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  1. Create a dynamic Twitter-search feed

    27th Nov 2011 ~ No responses

    For years the ancient (and some would say instinctive) art of tweeting was restricted to the avian species of the sky, but recently a service has come about that allows us humans to partake in the practise. You might have heard of this little company, they call themselves Twitter, and have provided an extensive API for us web-folk to play with their service. At this point you might be wondering...

  2. Create a bullet-proof contact form

    9th Oct 2011 ~ No responses

    Contact pages are usually one of the basic building blocks of any website, and while many simple feature an email address for spam bots to pick up and use, or even a handy 'mailto' link, the best ones feature a proper contact form. To make a bulletproof one we're going to need some thick glass and a riot shield PHP and JavaScript. Having those bad-boys on our side will ensure...

  3. Prevent broken animations in jQuery

    20th Sep 2011 ~ No responses

    I recently posted an article on Animating a Site's Loading using jQuery - a handy technique to spice up any site. But an issue that became apparent using this technique, along with some other animation methods, is that sometimes user interaction can prevent loading and other animations from finishing correctly, and possibly lead to pages that look broken because of it. This is the sort of thing that only user-testing...

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    Importing hand-drawn art into Photoshop

    18th Sep 2011 ~ No responses

    Using Photoshop to design websites it great - it allows for pixel-perfect designs that can then be styled to your hearts-content using all the powerful tools included in the application. But sometimes it's nice to add a human touch, and have hand-drawn art in our designs. Now I personally don't do this all too often, but the other day when a client asked for a design that I simply couldn't...

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    Hide an element with jQuery whilst scrolling

    12th Sep 2011 ~ 2 responses

    Today I came across an interesting problem that no amount of Google searches could solve. So I had to knuckle down and come up with a solution - and surprisingly it was much more simple that it had first appeared. So the problem is hiding an element when a user is scrolling - it might be a menu, a header, or a picture of my cat, Sophie. Either way we...

  3. ILALUX (I love acronyms like UX)

    Animate a site’s loading

    31st Aug 2011 ~ 1 response

    There are a lot of things we can do as web designers to improve the UX of a site, much of the time subtle animations can be added to add a bit of finesse to a page, and a new trend is that of adding animations to the loading of pages to make it look a bit better. So what do I mean by 'loading animations'? I'm not talking about...

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    Reality check: Why Adobe Muse doesn’t matter.

    27th Aug 2011 ~ No responses

    Recently a number of people in the web community, specifically developers have been complaining about Adobe Muse, a website creation tools for people without coding knowledge. And while I agree that Adobe doesn't know what the community wants, I think the reactions to this tool have been a little too big. Here are my musings (I couldn't resist that badboy). First up Muse isn't a new concept. In fact there...

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    10 Best Practises for jQuery Beginners

    8th Aug 2011 ~ No responses

    jQuery is the one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks available; it enables developers to write code that is easy to understand but that also allows really powerful functionality. There are a boat-load of tutorials out there on jQuery, and the documentation is awesome, but in this article I'll go over the things that all beginners should know about jQuery. 1) Document.ready One thing that often catches newbies out is...

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