A collection of fresh button styles and effects for your inspiration. We use CSS transitions and pseudo-elements for most of the effects.
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A fireworks animation plugin for jQuery.
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A jQuery plugin provides appear and disappear events to do lazyload, infinite scroll or else effect.
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Although China represents a huge chunk of netizens (over 600 million users), the Chinese government is very strict when it comes to what content is shown to its people. They have stringent regulations and their ruthlessness is shown in partially or fully blocking popular websites like Google and Facebook in the past.
In spite of the absence of these American giants in the Chinese world, local websites have emerged, which perform the tasks of their American counterparts quite well. In this post, we look at the progress of one such website — Baidu.
Although the primary product of Baidu is the search engine, it also has services like Baidu Yun (cloud services), Baidu News, Baidu Dictionary and many more. Baidu’s advertisements are also similar to Google’s Adwords and AdSense. In this article, let’s focus on the search engine and how to give your site the best chance of appearing in Chinese search results.
Source: NetMarketShare[/caption]To understand the importance of Baidu, you should consider the market share of different search engines. As the January 2015 search engine market share results show, Google accounts for over two thirds of searches, but Baidu comes in second with 18.7%. Bing currently has 8.7% and Yahoo is close behind with 7.8%
Baidu boasts more than 60% of Chinese search traffic but it is also known to refer over a quarter of its traffic to its own properties.
If the primary audience of your website is English speaking then it’s not necessary or wise to implement any of the tips that I provide here. However, if you run a product line or service with a large portion of your audience being Chinese-speaking, you can’t ignore this huge potential market. Let’s have a look at what you can do to help your website attract more Baidu users.
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Welcome to our weekly edition of what’s hot in social media news. To help you stay up to date with social media, here are some of the news items that caught our attention. What’s New This Week? Facebook Launches Ads Manager App: “Whether you want to monitor current ads or create new ones, ads manager […]
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In this tutorial we will teach you how to create some album preview effects using CSS only. No JavaScript section here.
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A jQuery plugin for displaying an item by fade-in at random.
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A grid to display data in tree structure by using angular, bootstrap.
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Two-way data binding is now one of the crucial features of client-side applications. Without data binding, a developer has to deal with a lot of logic to manually bind data to the view, whenever there is a change in the model. JavaScript libraries like Knockout, AngularJS, and Ember have support for two-way binding but these libraries use different techniques to to detect changes.
Knockout and Ember use observables. Observables are functions wrapped around the properties of the model objects. These functions are invoked whenever there is a change of the value of the corresponding object or property. Although this approach works well, and detects and notifies all the changes, it takes away the freedom of working with plain JavaScript objects as now we have to deal with functions.
Angular uses dirty checking to detect changes. This approach doesn't pollute the model object. It registers watchers for every object added to the model. All of these watchers are executed whenever Angular’s digest cycle kicks in and if there are any changes to the data. Those changes are processed by the corresponding watchers. The model still remains a plain object, as no wrappers are created around it. But, this technique causes performance degradation as the number of watchers grows.
Object.observe?Object.observe, a.k.a. O.o, is a feature to be added to JavaScript as part of ECMAScript 7 to support object change detection natively in the browser. Although ES7 is not completed yet, this feature is already supported in Blink-based browsers (Chrome and Opera).
BecauseObject.observe will be supported by the browsers natively and it works directly on the object without creating any wrappers around it, the API is both easy to use and a win for performance. If Object.observe is supported by a browser, you can implement two-way binding without the need of an external library. It doesn't mean that all of the existing two-way binding libraries will be of no use once O.o is implemented. We still need them to update UIs efficiently after detecting the changes using O.o. Besides, libraries would internally polyfill the logic of change detection if not all targeted browsers support O.o.
Now that you have an idea of what O.o is good for, let’s see it in action.
The observe() method is an asynchronous static method defined on Object. It can be used to look for changes of an object and it accepts three parameters:
Let’s see an example of using the method. Consider the following snippet:
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Hello and welcome to On Our Radar This Week, where we keep you up to date with the most interesting conversations that are taking place on the SitePoint forums. It's been a busy week, and we've had plenty of great threads covering demystifying closures, details on using photos from other sites, a renewed discussion about whether dependency injection breaks encapsulation, and your best apps of 2014.
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Almost a year and a half ago we published the results of a framework survey on the PHP channel. The survey, while producing fewer entries than our IDE survey still provided us with valuable insight into our audience and the state of individual vs. team developers out there.
With Laravel 5 fresh out of the oven, Phalcon being kickstarted into full-time development, and others reaching a much anticipated maturity, it’s only natural we’re curious about your preferences - have they changed? Do they remain unbudged? Do you wish you could switch so hard you can taste it, but aren’t allowed to by your company? We’re interested in all these points and much more.
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As cars continue to become more advanced, software developers are going to play a larger role in automotive technology than in prior years. Like shifts in wearable technology software is now used to expand the capabilities of cars beyond the basics.
