Monday, July 20, 2015

UX Hero Comics

UX Hero Comics

Responsive landing page promoting 'UX Hero' - the world's first user experience design comic series.

by Rob Hope via One Page Love

Elvidence

Elvidence

Unique layout in this One Pager for 'Elvidence' - a computer forensic investigation company ie. a company that focuses on electronic evidence. Accordion layouts can come across as dated but the arrangement of copy is clean and well presented.

by Rob Hope via One Page Love

The Definitive Guide to Podcasts

The very improbable has happened: Podcasting has become sexy. According to Pew Research Center, the increased reach and upward trend line of podcast consumption is evident in every available measure – the percentage of Americans who are listening to podcasts, the level of public awareness and how many podcasts are being hosted and downloaded. Most […]

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by Aja Frost via SitePoint

Create Great Reports with JasperReports

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Ruby on Rails is an amazing framework for building web applications. The Ruby and Rails ecosystems are very active and mature, with many libraries for solving the various problems encountered by developers. But one particular area where I feel Ruby lacks options is reporting. Many solutions exist in Rails for generating reports, most of them rely on generating HTML and converting to PDF. This approach has its advantages, but falls apart for complex and pixel perfect reports.

Enter JasperReports. JasperReports is a very popular open source reporting library widely used in Java world. Many of you may be curious about how to use a Java library in Rails. There are many approaches, but the one I prefer is to JRuby. This requires you to convert your application to JRuby, which is quite simple to do these days.

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by Devdatta Kane via SitePoint

ClickDeploy

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Clean responsive One Pager for 'ClickDeploy' - a new application by Dev7studios that allows one click deployments from GitHub.

by Rob Hope via One Page Love

Remix CodePen Challenge: Winners Announced!

One month ago we set you a challenge: to remix an HTML and CSS profile card on CodePen as creatively as possible. A massive 154 of you took part–and today we’re very happy to announce the three prizewinners!

How we Selected the Winners

The judges panel comprised an Editor (me), a Designer, a Project Manager, a UX Specialist, an SEO Pro and a Front-end Developer from the team at Envato. Together we whittled down the collection by examining each pen’s creativity, execution, personality, originality and UX. It was a difficult process, but the three which received the most votes are listed below! 

Drumroll please..

Third Place: Yegor Borisenco

Great bit of Sass and animation, with plenty of personality!

Yegor wins:

  • $50 PayPal Prize
  • 1-year CodePen Pro Account
  • 3-month subscription to Tuts+
  • Envato Studio 20% discount voucher

Second Place: David Jones

Hit Rerun (bottom right of the pen) to fully appreciate what David’s done..

David wins:

  • $100 PayPal prize
  • 1-year CodePen Pro Account
  • 3-month subscription to Tuts+
  • $50 Envato Studio voucher

First Place: Dion Pramadhan

Our judges couldn’t help but be charmed by this one, well done Dion!

Dion wins:

  • $200 PayPal Prize
  • CodePen Tee Shirt and Swag Bag
  • 1-year CodePen Pro Account
  • 1-year subscription to Tuts+
  • $150 Envato Studio voucher
  • A “Won a Contest“ badge on Envato Market

Great Job Everyone!

A well-deserved congratulations to our winners! We’ll be in touch shortly with details on how to get hold of the goodies.

Thank you to everyone who took part–selecting the best from these entries was no easy task. Thanks to the judges team for lending us their expertise. Lastly, thanks must go to PayPal and the guys at CodePen for stumping up superb prizes. If you didn’t win, better luck next time, we hope to see you in another challenge!


by Ian Yates via Tuts+ Code

Getting Started With the Instagram API: Media Endpoints