In this tutorial we will show you how to create and use a thumbnails preview slider with jQuery. Since we got a lot of requests to show how to make the preview slider work separately from the full image view, we decided to make a tutorial on how to use the little thumbnails preview part only.

Well PDF gives you let your design and fonts to be intact even after saving and opening on different systems but some people jerk the idea of using it because of the fear of lower search engine rankings. Today we will discuss someways to Optimize Your PDF for SEO.

PDF is an excellent format for many business materials that you post on your company website, such as flyers, resumes, company statistics, product information, and so on. Many business owners, however, feel that they cannot or should not use PDFs on their website for fear of hurting their search engine rankings. In actuality, PDFs can be optimized for the search engines just like any HTML Web page. Here are 5 SEO tips to help you create PDFs that will get the attention of the search engine spiders.

Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers, generally, to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time. When used without qualification, "weather" is understood to be the weather of Earth. In this post I collected some of the examples of weather photography for the inspiration of our readers.

As much as we don’t like to deal with the IE bugs, we still have to face it because your boss and visitors are still using Explorer. It gets frustrating when different versions of Explorer displays web pages differently due to the inconsistent rendering engine. We typically use IE conditional comments to fix the IE issues. But there are more ways than the conditional comments…

Welcome to the MediaLoot HTML5 compendium! The purpose of this page is to be a consistently updated reference for web designers and developers who want to start using the new features of HTML5.

Let’s face it, it’s difficult to keep up with all the new changes to the language, and there’s a lot of pressure for designers to start using HTML5 and CSS3 too — both of which can be overwhelming at first.

The W3C specs for HTML5 and CSS3 are also incredibly long and practically unreadable, not to mention unfinished - so it’s easy to see why a lot of designers choose to hold off on taking the effort to learn the new languages, however it’s really not that hard to start using both languages today, there doesn’t need to be a lot of pressure either because the beauty of adopting early is that you can work your way into it slowly and the only thing you actually need to know if you’re already using XHTML/HTML4 and CSS2 is what’s new and how can it benefit you.

Today, we selected our Collection of CSS3 Tools for your Next Web Development. Let us know what you think about our collection and feel free to comment below.

website wireframe is a basic design draft done before any artwork and used in web design to show the structure of a website, custom user paths, most important user interface elements, their position and relationships between website pages. Wireframes lay out in black and white schematically most important elements in the interface such as header, footer, contact form, navigation.

Wireframing is a process that can significantly decrease the amount of time required in design and development by removing potential visual distractions and focusing the attention of project stakeholders on vital functionality and strategic marketing factors.

Here are a few key reasons you should always wireframe:

Allows you get a clear picture of what information will be needed on each page before design
Allows you to spend time and really focus on what each page’s purpose is. Careful plannings is paramount.
Allows you a fail-safe for uneducated clients who tend to change their minds during the design phase of the project. If the site is planned out properly in the wireframe stage the functionality of the individual pages shouldn’t change much.
Allows you to set a fallback point. When a client signs off on a wireframe that means they agree to what’s on that page. Education of the client also plays an important role here as well as they need to know that changing items already signed off on the wireframe can and probably will bloat the budget.
Allows you to have a clear look at how the site will react to various visitors without the clutter of color or design elements.
Allows you to remove any clutter that may be added to to the site that may be unnecessary and detrimental to the site goal.
They’re easily adjustable (pre-signoff) and easy to produce allowing the planning process to move along smoothly and efficiently.
Reduces the chance of scope creep.
Gives the designer a clear view of what needs to be designed
Gets the client deeply involved in the planning process early and opens communication between both parties

Chrome Experiment has been coming out with heaps of incredible HTML5 canvas and javascript experiments. Thanks to all the awesome developers, most of the experiments are truly unique and jaw dropping. I could never imagine with the combination HTML and javascript can achieve such an amazing result. Take Tank World as an example, stunning 3d graphic, and it's a game! However, it will take year before most of the modern browsers fully support them, and also, I can feel the slowness when the browser loads and renders the graphic. So in the mean time, flash is still the best solution for intensive animation and web based game development.

Check out the list, preferably with Google Chrome. Mind you, some of them are pretty addictive :)

JavaScript, with the rise of Ajax, is definitely a must-know-well for every web designer/developer.