At the recent International Consumer Electronics (CES) one of the primary themes of the event was the future of car manufacturing. Companies such as Toyota announced the first commercially available hydrogen powered vehicle and Mercedes Benz announced a luxury self-driving vehicle, there was still plenty of discussion on the finer details of automotive technology.
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Bootstrap Offcanvas is a super simple, easy to use off-canvas navigation menu for Bootstrap.
A picture is worth a thousand words.
We've all heard that old chestnut a thousand times before, right? In web design images are as important if not more than your actual copy.
While there's no doubting the precision that clear writing can bring to an idea, images have the ability to bypass the high-level, analytical brain and speak straight to us on an emotional level. Do we need another goofy cat Youtube video to prove that imagery can turn normal, intelligent discerning humans into giggling, retweeting fools?
There are three types of readers your site encounters. You have:
Do bear in mind, the same user could take on any of these roles, possibly even within the same browsing session.
The majority of readers fall under the scanner category, which makes it even more important to make emotionally impactful choices in regards to your visual content. Regardless of what type of readers you encounter there is one thing that you must always remember, you’re dealing with humans and humans are influenced by emotional triggers.
I find that the easiest way to explain and illustrate examples and techniques is to use common links. In this article I'm going to be borrowing from the world of film.
Most of us have films we relate to. We laughed or cried, we cheered for a hero, and we feared for a character's safety. Each film used a clever combination of image and sound to manipulate the way we felt. And we probably loved it.
Aside from entertaining us and creating a visual masterpiece with a strong story, directors aim to trigger some form of emotional reaction -- and if you reacted, even for a second, then they did their job.
This should be the way your approach your website imagery choices. Trigger an emotion and capture your audience.
Let's take a photo of a smiling face and animated body language. There's every chance that your three year old niece could tell you that the smiling person is happy.
While our logical brain can justify why the image might communicate happiness, it isn't part of the process that evokes the emotion for the viewer. Often our 'gut' reaction to an image comes first, and our logical brain is given the task of explaining our reasoning later.
Of the following two images, the left image may be more scientifically useful in understanding precisely what a frog is. But it's probably the right image that we engage with.
Two frog images -- which one engages you?This is why, as designers, we should always favour emphasizing “feelings over logic”. It's more impactful and will do a better job making your visitors 'connect'.
To help this, we can employ some subtle techniques of adjusting the frame, manipulating the color and focal points we can craft the emotional message, in the same way we might craft written copy.
While there are numerous ways to generate and evoke emotion the easiest and quickest results come from appropriate framing and lighting. These two methods help create atmosphere.
Consider the hard hitting moments in film. The parts where you are really made to feel. These are crafted thanks to the work of the cinematographer.
Below I’ll show you examples of how both framing and lighting choices can motivate the emotions needed for your site. Note that each image has gone undergone a very quick 5 minute edit to work as examples.
Framing is an important aspect whether you’re making movies or shooting photos. The proper angle and distance from the lens are just those small little changes that can create a “wow” effect for your viewers.
Let’s look at the two examples below to see how a good crop or tighter frame can change the overall mood of an image.
Example 1 
At first glance this image is of a good quality and has captured emotion. Upon second glance and if you are looking to place this on your website, say for the header/slider the image is fairly neutral.
Yes, the people appear happy but that’s because logic is telling you “smiling means happy”. Crowd shots are tricky when eliciting emotions.
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“jQuery Accordion Menu” is a menu with accordion behavior.
Features:
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Super simple, easy to use off-canvas navigation menu for Bootstrap.It uses Bootstrap classes and markup to create an off-canvas menu that not only looks good. But works perfectly.
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In this article, I’ll demonstrate how to add a Pinterest call-to-action on top of an image when a user is actively interacting with it.
Firstly, let’s look at why you would even want to do that.
What constitutes good content often depends a lot on the particular needs and interests of end users. Good content might be attractive, effective, simple, functional, informative, inspiring … and so on.
We are used to adding social network buttons or links to share a page (ideally via fat-free buttons). Facebook, Twitter and Google+ are often the primary must-haves.
We may also want users to be able to share parts of our page. Page content is often made of chunks, and each of these chunks can be provided with its own preferred social network sharing feature.
For instance, a quote can be targeted to fit Twitter’s 140-character limit, and a picture can be aimed for Pinterest.
Let’s look at how you set up your images to be shared on Pinterest.
A Pinterest Pin URL is made of four components:
http://ift.tt/1kj44ES url parameter: the address of the page to link to, URL-encodedmedia parameter: the address of the picture to share, URL-encodeddescription parameter: the descriptive text shown on Pinterest, URL-encoded, 500 characters max, but 200 characters seems to be the best choice.Some HTML data elements can be added if you add Pinterest’s own JavaScript, especially data-pin-do and data-pin-config, but it won’t be needed in this case, as this is a fat-free approach where we rely on the strict minimum amount of code.
