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Great Uses Of White Space

Jenny — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:08:58 +0000

As Mark Boulton so eloquently puts it “Whitespace,” or “negative space” is the space between elements in a composition. More specifically, the space between major elements in a composition is “macro whitespace.” Micro whitespace, is—yes, you’ve guessed it—the space between smaller elements: between list items, between a caption and an image, or between words and letters. The itty-bitty stuff.”

Great Uses Of White Space

A Showcase Of Sites For iPhone Apps

Jenny — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 23:31:11 +0000

Since Apple opened up the iPhone for developers to build applications on there have been hundreds of thousands built. They have opened up a whole new market for designers and developers to tap into. This has meant a slew of websites advertising these applications. I’m not sure which site was the first but there are some very clear conventions to be seen throughout this showcase. Have a look for yourself.

A Showcase Of Sites For iPhone Apps

Link Submissions now on Twitter

Jenny — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:48:51 +0000

For those of you who would like to be informed about all new link submissions to the directory I have created a second Twitter account in case you prefer only the articles or only the links: @linkloungelinks

10 NEW WordPress Wanted Hacks and Powerful Techniques

Jenny — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:48:58 +0000

WordPress is becoming so powerful that you can use it to do whatever comes in your mind. User love it for its flexibility, you have plugins to enhance its power and you can hack your theme code to add unique functionality.
In this article, we’ll show you 10 new powerful WordPress hacks, tricks and plug-ins with a good explanation, so you understand how it works and modify it to your needs.

10 NEW WordPress Hacks and Techniques

The Best Web Design Links From The Week

Jenny — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:35:53 +0000

I read A LOT of web design posts during a week and thought that the very best articles deserved to be shared with you.

The Best Web Design Links From The Week

Background Desires

Jenny — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 11:31:15 +0000

The background property is a major player in what makes the awesome CSS designs of today possible. There are just a few properties that make it up: background-color, background-image, background-position, background-repeat, and background-attachment. Very simple, very powerful. I have a couple of other ideas that seem to make sense to me: background-opacity and background-anchor.

Background Desires

20 Excellent Mootools Techniques for Rich User Interface

Jenny — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 15:03:22 +0000

The User experience has dramatically improved over the past few years, resulting in rich and responsive user interface. AJAX, javascript and CSS are widely used to offer users the dynamic interaction that they have come to expect from advanced, sophisticated, professional solutions.

20 MooTools Techniques

Using jQuery to Style Design Elements: 20 Impressive Plugins

Jenny — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:56:52 +0000

Here we are again covering more jQuery Plugins doing what: Styling Design Elements. So today we need jQuery solutions that are a little more specific. Here are 20 more handy jQuery plugins that have made websites much sleeker and more interesting.

20 Impressive jQuery Plugins

15 jQuery Plugins to Fix and Beautify Browser Issues

Jenny — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:53:16 +0000

We advocate using CSS whenever possible, and we often successed. Modern browsers have very good support for CSS — it’s certainly good enough for you to use CSS to control layout and presentation. Sometimes however, certain page elements will appear differently in different browsers. That’s why today we wanted to highlight 15 jQuery solutions for the most common browser issues that you’ll encounter when building web applications among other jQuery plugins that will give you a nice browser effect.

15 jQuery Plugins

Filtering Blocks v2

Jenny — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 14:50:08 +0000

This is an update to the first version of filtering blocks I did a while back. The idea is that you have a long list or large set of “blocks” on the page. Each block belongs to a certain group. There is navigation on the page for viewing all of them at once, or selecting which group you would like to see. Selecting a particular group hides the blocks from any other group, hence “filtering”.

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