16 March 2011 in jQuery

How to Make an Elegant Sliding Image Gallery with jQuery

How to Make an Elegant Sliding Image Gallery with jQuery
In this detailed step-by-step tutorial, Matt Doyle shows you how to use jQuery to build a really slick, full-window sliding image gallery. It's simple, elegant, and also shows off the photos really nicely!

You can follow through the tutorial, or simply grab the code and use it for slideshows on your own websites! The tutorial includes a link to download the full gallery code for your own use.

Enjoy!
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7 March 2011 in Web Graphics and Multimedia

Web Templates Giveaway: Win a 3-Month BoxedArt Membership!

Web Templates Giveaway: Win a 3-Month BoxedArt Membership!
It's giveaway time again on Elated! Today you can win a 3-month developer membership plan at BoxedArt worth $79.99.

This membership gives you instant access to a huge range of high-quality website templates, Flash templates, print-ready designs, logo templates, ebook covers, vector icons, stock photos, and much more.

It's free and easy to enter, so enter now for your chance to win!
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3 March 2011 in Photoshop

The New Photoshop: What We Need in a Proper Next-Generation Digital Design Tool

The New Photoshop: What We Need in a Proper Next-Generation Digital Design Tool
Photoshop has become an all-purpose, go-to tool for everyone. It's a massive application, weighed down by years of iterations both major and minor, and now it can do pretty much any imaging task you want to throw at it.

But this all-purpose approach is its biggest failing. It's simply too complex for a specialist web designer to use.

In this article I'm going to set out my stall as to how I see a different kind of tool - one which will take us forward into the brave new world of digital design in the 2010s.
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25 February 2011 in Website Management

20 Ways to Make Your Freelance Web Business More Productive

20 Ways to Make Your Freelance Web Business More Productive
Running a freelance web business can be a challenge, and part of that challenge is keeping yourself productive! Inefficiencies, distractions and a lack of organization can all contribute to bogging down your business, killing productivity.

However, armed with some useful strategies and working practices, you can reduce these roadblocks to productivity and make your business run more smoothly and profitably.

In this article you'll discover 20 useful tips to help you improve productivity in your business. Enjoy!
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17 February 2011 in jQuery

Drag-and-Drop with jQuery: Your Essential Guide

Drag-and-Drop with jQuery: Your Essential Guide
Dragging and dropping can be a very intuitive way for users to interact with your site or web app. Drag-and-drop with JavaScript used to be very hard to do - in fact, getting a decent cross-browser version working was next to impossible. However, with modern browsers and a smattering of jQuery, drag-and-drop is now a piece of cake!

In this tutorial we take a look at how to create drag-and-drop interfaces with jQuery, and we finish with a complete drag-and-drop example: a simple number cards game for kids.
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10 February 2011 in Web Graphics and Multimedia

Camera to Browser: Making a Web Video Xmas Card in 5 Days

Camera to Browser: Making a Web Video Xmas Card in 5 Days
In December last year - with about ten days to go before Christmas - a client asked Simon how they could deliver some kind of online Christmas card. The end result was a short movie, with original soundtrack, shot, edited and published on the web in a mere 5 days!

In this article Simon describes how he did it.

This project definitely comes under the heading of "it shouldn't happen to a web designer", but it goes some way to illustrate the kind of thing we're supposed to be able to deliver these days, as the web becomes more varied as a delivery mechanism.
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4 February 2011 in PHP Functions

PHP Recursive Functions: How to Write Them, and Why They're Useful

PHP Recursive Functions: How to Write Them, and Why They're Useful
Like most programming languages that support functions, PHP lets you write recursive functions. In this tutorial, we'll explore the concept of recursion in PHP, and discover how to create recursive functions for various tasks.

Recursion is one of those topics that can seem confusing at first, but once you start writing recursive functions you'll see how elegant recursion can be!
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27 January 2011 in Website Management

Hold That Website! 12 Things to Check Before Launch

Hold That Website! 12 Things to Check Before Launch
After weeks of hard work, your new website's ready to launch! It's uploaded, you've set up the domain, and you're ready to take the wrapping off and reveal it to the general public.

Before you hit the proverbial switch, however, it's important to check that your site is functioning correctly - especially if you're launching it with an expensive marketing campaign.

Here's a list of some important things to look for when giving your site its pre-launch testing.
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21 January 2011 in PHP

Build a CMS in an Afternoon with PHP and MySQL

Build a CMS in an Afternoon with PHP and MySQL
Building a content management system can seem like a daunting task to the novice PHP developer. However, it needn't be that difficult. In this tutorial Matt shows you how to build a basic, but fully functional, CMS from scratch in just a few hours. Yes, it can be done!

Along the way, you'll learn how to create MySQL databases and tables; how to work with PHP objects, constants, includes, sessions, and other features; how to separate business logic from presentation; how to make your PHP code more secure, and much more!
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21 December 2010 in HTML

The Joy of HTML5 Audio: Tips and Tricks for Easy Sound Embedding

The Joy of HTML5 Audio: Tips and Tricks for Easy Sound Embedding
Up to now, playing audio in a web browser has been a bit of a black art. Fortunately, HTML5 looks set to make life easier for us developers, thanks to its audio element. This element lets you embed an audio file in a web page, as well as control playback of the sound using JavaScript. More importantly, it doesn't require any plugin to work, and is supported by nearly all modern web browsers.

In this tutorial I'll show you how to embed sounds in a page with the audio element. We'll also take a look at how to trigger and stop the audio via JavaScript, and how to ensure our audio can play on as many web browsers as possible.
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