jQuery 1.4 Released: The 15 New Features you Must Know

Posted on January 23, 2010 by amolwable

The jQuery team has recently released the major release of the jQuery JavaScript library 1.4. James Padolsey wrote great article “The 15 New Features you Must Know” which is published on tutsplus.com. jQuery lovers must read this article to know the new features included in 1.4 version of jQuery.

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The 15 New Features you Must Know

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Articles, JQuery

45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques

Posted on January 15, 2010March 31, 2012 by amolwable

In this post smashingmagazine present 45 useful CSS/JavaScript-techniques that may help you find clever solutions to some of your problems or just get inspired by what is possible with CSS. It cover interesting CSS-techniques, navigation menus, CSS typography, CSS lists and CSS buttons.

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Icons

Iconizer: Free Online Icons Generator

Posted on January 10, 2010March 31, 2012 by amolwable

Iconizer is a Free Online Icons Generator that allows you to customize various popular icon sets online.

We can choose icon from a list of categorized icon sets and apply:

Foreground/background color
Icon size
File type to be created
Transparent background

Website: http://iconizer.net

JQuery

The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials 2009

Posted on December 22, 2009March 31, 2012 by amolwable

In order to save your time, Photoshop Lady has been spending almost a whole year to search for the best photoshop tutorials for you. Eventually, we come up with The 100 Most Popular Photoshop Tutorials of 2009.

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Articles, Html & CSS, JQuery

Best Resources and tutorials for future web designs

Posted on December 12, 2009March 31, 2012 by amolwable

1. Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3

In this article, we’ll look at the advantages of CSS3 and some examples of how Web designers are already using it. By the end, we’ll know a bit of what to expect from CSS3 and how we can use its new features in our projects… Read

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/15/take-your-design-to-the-next-level-with-css3

2. CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials

In this post we will take a look at some interesting properties of CSS3 that you can put into practice in your website designs today.
Read

3. A Collection of HTML5 Resources and Tutorials

By now everyone has heard of HTML 5 and its new functionalities. Pretty exciting isn’t it… also a little daunting. Of course, there are two sides to the excitement, most developers love it, others feel it has come to soon and we are not ready for it. … Read

4. 33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles

Since previous article about CSS text effects got really big attention I decided to research and find more interesting articles and websites just focused on CSS3, teaching you how to use it, showing pros and cons and much more. Read

5. 22 Photoshop Web Design Interface Tutorial Sites

Article provides good resources for Photoshop Web Design Interface sites…Read

6. 35 Websites To Teach You How To Use CSS Effectively

In this article, you’ll have all the best resources available Read

7. jQuery UI

jQuery UI provides a comprehensive set of core interaction plugins, UI widgets and visual effects that use a jQuery-style, event-driven architecture and a focus on web standards, accessibility, flexible styling, and user-friendly design. Visit

8. 55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks: Ultimate Collection

jQuery definitely is one of the biggest trends coming in up-to-date designs and the best of all, everything is done without countless code lines. Keeping in mind such aspects I created hopefully pretty complete collection of jQuery sites, tip and trick articles, video screencasts, tutorials, cheat sheets and lot’s more. Took a while to compile and research was really solid. Read

Asp.net

Advanced ASP.NET File Manager:IZWebFileManager

Posted on November 28, 2009March 31, 2012 by amolwable

IZWebFileManager is featured File Manager control for ASP.NET 2. It is compatible with most-used browsers like MS Internet Explorer and Firefox.

FileManager

Some Features

Copying, moving, renaming, deletion of files and folders
Ability to work (copy, move, delete) with several files at once
File upload
Drag & Drop;
Right-click context menu
Common keyboard shortcuts supported
& more …

References:

WebSite: http://www.izwebfilemanager.com
Demo: http://www.izwebfilemanager.com/Demo

JQuery

Farbtastic: jQuery color picker plug-in

Posted on November 21, 2009March 31, 2012 by amolwable

Farbtastic is a jQuery plug-in that can add one or more color picker widgets into a page through JavaScript. Each widget is then linked to an existing element (e.g. a text field) and will update the element’s value when a color is selected.

Farbtastic

Farbtastic uses layered transparent PNGs to render a saturation/luminance gradient inside of a hue circle. No Flash, no pixel sized divs.

Uses

Include farbtastic.js and farbtastic.css in your HTML:

<script type="text/javascript" src="farbtastic.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="farbtastic.css" type="text/css" />

Add a placeholder div and a text field to your HTML, and give each an ID:

<form><input type="text" id="color" name="color" value="#123456" ></form>
<div id="colorpicker"></div>

Add a ready() handler to the document which initializes the color picker and link it to the text field with the following syntax:
```
 $(document).ready(function() {$('#colorpicker').farbtastic('#color');  });
```

References:

WebSite: http://acko.net/dev/farbtastic
Demo: http://acko.net/dev/farbtastic
Download: farbtastic12.zip

Html & CSS

CSS Sprites

Posted on November 15, 2009January 1, 2013 by amolwable

Sprite is nothing but one image which has collection of small images that are required in web application. Which improves page loading time by reducing number of requests to server.

