40+ Fresh And Great Portfolio Design Interfaces for Inspiration
If you are stuck with your next portfolio design, you should consider to take a look at these portfolio interfaces that published recently. In this post, we have a collection of fresh and great portfolio design interfaces. All of them were hand-picked in DeviantArt where you can get inspiration everyday. Also check out others works of these authors for more interesting stuff.
Quick Tip: Highlight Author Comments in WordPress – The Right Way
This is an old topic that has been covered by many other blogs and magazines–to the extreme, but it needs updating. I’m talking about how to highlight comments posted by the author of the article. The tutorials out there only work for one user ID for the whole site. That is a big mistake, as it didn’t allow for scalability — it only works when you are blogging on your own (and with only one account). We have given it an overhaul, and updated the code.
How jQuery is Killing Flash + jQuery Tutorials & Plugins to Beat Up Flash Animations
In 1996, Macromedia released their product called Macromedia Flash which is a vector-based animation platform. With Flash, web designers were now able to create animations using a timeline and vector design tools as a video. Furthermore, Flash was and still is a great solution for web designers to provide visitors smooth view in such small file size. The only thing that web surfers need to enjoy the sites using flash is to install Macromedia Flash Player.
However, with the arrival of JavaScript in 1997, there has been a war between Flash and JavaScript because Flash was afraid JavaScript would one day replace them with all the animation it supports. Why? Because a ton of JavaScript frameworks are becoming increasingly popular as a result of their high scalability, performance and usability. Some include jQuery, MooTools, script.aculo.us, Prototype, among others but especially jQuery, as of late.
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and AJAX interactions for rapid web development. Although you may have enough Javascript skills to build your own Javascript code, using jQuery instead of can simplify the process (think hundreds of lines vs. a few lines of jQuery). Furthermore, there are thousands of plugins for jQuery published and large community support for this project. jQuery deserves being the heaviest competitor with Flash.
Learning jQuery: Your First jQuery Plugin, “BubbleUP”
Update: The icons used in this tutorial can be found free here.
There are many posts available detailing how to write your own jQuery plugin. It won’t take long before you realize that building in jQuery is very simple. Continuing in our jQuery Learning Series, here we’re going to build your first jQuery plugin. It’ll generate a bubble effect for your menu list and we’re going to call it BubbleUP.
What is BubbleUP? BubbleUP is a fun and easy plugin to get you started in jQuery. The effect is a nice starting point for learning the basics and many of the steps involved in creating other more intricate plugins you will make in the future. With this plugin, images in a list will enlarge with a smooth animation when you move your mouse over it. Then, if you move the mouse out, it will reset to the original size with the same smooth animation.
Top Worthwhile Tutorials of the Week – #3
This collection is hand-picked from our feed subscription, from Whofreelance, and from other feeds. This tutorials collection focuses on web design, development and digital art from around the web that were published within the past week. Hope you enjoy this collection!
20+ Exceptional Online Professional Image Editors and Drawing Applications
Image editors have been around a while but we’re starting to see rapid growth of exceptional image editors which are all based online. If you haven’t used any of these yet, you’ll be surprised at the features they have and the speed they run at.
Though most of these are Flash-based, they all load really fast and work quite similarly to familiar editors like Photoshop and Illustrator. We also feature here some online applications built with Javascript which work just as well as the Flash-based apps.
Top Worthwhile Tutorials of the Week – #2
This collection is hand-picked from our feed subscription, from Whofreelance, and from other feeds. This tutorials collection focuses on web design, development and digital art from around the web that were published within the past month. Hope you enjoy this collection!
12 Undocumented Tricks for Google Buzz
So. Google just recently announced Google Buzz. I’m not sure about you, but I didn’t see this coming. Sure, Google was bound to start a social network of some sort at some time; but, I didn’t think it’d be this soon!
After spending a few hours on Google Buzz, we’re proud to present you with 12 simple tricks to help give you a better Buzz. Before you start drinking the Google juice, though, make sure you choose a designated driver! (Ya, I know. Bad joke.)
CSS text-indent: An Excellent Trick To Style Your HTML Form
You probably know what the text-indent property does in CSS. It’s a common CSS property allowing webmasters to indent paragraphs and hide text for image-based links. Text-indent does this great; however, it doesn’t just hide and indent text. It does more.
We’re Now a Design Magazine! (And another big announcement…)
Almost a half of year from the day I started blogging and AEXT is taking a huge leap!
It started out as a small personal blog hosted on Blogger, moved to WordPress as LamNguyenBlog.com, and after few months, I decided to make the switch to the current domain AEXT.net. Since then, AEXT has become a pretty solid personal blog. And judging by our subscriber counts and the amount of interaction goin’ on here, people love it!
Today, I’m very glad to announce that AEXT.net is no longer just a personal blog, we are stepping it up as a web design magazine. And what better way to celebrate this announcement than to have a fresh new web design!
But that’s not all! We have one more major announcement…
About AEXT.NET
AEXT is a design magazine that publishes all things web design. Articles here are published by web professionals for web professionals featuring tutorials, collections, and resources.
