Why use icons? Design is all about communication: it doesn’t matter how important or exciting the information that you’re sharing is if you fail to hook your visitors. When initially viewing a website, most users will first scan the page for visually interesting content, and only after something grabs their attention will they actually begin reading. Icons are a simple, effective way to draw users into the content of your website. Icons serve the same [...]

We have taken notice of how many designers are reluctant to embrace the new technologies such as CSS3 or HTML5 because of the lack of full cross-browser support for these technologies. Many designers are complaining about the numerous ways how the lack of cross-browser compatibility is effectively holding us back and tying our hands — keeping us from completely being able to shine and show off the full scope of our abilities in our work. [...]

Flash Mp3 players are cool because they let web developers and bloggers embed music players and build customized JukeBox on the websites. With these online music players, you can add a list of songs easily and embed the given Javascript code to your website. Most of these music players are customizable and you can have your won skin that suit the web design. Today, we are going to look into 10 flash Mp3 players that [...]

1. Full screen image gallery using JQuery and Flickr Full browser – screened image gallery. Easy and understandable. Features: Flickr search using jQuery and JSON Full screen with kept ratio using CSS only A png raster to even out up-scaled jpegs Thumbnails with loader indicator and a nice hover effect that shows a bigger thumb (or description) A preloader loads the large images one by one for super-fast viewing Fetches the biggest image from flickr using [...]

So for this week the focus in on jQuery. This javascript framework continued to grow in popularity during 2010, which meant an abundance of plugins being released. This made it difficult to choose our favorites. We made a conscious effort to choose from a variety of types, and ones that were useful to web designers and that had some wow factor. Here are our picks for the Best jQuery Plugins of 2010, by WDL Nivo [...]