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You already know what whitespace is. In this article, I would like to bring up and analyze a common misunderstanding about whitespace. Sometimes both designers and clients are convinced that whitespace is just an empty space that needs to be filled as much as possible.
Here we go again guys, another quick tutorial that will show you how to use jQuery in order to generate easy-to-read and eye-pleasing FAQs, with a fancy slide down effect. This script will help you enhancing both user experience and accessibility, by making your page tidier and way more structured.
Headings, text, images and buttons aren’t the only elements that form the layout. There is also another element, which is pretty different from a visual point of view, and that cannot be neglected. I’m talking about whitespace or, as it’s been called lately, negative space.
I’ve been using Wordpress for a few years in very different projects. Madeincima, CSSGlance, Stock2Clear, Edelman, Arekibo Blog are all powered by this excellent publishing system. This article shows a list of 12 plugins for Wordpress that I’ve either used or tested throughout my projects.
This is just the first of many other tutorials to come that will show you how to write short and useful jQuery scripts. This jQuery tutorial will teach you how to spot all the external links in your website, assign them a class so to style them differently from the other links and open them up in a new window.
Being able of layering semitransparent colours can highly increase the options available when it comes to design a website. It gives you a new powerful tool to put your creativity in practice. Alpha transparency is the ability for colours to have different levels of opacity.
I think you can easily remember the great success made by what was called “The Million Dollar Homepage”. A simple page covered by loads of mini banners which has led the owner to become millionaire and to leap to fame. How can we re-create the same thing in an accessible way?
Few weeks ago I found myself facing a tough question: are pre-filled input fields considered accessible yet? It took me some time, asking my colleagues and consulting accessibility experts, to find out a possible answer.
If you provide your audience with news feeds in different languages, this set of feed icons is something you definitely can’t miss! You can use these icons on your websites to differentiate your multilingual RSS feeds in a clear and unusual way.
