Fabric.js: A Powerful & Simple JavaScript Canvas Library
Advertise here via BSA In this article, I’ll introduce you to Fabric.js —a powerful JavaScript library that makes working with the HTML5 canvas element a breeze. Fabric provides a missing object model...
View ArticleCSS3 Selectors: Structural Pseudo-Classes Part 1
Advertise here via BSA Today’s front-end developers don’t just need to understand how to write CSS, we need to know how to write it efficiently. And what “efficiently” means can depend on your project...
View ArticleHow I Built Paint 4 Kids Windows Store App
Advertise here via BSA Paint 4 Kids is a Windows Store app , specifically designed for kids. A simple app for coloring and drawing. You can read of the consumer’s features directly from the Windows...
View ArticleAnimations, Actions And Particle Systems: Creating Realistic iPhone Games...
Animation adds excitement to a game and makes the characters more realistic. In this article, we’ll look at the Cocos2D library and how it supports programmatic animations in iPhone games. This...
View ArticleBuild a Responsive Pricing Table with Neat Hover States
During this tutorial we’ll be creating a sleek pricing table with some striking hover effects. We’ll use Lea Verou’s Prefixfree script to keep our CSS clean, plus we’ll make the whole thing...
View ArticleFiller Content: Tools, Tips and a Dynamic Example
As designing in the browser becomes more popular (and convenient), the need for helpful design tools is increasing. One set of tools that is becoming quite helpful revolves around filler content....
View ArticleTaming the Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) Beast
Advertise here via BSA This article recently appeared on BuildNewGames.com , a collaboration by the teams at Bocoup and Internet Explorer. With the large number of varying screen resolutions available...
View ArticleHow to Use Web Workers for Image Manipulation
Advertise here via BSA Today I’d like to talk about picture manipulation in HTML5, using pure Javascript. The Test Case The test application is simple. On the left a picture to manipulate and on the...
View ArticleHow They Did It: Flickr.com Redesign
Fresh on the heels of Yahoo!'s acquisition of Tumblr, Yahoo! has implemented a complete redesign of Flickr.com . This was met with some strong criticism as well as strong praise , a lot of which has...
View ArticleBuild a Modular Dashboard Interface With Pure
Today, we will be making a beautiful, minimal dashboard using Pure ( view the project on GitHub ), the new mini-CSS module library from Yahoo!. We will be talking about and using some of the...
View ArticleThe Joy Of Illustrated Maps In The Era Of Google Earth
In my career as a freelance illustrator, map-making has become a favorite specialty of mine. With each map assignment, I virtually travel across the globe, visiting places I’ve never been. Most...
View ArticleTeaching Web Design To New Students In Higher Education
? ? The Web is evolving rapidly. Front-end Web development has been majorly affected by recent changes in coding techniques and approaches. In 2003, a competent front-end Web developer would have...
View ArticleBuild a Dynamic Dashboard With ChartJS
Today we will be creating a dynamic dashboard with live charts, through the power of ChartJS . ChartJS is a powerful, dependency free JavaScript library which builds graphs via the canvas element....
View ArticleHow to Customize the Foundation 4 Top Bar
Zurb’s Foundation 4 features a brilliant top bar which has become almost symbolic of a Foundation site build. Today we’re going to look at how you can implement it in a different way, placing it...
View ArticleResponsive Navigation On Complex Websites
? ? Central to a solid user experience is a well-structured, simple navigation system. Over the past few months, I’ve been involved in launching two large institutional websites with complex...
View ArticleCSS3, Web Fonts and Icons
We’re really lucky to be working in an industry like the web industry. Nowadays, we have so many new tips and techniques and ways of working all of the time. We’re also really lucky that we’re in an...
View ArticleFoundation’s Sassy Styles Explained
In this tutorial we’ll cover what can be done with the flexible Sass styles included in the Foundation framework. A lot of these offer a more customisable feature set than that of the CSS version,...
View ArticleHidden Productivity Secrets With Alfred
Good developers are always looking for ways to be faster and to automate their workflows. Today, we present a series of workflows in Alfred that will boost your productivity and rock your world....
View ArticleHidden Productivity Secrets With Alfred
Good developers are always looking for ways to be faster and to automate their workflows. Today, we present a series of workflows in Alfred that will boost your productivity and rock your world....
View ArticleGet Up And Running With Grunt
In this article, we’ll explore how to use Grunt in a project to speed up and change the way you develop websites. We’ll look briefly at what Grunt can do, before jumping into how to set up and use...
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