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20 Photoshop Tutorials To Design A Website 20 Photoshop Tutorials To Design A Website

admin — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 03:58:41 +0000

1.Create a Modern Lab Theme Web Design

This tutorial will show you design techniques for making slick web layouts.

2.How to Make a Vibrant Portfolio Web Design

This Photoshop tutorial uses 960 Grid System for laying out the web page.

3.Create a Portfolio Web Layout in Photoshop

Discover how to use patterns in website layouts through this Photoshop tutorial.

4.Create a Colorful Business Web Layout

This Photoshop tutorial will demonstrate how to incorporate icons in your web designs.

5.Design a Clean and Colorful Ecommerce Layout

This tutorial will walk you through the creation of an e-store product page design.

6.Create a Simple Clean Portfolio Layout

This Photoshop layout tutorial is perfect for portfolio sites as well as web app sites.

7.Photo Gallery Website Layout

Learn to make a dark-themed photo gallery via this excellent Photoshop tutorial.

8.Create an Elegant Photography Web Layout

This simple tutorial shows you how to apply background textures in your web designs.

9.Clean Style Portfolio Layout

A step-by-step Photoshop web design layout tutorial using basic techniques.

10.Design a Clean Corporate Website Layout

Learn how to incorporate stock photos in your website layout’s header in this tutorial.

11.Create a Clean and Colourful Web Layout

In this tutorial it will show you how to create a clean corporate layout in Photoshop.

12.How to Create a Sleek and Textured Web Layout

how to create a full web page layout that combines the sleek and textured look-and-feel

13.Create a Magic Night Themed Web Design

An artistic web design depicting a “Magic Night” concept.

14.Create a Grungy Web Design

Tutorial on creating a simple paper texture from scratch in Photoshop then marrying it with a web layout to create a neat design.

15.Graphic Design Studio Web Layout

how to create a colorful background then i will transform this background into a nice layout.

16.Arhitecture bureau Layout / Real Estate website

A simple tutorial which has a great final outcome.

17.Photography portfolio

Awesome photography portfolio design with a lot of content boxes and an attractive look.

18.Gaming Layout

Learn how to create a fantastically looking gaming layout, you wont be disapointed.

19.Professional Modern Web Layout

A tutorial which guides you through the process of creating a Professional Modern Web Layout.

20.Bright Colourful Web layout

This is quite short for a Photoshop web layout tutorial, with only 18 steps to create a nice looking bright, layout.

35+ Create Amazing Image Effects and Sliders with These Awesome jQuery Plugins

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:56:46 +0000

JavaScript frameworks like jQuery, prototype (and script.aculo.us), Dojo and mootools have become very popular because they are making the creation of dynamic effects much easier without using fx. flash. jQuery has become one of the most used JavaScript libraries today and can be found in the core of popular products like WordPress and Drupal. The community is providing a huge amount of free plugins making it possible to find good solutions to nearny any need you may have. This article will introduce you to more than 35 jQuery plugins providing enhancements to how you can display images on your web pages. This is essential for creating dynamic state of the art web solutions. Lets get started!

By the way. tripwire magazine have provides several articles covering javascript frameworks that I will recommend you take a look at:

Easy Slider 1.7 – Numeric Navigation jQuery Slider

Great slider plugin for content and images.

PHP & jQuery image upload and crop

Awesome solution for allowing users to upload and crop images on your site.

Agile Carousel

Jquery plugin that allows you to easily create a custom carousel. Call Jquery UI to enable many different additional transition types and easing methods. Uses PHP to draw images from the folder you specify. Configure many different options including controls, slide timer length, easing type, transition type and more!

Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery

All of these sliding box animations work on the same basic idea. There is a div tag (.boxgrid in my css) that essentially acts as a window where two other items of your choosing “peek” through.

AnythingSlider jQuery Plugin

AnythingSlider is an attempt at bringing together the functionality of all of those previous sliders and adding new features. In other words, to create a really “full featured” slider that could be widely useful.

