Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for …
Archive for January, 2009
By Huw Wilkins
Ampersands have long been the character in a typeface with which typographers can indulge themselves. Sweeping curves, flirtatious finishes and bold statements – these are the things that make ampersands an exciting character to use and, better still, to design.
Can you spot what typeface is used to display …
Every now and again we take a look around, select “fresh” high-quality free fonts and present them to you in a brief overview. The choice is enormous, so the time you need to find them is usually the time you should be investing in your current projects. We search for …
Pop! is a simple but effective jQuery plugin for creating dropdown menus.
It enables you to store any content in a container & shows/hides it with the clicks.
How to use it?
Insert the jquery.pop.js file into your webpage (make sure jQuery is inserted too)
Initialize it:
<script type=’text/javascript’>
$(document).ready(function(){
$.pop();
});
</script>
Using the preferred pop! class, wrap the content:
<div class="pop">
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We continue to deliver fresh high-quality freebies to our readers and we continue to pursue the diversity of subjects that we are going to cover on Smashing Magazine. From the beginning of the year each icon set is supposed to be dedicated to some specific theme or topic that may turn out to be useful for your next project. Today we are releasing 2 free high-quality icon sets.
Oliver Twardowski, a graphic designer from Bonn, Germany, has put a lot of time and efforts to release a handy icon set especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers. His set, aimed to help designers in their web designs and user interface designs, contains 177 icons in the resolution 48×48px. The files are available for free download as .png and .psd-sources, so you can modify the files as you wish.
As a huge Simpsons fan, this is possibly the greatest thing I have ever found online. The official Simpsons Movie website has a fantastic Avatar creator that allows you to create your very own Simpsons Character. You can fully customize your Avatar, all of the usual elements, even down to the colour of your trousers [...]
Forcing a footer to stick to the bottom of a page is sometimes challenging.
CSS Sticky Footer presents a cross browser solution including Google Chrome.
When compared to some other popular solutions, it works with floated 2-column layouts & no overlaps occur in resized browsers. Also, no empty divs required for pushing.
A how-to on using CSS [...]
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We like to experiment with new ideas and concepts. We like to challenge ourselves and provide our readers with new formats. This post is the first in our “Ask Smashing Magazine” series, in which well-known developers from the web design community answer our readers’ questions and suggest solutions to common problems.
Today, we are glad to welcome Chris Coyier, who you may know from his articles on CSS-Tricks, to our Smashing Magazine Editorial Team. From now on, Chris will regularly answer your CSS- and jQuery-related questions and present answers to the most interesting, useful and original ones in his articles on Smashing Magazine. Welcome, Chris!
Of course, you can send any CSS- and jQuery-related question you want. To ask a question, you can do any of the following:
- Send an email to Chris at ask [at] smashingmagazine [dot] com with your question,
- Post your question in our forum, putting “[Ask SM]” in the thread title (yes, the forum is not officially launched yet, but it is running!),
- Or, if you have a quick question, just tweet us @smashingmag or @chriscoyier with the tag “[Ask SM].”
Please note: Chris will do what he can to answer most questions, but he will certainly not be able to answer all of them. However, we hope that our forum may help you to solve your problem in case Chris couldn’t help you out.
AJAX APIs Playground, a web-based application that runs on Google’s App. engine, enables you to learn & test APIs of Google products.
APIs included are:
Visualization
Search
Language
Blogger Data
Maps
Earth
Feeds
Calendar Data
All functions of the APIs have well-commented examples that you can modify & run.
Besides playing with the codes, you can login with a Google account & save the code you [...]
CSS Globe is presenting a 2 colored free vector icon set.
The set consists of 12 icons in AI, EPS, PDF & XAR formats (there is no PNG format included).
Icons are free to use both in personal & commercial projects. Considering they are in vector format, you have the chance to re-produce new ones.
The pages icons presented is [...]
