Archive : Tutorials

An awesome business card with a stunning logo – perfect for any creative! I love the contrast between the beautifully detailed blue section of the card and the black of the background. This design was featured on the Monday 13th of December 2010. It falls under the category of Business Cards, and has a layout style of Other. If you’d like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs. … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Fruit Ninja is a highly entertaining game for the iPhone and iPad. Its gameplay is entirely based on the enjoyment of slicing virtual fruit and it\’s succesful because its interface and design make it undeniably addictive. I love the bright colours and the way each fruit splatters differently! This design was featured on the Saturday 11th of December 2010. It falls under the category of iPad App, and has a layout style of Other. If you’d like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs. … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

Jamie\’s 20 Minute Meals is an excellent iPhone App with a stunning interface. I particularly like the high quality accompanying photographs and the paper feel of the shopping list and recipes. This design was featured on the Thursday 9th of December 2010. It falls under the category of iPhone App, and has a layout style of Other. If you’d like, you can visit this site, or view all our other featured designs. … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers all from the previous week. If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook or even by subscribing to our RSS feed. Read the rest of the article on : Speckyboy Design Magazine

“Ornamental text can be created in several ways. Today we will demonstrate how to combine several stock images to create some nice gold ornamental typography. Let’s get started!” … Read the rest of the article on : Design Shack

The following article is a mixture of a few things – mainly tips, tricks and some guides for those of you who just bought an iPhone 4. If you are skeptical about the reception and other potential problems the iPhone 4 might have – don’t worry – you are not alone. We are also going to share some hands-on experience regarding few potential iPhone 4 problems, so read on. Please do take note that we are not going to discuss what’s new in iOS4 (operating system) as it has been pretty much covered elsewhere. This article is basically- what you can exp … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

In this tutorial we are going to show you how to create a fresh image gallery. The tutorial was shared on tympanus.net and it presents the full process on how to crate this Beautiful Photo Stack Gallery. The gallery is made using jQuery and CSS3 properties that makes the rotated effect on the images. It also uses the webkit-box-reflect property in order to mirror the boxes in the album view. The gallery it’s also using a little bit of PHP ( calls all the pictures from an album ). The gallery provides us with some demos and a download link.

1) AJAX-ZOOM is a powerful image zoom & pan gallery plugin based on jQuery (JavaScript) and PHP. It is a completely packaged low cost solution1 to present high resolution images on the web. With over 250 options AJAX-ZOOM is very flexible and can be seamlessly integrated into any website – branding free! AJAX-ZOOM also doesn’t require any browser plugins such as Flash, Java or Silverlight. It’s all cross-browser javascript and PHP. Info / Download / Demo 2) jQDock The Dock – as anyone familiar with a Mac will know – is a set of iconic images that expand when rolled over with the cursor, and usually perform some action when clicked. This plugin mimics that behaviour by transforming a contiguous set of HTML images into an expanding Dock, vertical or horizontal, with or without labels. Info / Download / Demo 3) Image bubbles efect Image Bubbles is a cool Flash-like effect that causes an image to bubble up and expand whenever the mouse rolls over it from...

SiteFusion is a server-based development environment written in pure object-oriented PHP. It works through a thin XUL client. The open source applications looks and behaves like a native system but runs on a server generating JavaScript commands. Some of the features are listed bellow : Platform-independent applications OS-native look and feel Writing applications in pure object-oriented PHP No traditional browser security restrictions: access the client filesystem and run programs It’s Fast! API that offers the full set of possibilities that XUL and PHP entail Aimed at quick, efficient programming by minimizing the amount of code needed Client connecting through a regular webserver, no additional configuration required Thin, update-free XUL client XULCustomTree, the adapted tree class that unlocks all features of the Mozilla tree view including sorting, drag & drop and editable cells. Also supports sparse trees, allowing efficient presentation and operation of trees of over...

Lightbox_me is a jQuery lightbox plugin that enables you to lightbox any DOM element. The compressed file has only 1 kb and beside this has a lot of features for you. All you have to do is just to feed it a DOM element wrapped in a jQuery object and it will lightbox it for you. It can position the modal box smartly in every situation whether the windows is resized or the window is smaller than the modal. Usage Include jQuery and lightbox_me in your web page, then invoke lightbox_me on a jQuery object: $(domobj).lightbox_me(); or $("#id").lightbox_me(); This will lightbox the DOM element immediately. Typically you would put this code inside the click handler of another element. Features Handles overlay resize when the window is resized Handles overlay size in cases where the document is smaller than the window Handles position: fixed in all browsers Position: fixed automatically swaps to position: absolute when the window size is smaller than the modal, so the user can scroll to see the...