Creating a Slick Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider

How to Make a Threadless Style T-Shirt Gallery

Create a gallery by using z-index and jQuery

In this tutorial we will combine the CSS property ‘z-index’ and the power of jQuery to create a unique gallery which have a appearance of a pile of pictures.

Create an Image Rotator with Description

An image rotator is one great way to display portfolio pieces, eCommerce product images, or even as an image gallery. Although there are many great plugins already, this tutorial will help you understand how the image rotator works and helps you create your own from scratch.

ImageSwitch

The main point of this plug-in is to make an easy-to-use, simple and fast plug-in to create effect when you switch between images. Minimize the arguments you need to input and still give some decent effects.

Create Featured Content Slider Using jQuery UI

CrossSlide

CrossSlide is a jQuery plugin that implements in Javascript some common slide-show animations, traditionally only available to the web developer via Adobe Flash™ or other proprietary plugins. CrossSlide builds upon jQuery’s animation facility, so it is as portable across browsers as jQuery itself (a lot.). This is a great solution for creating dynamic effects fx. in a header.You simply have to see the effect for yourself demo here.

Highslide JS

Highslide JS is an open source image, media and gallery viewer written in JavaScript. It is an excellent, unobtrusive lightbox-style script with a multitude of uses. It is free for non commercial uses.

These are some of it’s features:

Quick and elegant looking.
No plugins like Flash or Java required.
Popup blockers are no problem. The content opens within the active browser window.
Single click. After opening the image or HTML popup, the user can scroll further down or leave the page without closing it.
Lots of configuration options and scalability without compromizing on simplicity. A component system lets you strip away unused features down to a filesize of 10kB.
Free user support for both commercial and non-commercial users.
Compatibility and safe degrading. If the user has disabled JavaScript or is using an old browser, the browser redirects directly to the image itself or to a given HTML page.

JQZoom

JQZoom is a javascript image magnifier built at the top of the popular jQuery javascript framework.jQzoom is a great and a really easy to use script to magnify what you want.

Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery

An incredibly easy way of achieving tooltip like bubble popups that appears when you roll over link or a thumbnail.

Animated InnerFade

Full w3c compliant animated slideshow with sliding effect on large images. Check it you you need to see the effect.

jQuery spherical panorama viewer

A javascript viewer for displaying spherical panoramas. An alternative to Java and QuickTime technology. To use this plugin you need to generate views from your spherical panoramic image. You can download and install MPRemap from Helmut Dersch website for this purpose.

prettyPhoto a jQuery lightbox clone

jQuery lightbox style script that support images, galleries, flash, qtime, iframe etc.

jQuery virtual tour

This virtual tour plugin has the particularity to be accessible and can run even if javascript has not been activated.

crop, labelOver and pluck

Crop-Gives your visitors the power to crop any image on the fly using JavaScript only. Also there are 2 other plugins: LabelOver and Pluck.

Step Carousel Viewer

Step Carousel Viewer displays images or even rich HTML by side scrolling them left or right. Users can step to any specific panel on demand, or browse the gallery sequentially by stepping through x number of panels each time. A smooth sliding animation is used to transition between steps. And fear not in taming this script to go exactly where you want it to- two public methods, two custom event handlers, and three “status” variables are here for that purpose.

jQuery Cycle plugin

This is a lightweight slideshow plugin that supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. The effects look very good!

Fancy Box

FancyBox is tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style “lightbox” that floats overtop of web page. Automatically scales large images to fit in window, adds a nice drop shadow under the full-size image, image sets to group related images and navigate through them. Also support media.

Galleria

Is a javascript image gallery written in jQuery. It loads the images one by one from an unordered list and displays thumbnails when each image is loaded. It will create thumbnails for you if you choose so, scaled or unscaled, centered and cropped inside a fixed thumbnail box defined by CSS.

Jcrop

Jcrop is the quick and easy way to add image cropping functionality to your web application. It combines the ease-of-use of a typical jQuery plugin with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine that is faithful to familiar desktop graphics applications.

