Friday, December 31, 2010

Festive Explosion of Colorful Fireworks : 25 Beautiful Photographs

Festive Explosion of Colorful Fireworks - People celebrate memorable times and holidays by gathering together and sharing their wonderful and happy emotions while watching fireworks display. These joyful moments remind people of happy times which can be felt even long after the event has passed. Photos of fireworks display may make a person feel a bit sentimental and teary, but memories and feelings of love can put a smile on one's lips.



Let`s celebrate the new year with this festive explosion of colorful fireworks against a black night sky. `Happy New Year!`

celebration by ibrahim canakci





Nordlyst 2010 by Roy Samuelsen





Centrifuge by Aleksander Smid





Fireworks by Billy Wilson





Firework during summer show to Versailles' Castle by Yannick Lefevre





Space Needle at New Years by David Lindes





Ka Boom! by Francesco Marchetti





The Sphynx by kovacsati





Sant Joan Feast 2 by Jordi Gallego





The Pyromancer by ciberknight





Waikiki Fireworks by Altus





Daily Disney by Joe Penniston





Fireworks over Jökulsárlón by Elsa Prinsessa





Fireworks on Planet Krypton by Mike Jones





Firework Composite by Oliver Wu





More Fireworks by Miroslav Petrasko





Fireworks vs. Sunset by micmikemic1





Singapore New Year 2010 Fireworks by Souvik Bhattacharya





Day One by riv





Last light of summer by The New No. 2





14 juillet en couleur by Sushidamour





NYE in Sydney by *vlad*





Mission Bay Fireworks by Daniel Peckham





Rainbow in Fireworks Vancouver by Tony Hisgett



Thursday, December 30, 2010

The Bay: Brand Spanking

PSD

Forgetting to wear pants on Christmas Day is just one of those awkward moments we'd all like to forget.

Thanks Gordon. You can see the original here

Pencil and Notepaper in Photoshop

You can make realistic Notepaper in photoshop as also a Pencil from scratch. It is not difficult, but will take a bit of time.
Here is the Notepaper and Pencil which I will teach to make.
The tutorial is here
Other photoshop tutorials are here 




CSS3 & HTML5 : 11 Fresh Tutorials

CSS3 & HTML5 : 11 Fresh Tutorials - With the inevitable, exponential rise in popularity of both HTML 5 and CSS3, designers can look forward to many new and exciting possibilities for their web pages, applications, and scripts. Combined, these two emerging languages provide designers with immense power over the structure and presentation of their web documents.

How to Create Social Media Buttons Using CSS3

CSS3 is truly amazing. It gives web designers the ability to create flexible and easily reusable design elements, and reduces our reliance on images and graphics editors. This is a guide shows you how to create stylish social media buttons using CSS3, HTML, and some freely available social media icons.





Code a Vibrant Professional Web Design with HTML5/CSS3

We will use HTML5 and CSS3, as a proof of concept and as a way for you to learn these upcoming W3C standards through practice. We will also use the 960 Grid System to speed up development time.





Designing Search Boxes with HTML5 and CSS3

A hands-on tutorial demonstrating a few practical techniques for designing cross-browser, standards-compliant functional Search Forms with HTML5 and CSS3 (and a little bit of jQuery).





An Introduction to CSS 3-D Transforms

The CSS 3D Transforms module has been out in the wild for over a year now. Currently, only Safari supports the specification – which includes Safari on Mac OS X and Mobile Safari on iOS.





How To Create a Cute Popup Bar With HTML5, CSS3 and jQuery

The way the bar pops out at the top makes sure it’ll be seen. And after the visitor has seen the information, he/she has the option to hide the bar.





Create Spinning Rays with CSS3 Animations & JavaScript

Subtlety is the key to using this effect...effectively. Using CSS properties to transition the element's rotation is even more optimal, seeing as they're native to the browser.





The CSS3 Resize Property

The resize property allows a developer to define whether or not a UI element can be resized manually by the user.





Happy Holidays with CSS3

New year is coming and I want to wish all of you Happy Holidays. For this reason, I made a little CSS3 experiment (with absolutely no images) and I hope you’ll enjoy it.





Creating 3D Buttons with CSS & jQuery

We're going to look at how to create a 3D button using very basic CSS and jQuery. This 3D button will better reflect the interactive abilities of many sites.





How to Create A Multi-Step Signup Form With CSS3 and jQuery

In this tutorial we will see how to create a simple multi-step signup form using CSS3 and jQuery. To spice up things a bit, we will include progress bar with the form, so the users will be able to see the percentage of form completion.





Coding a Rotating Image Slideshow w/ CSS3 and jQuery

You can use it to spice up your web sites, product pages and other projects with some CSS3 magic.



Fallout: Lefty

Fallout PSD

When you're one of the few survivors of a nuclear holocaust, it pays to have a little extra help.

