoy working with SASS, there typically hasn’t been anything readily available to get you started. Until now. This tutorial will explain how to combine SASS, Compass, and Twitter’s Bootstrap.

Ivo Rangelov

5955

Usability

Extended Entypo Glyph Set

After endless suplications from the design community Daniel Bruce finally finished his update of the Entypo Glyph Set — a free set of universal 284 carefully crafted pictograms for regular design projects. The icons are available as EPS, PDF and Photoshop PSD files as well as desktop typefaces (TrueType, OpenType) and Web fonts.

Ivo Rangelov

25159

Photoshop

Create a Photo Realistic Digital Painting in Photoshop

With the right knowledge, the brush tool in Photoshop can be extremely powerful. In this tutorial, Zhiyi Zheng will use digital painting techniques to create a photo realistic illustration of a swan inside a wine glass. This concept will begin as a sketch and then slowly build up to the final result. Let’s get started!

Ivo Rangelov

3050

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