Besides form controls, alerts & similar simple JavaScript usage, you can almost do anything with the help of JavaScript (& Canvas). Some samples are:

Drag’n drops
Animations
CSS manipulations, Ajax & more.

As JavaScript-HTML5 development is getting more popular and browsers supporting new features are being utilized by more users everyday, -as expected- many new games are being developed with JavaScript.

JavaScript-powered games are not only easier-to-develop for web developers but they are also the only cross-platform ones including desktop, web and mobile.

The main focus of CamanJS is manipulating images using the HTML5 canvas and Javascript. It's a combination of a simple-to-use interface with advanced and efficient image/canvas editing techniques. It is also completely library independent and can be safely used next to jQuery, YUI, Scriptaculous, MooTools, etc.

CamanJS is very easy to extend with new filters and plugins, and it comes with a wide array of image editing functionality, which is only growing as the community makes more plugins. It has a powerful layering system, much like the one present in Photoshop and GIMP, that makes the sky the limit for your creativity.

They use no images, just CSS3 fancies. Like a good little designer always does, they fall back to totally acceptable experience. Here's what they look like in Opera 11 which supports some of the CSS3 used here but not all.

Good unit tests are focused, fast and isolated. Unfortunately, the code to test sometimes depends on other code that may comprise performance and/or isolation. In this article we will explore some of those cases, and how we can deal with them by planning for testability and loose coupling, and by using test fakes.

I have never had enough of watching National Geographic, the people at National Geographic are just too professional with their cameras and skills. The inspiration led me to come up with some Breathtaking Real Time Inspirational Photography. The post contains images of diverse cultures, different places among lovely people.

The images may not be the best for designer’s but certainly they have a lot of inspiration for those who want use their camera effectively. Don’t miss out on these as every image tickles the senses.

A lot of web design blogs often collects wallpapers that they like and put them in their posts. In this post on Webby freebies you can find over 200 different wallpapers that you can use to make your desktop more beautiful. They can be found in all different screen resolutions so everybody can use them.

There are a lot of free icons around the web but it’s really hard to pick the best ones and the ones that fits perfectly with your design style. So you need a mixed collection to choose from the best icons for your designs: from black mono icons to full effects icons, mini icons etc. The idea is to find the ones that you need what is really hard to do and takes time to find them. So I collected a huge collection of free icons, diversified, to help you choosing some really nice icons and add them to your resources.

Whether you are an experienced Web programmer or just starting out, you know that there are many browsers currently in use and have probably had experience with the cross-compatibility issues. The frustration of building a beautifully functioning website using Firefox, then discovering it doesn’t render properly in IE6 is a definite learning experience. Testing your creations in as many browsers as possible is crucial to turning out a professional product.

There are a multitude of tools available to allow cross-browser testing with only one computer and your favorite browser. Many of them will let you do online testing of multiple versions of the most commonly used browsers and some will include applications you may never have heard about. A few require downloading and installation on your machine.

Within WordPress, it’s actually extremely simple to grab images from another website, and import them into your own installation. It takes just a handful of functions to do so. This can be extremely handy when trying to move content into WordPress from another system.

For instance, on most organizational websites, you’ll find an employee directory; and in a lot of those directories you’ll find photographs of the employees. Should you ever choose to move your employee directory into WordPress, you can easily import the information as posts (most likely a custom post type) and then pull the employee images and add them to WordPress, too.

Using CSS3 to produce an expanding menu animation with slide down sub menus.

Each section will expand to reveal the full width image on hover. The unhovered panels with shrink to keep the overall width of the menu the same.The hovered panel menu will expand vertically to reveal descriptive text which can contain any information you want with links possible.

Tested in IE7, IE8, IE9, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome. It should also work in Mac browsers. IE7, IE8, IE9 and Firefox 3.x will see an instant change of image sizing and sub menus.

No javascript, no hacks, no expressions, just CSS and XHTML

The previous demonstration turned through 90 degrees and with the addition of a text menu in each panel.

The menu will function in all the latest browsers but the animation is only seen by Opera, Safari, Chrome and Firefox v4 beta at the moment. Unfortunately this menu will not work in IE6 as this browser only supports :hover on links.

Tested in IE7, IE7 emulation, IE8, IE9, Firefox, Opera, Safari, Chrome, Avant, SeaMonkey, Flock and Maxthon. It should also work in Mac browsers.