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How to Style iOS Sliding Checkboxes with jQuery

This tutorial is a straightforward walkthrough about how to implement and work with iOS slider switches. Through jQuery we can dynamically create a hidden input field which holds the checked/unchecked position of the slider bar.

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Design

How to Achieve Simplicity in Design

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. Simple designs are typically easier to use. The first step in achieving simplicity in design is, as Jony Ive said, to go deep. You have to truly understand what’s at the core, what’s the essence of the thing your designing.

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Manuals

Facebook Fan Page Manual

Here you'll find all the information you'll need in order to work with the Facebook Fan Page extension. We've created useful tutorials on how to design a Facebook page, how to upload it on Facebook and even how to include other DMXzone extensions on your Facebook Fan pages.

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CSS

Understanding CSS’s Vertical-align Property

The vertical-align property is one of those features of CSS that sounds pretty self-explanatory, but can cause problems for CSS beginners. It works only on inline or inline-block elements and table cells and when not used on a table cell, it will affect the alignment of the element itself, not the element’s contents.

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JavaScript

Lateral On-Scroll Sliding with jQuery

In the tutorial the author shows you how to create a “slide-in on scroll” effect. You’ve probably seen this cool effect on some websites, like on Nizo or in the portfolio section of brilliantly designed La Moulade. The main idea is to laterally slide in elements depending on the scroll position of the document.  Read More
JavaScript

Relevant Dropdowns: Polyfill for Datalist

The list attribute / datalist element of HTML5 forms is pretty cool. As you type in a text input, it shows you a dropdown menu of choices you can pick from. Or you can type in whatever you want. The list attribute alone doesn't lock you into any specific value. In that way, it's a bit like a group of radio buttons with an "other" type-in option.

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Design

Minimalist Web Design

Minimalism, interestingly enough, is usually born out of excess. In all arts, in all ways of life, we start out by taking and adding whatever we can. When we start to realize that more is not necessarily better, and that we can get by with less stuff, we try to simplify by removing unnecessary elements so we can focus on what’s truly important.

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CSS

The Difference Between Block and Inline

For the purpose of CSS styling, elements can be generally divided into a few different categories. Two of those categories are block-level elements and inline elements. Read this article that will help you code sites that are efficient and maintainable without overuse of floats or other undesirable methods.

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HTML5

Reverse Ordered Lists in HTML5

Using the new reversed attribute, you can tell the browser that the numbering for the list items should display in descending order, instead of the default ascending. The items will still appear in the same order as they appear in the markup, but the numbers will begin with the highest. So if you have 10 list items, then the first list item will display with a number 10, and the second with a number 9, and so forth.

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CSS

Typography Effects with CSS3 and jQuery

The tutorial shows you how create a set of nice typography effects for big headlines using CSS3 and jQuery. There are many things we can do with CSS3 animations and transitions and we’ll explore some of the possibilities.

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