In this tutorial, we will show you how to create a social media share menu using CSS and jQuery. We are going to create the menu using basics CSS such as the CSS background-position property and a little jQuery to make the links animated. Final Result Click on the image below to view the live demo
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April 29, 2010 admin
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By Bhanu Ahluwalia
Dew drops, the water droplets condensed from the air, are a beautiful gift from Mother Nature. Dew drops have a novelty in them. They are vivid and delicate, warm and cold at the same time. They sparkle like pearls on the surface. Mornings become more refreshing and brisk when it is drenched in the dew. They are simply amazing… Capturing dew drops is considered to be the best illustration of macro photography.
To excel in dew photography, it you have to focus on curves, saturation, a bit of color adjustments, composition, lighting and an unsharp mask on the dew drops that are in focus. It is mostly done in longer exposures. But at the end it’s the talent and skills of the photographer which make the photos outstanding. In this post we present 50 refreshing images to brighten your day.
Beautiful Dew Photography
Butterfly
Colder Than You
Shining Dew
Wet Wet Wet
Dawn Dew on the Pasture
Dew on spider web
Dew
Dew Droped Dragonfly
Dew Drops
Rainbow Dew
the dew of little things
Ford F-150
Mirror mirror
Moth and dew by chuvilin
Lower Huron Metro Park Morning Dew
Morning dew on grass flower
Dragonfly in the morning dew
Dew
Dew on a web
Dew Drop Swirls
To See The World . . .
A Forest of Dew Drop Trees
Daisy in a Dew Drop
the dew
Dew Droplet Refraction
macro life · morning dew
Petunia & Dew Drops
Dew drops and demselfly
dew on web
Dandelion Dew
Dew Drop City ~ Red Velvet District
Carnation Dewdrops
Dew soaked spiders web
Morning dew – cropped
Mildew on strawberry
hi there!
Dew Drop Refraction
Frozen Dew Drop
Dew Neckles…
Shamrock
Rose Dew
Spider Web Dew
Glowing
leaf
Just sample not for vote
Dew on Pipe
Macro Insect
April 29, 2010 admin
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By Cameron Chapman
There have been tons of posts about minimalist and simple web design. It’s something every designer should consider and study, as minimalist and simple design principles are important in a lot of website designs. But there’s been such a focus on clean and minimalist design in recent years that many designers shy away from more visually-complex designs.
That’s a mistake. Just as there’s a time and place for minimalist designs, there’s a time and place for more complicated designs, too. Below are some guidelines to help you create more multi-layered website designs. They tend to require more graphics-savvy than minimalist sites, as well as a bit more advance planning. But they’re really no more difficult to create than a minimalist site (and in many cases are more forgiving).
Guidelines for Creating Multi-Layered Designs
We’ve already established that multi-layered designs are more visually-complex than minimalist sites. But that doesn’t tell us a whole lot about how to create them. They can be intimidating to many designers, especially those who started out with minimalist designs.
After all, there seem to be so many places you can go wrong with this kind of design.
Use Some Kind of Theme
The best designs like this have an overall theme or aesthetic they follow. They’re not just throwing together random elements. Sometimes this is something obvious like a particular type of image. Other times it’s a bit more subtle, such as grunge elements throughout.
A site with a very obvious grunge/antique theme throughout.
In either case, a common theme or element helps tie everything in the site’s design together and make it visually cohesive. If you just start throwing all sorts of stuff into the design, you’ll probably just end up with a mess.
Take Something Away
Coco Chanel recommended that when a woman got dressed in the morning that she remove one accessory before leaving the house. The idea behind this is that we often tend of overdo things and by removing something we give more importance to the things that remain.
A great example of a site with lots of visual interest that doesn’t feel cluttered at all.
The same idea can be applied to your website designs. When you think you’ve finished this kind of design, see if there’s something you can take away. There almost always will be, and your design will likely be stronger because of it. This is related to the minimalist principle of perfecting a site when nothing else can be taken away (just in a much less extreme version).
Remember, the goal here is to create a design that has a lot of visual interest, not to create a design that’s cluttered and messy.
Don’t Overlook the Details
Details are what generally set excellent versions of this design aesthetic apart from the less-than-stellar examples. Pay attention to areas where an extra detail can really make your design stand out. Things like typography, narrow borders, etc. are all areas where small details can make a big impact.
A great example of how small details add a lot of interest and a much more polished and put-together look.
Examples
Here are thirty great examples of sites that are much more visually-complex than the current surge of minimalist sites that are flooding the Internet.
Harmony Republic
Margarita Shack
Jeremy Bayone
MoonBeam Illustrations
Eastpoint
Vegas Uncork’d
Pixlogix
Kidd81.com
The Web Design Blog
Piipe
KevAdamson.com
Website Bakery
Al Brown
SieteDeFebrero
Brown Blog Films
RCIUK
The Bright Agency
Cool Tshirt Design
Circa The Prince
Mplusz
Electricurrent
Studio7Designs
Bidsketch
Intuitive Designs
Varmland of Scandinavia
Panelfly
Synch Media
Sky’s Guide Service
Digiti
Larva Labs
April 29, 2010 admin
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If you are looking to learn about grungy metal, glass, water, clouds, fire, wet ink Photoshop text effect tutorials, you will find some by reading up on these tutorials. Try to play around with settings and colors on each of these to end up with your own look and feel.
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April 28, 2010 admin
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Branding yourself keeps you current in your chosen field, opens doors for you, and creates a lasting impression on clients. By developing your own brand, you’ll have control over people’s initial perception
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There are quite a few reasons why having basic Photoshop skills beyond slicing PSD’s to XHTML/CSS is essential to any web developer. I have discussed some of those reasons in this article on my blog , but to make a long story short, there are times when you just need to do minor image editing tasks but don’t want to hassle your web designer for it. Here are common tasks and processes that web developers often need to deal with when working on a web design/web interface using Photoshop.
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April 26, 2010 admin
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Portraying natural beauty always produces beautiful and attractive results. For example, photos of landscapes, beaches, mountains, sunset, sunrise, blue sky, green fields can be very beautiful. For this post we have collected some beautiful artworks of landscapes created in 3D applications. Let’s take a look at these photos in detail.
Awesome 3D Landscapes
Hinted Hills
Espascli
Hunter III – Hiding from the Hunter
New Eden
Transylvanian Moonlight
It comes a time of death
Rock Beach
Silent Landscape
Return to the Swamp
Exodus
Hunter
Clift House
Mies van der Rohe Farnsworth House, Alessandro Prodan (3D)
The Crash
Eight Ways
3landscapes Blue
WFDscene5
Air trees. Wooden world
The Land That Time Forgot, Andy Strukowski (3D)
Romantic Landscape
Temple on the mountains
Hunter II – Low Tide at Pebble Beach
Mountains
Stoney Complex Guardians – The City Beneath the Mountains
Desert Temple Colony – The Path Taken
Alien Landscape
Overcome
The Dream Maker
Windhamhill – The Wishing Tree
Islands Of Memories – Print
Le Paradis Encore
Exploration
Ship Canyon
3D Landscape
Landscape Renders
April 26, 2010 admin
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The last decade has seen a remarkable level of attention occur online. Social networks have popped up, designed to connect people based on every possible interest and need; service-driven companies and process-based web applications have been developed to take the place of traditional software
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April 24, 2010 admin
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Google Chrome is a wonderful web browser of choice for web designers and web developers.
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