A Fresh Bottom Slide Out Menu with jQuery
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In this tutorial we will create a unique bottom slide out menu. This large menu will contain some title and a description of the menu item. It will slide out from th... read more
Photo Zoom Out Effect with jQuery
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Today we will show you how to create a simple image zoom out effect with jQuery. The idea is show some images which are zoomed in initially and when hovering over an... read more
A Love Letter to the Design Community
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Dear Design Community, I don’t really know if I can consider myself a part of you, but I have the strong urge to tell you how I feel about you. About six month... read more
Grungy Random Rotation Menu with jQuery and CSS3
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In this tutorial we are going to create a great menu with some content area that slides out. We use the grunge style because we want it to look a bit messy: the menu... read more
Our 10 Absolute Favorite Smashing Magazine Articles
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Some years back when I was starting to study I began to regularly read news and blogs on the web. It was a very exciting time back then since there were many “... read more
66 Famous Fashion Websites for your Inspiration
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Here is a list of inspirational web designs from the fashion design industry. Most of them use Flash to create a “fashion experience” when visiting their... read more
Design Inspiration from Music Videos: Sick Muse by Metric
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As a web designer it is sometimes hard to get inspired. When a client asks for a specific design and has some concrete ideas, it can be much easier than inventing so... read more
Awesome CSS3 & jQuery Slide Out Button
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Here is an awesome little slide out button. The inspiration for that button came from photoshop.com where Flash is used to create a nice slide out effect. This butto... read more
Fresh Set of CSS-only Menus
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Here is a set of fresh CSS-only menus for your website – no images, no JavaScript. The markup for the menus is always the same and I used 12 different styleshe... read more
24 Beautiful Hotel Website Designs to Get Inspired
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A great website design can be a powerful tool for establishing a brand. In the hotel business, a website gives the chance to present the services and atmosphere that... read more
CSS and jQuery Tutorial: Fancy Apple-Style Icon Slide Out Navigation
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Today I want to show you, how to create an Apple-style navigation menu with a twist. Although “fancy” and “Apple-style” don’t really go... read more
Self-resizing Navigation Menu with jQuery
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Today I am going to share a nice CSS only (with some jQuery) navigation menu that adapts the size of its list items automatically. Sometimes you need to reuse a menu... read more
Clothesline Social Bookmarks – A CSS-only Social Bookmarking Tutorial
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Today we will create a fancy social bookmarking solution which will not require any JavaScript – it is only CSS based. We will hang up some rotated social book... read more
Creating a Rotating Billboard System with jQuery and CSS
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Currently we are in the “hey, let’s do that flash thing in jQuery”-mood and so we came up with another idea: a rotating billboard system. In this t... read more
Day and Night: Creating a Scenery Animation with jQuery and CSS
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In today’s tutorial I am going to show you, how to create an amazing animated scenery with just a few lines of jQuery and some absolute positioned elements wit... read more
Fixed Fade Out Menu: A CSS and jQuery Tutorial
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Inspired by David Walsh’s top navigation bar that gets semi-transparent when you scroll down the page, I decided to create a tutorial out of that idea. The aim... read more
Beautiful Slide Out Navigation Revised
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After I got a lot of feedback for the Beautiful Slide Out Navigation, I had some new ideas for a similar horizontal navigation. Thanks a lot to everyone! Like Stefan... read more
How I Speeded Up Our WordPress Blog
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Our site was getting kind of slow, so I decided to read some articles about how to speed up a WordPress blog. While many give really great tips on what to do, I just... read more