Why sprites

Consider one scenario , suppose we have two web pages,
1. first page shows 100 small images 1kb each
2. second page shows 1 big image of 100kb

What do you think , which page will get loaded first?
Now you may think that both pages will take same time as both pages has same page size (i.e. 100kb each), right??
Then your are wrong, second page will load first as compared to first page.

Because to fetch each resource, browser sends a HTTP-Request to server. that means to fetch 100 images browser needs to send 100 HTTP-Requests to server. Which increases page loading time so decreases performance of site.

CSS sprites reduce HTTP requests and the loading time of pages.
This is the main reason why CSS sprites are often used on websites with heavy
traffic.Particularly sprites are used for navigation (such as for hover effects), icons and buttons.

How to Use

Step 1. Creating sprite
To create sprite we can use any software like Photoshop, paint or fireworks etc.
Combine all images, icons into single images , keep some space (min. 1px ) between images as below,

Step 2. Creating CSS

Create common CSS class which applies background image to elements, As

ul#menu li a
        {
            background-image: url(sprite.gif);
        }

Now here comes the best part. To show particular image for class, we have to set
background-position correctly.
for that we have to make every image inside the sprite move to the top left corner (0px in X, 0px in Y) as that is the point where image start seeing.

To see about image button,
sprite1

ul#menu li a.about
        {
            background-position: -143px -4px;
        }

Step 3. Creating HTML

<ul id="menu">
<li><a href="#" class="home">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#" class="about">About</a></li>
</ul>

References:

http://css-tricks.com/video-screencasts/43-how-to-use-css-sprites
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/04/27/the-mystery-of-css-sprites-techniques-tools-and-tutorials

Download Now:Spritedemo.zip

Html & CSS

CSS Shorthand Guide

Posted on November 14, 2009March 31, 2012 by amolwable

In my previous post, “CSS Formatter and Optimiser” I have given basic idea about CleanCSS Optimiser tool and how it does CSS optimization. CSS Shorthand is one of the important notations of CSS property which helps a lot to get optimized CSS.
So, I have collected some of important CSS shorthand properties here.

Margin and Padding

Margin and Padding both has same shorthand syntax.

.className{
  margin-top: 10px;
  margin-right: 5px;
  margin-bottom: 3px;
  margin-left: 1px;
}

Instead of above we can simply combined into

.className{
  margin: 10px 5px 3px 1px;
}

Value of margin property is in Top, Right, Bottom and Left.
Here are some images for quick reference of shorthand notations,

margin

Background

Refer following image for shorthand syntax,
background

Background Default Values
By default, the background property will assume the following when you do not declare each value of the properties,

backgrounddefault

Border

Refer following image for shorthand syntax,
border

Border has 3 px width by defaults, following CSS will create a ‘3px’ solid blue border

 .className{border:solid blue;}

Border examples

1. Following CSS will create 5px solid ‘black’ border

p {
  border:5px solid;
}

2. Following CSS will create a ‘3px’ dashed ‘black’ border

p {
  border:dashed;
}

3. Following CSS will create a 3px dotted red border

p {
  border:dotted;
  color:red;
}

4. Following CSS will create a 5px solid blue border

body {
  color:blue;
}
body p {
  border:5px solid;
}

Font

Refer following image for shorthand syntax,
font

Font Default values

fontdefault

Font examples

.className {
font-style:normal;
font-variant:normal;
font-weight:bold;
font-size:1em;
line-height:1.2em;
font-family:georgia,”times new roman”,serif;
}

can be combined as,

.className {
  font:bold 1em/1.2em georgia,"times new roman",serif;
}

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Supersized – Full Screen Background/Slideshow jQuery Plugin

Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery Tutorial

Easy Slider jQuery Plugin

AnythingSlider jQuery Plugin

Galleria image gallery jQuery Plugin

Create a Beautiful jQuery Slider Tutorial

jCarousel

GalleryView jQuery Plugin

Simple JQuery Image Slide Show with Semi-Transparent Caption Tutorial

jQuery virtual tour

Full Screen Image Gallery Using jQuery and Flickr

jQuery Slideshows With the Cycle Plugin

jQuery: jqGalScroll

slideViewer

jQuery lightbox plugin

Dynamic Image Gallery and Slideshow

GalleryView

1. Take Your Design To The Next Level With CSS3

2. CSS3 Exciting Functions and Features: 30+ Useful Tutorials

3. A Collection of HTML5 Resources and Tutorials

4. 33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles

5. 22 Photoshop Web Design Interface Tutorial Sites

6. 35 Websites To Teach You How To Use CSS Effectively

7. jQuery UI

8. 55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks: Ultimate Collection

Some Features

References:

Uses

References:

Why sprites

How to Use

References:

Margin and Padding

Background

Border

Font