Why Umbraco rocks?
Last year, I came across umbraco CMS. First thing I liked about umbraco – was the interface – clear and simple. I had an opportunity to create several websites in drupal and umbraco, and this article is a summary of all my thoughs so far, and yes… Drupal is Umbraco wannabe! Umbraco vs Drupal Comparsion Interface Umbraco presents much more intuitive interface compared to drupal. Data is organised in the tree that represents the website structure. In drupal the entire content is presented in the single list. It takes a great deal of time to find the parent or child nodes....
Read More10 Small Business Social Media Marketing Tips
I’ll offer 10 suggestions for how small businesses can supercharge their marketing efforts by leveraging social media. For each suggestion, I will discuss a basic strategy for those who simply want to get their toes wet, as well as an advanced strategy – for those who want to spend a bit more time and go a bit deeper in their social media marketing efforts. I suggest you begin by outlining clear goals for your social media marketing efforts and figuring out how you’ll measure success. Once you’ve outlined your goals, let’s look at 10 great ways you can begin to leverage social...
Read More90+ Outstanding JQuery Effects
JQuery is really wonderful plug-in for designers which are giving attractive functionality to the web sites. Even now day’s every designers focusing on Jquery because of needs to have functionality out of the box that can be accessed by using this. 1. Flip! A jQuery plugin 2. jQuery Quicksand plugin 3. ImageFlow 4. Building an interactive map with jQuery instead of Flash 5. Slideout Tips With jQuery & CSS3 6. Zoomer Gallery 7. Circulate 8. Photo Zoom Out Effect 9. Sliding Boxes and Captions with...
Read MoreHTML5 Website Showcase
So you’ve heard all rumors about HTML5 would take over Adobe Flash. While most web community argues that it’s possible or not, you must be wandering what makes HTML5 so powerful that even giant company Apple wants to use it to replace Flash. That’s why this post exists, we’re not going to talk about what HTML5 can do, but show live demos of magical things that HTML5 can achieve with other language like JavaScript, so get ready to be inspired. Note: As HTML5 is not fully supported by certain web browser like Internet Explorer, you’re strongly recommended to use Firefox...
Read MorePHP Error Messages Guide For Designers
“All I Get Is A Blank Page!” Before we can diagnose PHP errors, we need to see some PHP errors. Ideally, you would first be installing the script locally, perhaps using MAMP on a Mac or XAMPP, both of which allow you to turn on error messages easily. You can get PHP to just spit the errors out directly on the screen or log them to a file for viewing. If, however, you are installing a script directly in your hosting account, the host will likely have disabled the display of all PHP error messages. This is sensible for security, because an error message could give away important...
Read MoreNewsletter Design and Management
A good newsletter campaign can be a great way to inform your subscribers of all your company’s latest news, products and specials. In this post you will see some great examples of newsletter designs from various online companies. If you’re in need of some design inspiration, this post just might do the job. Newsletter Designs some great examples [Show as slideshow]
Read More200 best jQuery slider tools
This is a selection with 200 of the best jQuery sliders plugins and tutorials with a lot of differents features, we’re pretty sure you’ll find exactly what you need or been looking for a while now, so please, go ahead and enjoy. jQuery is such an amazing tool that delivers what offers: writing less and doing more, that’s why now we’d like to share with all of you this huge list where you can find all kind of plugins and tutorials for showcasing content in a slider, which can be images, photographs, videos, text, anything you’d like to put in it, with a lot of cool effects and...
Read More20 Helpful jQuery Accordion Menu Tutorials And Plugins
In a graphical user interface, an accordion is a vertically or horizontally stacked list of items. Each item can be “expanded” or “stretched” to reveal the content associated with that item. There can be zero or more items expanded at a time, depending on the configuration. Today I have collected 20 awesome jQuery and CSS Accordion menu tutorials and plugins. Enjoy this helpful recourse. Accordionza – jQuery Plugin, jQuery Accordion Tutorial, Grid Accordion, Accordion, Yup, Yet another JQuery Accordion Plugin, Accordion Menus Javascript And CSS Tutorial, Classic...
Read MoreGoogle celebrates birthday of late clay-animation pioneer
ART CLOKEY ‘GUMBY’ DOODLE: Google celebrates birthday of late clay-animation pioneer In the words of his own merry theme song: “Just see what Gumby can do today.” On Wednesday, Google’s home-page “Doodle” celebrates what would have been the 90th birthday of the late clay-animation pioneer ART CLOKEY with an interactive logo of Gumby & Friends. The clickable animation also marks the launch of the website GumbyWorld, which features anecdotes, pictures and rare film clips. The Gumby Doodle — which starts off with several clay balls and a child’s wooden block — was created...
Read MorejQuery Page Slider
Nowadays, it might be accurate to say that screen real estate is worth more than actual real estate. As web developers, we spend precious time laying out our pages, using every UI concept in the book to conserve space, while trying to maintain a user’s focus on the task at hand. There are many techniques to use — Lightbox, Carousel and Tabs to name a few — and today I hope to offer up another: jQuery pageSlide. jQuery pageSlide was inspired by the UI work of Aza Raskin. In his recent posts regarding concepts for Firefox Mobile and a mouse-based Ubiquity, Aza introduced the idea...
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