It takes hours of study and practice to understand the basics of digital design. Many jobs rely on these fundamentals when creating print work, icons, After Effects touchups, and dozens of similar examples. One fundamental concept every designer should recognize is color theory. It’s a broad subject which hovers around a field of science and […]
30 Tutorials for Developing HTML5 Web Browser Games
Modern HTML5 specifications allow for a wide breadth of creativity. Web developers have always been toying around with JavaScript games. But nowadays it is so much easier to jump into the process and create something truly magnificent. This gallery is devoted to 30 tutorials you might use to learn about in-browser game development. These techniques […]
38 WordPress Tutorials for Hacking Custom Functionality
The WordPress core has been updated frequently by a team of well-educated developers. This has lead to many advances so even theme designers can greatly enhance the user interface. When searching in Google you can find a lot of tutorials related to WordPress, bbPress, and BuddyPress customization. In this post I’ve organized 38 niche-specific tutorials […]
Learn to Manage a Successful Web Design Business
Creative professionals can learn some of the best ideas through another experienced person. Udemy is a popular online web application for studying offbeat topics by well-educated teachers. You are given a series of video courses which you can study, along with external links provided for research. Larger topics are often broken down into sections which […]
24 CSS3 Tutorials for Advanced User Interface Effects
Web developers are becoming crafty as web browsers are updating to more popular standards. This can only lead to better support along with an easier frontend development time. One of the best methods for studying new techniques is by practicing with online tutorials. I want to present a series of 24 well-explained tutorials for more […]
Build an HTML5 Signup Form with Dynamic CAPTCHA
Build an HTML5 Signup Form with Dynamic CAPTCHA There are plenty of great tutorials on the Internet which follow along the typical CAPTCHA security technique. However after playing around in website interfaces I wanted to put together a dynamic CAPTCHA which slides into the form after everything else is completed. This effect should work in […]
How To Build an Alphabetical Page Index using jQuery
Most web developers are probably familiar with the anchor link solution for jumping to sections of the page. You can setup anchor links with a specific name attribute, and use the hash symbol as an href value to skip down the page. This effect has worked fantastic when listing very long sets of data. However […]
29 Web Layouts using Big Oversized Background Images
I am a big fan of the background photographs in web design. You can build entire layouts focused on simple themes related to photography. I can especially relate to freelancers and design agencies who utilize this trend for catching people’s attention very quickly. Therefore I have put together this wonderful collection of big website layouts […]
22 Resources for New Web Design & Development Articles
Bloggers and online magazines are publishing more design & development news every day. When you’re busy working on projects it can be tough keeping up with all these articles. Luckily there are plenty of online social networks which aggregate design news, by users and RSS feeds. Check out some of these examples next time you’re […]
Building a Live Textarea Character Count Limit with CSS3 and jQuery
Dynamic character counters are a common feature which I see requested frequently by web developers. You may have a form input field or textarea for users to enter data but want to limit the content. You could do this using maxlength which has been a property since the HTML4 specs. However we want to provide […]