Best Web Design and Web Development Articles of July 2011
July 29, 2011. Written by Paul Sanduleac
This post contains a roundup of great articles written by various Web Designers and Web Developers in July 2011.
Here is the list of articles written in July 2011 we found interesting and useful. Get the most of them. Enjoy!
Web Design
Designing Pricing Plans for Subscription-Based Web Apps
“The most difficult part of generating revenue becomes getting users to sign up…”
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How to Design a Gallery Layout in Photoshop
“The purpose is to show beginners out there how important the Ruler Tool is when you are designing in Photoshop…”
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Convert 1stDelicious Portfolio Layout From PSD to HTML
“In this article you will learn how to convert A Simple Clean Portfolio Layout from PSD to HTML in a detailed step by step tutorial…”
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Designing Web Application Interfaces from a User Experience Standpoint
“Web designers often overlook the true value of user experience. There is a lot to be said for how a user interacts with your page which can make or break your business and brand…”
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A simple introduction to web accessibility
“Accessibility can often seem daunting and complex but in fact there are only four types of disability you need to be aware of. Through groupings, simulations and quick fixes, UX and accessibility consultant Ian Hamilton shows that the basics are actually surprisingly simple…”
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How to Implement Some Slick Icons Using a Font and CSS
“Using an image-based font can be a fun and quick way to implement icons across your site. It’s a super easy process that gives you complete freedom to go back and re-size your icons at any time…”
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Super Simple Lightbox with CSS and jQuery
“Rather than using a bloated plugin that has features you’ll never use, this tutorial shows you how to create a super simple lightbox for handling images. It’s perfect for image galleries, portfolios, and more…”
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Multiple Borders with CSS
“While fiddling around with the CSS3 box-shadow property, I stumbled across a method to put a double border on a single element…”
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Grid-based web design, simplified
“A grid at its barest is nothing more than a series of intersecting horizontal and vertical lines spaced at regular intervals, but its innate propensity for creating order out of chaos makes it one of the most powerful tools at a designer’s disposal…”
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Having Fun With CSS3: Spinning Newspapers
“Using JavaScript, we will load a sliced up version of the newspaper, and combine them in a single canvas element…”
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Web Development
How To Create a Slick Features Table in HTML & CSS
“We’ve all grown up as web designers staying well away from table based layouts, but we don’t often brush up on our table building skills ready for when we will actually need them…”
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The Art & Science of Folding CSS Code
“One of the joys of working with CSS is that you can basically write the code any way you want…”
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Get started with WebGL: draw a square
“So you’ve heard about WebGL? It’s become sort of a buzzword in the web development community…”
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Uploading Files with AJAX
“Today, I’m going to show you how to do something that has been almost unprecedented: uploading files via AJAX…”
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Vertical Sliding Accordion with jQuery
“Today we want to share a slick and flexible vertical jQuery accordion with you. The main idea is to expand the accordion slices on click and show some more information…”
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How to Develop a Custom Page Excerpt Plugin for WordPress
“In this tutorial, we’ll develop a small WordPress plugin which replaces a shortcode with a link to a specific page or post…”
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Convert a Menu to a Dropdown for Small Screens
“When the browser window is narrow, the menu in the upper right converts from a regular row of links into a dropdown menu…”
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Learning To Use HTML5 Semantic Elements
“HTML5 has several new layers, including a new set of semantic tags…”
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Create Vector Masks using the HTML5 Canvas
“The HTML5 canvas can be used to create a lot of cool things, like games, video effects, graphs and more…”
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Create reflection effect using CSS3
“In a recent project, the client asked me if there is any way to add reflection to images…”
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