One Pager for Ukraine-based digital agency, Buref. The intro section features an impressive interactive 3D background achieved with the Three.js library. Also fun doge easter egg - so much wow!
by Rob Hope via One Page Love
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Why Learning Rails Is Still a Great Choice in 2016
Rails has been around for over 12 years. That's an eternity in any kind of technology. The list of any software-related items that have survived that long has to consist of just a few. Sitting here thinking about it, I can only come up with:
- Linux
- Vi/Vim (which I am using to write this post)
Ok, well, I seem to be terrible at lists. I am sure there's more, but the point remains: Rails has been around for ages. It has hair on it.
Knowing, as we do, that software is changing at the speed of light, especially in the web space, how can something like Rails persevere? Is there any way that it's still relevant as a web framework? I mean, with Concurrent-this and Functional-that always dominating the headlines, how is this framework based on an object-oriented language still worth learning?
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by Glenn Goodrich via SitePoint
Quick-Tip: Show Modal Popup after Time Delay
In the following quick tip, I'm going to show you how to open a modal window on a web page after a short time deay. This might be useful to highlight a particular call to action, such as signing up for a newsletter or for getting likes on Facebook. Some sites also use this technique to display advertising.
But before continuing, take a second to ask yourself if this is something you really need to do. Whenever a site I'm browsing opens a modal without me having clicked on something, I almost always close it immediately and get annoyed that my attention was jerked away from whatever it was I was looking at. In my opinion such techniques can detract from the overall experience of a site and there are better ways to make visitors aware of your content.
A Basic Implementation
Still reading? Ok, I guess you're set on doing this, so let's get to it. For the impatient, there is a working demo at the end of the article.
For this quick tip I'll use the Colorbox plugin to display the modal. Colorbox relies on jQuery, so you'll have to add that to your page as well. Here's a template.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>Delayed modal demo</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://ift.tt/2eITRVz" />
</head>
<body>
<script src="http://ift.tt/1NCktat"></script>
<script src="http://ift.tt/2eIRzWr"></script>
<script>
<!-- Code here -->
</script>
</body>
</html>
Note that I'm using various CDNs to include the scripts here, but you could also install the dependencies using a package manager such as npm or bower.
Displaying the Modal
Normally, we would assign Colorbox to an HTML element and pass in any settings as key/value pairs inside an object:
$(selector).colorbox({
key:value,
key:value
});
However, we want to call colorbox directly (without assigning it to anything), so the syntax is slightly different:
$.colorbox({
key:value,
key:value
});
Colorbox has a bunch of options (many related to displaying images) which allow you to customize the modal. In the following example I am specifying its dimensions, giving it a class name (which allows me to style it using CSS) and passing it a string of HTML to display. You can find a full list of options on the page linked to above.
$.colorbox({
html:"<h2>Call For a Free Quote</h2>",
className: "cta",
width: 350,
height: 150
});
Then all that we need to do is use JavaScript's setTimeout function to call this code after the required period of time has elapsed. setTimeout() is a native JavaScript function, which calls a function or executes a code snippet after a specified delay in milliseconds. If you'd like to get up to speed with the ins and outs of setTimeout(), then you can read this SitePoint tutorial.
setTimeout(function(){
$.colorbox({
html:"<h2>Call For a Free Quote</h2>",
className: "cta",
width: 350,
height: 150
});
}, 10000);
The popup will now open after your visitor has been browsing the site for ten seconds.
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by James Hibbard via SitePoint
How to Create a Video Sales Funnel With Social Media
Do you use social media to generate revenue? Want to add video to your marketing plan? Serving social media video at the proper time can help a person go from lead to customer in a few simple clicks. In this article, you’ll discover how to use social media video to support your sales funnel. #1: [...]
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- Your Guide to the Social Media Jungle
by Ben Angel via
Shave – Javascript Plugin for Truncating Text
Shave is a zero dependency javascript plugin that truncates text to fit within a html element based on a set max-height.
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Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Portfolio 2016 - Du Haihang
by via Awwwards - Sites of the day
How Visual Marketing Helps Business Organizations Succeed
The internet is an omnipresent digital medium which is becoming increasingly visual. A saying that picture is worth a thousand words has never been more relevant than it is today. Online tools have overshadowed traditional marketing strategies and no marketer must fail to utilize them, since they are the place where the visual content fully shines. The truth is, however, that traditional marketing still has much life in it, and adheres to the same visual standards.
by Guest Author via Digital Information World
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