The line between mobile websites and web apps is one that is becoming more blended and blurred everyday. In many cases, it is hard to differentiate between the two. For the purpose of this tutorial, we will define a web app as something that requires more advanced functions while a mobile website’s purpose is to push the content of a regular site to mobile browsers in a more easily accessible fashion. (more…)
Lettering.js was built to solve a problem. As web typography improves, web designers want the same level of control that print designers have. Just as we’ve moved beyond Helvetica and Times New Roman, we’ve begun to think about web type in finer detail than h1 or span tags currently (semantically) allow. (more…)
Have you ever seen WordPress archives where you select something (usually a month/year) from a dropdown and it takes you to a page where you can view that? It’s fairly common. WordPress almost has built in functionality for it, since you can specifically tell the wp_get_archives() function that you want the values to be returned as option’s. (more…)
There is always a minor problem when it comes to preloading image on a website. Nobody really has a full solution for it. There are a lot of preloaders available, but most of the time they only display the words: “Loading page” or have an animated image that spins. Why can’t there be a nice loading bar of some kind? (more…)
For one of the projects I’m currently working on with Rareview, we wanted to add a rising hover effect to a set of icon links. Using jQuery’s animate effect, I experimented with icons that have reflections and others with shadows. Here is a demo with two examples. (more…)