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-styleR ...
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In this section you will find in-depth how-tos involving common web development and web design techniques.
Clothesline Social Bookmarks – A CSS-only Social Bookmarking Tutorial
By Mary Lou on
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 ...
Creating a Rotating Billboard System with jQuery and CSS
By Mary Lou on
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 bi ...
Day and Night: Creating a Scenery Animation with jQuery and CSS
By Mary Lou on
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 absolut ...
Fixed Fade Out Menu: A CSS and jQuery Tutorial
By Mary Lou on
Inspired by David Walsh’s top navigation bar that gets semi-transparent when you scroll down the page, I decided to create a tutorial ...
Beautiful Slide Out Navigation Revised
By Mary Lou on
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 ...
CSS and jQuery Tutorial: Overlay with Slide Out Box
By Mary Lou on
The other day I was creating an overlay with a box for Cody’s jTextTranslate jQuery Plugin and I thought, it could be useful to describe the technique in a tut ...
Beautiful Slide Out Navigation: A CSS and jQuery Tutorial
By Mary Lou on
Today I want to show you how to create an amazing slide out menu or navigation for your website. The navigation will be almost hidden – ...
CSS Tutorial: Image with Toolbar and Navigation Overlay
By Mary Lou on
In this tutorial I will show you how to create an overlay toolbar and navigation for an image. This type of technique can, for example, be applied in an image galler ...
How To Play Looping Sound In Your iPhone App
By Mary Lou on
Here is a very useful code snippet for playing your own sound file continuously in your iPhone application. The example uses a .caf file and is based on the AVAudioP ...
Checking Network Reachability on the iPhone
By Mary Lou on
In some iPhone apps you need to check if there is a connection to the outside world. If the application depends on a connection to the internet, we will want to warn ...
CSS3: Creating Web Site Banners
By Mary Lou on
Inspired by Tamsin Baker’s beautiful Photoshop brushes “Urban Scrawl” 1 and 2, I was trying to create some shadowed banners using some CSS3 propert ...
20 fresh and colorful CSS3 buttons
By Mary Lou on
Here is the result of an experiment with fonts and css3 properties like text-shadow and box-shadow: Click here to download the ZIP file with the two overlay images: ...
CSS3 big style fieldset registration form
By Mary Lou on
Experimenting with CSS3, I created a big style registration form with rounded borders and shadow effects. The only image used is not the button, but the pen that ser ...
CSS button with hover effect
By Mary Lou on
Inspired by the nice download button on the jquery homepage I created this button with a hover effect. It uses opacity options for all browsers. You can see a demo h ...
CSS Gmail style labels
By Mary Lou on
Ever wondered how to generate some cool gmail labels in css? Here is an attempt to imitate the little labels used in gmail. Three tiny colorless images are used to c ...
Cool CSS-only registration form
By Mary Lou on
Here is a very simple and cool registration form. A lot of times I was searching for some registration or login form that is easy to adapt. Here comes my contributio ...
Simple CSS chart for dynamic content
By Mary Lou on
This is an example of a very simple CSS + one tiny image chart. The result will look like this: Insert the follwoing style into the head of your html (or add it to y ...
Simple CSS: Update box for category or posts
By Mary Lou on
Let’s create a simple and clean box that shows the updates in a category (or anything you might like it to use for). The result looks like this: Starting with ...