AnythingZoomer jQuery Plugin

You have a small area. You mouse over it. An area pops up giving you a zoomed in closer look. This is a jQuery plugin that does it. I’m not going to tell you what you should use it for or elaborate use-case scenarios. Your own creativity can help you there. Demo & Download

ImgAreaSelect

imgAreaSelect is a jQuery plugin for selecting a rectangular area of an image.

PanView

This plugin allows your visitors view details of a big image and move around with the mouse.

s3 Slider

This is an easy way to add a good looking image slideshows with text flyin to your website.

Lightbox Plus

WordPress is so popular and its huge free community have put forward several plugins that provide Lightbox style functionality. Lightbox Plus is a plugin that implements Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar (see above). Lightbox Plus is used to create overlay display images on the web-page and to automatically add the correct overlay links to images.

Shadowbox

Shadowbox is an online media viewer application that supports all of the web’s most popular media publishing formats. Shadowbox is written entirely in JavaScript and CSS and is highly customizable. Using Shadowbox, website authors can showcase a wide assortment of media in all major browserswithout navigating users away from the linking page. Can run alone but also has an adapter for jQuery and other frameworks.

Image Cross Fade Transition

Image rollovers were the staple JavaScript nugget of the 90s, and for a lot of JavaScript developers I know, one of the starting places their passion for JavaScript. Today, rollovers are a no-brainer – either in CSS or with the simplest of JavaScript:

$(function () {
  $('img.swap').hover(function () {
    this.src = 'images/sad.jpg';
  }, function () {
    this.src = 'images/happy.jpg';
  });
});

View the working example and the source

Scrollable

Scrollable is useful jQuery plug-in for creating scrollable content. Scrollable items can contain any HTML. You can make items scroll horizontally or vertically and choose how many items are visible at once.

jQuery Infinite Carousel

This tutorial will walk through the fundamentals of recreating the effect carousel used on the Apple Mac ads page

Image Loading

This tutorial will show how to load images in the background, and once loaded handle the event and create your own response. Try Demo | View Code

Creating a polaroid photo viewer with CSS3 and jQuery

This example is making use of CSS3 and jQuery. It really shows the effect when combining two powerful techniques. The CSS3 is injected by jQuery, keeping the CSS file clean. The result is nice looking polaroidsthat you can drag around on the page…cool!

28 jQuery Zoom Plugins Creating Stunning Image Effects

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:49:42 +0000

jQuery Zoom plugins can be really useful for showing large images on a website with limited space. In fact with a little bit of jQuery experience and the right plugins at hand anyone can create really awesome front ends e.g. with jQuery Sliders. A key element on most websites to support the content is images. If you are not aware of it already I can tell you that jQuery is very powerful with images and can help you do really cool stuff in a snap. This post on tripwire magazine cover some of the best jQuery Zoom Plugins to create Stunning Image Zoom Effects on your site or blog. This is very useful if you have large images that will otherwise take up too much space, for a image portfolio etc.

1. Featured Image Zoomer

This script lets you view a magnified portion of any image upon moving your mouse over it. A magnifying glass appears alongside the image displaying the magnified area on demand. The user can toggle the zoom level by using the mousewheel. It’s great to use on product images, photos, or other images with lots of details you want users to be able to get into on command.

2. Cloud Zoom

Cloud Zoom is a jQuery plugin comparable to commercial image zoom products such as Magic Zoom. Compared to the popular jQZoom plugin, Cloud Zoom is smaller, has more features and more robust compatability across browsers.

Image Power Zoomer

This is a jQuery plugin that adds a magnifying glass every image on your page. Allows users to zoom in on parts of the image, simply by moving the cursor.

4. Epic Image Zoom

With this jQuery Zoom plugin you can add zoom-in functionality to any image with configurable magnification level and magnifier appearance. It provides built-in image preloading.

