Category: Creative

Discover Tennessee

With the increased excitement surrounding AJAX and all the associated frameworks, jQuery, mootools etc.., the web has become a great place to live. Just discovered over at CSSRemix, Discover Tennessee Trails showcases one of the newer applications of jQuery, Parallax Effect. This allows a background image, or anything else for that matter, to move at a different pace than the web page . The differences in tempo of motion creates a wonderful illusion of depth to the site.

Here are some other examples of this Parallax Effect in action:
http://www.thebeatlesrockband.com/videos/cinematic
http://webdev.stephband.info/parallax_demos.html

Designing A Logo

Smashing Magazine is one of my favorite resouces on the web. If you are unfamiliar with this site, it serves two purposes. One, it provides unique content about current trends in web design, techniques and tips for blog development and tutorials on anything from photoshop to illustrator and wordpress (among others).
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Impact Of Color

How much impact does the color of a website really have?

I can spend days developing an entire web solution for a client, and through this process, colors have a tendency change. Certain elements require stronger impact, the client doesn’t like the background (which means you need to change everything), or I am just not happy with the color choices I made in the beginning. But, what is the real impact of the color of a website?
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Great Set Of Animal RSS Feed Icons

A big thanks to design Mirkku for putting up this free set of RSS feed icons ( Includes eps, jpg, png in three sizes and psd-files). A small set of 4 different icons; zebra, elephant, panda and fox.Click here for the direct link to his page.

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