Queness is a website dedicated to web-developers and designers http://www.queness.com Sat, 25 Feb 2012 10:58:56 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.queness.com/post/10806/smooth-page-scrolling-navigation-with-pagescroller PageScroller is a powerful JavaScript based smooth scrolling navigation system that utilizes the robust jQuery library. Created entirely with ease of use in mind, the plugin will work on any website. Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:23:52 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10781/13-chart-and-graph-plotting-javascript-plugins We have collected 13 Chart and Graph plotting javascript plugins. A few are framework independent and most of them support the basic such as bars, lines, pies and many of them supports even more complicated one such as correlation plots, Venn diagrams, heatmaps, newick trees, 2D-scatter plots etc. Tue, 21 Feb 2012 22:20:50 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10778/create-a-twitter-feed-with-hash-tag-and-cache-support Due to popular demand, this tutorial is actually a revisit from my previous Twitter tutorial - Create a dead simple Twitter feed with jQuery. A lot of readers requested to be able to parse hash tag. So, I've decided to make a new version that able to do both. Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:01:59 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10439/momentjsthe-missing-javascript-date-library moment.js is a lightweight and robust javascript date library for parsing, manipulating and formatting dates. Current javascript date method is just too basic to fulfil slightly complex date manipulation such as differences between dates, convert Unixtime stamp, date display customization. Also, you can easily achieve twitter's style relative time display (eg, posted 3 minutes ago). Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:44:42 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10497/8-jquery-image-sliders-with-impressive-transition-effects I managed to find top 8 image sliders with amazing and impressive transition effects. Almost all of them have more than 10 to 20 cool builtin animated transitions. Beware though, some image sliders are too advanced for your browser (especially Internet explorer) might not able to run it.  Wed, 15 Feb 2012 11:30:07 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10709/8-useful-websites-to-learn-how-to-code-quickly I found 8 really useful online tutorial, some of them are interactive, some of them are written but comprehensive guides to help you to pick up a language quickly. However, most of them has the same motive - is to make the learning process fun and easy to pick up. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:52:22 +0100 http://www.queness.com/code-snippet/10725/wordpress-comment-count-shortcode Use this shortcode to display a specific post’s comment count. All you have to do is add the post ID. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:17:43 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10650/free-high-quality-premium-goodies-for-designers Everyone loves freebies, especially high quality, premium freebies for designers. Introducing ZeroBundle from Web Designer Depot and MightyDeals.com, this is the place to grab absolutely free goodies. Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:19:04 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10670/creative-drawings-about-talking Speech bubbles are graphic convention used most commonly in comics, cartoons or illustrations. Instead of putting words into it to represent speech or thoughts of a character, what if the speech bubble itself has its own expression and characteristic? Creative illustration from Tan Yau Hoong. Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:07:56 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10651/giveaway-5-sprite-master-web-powerful-spritesheet-generator Good day! Today we are giving away Mobinodo Sprite Master Web for Mac user! Sprite Master Web is a Spritesheet generation tool for Web Designers. It helps you to organize your sprites into one image file and reduces image requests from your server. Sprite Master Web is a light version of Sprite Master. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:32:19 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10498/build-interactive-websites-easily-with-javascript  Building interactive javascript animated website couldn't be more easy than this. Nowadays, you can plugins that created specifically to transform a dull website into animated and interactive website. These javascript plugins are the real time saver and they are well-documented and easy to implement! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:04:15 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10440/keyboardjsadd-keyboard-shortcut-support-to-your-websites KeyboardJS is a javascript library for binding keys or key combos. If you are building a website or web application that require keyboard shortcut, this script can save you heaps of times. Sat, 04 Feb 2012 12:37:15 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10489/pxloadera-javascript-resource-preloader-for-html-website Preloader has been a must for most flash website. It's due to the size of flash file and usually involve multimedia files such as audio, video and images. The main purpose of preloader is to report and indicate the progress of a website being loaded into the browser. Making a preloader for HTML website has always been a challenge, and now we introduce you - PxLoader. Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:42:03 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10466/giveaway-5-switchblade-premium-wordpress-themes Today giveaway is a powerful Premium WordPress themes called Switchblade from our friend - WPScientist. WordPress themes from WPScientist are equipped with a powerful content composer that allows users to customize the content layout via a drag and drop system. Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:58:45 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10476/jquery-textexttags-autocomplete-ajax-support-for-input-field TextExt is a jQuery plugin that provides extra functionality and enhancement to text fields. The core design principle behind textExt is modularity and extensibility. Each piece of functionality is separated from the main core and can act individually or together with other plugins. Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:39:46 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10477/chosen-javascript-plugin-to-create-user-friendly-select-boxes Chosen is a Javascript plugin that enhance the existing select boxes. Chosen enhances the existing select box by adding a search field, tag-based multiple select and consistent layout. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:04:30 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10465/7-amazing-interactive-infographics-created-with-html-css-and-javascript Infographics (Information graphics) are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics able to let us absorb the information in an effective way. In real life, we can easily find some in our surrounding, for example, maps, train route, signs and so on. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:04:16 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10463/giveaway-5-futurico-pro-packsadvanced-user-interface-elements-pack Today giveaway contest featured with the most advanced and comprehensive UI kit called Futurico UI Pro from DesignModo. This UI kits cover wide array of UI elements and pretty sure will be a great time saver for quick prototyping, wireframing and even for the real implementation of your upcoming projects. Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:02:31 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10361/use-revealjs-to-create-css-3d-slideshow If you're making an online presentation to impress your audience, you have to consider to use reveal.js. reveal.js is a CSS 3D Slideshow, it allows you to create a slick and good looking HTML presentation and in the same time utilise the latest web technologies for cool 3D slide transition. Sat, 14 Jan 2012 04:23:04 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10347/six-gestalt-principles-in-web-design You might not expect Gestalt psychology to have any relation to the field of web design, but the truth is that there is a relation and one that is pretty strong. As web design developed tremendously in the past few years, it should come as no surprise that more and more people have learned about the theory of mind and the gestalt effect, the latter appealing to our senses and helping us see an image as a whole and not as a set of unrelated elements. Thu, 12 Jan 2012 11:37:57 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10363/10-feature-packed-javascript-wysiwyg-and-rich-text-editors In this post, I have found 10 of the most updated, feature-packed WYSIWYG and Rich Text editor just to save your time. I have listed out most of the notable features and hopefully will save you some time. Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:48:21 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10414/giveaway-10-feature-rich-zyma-unlimited-web-hosting-again Once again, Queness and Zyma announce the inception of their new giveaway. Thanks to the generosity from Zyma, up for grabs are 10 web hosting accounts with unlimited webspace. You can win a Web Hosting Account for 1 Whole Year! This is a giveaway that you simply don't want to miss. Read on to see how you can win this excellent prize. Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:03:52 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10352/minimal-inspiration-a-minimal-lesson-in-history Minimal illustration is not an easy task. Deliver a message with minimal design requires initial planning and creative thinking. Here, I found these well-designed graphic strip illustrations that depict the life of some famous historical figures. Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:00:31 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10270/giveaway-5-spriteright-macapp-for-effortless-css-spritesheets-creation Giveaway is a Mac App called SpriteRight which is designed to simplify the process of creating CSS spritesheets. In case you don't know CSS Sprite already, you can read these two articles: CSS Sprite from A-List-Apart and CSS Sprite article from SmashingMagazine. In one sentence, CSS Sprite is a technique that aiming to reduce HTTP connection and save bandwidth by combining multiple images into one image. It has to work with CSS background-position properties to reference the correct part of the CSS Sprite. Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:31:42 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10268/caroufredsela-flexible-and-powerful-jquery-carousel-plugin We can easily find a carousel script online, but to find one that is easy to style, flexible and robust is ain't an easy job. Introduced is a jQuery plugin called carouFredSel, implied by its name, it's a jquery carousel plugin created by Fred Wed, 04 Jan 2012 01:07:23 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10232/best-design-practices-to-learn-from-psychology Psychology is a science that apparently has no connection to web design but the influences are too important not to observe! Yes, it’s true and by reading this post you will be convinced! Web designers have learned many tips from psychology and these were put into practice. The tips below are only few that prove the influence of psychology in web design, the list is perfectible, and hence I am really waiting for your interesting contributions. Fri, 23 Dec 2011 03:26:34 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10216/giveaway-5-jomsocialjoomla-social-networking-component-worth-149-each In this giveaway, 5 lucky readers will get complimentary access to JomSocial – a Social Networking component for Joomla worth $149 each. Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:56:24 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/9954/transform-html-list-with-sort-filter-and-search-functions-with-listjs List.js is a tiny in size (7KB!) but robust cross-browser native Javascript that add numerous features to your list. It enhances HTML list element by adding search, sort, filter, add, get, update and remove functionality. Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:07:32 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10104/powerful-javascript-form-validation-plugins Creating your own javascript form validation plugin can be a tedious process which involve planning, developing and testing. Without a good knowledge in Javascript can lead to frustration and waste of time. In this post, I found 10 already made javascript validation plugins that could save your time! Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:18:44 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10111/giveaway-50-premium-templatetheme-credit-from-4templates Hey folks, we have an awesome giveaway today from 4Templates. 4Templates has hundreds of affordable, beautifully designed and coded templates and themes for your website, blog, and more. Wed, 07 Dec 2011 23:28:19 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10093/minimalism-hundreds-of-minimal-characters What happen when you convert famous characters into minimal design? Do you think you will still able to recognize them? Minimal characters are getting really trendy nowadays, I have found some great designers who designed these amazing minimal characters. A few hundreds of characters list in this post, and how many can you identify? Wed, 07 Dec 2011 07:58:32 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/9898/giveaway-an-iphone-4s-and-10-copies-of-steve-jobs-biography Today we have an awesome giveaway from our sister site MightyDeals.com As you know, we created Mighty Deals as a platform to get the best deals on products and services for web professionals. The deals are highly discounted, sometimes as much as 90% off the retail price! Wed, 07 Dec 2011 06:22:33 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10081/11-javascript-color-pickers-plugins It was pretty hard to find a good color picker a few years back, just recently I have seen many of Javascript color picker plugins released so I decided to make a compilation of what I can find. In this post, I found 11 Javascript Color Picker Plugins. Some of them are really complicated whereas other can be really simple, so I pretty sure one of them will meet your needs. Tue, 06 Dec 2011 09:11:42 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/10012/20-cool-and-creative-gift-ideas-for-designers It's December already, few more weeks it's Christmas! I know you might think it's still early, but getting presents can take fair a bit of your time, and sometimes you need to wait for the shipping as well. So, don't procrasinate! Now is the time to start thinking of gift shopping. This time, we have found 20 creative gifts for your fellow designer, developer, nerdy and geeky friends. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 09:07:39 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/9999/10-css-and-javascript-animation-plugins-frameworks-and-libraries Website animation has became one of the design trend this year, check out my previous about about website with javascript animation effects. A lot of company has started to move forward and embrace HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript trinity, though not much of intensive animation like flash, with good planning and creative thinking, simple animation with those technology are good enough to impress most of us. Wed, 30 Nov 2011 02:30:31 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/9942/how-to-design-your-own-infographics Infographics seem to be a real trend today, with new ones popping up daily on all sorts of subjects. From mortgages to ice cream, estimating software to infographics about infographics, there is very little now that hasn't been 'visualised' in some form. Read this article for comprehensive information about how to design your own infographics. Thu, 24 Nov 2011 22:22:44 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/9947/giveaway-20-feature-rich-zyma-unlimited-web-hosting Queness and Zyma announce the inception of their new giveaway. Win a Web Hosting Account for 1 Whole Year from Zyma! Up for grabs are 20 web hosting accounts with unlimited webspace. This is a giveaway that you simply don't want to miss. Read on to see how you can win this excellent prize. Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:56:27 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/9790/minimal-inspiration-illustrations-for-nerds-in-love I discovered this lovely illustration set for nerds in love from Nicole Martinez. Nicole translates love languages into something nerdy or geeky people would appreciate or understand it. Wed, 16 Nov 2011 23:58:31 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/9862/4-points-the-web-designers-can-learn-from-animals The French sculptor Auguste Rodin once said: "beauty is everywhere. For our eyes, not lack of beauty, but lack of discovery." We live in a world of rich variety and mystery, there is always the beauty of nature for us to find and learn. So what have you learn from this world? Do you have an eye of discovery? Wed, 16 Nov 2011 07:43:28 +0100 http://www.queness.com/post/9861/giveaway-5-copies-of-lightspeed-premium-wordpress-theme Thanks to the generousity of WPScientist, once again we are giveing away new WordPress Theme called Lightspeed from WPScientist. WPScientist creates high quality WordPress templates and all of its templates have a poweful built-in content composer that allows users to customize the content layout via drag and drop. Mon, 14 Nov 2011 22:19:12 +0100