Thursday, April 30, 2009 No Comments
In this tutorial we’ll go through the theming process I used to style the upcoming PSDTUTS Wiki, but the process, particularly using Firebug, could be applied to pretty much any CMS.
Category: Web Layout
Thursday, April 30, 2009 No Comments
The key to a succesful website is the ease with which a user finds what they are looking for. Thus, it’s worth spending a lot of time and effort in creating both useful and visually appealing navigation systems. Lately, I have began experimenting with new ways to navigate a website. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to let the user make use of their keyboard to get around your site.
Tags: jquery, navigation
Category: Javascript
Thursday, April 30, 2009 No Comments
Although WordPress has a *very* extensive plug-in collection, now and again things come up for which there are no suitable plug-ins available (yet). When I built PSDTUTS I thought it would be cool to have a way for users to submit links and to create a public link feed out of it. Today I’ll show you how I hacked together a method using WordPress’ comments.
Thursday, April 30, 2009 No Comments
Animation and visual feedback are great ways to assist a user in navigating and interacting with a website. While traditionally Adobe’s Flash was the goto for anything animated, these days with the magic of javascript we can avoid Flash altogether. Today we’re going to build a really cool animated navigation menu using just CSS and jQuery.
Tags: jquery, navigation
Category: Javascript
Thursday, April 30, 2009 No Comments
There are lots of different ways to communicate with your users these days. RSS feeds, SMS, & sites like Twitter have changed how we speak to our audience. But for my money, you can’t beat the personal touch of a good ol’ email newsletter.
Thursday, April 30, 2009 No Comments
As you know there are a host of competing javascript libraries around these days. Though I prefer jQuery, I’ve always liked the way the menu on MooTools worked. So in this tutorial we’ll recreate that same effect … but we’ll do it in jQuery!
Tags: jquery, navigation
Category: Javascript
Thursday, April 30, 2009 No Comments
Tabbed content is a great way to handle this issue and has been widely used on blogs recently. Today we’re going to build a simple little tabbed information box in HTML, then make it function using some simple Javascript, and then finally we’ll achieve the same thing using the jQuery library.
Tags: content box, jquery
Category: Javascript
Thursday, April 30, 2009 No Comments
This tutorial utilizes Trapcodes Particular, which is one of After Effects more popular 3rd party plugins. Creating an animation like a flock of birds is very versatile and is a great filler animation which can add a lot of style to a piece.
Category: After Effects
Thursday, April 30, 2009 No Comments
So in this tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a spray paint effect using After Effects. It’s a fairly simple process but I’ve got a few tricks that you may not have thought of.
Category: After Effects