DOWNLOAD / DEMO by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

5. zoomooz

Zoomooz is an easy-to-use jQuery plugin for making any web page element zoom.

6. jQuery Image Zoom and Panning Plugin

This is a jQuery plugin that creates a zoom and panning effect on an image. The plugin requires two image versions, one small preview and one larger for zoom and panning. This is a nice way to view details on an image.

DOWNLOAD / DEMO by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

7. Nivo Zoom

Nivo Zoom is jQuery plugin that allows you to zoom the image in full size or as lighbox. Its main feature is that you can determine the location of larger images of these miniatures. Zoom is a cross-Nivo browser plug-ins and tested on the following browsers: Internet Explorer 7 +, Firefox 3+, Google Chrome 4 and Safari

8. Photo Zoom Out Effect with jQuery

This tutorial will show you how to create a simple image zoom out effect with jQuery. The idea is show some images which are zoomed in initially and when hovering over an image it gets zoomed out. This effect could be used in photography websites or image galleries.

9. Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery

Detailed tutorial on how to create a hover image jQuery Zoom effect.

10. Smooth Zoom Pan – jQuery Image Viewer

This is a jQuery Zoom image viewer prepared to display product photos, maps or any image within custom small area. Can be configured and implemented in web pages with simple copy / paste steps. More than 30 parameters available to customize, yet a standard version can work simply with 2 values

DOWNLOAD / DEMO by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

11. jQuery Thumbnail with Zooming Image and Fading Caption

Learn how to build thumbnail gallery with zooming effect and fadein and fadeout caption. This tutorial will walk you through the concept behind it and how to code it.

12. Image Effects Pack – jQuery Powered

A pack of premium image effects to enhance your website user experience.

DOWNLOAD / DEMO by CodeCanyon (premium plugin)

13. Jcrop

14. jQuery gzoom plugin

Really nice image jQuery Zoom plugin with the following features: click on plus and minus to zoom, drag the slider to zoom Zoom using mousewheel hover the image, Moving mouse hover the image change the pan, Click on the image to show in lightbox style

15. PHP & jQuery image upload and crop

Awesome jQuery Zoom solution for allowing users to upload and crop images on your site.

16. Hover Zoom

The hover zoom effect basically reverse zooms an image while fading in a label on top of it when the mouse hovers over it. It makes for a pretty slick effect which could be used on thumbnails. As always, you can check out a demo or grab the source right here if you don’t want to read the entire tutorial.

17. AnythingZoomer jQuery Plugin

You have a small area. You mouse over it. An area pops up giving you a zoomed in closer look. This is a jQuery Zoom plugin that does it. I’m not going to tell you what you should use it for or elaborate use-case scenarios. Your own creativity can help you there. Demo & Download

18. JQZoom

JQZoom is a jQuery Zoom image magnifier built at the top of the popular jQuery javascript framework.jQzoom is a great and a really easy to use script to magnify what you want.

19. jQuery Cycle plugin

This is a lightweight slideshow plugin that supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and many transition effects. The effects look very good!

20. crop, labelOver and pluck

Crop-Gives your visitors the power to crop any image on the fly using JavaScript only. Also there are 2 other plugins: LabelOver and Pluck.

21. ImgAreaSelect

imgAreaSelect is a jQuery plugin for selecting a rectangular area of an image.

22. PanView

This plugin allows your visitors view details of a big image and move around with the mouse.

23. Zoomer Gallery

GalleryView is a plugin that allows you to easily transform your image lists into beautiful galleries with Flash-like zoom effects in them. It’s a simple yet elegant way of giving your interfaces a nice little shine and at only 2KB in size, it’s both compact and surprisingly easy to use.

24. jQuery plugin : Fancy Zoom

This plugin is the jQuery version on the fancy zoom effect. This plugin is providing a smooth, clean, truly Mac-like effect, almost like it’s a function of Safari itself

25. Image Zoom 2.0

This plug-in makes links pointing to images open in the “Image Zoom”. Clicking a link will zoom out the clicked image to its target-image. Click anywhere on the image or the close-button to zoom the image back in. Only ~3k minified.