The image was submitted by Anonymous. You can see the original here.

You can now find brief definitions for all of the labels we use on PSD here.

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

30 Fresh Useful & Powerful jQuery Plugins

Fresh Useful & Powerful jQuery Plugins - The `write less, do more` JavaScript library is great for rapid web development. New components, tools and applications are literally popping up on daily basis. Numerous plugins are also available to help jQuery developers. I have compiled a list of jQuery plugins that you may find really useful.

ppGallery - Elegant Lightbox Gallery Jquery Plugin

Showcase your gallery in style with ppGallery, an advanced lightbox photo gallery plugin built with the jQuery Framework. It is lightweight, unobtrusive and installs with ease. It has been tested on the latest versions of IE7, IE8, Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome, Camino and Opera.





MobilyBlocks

MobilyBlocks plugin allows you to simply create an unordered list as an impressive and stylish animated circle.





WOW Slider - jQuery Carousel & Slider

WOW Slider is a jQuery Image Slider with stunning visual effects and fancy templates.





jQuery zLayers

zLayers is a jQuery plugin that allows you to orientate an element based on the position of your mouse to the page’s window, or element’s parent. zLayer is perfect for interactive illustrations and rich user experience through creative methods.





jquery thumbnail scroller

A cool jquery/css thumbnail scroller plugin inspired by the ones made in Flash. It works by cursor movement and it's simple to configure and easy to style through css.





tofslaForms

Choose which form controls get styled -- all, buttons only, checkboxes and radios, textareas and selects?





SliderNav

SliderNav is a plugin that lets you add dynamic, sliding content using a vertical navigation bar (index).





jQuery Colors Pickers HSL





FBModal jQuery plugin

FBModal is a jQuery plugin that is the first FaceBook replica modal dialog.





Tipped - The Javascript Tooltip Framework

Tipped allows you to easily create beautiful tooltips using your Javascript framework of choice.





Pines Grid jQuery Plugin

Pines Grid is a JavaScript data grid plugin for the jQuery JavaScript library, developed by Hunter Perrin as part of Pines.





jQuery Stepy

jQuery Stepy is a plugin based on FormToWizard that generates a customizable wizard.





jQuery Apple Effect

This plugin is very easy to use. Just target the element you want to highlight.





Overlay Effect Menu with jQuery





Dirty Forms

Dirty Forms will alert a user when they attempt to leave a page without submitting a form they have entered data into. It alerts them in a modal popup box, and also falls back to the browser’s default onBeforeUnload handler for events outside the scope of the document such as, but not limited to, page refreshes and browser navigation buttons.





Thumbox





jQuery formDesigner

This jQuery Plugin allows you to skin standard form elements (select, input, textarea) with CSS.





xhEditor





JQByte StickyForms Plugin

StickyForms is a jquery plugin that automatically saves all form fields into cookies, and then autofills those values on any form that shares element IDs across your site.





Panoscoper

The panoscoper plugin allows you to take any DOM object and wrap it into a 360° panorama, leaving interactivity intact. This includes Images, Div boxes, and even Video. Currently in alpha development.





JOverText

This plugin adds title and description on an image visible on mouseover. Slide has several effects: above, left, right and bottom. Fully customizable and easy to apply ... Here you will find all info about it.





Dragdealer JS

Dragdealer is a drag-based JavaScript component that embraces endless front-end solutions. Elegantly crafted for JavaScript-aware coders.





jQuery Capty - A Caption Plugin

jQuery Capty is a plugin jQuery Capty is a plugin that creates captions over the images.





NV / box-slider

Horizontal Box Slider is using native scrolling. There are a lot of “carousels”, but none of them is using it.





jQuery Share Plugin

This lightweight jQuery Share Plugin allows you to easily add share buttons for Social Bookmarks to your website - with only a few lines of code.





jMenu Plugin

jMenu is a jQuery plugin that enables us to create horizontal navigations with unlimited sub-menus.





Thumbnail Gallery JQuery plugin

Thumbnail Gallery JQuery plugin is a easy to use JQuery plugin for web developer to build Javascript gallery on their web application. The gallery can be driven by xml. Easy setup and only minimum programming knowledge is needed. Best to showcase your photography portfolio.





Hightabler

It is a plugin which Highlights the rows of a table.You can navigate to previous or next table row by pressing the left or right arrow keyboard keys. You can also click on the panels to navigate.





infiniScroll jQuery plugin

"infiniScroll" was written as a jQuery plugin. It works for blog posts... but will work for anything where you scroll to get more data. Just like Twitter.com, Facebook status messages, etc. Instead of paginating items, why not just keep scrolling?





Simple Fade SlideShow

Simple Fade SlideShow is highly customizable with CSS and it can create the list and buttons automated or you can create your own individual elements and Simple Fade SlideShow will only bind the relevant functions.