Amazing Music Player Using Mouse Gestures and Hotkeys
An amazing tutorial about hot to create an impressive music player, realized in XHTML and jQuery, mouse’s gestures and hotkeys availables. To interact with the music player’s interface user can click and drag the mouse or use directional keys and the space bar instead of the mouse.
E-commerce web design brings some unique requirements, and this usually includes the need for specific icons such as shopping carts, credit cards, and others related to the online shopping experience. In this article, we feature 30 sets of quality icons for use in e-commerce designs.
Half of the sets are free and the other half are premium. Of course, free resources are always great, but the premium sets will give you more options, sometimes higher quality, and they are generally very reasonable in price.
These 15 sets of free icons are excellent for use on e-commerce websites. As always when you’re working with freebies, be sure to read and understand the terms of use or license agreements stipulated by the creator.
A popular set of free icons that was designed specifically for e-commerce sites.
I have always loved motion graphics and animation and I’m sure many of you web and graphic designers do too (if not, don’t worry, it’ll grow on you!) So, I thought I’d make a list of resources, sites and blogs on the topic since it’s something I really enjoy, I hope you find it useful! 
Before we go on, let’s start with a quick introduction and some basic infos for those of you not too familiar with the topic:
Motion graphics are generally short pieces of time-based visual media which combine the languages of film and graphic design. This can be accomplished by incorporating a number of different elements such as 2d and 3d animation, video, film, typography, illustration, photography, and music. Common applications of motion graphics are film title sequences, animated logos at the end of commercials, lower-third elements, etc. – MoGraphWiki
It’s amazing what you can find on Flickr! A simple search for ‘motion graphics’ will return a ton of results. Here are some Flickr groups to get you started and find some inspiration: Read the rest of this entry »
These brushes are completely free for both personal and commercial use so you can create any type of project with them with no restrictions, with the exception that we do not allow the redistribution of the brushes in any shape or form.
If you’d like to share these brushes with your friends and colleagues, simply refer them to this page so that they can download their copy.
Below is a full preview of all 30 brushes for quick reference. The download link is at the bottom. Enjoy!
Web Developer Plus, a blog providing web design/development tips & tutorials, is sharing a slick featured content slider that is built with jQuery & jQuery UI.
It is a tutorial which describes each step (HTML, CSS, JS) & comes with the source files.
The slider auto-changes the displayed content in every x seconds defined & can switch to the clicked item instantly.
In proportion with the size of the “main image”, the slider can present a limited number of items (4 in the example).
It is also a proof of “how jQuery UI can help creating beautiful stuff with a very little JavaScript”. Read the rest of this entry »
