In design at 03:00 pm February 22nd, 2010
I was not sure on what too title this but I though that NAF(non active fading) worked, basically the function below fades out the not active siblings to make the element you are hovered over stand out.
I got this idea after seeing this site. After trying out many ideas and failing I knew there must be a way of selecting the not active siblings. A quick look through my Packt jQuery Reference Guide and I found .not() under the filtering methods.
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In design on December 15th, 2009
This tutorial is about how to make a gallery using Jquery, without the need for a plugin. I’m not saying don’t use a gallery plugin, but like me you might not want to, so this is an alternative. We will make this work by attaching an image to each thumbnail using the rel attribute, then replacing a div with an image.
In design on October 03rd, 2009
The days of flat/block color text are dead you can apply many effects by just being a bit creative with CSS, CSS3 makes it a little bit easier with the text shadow style BUT until ie6 dies designers are having to find alternative ways to create text effects.
In design on August 25th, 2009
I have always been looking around for an easy way of having custom fonts in web designs. As the web is evolving so quickly designer must make their designs stand out as much as possible and one way of doing this is using a custom font for a project.
In design on December 31st, 2008
So with all this time off i have got round to updating my website. I needed to really update my work page as it was all graphics and no real text and this was just taking far to long to load also I wanted to use a different lightbox, it was using script.aculo.us and i [...]
In design on October 18th, 2008
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit. Praesent accumsan erat sit amet dolor. Quisque porttitor tortor. Maecenas velit. Phasellus ultrices aliquet ante….dont worry your eyes aren’t playing tricks on you im just getting you ready for when you look at this site!
In design on October 18th, 2008
After alot of work the very popular gifts site has a new look. A very strong brand of orange an blue (almost like play.com) has been reworked into a much cleaner and clearer look.
with a very specific brief and a few of my touches I have turned a table based site into a full css [...]
In design on October 15th, 2008
At my Place of work Blue Solutions ltd. we have launched a side company called purelywebstores. We have just rolled out our first site called purelygps.co.uk.
Since i had started at the company i had mainly been the graphic designer so print adverts, emails etc, but now I have a chance to learn new things by [...]