Online businesses have included email marketing as part of their strategy with good reason. Unlike other tactics that help increase traffic and engagement with users, email takes the personal approach in enticing their target audience to becoming clients and customers, among other reasons. More importantly, email marketing has reached new height due to the advent of mobile devices. According […]
32 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Web & Mobile Graphics
Artists who build graphics for the web are growing in ranks every month. New and upcoming designers are always thirsty for more knowledge and insight towards building layouts. Adobe Photoshop may not be the perfect software, but it does provide all the core tools you will need for mocking up a website interface. I have […]
Coding an Image Thumbnail Hover Magnify Effect with jQuery
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]