New tools for web design and development: March 2012 By Creative Bloq Staff published 2 April 12 In the second of his regular roundups, Mark Penfold looks at another 10 brand new releases that will make life easier for web designers and developers
May 2012 (#227) By Creative Bloq Staff published 23 March 12 Get more out of content management systems! We reveal helpful techniques to create responsive websites in WordPress and if you fancy an alternative, why you may actually would want to switch to Drupal
Get more out of your CSS transitions with jQuery By Creative Bloq Staff published 20 March 12 CSS3 transitions alone don’t always quite cut it. We can use a little help from jQuery to get better control over them and push them just a bit further. Val Head shows us how
New tools for web design and development: February 2012 By Creative Bloq Staff published 5 March 12 In this new regular feature Mark Penfold rounds up 10 of the best new tools for web designers and developers that we have come across. This time many are small, free and based on JavaScript
Preserving vertical rhythm with CSS and jQuery By Creative Bloq Staff published 28 February 12 Vertical rhythm is a core component of many type-based design approaches, here web developer Matthew Wilcox shows us the basics, and how to deal with irksome images…
Maintain vertical rhythm with CSS and jQuery By Creative Bloq Staff published 28 February 12 Vertical rhythm is a core component of many type-based design approaches, here web developer Matthew Wilcox shows us the basics, and how to deal with irksome images…
Rapid and responsive UI development with Knockout.js By Creative Bloq Staff published 14 February 12 Knockout aims to simplify interactions and makes responsive interfaces as simple as updating a variable. In this tutorial, Umbraco developer Matt Brailsford takes us through creating a sample application
The developer's guide to mobile frameworks By Creative Bloq Staff published 31 October 11 Mobile application consultant Jonathan Stark, author of two iPhone and Android development books, explains his process for determining the best development approach for an app and discusses the best tools available right now
jQuery Standards Team gives devs a say By Creative Bloq Staff published 26 October 11 Communicate with web standards bodies via the jQuery Standards Team
Tripping the DOM fantastic with jQuery By Creative Bloq Staff published 7 October 11 Jay Blanchard, author of the book Applied jQuery, explains how to work with elements in your markup that are either ancestors or descendants of an HTML element that you have selected. Here he focuses on the DOM tree traversal methods
Create an interactive street view with jQuery By Creative Bloq Staff published 26 September 11 Severin Klaus explains how Hinderling Volkart created an innovative method of scrolling through video for its 360° Langstrasse website, and how you can use it on your site.
Building an immersive environment with CSS and JavaScript By Creative Bloq Staff published 22 September 11 Technologist Benjamin Bojko and art director Dan Mall, on behalf of digital agency Big Spaceship, give us an exclusive look behind the creation of Activatedrinks.com and explain how they pulled off the loading process and added depth and fluid parallax motion to the particles effect on the site
jQuery 'overtakes' Flash By Creative Bloq Staff published 25 August 11 Percentage of websites with jQuery deployed surpasses Adobe Flash
Building a parallax scrolling storytelling framework By Creative Bloq Staff published 23 August 11 Stevan Živadinović, the brains behind multi-plane side-scroller web comic Hobo Lobo of Hamelin, walks us through the development of the Parallaxer platform and gives a crash course on turning pencil drawings into transparent-background assets.
Create a diagonal rotation with CSS transitions By Creative Bloq Staff published 16 August 11 Web designer Josh Miller, the creative director of Paramore, shows us how to turn an unordered list into a rotating diagonal portfolio with CSS3 and jQuery, just like the one he built for joshmiller7.com
Create fluid width videos By Creative Bloq Staff published 9 August 11 CSS-Tricks' Chris Coyier talks us through different CSS and jQuery solutions to create responsive and fluid width videos that maintain aspect ratio and work with all major video hosts, including YouTube and Vimeo
How to create fluid width videos with CSS and jQuery By Creative Bloq Staff published 8 August 11 CSS-Tricks' Chris Coyier talks us through different CSS and jQuery solutions to create responsive and fluid width videos that maintain aspect ratio and work with all major video hosts, including YouTube and Vimeo.
Integrate Google Maps and Flickr into a real-time app By Creative Bloq Staff published 2 August 11 Use JavaScript, CSS and the Google Maps API to build a custom-themed, real-time Flickr visualisation like NET-A-PORTER LIVE. James Christian and web developer Ben Gannaway reveal the techniques they used
Use Backbone.js to speed up interactions By Creative Bloq Staff published 21 July 11 Client-side JavaScript frameworks are not just for building big fancy applications. Lead software engineer Matt Kelly explains how ZURB used the lightweight JavaScript framework Backbone.js to build FlickrBomb, a tool for loading Flickr photos into placeholder images