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  • Build your own HTML5 3D engine with JavaScript

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    Build your own HTML5 3D engine

    Mikko Haapoja explains the fundamentals of building your own 3D engine

    29 Jul 2011

    When Toronto agency Jam3 built www.bjork.com, a site that features an interactive real-time rendered 3D model, they decided to create their own engine to ensure it turned out the way they wanted. Here senior developer Mikko Haapoja explains how you can do the same with a little bit of help of JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas
  • Control image aspect ratios with CSS3

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    Control image aspect ratios with CSS3

    Chris Mills shows you how to use object-fit and object-position

    7 Feb 2012

    By Chris Mills on | 3 comments
    Making media display consistently on your site can be a problem, especially with multiple content authors. Opera’s Chris Mills shows you how object-fit and object-position can solve it
  • Get started with WebGL: draw a square

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    Get started with WebGL: draw a square

    Bartek Drozdz takes you right to the heart of WebGL

    26 Jul 2011

    So you've heard about WebGL? It’s become sort of a buzzword in the web development community. Some great 3D demos have been released, some security concerns have been raised, and a heated discussion started. This tutorial by interactive developer Bartek Drozdz takes you right to the heart of WebGL and will help you understand how it works. Prepare your favourite JS editor and buckle your seats!
  • Boost Sass & Compass efficiency

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    Boost Sass & Compass efficiency

    Discover Sass and Compass techniques to streamline outputted CSS

    8 Apr 2013

    By Ben Frain on
    Many say CSS pre-processors create bloated code, lacking the efficiency of handwritten CSS. Ben Frain looks at techniques in Sass and Compass to streamline outputted CSS
  • Build a responsive site in a week: media queries (part 4)

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    Build a responsive site in a week: media queries (part 4)

    Clearleft's Paul Robert Lloyd explains how media queries work

    26 Apr 2012

    By Paul Robert Lloyd on | 5 comments
    In the penultimate part of our responsive web design tutorial, Clearleft's Paul Robert Lloyd explains how media queries work, and describes a device-agnostic approach to breakpoints.
  • Get your JavaScript in order

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    Get your JavaScript in order

    Stop your code from fragmenting into messy gobbledygook

    12 Apr 2013

    By Mike Byrne on | 1 comment
    Mike Byrne provides the lowdown on a simpler way to structure your JavaScript – that should help prevent it fragmenting into messy, brain-bashing gobbledygook
  • Create slick animations with Adobe Edge

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    Create slick animations with Adobe Edge

    David Nibley on the basics of creating an animation in Edge

    20 Oct 2011

    By David Nibley on | 6 comments
    David Nibley, creative director at Rain, guides you through the basics of creating an animation in Adobe Edge and is pleasantly surprised about its ease of use and familiarity of the process
  • Kinetic typography techniques with After Effects

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    Kinetic typography techniques with After Effects

    The art of animating text to voice and music with Photoshop and AE

    19 Apr 2012

    By Angie Taylor on | 1 comment
    Creative director and motion graphic artist Angie Taylor (@theangietaylor) shows how to use Photoshop and Adobe After Effects for kinetic typography - combining text and motion to express ideas in the form of animation
  • Getting the most out of jQuery selectors

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    Getting the most out of jQuery selectors

    Jay Blanchard

    15 Jul 2011

    A lot of developers who are new to jQuery get hung up by jQuery selectors. In this tutorial Jay Blanchard, author of the forthcoming book Applied jQuery, covers jQuery's selector syntax, how to optimise jQuery selectors and how to apply more advanced selector combinations to your markup elements
  • Create a responsive Drupal theme

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    Create a responsive Drupal theme

    Tim Millwood explains how to use media queries in Drupal

    23 Apr 2012

    Drupal themes enable you to change the look and feel of your site. Tim Millwood explains how to create a theme that makes it appear differently on different screen sizes
  • Create a WordPress custom post type

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    Create a WordPress custom post type

    Learn what custom post types in WordPress are and how to use them

    6 Jul 2011

    By Gilbert Pellegrom on | 9 comments
    Web developer, software engineer and part-time entrepreneur Gilbert Pellegrom explains how to use custom post types in WordPress. In his example Gilbert builds a book database, which you can control via your WordPress admin area and which displays books on your site
  • Code a real-time survey with HTML5 WebSockets

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    Code a real-time survey with HTML5 WebSockets

    Use WebSockets and Pusher to build a demo application

    29 Dec 2011

    By Phil Leggetter on
    Phil Leggetter explains how to use WebSockets and Pusher to build a demo application, plus how to layer a user experience on to an app using progressive enhancement
  • More efficient CSS3 transitions

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    More efficient CSS3 transitions

    Val Head on more efficient CSS3 transitions and tricks of the eye

    3 Jul 2012

    CSS transitions rarely happen in isolation. Adding transitions to groups of elements means there's more to keep track of and more opportunity to add variety. We can also take advantage of how our brains tend to see things to both save ourselves some work and make things a little more interesting
  • Build a login form for your  mobile app with DHTMLX Touch

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    Build a login form for your mobile app with DHTMLX Touch

    Alexandra Klenova on creating a login form for a mobile app

    6 Dec 2011

    By Alexandra Klenova on | 7 comments
    In this introduction to open source JavaScript framework DHTMLX Touch web developer Alexandra Klenova explains how you can implement a login form for a mobile web app and send form values to the server with Ajax
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