Archive for the ‘Tutorials’ Category
It’s not polite to make people wait, but it happens that you need to. If your page is too heavy and needs some time for loading, you have to make the viewers know that in several seconds the process will finish. Tiny bars, circles, fade away elements – you can use whatever signs you want, to mark the loading page. CSS animation is what you need for creating the mentioned above loading signs. Pure CSS will be enough for bringing into life the desired animation. Showing such animated elements in motion to the visitors is like saying to them “wait a bit, everything happens in a moment”.
But how to create nice with the pleasant to eyes animation effects? CSS Loading Animation Tutorials will show it to you set by step. The wise advices from professionals is what you exactly need to make a good loading animation.
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CSS3 Loading Animation
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Creating Loading Animations Using Only CSS3
How jQuery Works. Sources to Learn jQuery
The motto of every successful designer is “never stop learning”. It works at the first stage of your career and it helps improve your existing level of knowledge. Bearing it in mind, you can achieve great results. If you are a beginner, find out some time to learn a bit more. If you’re a beginner who is interested in jQuery, spend this time on the useful resources that will help you grow all the must-have developer’s skills. These websites offer you all kind of stuff that deals with jQuery: tutorials, articles, tips, techniques, codes and whatever you need to master it.
Here I’ve compiled this list of the useful Sources to Learn jQuery that can help you become a real jQuery ninja. If you have you own, let’s check it out. If you run into some unfamiliar sites, feel free to add them to your list.
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Learning jQuery
You’ll learn a lot from the masters of jQuary: useful tips, techniques, see the professionally done tutorials and a lot of more.
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jQuery for Designers
The aim of this project is to teach the designers with a little programming experience to add some simple, and even more complicated effects to their pages. The main goal is to make them understand what they are doing. All the stuff that includes tutorials, demos, screencasts, codes, etc you will find here.
If your relationship with WordPress reminds a bad romance, don’t get upset. Here you will find some tips on how to get it better. If you want to learn how to create WordPress business themes, allow some time for reading this post featuring Photoshop Tutorials dedicated to this theme. The designers have taken their secrets public, and you can learn about them checking out the tutorials below.
This post will be helpful for all those who don’t have years of designing experience. Such tutorials that show everything in details are a great way to start and learn more about design tricks. All this will help you create your first WordPress business themes, and, perhaps, share your experience with others in some time. Are you ready to start with it? Don’t hesitate!
PS. People differ, and not all of us are ready to spend 1 hour or even more for mastering these tuts. For lifehackers we can offer the ready-made WordPress business templates that are already designed by skillful professionals with all you needs in mind.
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Corporate WordPress Style Layout Tutorial
Good tutorial about creating a corporate WordPress styled layout. .PSD files are attached.
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Create Business WordPress PSD Layout
Learn how to create the contrasting business WordPress layout for your website. Can be also used as a corporate layout.
When we’re entering websites or following links, sometimes we get into the 404 or Not Found page which means that the server couldn’t find what was requested. Basically, 404 page is HTTP standard response code which indicates that the visitor is not be able to enter to the website. Even if your visitor comes to the error page, you should provide him/her with the positive user experience. Presented tutorials will help you create 404 Page to say to the visitor that unfortunately you couldn’t find what he or she was looking for.
If you’re planning to run your website or need to do some maintenance work, we can offer you to view our recent post about coming soon page Photoshop tutorials that will assist you in this matter.
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TV Screen 404 Page with Clever CSS Tricks
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How to Create Simple 404 Error Page for WordPress Themes
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If you are developing the site or doing some maintenance work, it’s necessary to set a coming soon page and inform your visitors about the day when they should expect the launch of your website or when they can see it online. Originally, a coming soon page is the specific message for the users to let them know that you are working on something, but it’s not ready yet.
The presented here Photoshop tutorials will show you how to create effective coming soon or under construction pages and add the stylish look to your upcoming website. While building, try to follow some important tips to design really good one. Give your coming soon page a deadline, provide newsletter list sign up form, offer links and buttons to your social media profiles and of course share some effective stuff to make your visitors come back.
Here we are going to introduce you some interesting and handy Photoshop tutorials that will teach you how to make coming soon pages for your website or blog. Check them out and feel free to use.
