August 22, 2013 in Learn
Teacher Spotlight: Pasan Premaratne
It’s time for another issue of the Teacher Spotlight, where we interview one of the Treehouse Teachers so you can get to know them a little better offscreen, and enjoy a sneak peek into their story, their inspirations and what…
August 20, 2013 in Learn
Open Source jQuery Plugins for Building Single-Page Website Layouts
Typically a single-page website is focused on presenting a very focused goal or objective. These layouts work best for companies, freelancers, and Internet projects which need an online haven to share information. Sliding parallax menus are also common because it…
August 16, 2013 in Learn
Using GitHub Pages To Host Your Website
So you want to launch a simple website but don’t want to have to go through the dull process of setting up yet another hosting package. There is an easier solution. If you just want to launch a simple static website…
August 15, 2013 in Learn
The Beginner’s Guide to Objective-C: Language and Variables
Perhaps my own experience with the Objective-C programming language will sound familiar to you. I grew up in a world of dots, semicolons, and curly braces that are known around the programming world as the familiar syntax of JavaScript, Java, C#, and…
August 12, 2013 in Learn
3 Simple Design Tests to Improve Your Aesthetics
Developers often use test driven development to write simple and reliable code. Sometimes too much testing can slow down the development of a product, but in general, it’s a smart idea. The web design community doesn’t have a perfect analog to…
August 7, 2013 in Learn
CSS Sprites with Background Positioning
There’s nothing more common than hover states to give your website some life. The user comes to your site, scrolls over an image with their mouse cursor, and the image changes. That’s it. While I spent most of 2012 learning…
August 5, 2013 in Learn
Making The Web Faster With SPDY
SPDY (pronounced “SPeeDY”) is a new technology that aims to decrease page load times by fixing a number of flaws present in HTTP 1.1. It’s not a replacement for HTTP but instead adds a number of features that help to…
August 5, 2013 in Learn
Multiplane Design with SVGs and CSS 3D Transforms
Recently I tweeted about my experimentations with an idea that I’m calling multiplane design. I’ve been experimenting with multi planing using 3D and SVGs: http://t.co/l4h1slT4jK Only works on desktop Chrome/Safari (for now). — Nick Pettit (@nickrp) August 4, 2013 Right…
July 26, 2013 in Learn
Creating Reusable Markup with The HTML Template Element
Templates are one of the key tools at any developers disposable. They make it easier for us to build complex websites that are maintainable and easy for other developers to understand. With the exception of a few JavaScript frameworks, most…
July 19, 2013 in Learn
50 Homepage Website Layouts using Featured Details & Icon Lists
The trend of icon detail lists has be rising very quickly but silently. I have not seen many other designers writing about this topic, and my hope is to shed light onto the trend with some beautiful examples. Generally startups…
July 18, 2013 in Learn
Working with Shadow DOM
As developers, we often need to create widgets for interfaces that make it easier to accomplish certain tasks. These might be sliders for controlling video playback, calendar pickers for selecting dates or any other number of other useful widgets. The…
July 18, 2013 in Learn
CSS Tip: A Better Clearfix with Sass
The CSS clearfix has been a must-have in our web design toolkit for quite some time and, until new layout features like flexbox become more stable, we’ll always need some form of clearfix in float based layouts. There are several…