Kathy asked me how I created the sliding header that you may have noticed when you first entered the home page of Return True (yes, that’s this site). Well here is a very short tutorial explaining how it was done.
Read moreA feature slider is great for highlighting important content on your site, but what if you want it to be fluid & stretch the full width of the browser? Here is a funky way of creating a full width feature slider using the jQuery cycle plugin.
Read moreI had a request to make a photo gallery in the same style of Derren Brown’s art gallery website. Unfortunately Derren has moved his art and the gallery is no longer there, but I wanted to try and replicate it using modern techniques anyway. Here’s the result.
Read moreI was playing around with jQuery & CSS 3, and managed to cobble together this little gallery slash photo viewer. It’s not really ready to be used on websites right now, but it is a look at the promising things coming thanks to speedier Javascript & CSS.
Read moreI previously created a tutorial explaining how to integrate the jQuery plugin jFlow into your WordPress theme, but since then I’ve received numerous requests asking how to integrate Nivo slider into a WordPress theme. So here’s how to do it.
Read moreFinding a place to display tweets on your blog can be difficult especially if you want to show more than 1 tweet. Here is a way of showing your tweets in a ticker format so you can have your cake & eat it too.
Read moreThis is an effect I was asked to create for a website I was helping out with a day or so ago. The idea is to have the image zoom forward & become larger so users can get a better view. Ideal for e-commerce websites to show close-ups of products.
Read moreI received an email yesterday asking me if I could replicate Twitter’s auto updating popular tweets widget that they have on their front page. So instead of just sending an email back I thought I’d make a tutorial.
Read moreToday we are going to look at a quirky idea I was asked to make for a website I was building recently. It’s a way to provide extra information about an image without needing extra space.
Read moreA very popular design element today is the large illustrative header, just like the one we have here at Return True. Something that is starting to become just as popular is adding the ability to hide said large header. Here I’ll show you how to do that.
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