How to Create Clean Coming Soon Page in Photoshop
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Designing Coming Soon Page in Photoshop
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Designing attractive and functional menu is rather complex process that requires enough knowledge and skills. But creating a navigation menu can be intricate and complicated, that is where CSS comes in. CSS technology allows to make various modification changes with the web document, separating its content from the presentation. CSS gives great style to the web pages and helps present any web project in the most expressive way.
Menu and navigation are very important elements of the website’s interface, so that’s why they are cannot be underestimated. Selected in this post tutorials contain interesting materials about how to create CSS3 dropdown, accordion, lavalamp, interactive menus as well as responsive content navigator, horizontal navigation menu, dropdown list and more.
We hope that this fresh selection of CSS3 Menu and Navigation Tutorials for 2012 will help you learn more about CSS3 technology and implement your knowledge into your web projects.
How to Create CSS3 Dropdown Menu
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How to Create Accordion Menu in Pure CSS3 Tutorial
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Must-Have New Text Effect Photoshop Tutorials
Typography is about creativity and practicability. That’s why designing process of composing the word’s shape, slope, form and effect takes a lot of time and energy, but the good result is worth it. Agree that the appropriate text with original effect has a great power on the visitors, making the subconscious positive influence on their visual perception.
This time we brought to you the latest Photoshop text effect tutorials that differ in their complexity and style, but still each of them is original and attractive in its own way. No doubt, you’ll find some captivating examples and we hope you’ll implement them in your own designs. So take a sneak peek and choose the most creative text effect that will rock!
Create a Royal Gold Text Effect in Photoshop
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Create a Crisp Metallic Text Effect
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Design process is very creative and comprehensive workflow that demands a lot of time, energy and imagination. To present any web project that will depict the main idea and all necessary information, you need to work out the kinks. The whole picture of presentation is compiled from small pieces, therefore icons play not the last role in web design. They help you to transfer original style and eye-catching look of your web project, making the entire layout more complete and single-piece. That’s why today this post is dedicated to the helpful tutorials about how to create icons for your web designs. We tried to include various icons that might be useful for cutting-edge designs and appealing themes. So browse them and implement in your work!
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Constructive HTML5 Tutorials to Create Page Layouts
Whether you are a beginner or a professional designer, working with HTML5 is always demanded from you updated skills and improved knowledge. That’s why tutorials where you can find clear explanations and practical instructions are in great demand. In this blog entry we’ve selected for you some handy HTML5 tutorials which help you to build a single page layout for your web project, portfolio gallery, blog or e-shop. If you need to create really great design with good structure and striking layout, presented here learning materials will definitely assist you in this task. Save your time and use these tutorials for transforming your great ideas into impressive design with the help of HTML5 technology!
Create Your Portfolio Gallery Using HTML5 Canvas Tutorial
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Single Page Layout for Your E-Shop
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Everything You Wanted to Know about Responsive Web Design Displayed as Interactive Guide
We believe that there is no single person quite unfamiliar with infographics. From time to time we face the necessity to draw a plan or to systematize the data in the form of a scheme. Usually such brief visual aids work well and help us present loads of information in a simple intelligible manner.
Due to the increased popularity of infographics and their common use, web community became much more fastidious. Static infographics went away to the background and the interactive ones enjoy public acknowledgement.
The word interactive itself supposes that viewing our Responsive Web Design Interactive Infographic will be engaging and entertaining process, as animated elements responding on clicks, scrolls and hovers will show serious information in easy and playful manner.
Here you will find all essential points on Responsive Web Design compactly packed in 15 blog articles, 5 quotes, 11 free PDF books, Google recommendations, as well as 65 tutorials, 20 plugins, 19 tools and some examples of Responsive Website Templates.
The infographic was created in the form of a board game, but here the rules are even easier than in your childhood. You don’t need to throw the dice and worry about the quantity of your points. You will get your benefit almost on every cell. During the thrilling trip you will encounter the icons such as: light bulb, book, quotes, graduate’s hat and toolkit. Click those tiny images and they will reveal the hidden info on the topic.
Below is a tight static version of infographic developed especially for the blog post, under it you will find the link leading to the full version.