The code we want to get looks like this:
Each sharaeble picture (marked with the data-pin attribute pinIt) is prefixed with an anchor to the Pinterest sharing page with the right attributes in its URL, embedding a div to display the logo.
Three CSS classes are used here: pinterest-anchor, which absolutely sets the Pinterest logo position on the top-left corner of the picture; pinterest-hidden, which sets the visibility status of the logo, and pinterest-logo, the logo itself, 40x40 pixels, encoded in base64 in the CSS.
The animating part – showing and hiding the logo on hovering the picture – is handled in JavaScript, using jQuery notation:
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Users today are focused just as much on the visual design of a website as they are about the content they need from it.
Traditionally designers and developers have used individual images/sprite-sheets for their icons; these graphics were a series of pixel perfect images that would be used in specific parts of the site (such as the search bar, navigational elements, loading icons and other elements).
Displaying icons with images/sprites worked well for a long time (and many websites will still use them). However, with the focus on responsive design more important than ever, the challenge has been providing stunning iconography that looks great regardless of your device.
Font icons are a way in which we can display fully responsive, customizable icons on our website without the use of additional images or sprite-sheets.
Font Icons are exactly what they sound like, a font made of icons.
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First everybody wanted a website. Then along came Flash and so people wanted a Flash site. Then there was Facebook and that became the must-have thing to be a part of. Now everybody wants a mobile app. But do they really need one?
After all, creating a mobile app is not without its challenges.
I delve deeper into this topic in a Learnable screencast at the end of this article by taking a look at case studies where the decision to go native perhaps wasn't the best.
With so many apps in the app store,When smartphone app stores first launched there was a land rush to fulfill consumer demand for native applications. In those early days there were some incredible opportunities. But those days are gone.
With well over 1 million apps in both the iTunes and Android stores, supply has exceeded demand.
Worse still, getting found is difficult in stores lacking sophisticated search functionality. Where once being on the App Store provided unprecedented exposure, and there are still some ways to improve your app marketplace ranking, today it is likely your app will be rarely seen.
Even if a user does see your app and downloads it, that does not guarantee they will keep it. With limited storage space users only keep so many apps on their device. They’re ruthless when it comes to deleting apps. Users tend to only keep apps that they are using on a regular basis.
The biggest problem with native applications is their cost. Unlike learning HTML and CSS, there is a high barrier to entry when it comes to developing native mobile apps. This means that hiring application developers is expensive compared to their web counterparts.
But the real cost comes in supporting many platforms and devices. Unlike the web you cannot build once and be sure that it will work everywhere. You cannot even use the same language to code across more than one platform.
It is not only expensive to build your application in the first place but also to maintain it over time. Every new device released could force you to update your app. Changes in the screen size, resolution and OS can lead to alterations in your application.
Despite that, there are occasions when the costs are worth it because the use case justifies it.
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Robert Qualls dives into the Ruby load path, including how ‘require’ works, how ‘load’ works, and how to make sure your code always gets loaded. Mastering the idiom of the load path is a core to become a solid Rubyist, so this video about ‘require’ is definitely ‘required’ viewing.
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I have written about units in Sass in the past for my own blog, and not so long ago as a CSS-Tricks Sass snippet, but given how often I notice confusion and misconception about the way units work in our beloved preprocessor, I thought a full length article would not be such a bad idea after all.
After two years of writing and reading Sass code every day, I must say that snippets, articles and library code misusing Sass units are beyond counting. I have been guilty of this myself in the past, and I have witnessed Sass core designers trying to teach developers to properly use Sass units more than once.
This battle is obviously not over so let's hope this article will be the coup de grace, in some way.
Before considering code, I think it is important to understand how numbers and units behave in real life. You may not have noticed this yet, but there are very few numbers we use in our daily life that do not have a unit. When we say "speed limit is 50", we implicitly mean "50 kilometers per hour"; in this case the unit is km/h. When we say "look, eggs! I'll have a dozen of those", the unit is eggs: a dozen of eggs. There are exceptions of course but most usages of numbers in our daily routine usually involve a unit.
Along the same lines, running mathematical operations on numbers with units follow some rules. For instance, there are reasons why an area of 5 meters per 5 meters gives 25 square meters (m²). Same for a cube of 1 meter side: it has a volume of 1m3 because 1 meter per 1 meter per 1 meter doesn't give 3 meters, but 1 cubic meter.
I like how Chris Eppstein puts it:
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Want more exposure for your website content? Does your site make it easy for readers to share? With a few simple tips, you can boost the appeal of your website content and optimize your posts for easy sharing on social channels. In this article you’ll discover four ways to make your website content more shareable. […]
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jQuery Stage is a jQuery plugin for detecting information about the “stage”, the browser’s viewport.
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This is a CSS3 remake of the well known iPhone™ calculator. (No images, only CSS).
This scientific calculator works just like most other calculators of its kind and probably doesn’t need any further explanations.
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