20 Fantastic jQuery Web Type Plugins | Design Shack

20 Fantastic jQuery Web Type Plugins | Design Shack In recent years, web typography has gone from an embarrassment to a point of pride. From CSS to JavaScript, we’re gaining great tools almost daily that help us implement awesome type. Today we’re going to look at the best jQuery plugins around that are specially built…

Top 10 Everything of 2012

Top 10 Everything of 2012 In 55 wide-ranging lists, TIME surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad of the past 12 months

A List Apart: Articles: Designing Contracts for the XXI Century

A List Apart: Articles: Designing Contracts for the XXI Century A design contract is like a business card—it comes from the same desk, and bears the same creative mark. But it’s also the business card you hate handing out: a folder of legal gibberish with terrible formatting that reminds the client of everything that could…

Responsive & Touch-Friendly Audio Player | Codrops

Responsive & Touch-Friendly Audio Player | Codrops A jQuery audio player plugin that is responsive and touch-friendly. The UI is css-only, no images used. VIEW DEMO DOWNLOAD SOURCE You know that feeling when you are in the design heaven of Photoshop (or another maybe not that overpriced app), then come to writing the markup and things…

StackSlider: A Fun 3D Image Slider | Codrops

StackSlider: A Fun 3D Image Slider | Codrops An experimental image slider that flips through images in 3D. Two stacks resemble image piles where images will be lifted off from and rotated to the center for viewing. VIEW DEMO DOWNLOAD SOURCE StackSlider is a highly experimental jQuery image slider plugin that explores a different and fun…

Tooltips are awesome, there’s simply no denying it. They provide a simple, predictable and straightforward way to provide your users with useful, context-sensitive information, and they look cool to boot. We all agree on how great tooltips are, but how we go about implementing them can differ dramatically. If you’re at square one, looking for…

Simple Effects for Drop-Down Lists | Codrops

Simple Effects for Drop-Down Lists | Codrops A jQuery plugin for transforming select inputs into drop-down lists with some simple expanding effects. VIEW DEMO DOWNLOAD SOURCE Today we want to share some simple drop-down list effects with you. The idea is to transform a normal select input into something more appealing with a jQuery plugin. The…

Understanding the Split Layout in Web Design | Webdesigntuts

Understanding the Split Layout in Web Design | Webdesigntuts As Web Designers, we follow a lot of design paradigms and layout principles: grids, vertical consistency, theF-Layout, Z-Layout, rule of thirds, the Golden-Ratio and so on. Paying attention to these principles will produce visually appealing and functional design – let’s now look at the simple division of a page into…

Honda Resto Mod With a Triumph Mini Scrambler Look

Honda Resto Mod With a Triumph Mini Scrambler Look Todd Hunter’s Honda SL70 resto mod with a mini Triumph Scambler theme Todd Hunter wanted a nice little bike to run around the campground and found just what he needed, a 1971 Honda SL70, and though it ran just fine, the picture he had in mind…

Calendario: A Flexible Calendar Plugin | Codrops

Calendario: A Flexible Calendar Plugin | Codrops A jQuery calendar plugin for creating flexible calendars. VIEW DEMO DOWNLOAD SOURCE Today we want to share a flexible calendar concept with you. Calendars can be a very tricky thing when it comes to their layout and responsiveness. This is an experiment for trying out some grid layouts that…