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Minimal and Contrasty Color Schemes in Web Design

In Web Design by Mary Lou
August 3, 2011 17 Comments

Making a web design with contrasty colors will allow for a better focus on certain areas of a web site. With a minimal color scheme, more contrast can be achieved an... read more

Content Rotator with jQuery

In Development by Mary Lou
July 29, 2011 39 Comments

Today we want to share a fancy content rotator with you. It shows some image with a headline and sub-headline in each slide and allows navigating through the slides ... read more

Vertical Sliding Accordion with jQuery

In Development by Mary Lou
July 22, 2011 88 Comments

Today we want to share a slick and flexible vertical jQuery accordion with you. The main idea is to expand the accordion slices on click and show some more informati... read more

Animated Text and Icon Menu with jQuery

In Tutorials by Mary Lou
July 12, 2011 72 Comments

Today we want to show you how to create a slick menu with a nice animation feature on hover. The idea is to make some elements slide out, change and animate the back... read more

Living a Dual Life – A View on the Coding Designers Debate

In Web Design by Patrick Cox
July 11, 2011 21 Comments

Lately I've noticed some great discussions in web design forums, on Linkedin and Twitter about the role of a web designer and what skills a web designer should have.... read more

25 Examples of Inspiring Product Display in Web Design

In Web Design by Gisele Muller
July 7, 2011 12 Comments

Choosing the best way to display products is a really important step of web design, since the way you display your products can drive attention to it and make users ... read more

Fullscreen Slideshow with HTML5 Audio and jQuery

In Tutorials by Jay Salvat
July 5, 2011 51 Comments

In today’s tutorial we'll create a fullscreen photo slideshow to illustrate a New York picture series. We will add sounds with the HTML5 audio element in order to ... read more

Sliding Background Image Menu with jQuery

In Development by Mary Lou
July 3, 2011 90 Comments

Today we want to share another jQuery menu with you. This menu will have several panels, each one corresponding to a different background image that will show on all... read more

25 Examples of Creative Thumbnail Usage in Web Design

In Web Design by Gisele Muller
June 22, 2011 19 Comments

Wikipedia tells us that "thumbnails are reduced-size versions of pictures, used to help in recognizing and organizing them, serving the same role for images as a nor... read more

Great Daily Tools for Freelancers

In Web Design by Patrick Cox
June 22, 2011 20 Comments

Designing and developing a web project is difficult enough, but adding project management, invoicing, hosting, file sharing, and staying on task to the mix? That's e... read more

7 Steps for the Perfect Landing Page

In Web Design by Patrick Cox
June 10, 2011 9 Comments

When I design landing pages I don't try to cram everything above the fold and clutter up the top 500 pixels of my design, but I do like to design so that images, hea... read more

Grid Navigation Effects with jQuery

In Development by Mary Lou
June 9, 2011 74 Comments

Today we want to share some neat grid navigation effects using jQuery. In our examples we will show you ten ways how to navigate through a set of thumbnails. We'll t... read more