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4 Fun CSS Image Effects You Can Copy and Paste

Once upon a time we relied purely on Photoshop to create fancy image effects. These days though we’re turning more and more to pure CSS to add eye candy to our images. Applying custom image treatments using code makes for an infinitely flexible workflow that’s easy to tweak at any time. Today I’ll walk you through creating some extremely simple and fun CSS image tricks. From polaroids to vignettes, you won’t believe what we can pull off.

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Design

Progressive And Responsive Navigation

Developing for the Web can be a difficult yet rewarding job. Given the number of browsers across the number of platforms, it can sometimes be a bit overwhelming. But if we start coding with a little forethought and apply the principles of progressive enhancement from the beginning and apply some responsive practices at the end, we can easily accommodate for less-capable browsers and reward those with modern browsers in both desktop and mobile environments.

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JavaScript

Callback Functions in JavaScript

If you’re fairly inexperienced with JavaScript but you’ve used jQuery, then its likely you’ve used callback functions. But maybe you don’t fully understand how they work or how they’re implemented. In this post, the author is explaining this fairly common JavaScript technique.

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Photoshop

Adobe Illustrator Tutorial: Be My Valentine

Take the opportunity to learn how to create a romantic gift box in AI. In this Adobe Illustrator tutorial we will be learning how to create a heart shaped gift box by using a few basic tools such as the Ellipse Tool (L) and Pen Tool (P).

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CSS

Speech Bubble Arrows that Inherit Parent Color

By "css3 speech bubble", Jin means using a pseudo element on a container to add a little pointer arrow (triangle). Setting the container with an inline style is all well and good, but unfortunately there is no inline style for pseudo elements. There is a solution though! While we are setting the inline style for the container, we can set an inline style for border-color too. Even though the container actually has no border, we can rely on inheritance to pass that color down to the pseudo element, which is treated like a child element.

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Server Side

PHP Arrays: Array Functions and Multidimensional Arrays

In this article, we will look at other array functions as well as multidimensional arrays. The difference between one-dimensional and multidimensional arrays is a simple one: a multidimensional array is a simple array that has simple arrays as elements, rather than strings or scalar variables.

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Photoshop

How To Build a Handwritten Letter Style Contact Form

Follow this step by step tutorial to create a traditional pen & paper inspired contact form in HTML and CSS. We’ll use a mix of basic and intermediate CSS techinques to give the form the appearance of a letter, then use the @font-face CSS property to transform the digital text into handwriting.

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Photoshop

Top Valentine’s Day Graphic Design Tutorials

Valentine’s Day is around the corner and designers are eager to try out their creative skills. With the holiday comes a time of bright colors, attractive graphics and shimmering effects which can make for some romantic manipulations. We have collected some very useful tutorials, which will help you use Photoshop patterns, brushes and much more to create awesome Valentine’s graphics of your own.

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JavaScript

A Beginner’s Guide To jQuery-Based JSON API Clients

The goal of today’s tutorial is to create a simple Web app for grabbing movie posters from TMDb. We’ll use jQuery and the user’s input to query a JSON-based API and deal with the returned data appropriately.

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Design

Ten Things To Think About When Designing Your iPad App

In this article, we won’t outline the entire design process for creating an iPad app, but we will explore 10 of the key things to think about when designing your app (and planning the design process).

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