How to Create an Upload Form using jQuery, CSS3, HTML5 and PHP [Tutorial]

How to Create an Upload Form using jQuery, CSS3, HTML5 and PHP [Tutorial]

Topic: jQuery / CSS3 Difficulty: Advanced Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour In this tutorial we will code an Upload Form from Impressionist UI by Vladimir Kudinov. We will code it using the Plupload API. Plupload allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress, image resizing and chunked uploads. This way we are able to create a very powerful upload form compatible with all...

Posted by: Valeriu Timbuc, In: Freebies, Tutorials, On: May 21, 2012 | 0 Comments
Why Responsive Design are Best for Mobile Devices?

Why Responsive Design are Best for Mobile Devices?

Responsive design is quite popular these days. It is a new and revolutionary way of planning to develop websites which will be compatible for both PC, and laptop users as well as for the latest generation of tablet and mobile users. Right now it is recommended either to develop separate sites dedicated to the mobiles or tablets with separate web addresses or use a device that will detect the target devices and redirect the users to the device specific site. But there are...

Posted by: Angelina Jennifer, In: Design, On: May 20, 2012 | 1 Comment
How to Create a Case Study and Why It’s Crucial For Designers

How to Create a Case Study and Why It’s Crucial For Designers

Creating and showing off a portfolio is such a fundamental part of a designer’s life, few people ever question its effectiveness. But the fact is, there are better ways to sell your services – and one of those ways is by using case studies. Why? Because case studies, unlike portfolios, tell your clients what happens behind the scenes. They show not just your technical capability, but also your personality and characteristics – two factors arguably more...

Posted by: Andrianes Pinantoan, In: Design, On: May 18, 2012 | 0 Comments
EU Cookie Law and How It Affects the Web

EU Cookie Law and How It Affects the Web

Although most of the rumors and discussions are right now focusing on acts such as SOPA/PIPA, which expand the ability of law enforcement all over the world to fight online trafficking in counterfeit goods and copyrighted intellectual property, the web should for now be concerned with something else happening in the close, very close future. The 26th of May is the final day for websites in Europe to comply with the new EU Cookie Law. This is a new piece of legislation...

Posted by: Christian Vasile, In: Tips, On: May 17, 2012 | 16 Comments
How Web Designers Can Successfully Use the Dribbble Network

How Web Designers Can Successfully Use the Dribbble Network

Do you like basketball? If you do and you are a web designer, you may take a liking to the design community Dribbble. If you hate sports, no worries! You still may like the network, especially if you are a web designer looking to showcase some of your work and share snippets of it with others. Dribbble (yes, it has 3 B’s) is made up of a community of designers and creative types who share small screenshots of their daily work. The site’s verbiage is based on the sport...

Posted by: Jenna Scaglione, In: Design, On: May 16, 2012 | 11 Comments
Pandora UI Free for iOS – User Interface Pack

Pandora UI Free for iOS – User Interface Pack

After the successful launch of Pandora UI premium pack by DesignModo, we have decided to share a part of it with our beloved readers. You can now download the free version of Pandora UI containing a handful of elements that will definitely be helpful. The Pandora UI Free Kit, contains 2 samples and some elements that can be used in developing iPhone and iPad applications (Retina Display). You will find the needed elements for the creation of these applications by using the...

Posted by: Adrian, In: Freebies, On: May 15, 2012 | 3 Comments
Vendor Prefixes: A Force For Good or Evil?

Vendor Prefixes: A Force For Good or Evil?

The Story and Problems If you’re a web developer working with CSS (especially CSS3) in modern browsers, it’s more than likely that you’ve come across these things called vendor prefixes. Initially used for features unique to certain browsers, vendor prefixes are essentially a way of making a certain CSS property exclusive for one browser or rendering engine. At face value, vendor prefixes seem like a nice idea. They allow for certain browsers to implement unique or...

Posted by: Joe Savage, In: Coding, On: May 14, 2012 | 7 Comments
UI Kits for Developers – Prototyping and Homemade Design

UI Kits for Developers – Prototyping and Homemade Design

Hope you guys are enjoying our posts on UI Kits functionality. It’s such a new topic that it’s even hard to find other opinions out there, all we find is UI Kits collections, but no reflections or creative uses. So, hope to see more discussion on this, the door (a.k.a. comments / trackbacks section) is open! This is the last part of our UI Kits “series” (at least for now :D) we’ll talk a little more on how developers can me use of them, focusing on increase the...

Posted by: Rochester Oliveira, In: Coding, Design, On: May 11, 2012 | 4 Comments
Adobe Illustrator CS6 – Review of New Features

Adobe Illustrator CS6 – Review of New Features

Today I will try to analyze the most important of new features of Adobe Illustrator CS6, and will review the other less significant, in my opinion, improvements. After reading this review, you can get a first glimpse of the advantages of this release, and make your own conclusions; I was just trying to make an unbiased approach towards the subject of study. Gradients on strokes Now it is the first time since the creation of Adobe Illustrator it became possible to apply...

Posted by: Iaroslav Lazunov, In: Design, On: May 10, 2012 | 6 Comments
Adobe Creative Suite 6 Review: New Additions and Features

Adobe Creative Suite 6 Review: New Additions and Features

Adobe released the new version of its Creative Suite toolkit, including Photoshop CS6, Illustrator CS6, Dreamweaver CS6 and others. Besides the updates, Adobe released and improved a set of products such as Creative Cloud or packages of products such as CS6 Production Premium, CS6 Design Standard and CS6 Design & Web Premium. In today’s article we take a deep look at each one of them and try to come with a conclusion about Adobe’s first product update in two long...

Posted by: Christian Vasile, In: Design, On: May 9, 2012 | 6 Comments