Chrome Dev Tools: JavaScript and Performance | Nettuts In this third part of our Chrome Developer Tools series, we’ll review how to modify and debug JavaScript. Optimization is an important part of the development process, especially for performance-critical applications. We’ll also discuss techniques for identifying potential bottlenecks in our code. As in the previous two articles, I’ll be focusing…
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Making Websites Location Aware With HTML5 Geolocation | Webdesigntuts
Making Websites Location Aware With HTML5 Geolocation | Webdesigntuts Assumption can be a risky business in the world of UX, but some assumptions can enable you to deliver a more tailored user experience to your visitors. We’re going to look at enhancing user experience by making your websites location aware. User experience has sprung forward…
20 Fresh Sites With Amazing Scrolling Effects | Design Shack
20 Fresh Sites With Amazing Scrolling Effects | Design Shack Scrolling effects are becoming more and more popular as a means of increasing interaction and user interest. Through clever background positioning, animations and a little JavaScript, you can bring your page to life in ways that will surprise and grab your users’ attention.
9 | From Phones To Tablets: 26 Apple Designs That Never Came To Be | Co.Design: business innovation design
9 | From Phones To Tablets: 26 Apple Designs That Never Came To Be | Co.Design: business innovation design In 1982, Apple was in its sixth year of existence, and Steve Jobs, Apple’s cofounder and Chairman, was twenty-eight years old. Steve, intuitive and fanatical about great design, realized that the company was in crisis. With…
Why are Links Blue? ∙ An A List Apart Blog Post
Why are Links Blue? ∙ An A List Apart Blog Post Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the web, is credited with making hyperlinks blue, a decision he appears to have reached at random. But although accessibility may not have been on Sir Tim’s mind at the time, the color choice was a happy one, according to Joe…
How to Adapt Your Site to Different Window Sizes | Web Resources | WebAppers
How to Adapt Your Site to Different Window Sizes | Web Resources | WebAppers Modern browsers like Internet Explorer 10 support the width and height properties of the W3C Working Draft CSS Device Adaptation. This gives Web developers a simple tool to control automatic content scaling across various window dimensions. In particular, it enables sites to easily adapt…
Flipping Circle Slideshow | Codrops
Flipping Circle Slideshow | Codrops A simple circular slideshow where we flip the image in order to navigate. VIEW DEMO DOWNLOAD SOURCE Today we want to share a simple and fun circular slideshow with you. It’s an experimental concept and the idea is to flip a circle in a specific angle depending on which spot of…
Jonathan T. Neal | Understand the Favicon
Jonathan T. Neal | Understand the Favicon When Alec Rust asked the HTML5 Boilerplate project to switch to a HiDPI favicon, I realized how little I knew about favorite icons, touch icons, and tile icons. When I decided to dive in a little deeper, things got interesting. Since they were first introduced by Internet Explorer…
Creative Layouts and Interactions in Web Design | Codrops
Creative Layouts and Interactions in Web Design | Codrops Creative design that differ from the usual layouts can be quite difficult to imagine and execute but when done well, they can make some of the most interesting and engaging websites. You see them almost every day – websites that make you say “I wish I…
Stop, Look, Click: Attention-Grabbing Elements in Web Design | Codrops
Stop, Look, Click: Attention-Grabbing Elements in Web Design | Codrops There have been many studies on attention with very significant results coming from the area of cognitive neuroscience and psychology. It is an interesting challenge to translate those results into the domain of web design and use it as a tool for creating a meaningful…