I have run into a number of simple effects to generate image magnification. You can sometimes find this on e-commerce websites for product images when you hover onto the thumbnail and a bigger zoom effect will display. This is a great technique no matter what type of website you have. But I was running into […]
Coding a Horizontal Navigation Bar with jQuery Dropdown Menus
It is very common to find dropdown navigation elements within website layouts. Developers use these types of hidden menus for displaying extra links which are typically related to the main topic. Other examples may use sliding panels or varying accordion-style menus to accomplish the same interface. But for this tutorial I want to build a […]
36 Best Frontend Web Development Tutorials of 2012
The task of learning new development techniques is often arduous and time-consuming. It used to be that web developers would purchase books or read guides written by other developers. Nowadays you can find tons of new blog posts and tutorials written every week! Not to mention all the personalized tutorials on YouTube and similar video […]
Code a Dynamic Questions & Answers FAQ Page with jQuery
You can perform many various effects using the jQuery JavaScript library. It’s an open source project which has been gaining followers for a couple years now. Aside from the many jQuery plugins you can build a lot of custom web functionality right from scratch. I want to use this tutorial to showcase how we can […]
New HTML5 Tutorials on Frontend Development Techniques
As a web developer I am constantly running into the latest HTML5 tutorials within Google. There have been hundreds of new tuts hitting the web over just the past few years. And many of these articles focus on newer HTML5 topics such as canvas, video/audio, and local data storage. If you’re familiar with some of […]
Coding a Minimalist Contact Form with CAPTCHA Spam Protection
Website contact forms are almost a staple of the modern day Internet. Most company websites will have a small contact form where visitors can share their thoughts or suggestions to the webmaster. But there are also so many bots available that these forms can become plagued with spam. To counter this we need to setup […]