26. Creating An Image Zoom And Clip Effect With jQuery

Good video tutorial showing you how to create an image zoom effect where you can select a region of an image and the image will automatically scale up to show the selected region.

27. jQuery PhotoShoot Plugin

The jQuery PhotoShoot plugin gives you the ability to convert any div on your web page into a photo shooting effect, complete with a view finder. You can check out the demonstration, or a nice tutorial on how to use it here.

28. Jquery iviewer

JQuery.iviewer is a jquery plugin used to load and view image in container with ability to zoom image and to drag it with mouse in container.

25 Excellent Collection Of jQuery Tutorials

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:42:49 +0000

According to jQuery dot com, “jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.”

There are lots of stuff available on web about jQuery but from where to begin? is the question. Here i have collected 25 excellent jQuery tutorials for designers to start.

1. jQuery Essentials Presentation at MinneWebCon (102 pages)

2. jQuery for Absolute Beginners: The Complete Series

3. 7 reasons why you really should learn jQuery

4. jQuery Crash Course

5. jQuery Tutorials for Designers

6. Creating a “Filterable” Portfolio with jQuery

7. Jquery Easy Tips And Tricks Tutorial

8. Building a jQuery-Powered Tag-Cloud

9. Useful and Handy jQuery Tips and Tricks

10. jquery Hover Sub Tag Cloud

11. Create a Cool Animated Navigation with CSS and jQuery

12. Jquery Fade In Fade Out

13. Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP

14. Simple Toggle with CSS & jQuery

15. Fading Menu – Replacing Content

16. A fancy Apple.com-style search suggestion

17. Create a Photo Admin Site Using PHP and jQuery

18. How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery

19. How to create Skype-like buttons using jQuery

20. Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML

21. jQuery Horizontal Tooltips Menu Tutorials

22. Create an apple style menu and improve it via jQuery

23. Simple JQuery Image Slide Show with Semi-Transparent Caption

24. Simple Lava Lamp Menu Tutorial with jQuery

25. AutoCompleter Tutorial – jQuery(Ajax)/PHP/MySQL

55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks: Ultimate Collection

admin — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 03:36:20 +0000

If for whatever reason you don’t know jQuery, it is a “write less, do more” JavaScript library. It has many Ajax and JavaScript features to allow you enhance semantic coding and user experience.

From jQuery homepage – “jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.”

jQuery definitely is one of the biggest trends coming in up-to-date designs and the best of all, everything is done without countless code lines. Keeping in mind such aspects I created hopefully pretty complete collection of jQuery sites, tip and trick articles, video screencasts, tutorials, cheat sheets and lot’s more. Took a while to compile and research was really solid. Enjoy as always!

Getting Started

1.7 reasons why you really should learn jQuery

2. jQuery Crash Course

Introduction to Jquery, further reading and basics.

Huge Tutorial Series From Beginner To Intermediate User, Tips And Tricks

3. jQuery for Absolute Beginners: The Complete Series : Video Tutorials

Over the course of about a month, ThemeForest released fifteen video tutorials that teach you EXACTLY how to use the jQuery library. You’ll start by downloading the library and eventually work our way up to creating an AJAX style-switcher. Beautiful learning and resource!

4. 10 jQuery Tutorials for Designers by WebDesignerWall

This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery.

5.4 Jquery Easy Tips And Tricks Tutorial

6.jQuery Essentials Presentation at MinneWebCon (102 pages)

Very well written jquery essentials presentation. Really worth the time.

7.12 Useful and Handy jQuery Tips and Tricks

8.Improve your jQuery – 25 excellent tips

Great tips, even some intermediate users could now know few of these.

9.Build An Incredible Login Form With jQuery

In this tutorial, you’ll create a sliding panel, that slides in to reveal more content, using JQuery to animate the height of the panel.