10 Online HTML5 Tools For Web Designers | Tools

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If you haven’t heard, HTML5 is taking the web by storm! It is currently being enhanced by experts to provide us Web Designers & Developers with awesome new revolutionary web page features!

HTML5 Background Information

For those of you who are new to HTML5, here is some quick background information to get you up to speed.

• HTML5 is the new language for presenting content on the Internet (at the time of writing this article it is still in beta but soon to be released in 2012).
• HTML5 brings new features making it easy to incorporate video, audio, fonts, drag & drop, web graphics & animations into your web pages.
• HTML5 is backwards compatible to don’t worry about your old designs in HTML 4 or XHML1 they will work just the same!
• jQuery has started killing Flash, HTML5 will finish it off for sure.

HTML5 Online Tools & Resources

Not known to many web designers, there are some really good online tools & resources which web designers should definitely take advantage of to help create those new innovative designs and stay ahead of the field! We have collected 10 of the best Online HTML 5 Tools & Resources for Web Designers. Enjoy!

Online Sprite Box Tool

Compressing images is all the rage these days and putting all your images in a “sprite” will both increase the speed of your image transitions and loading times. This Online Sprite Box Tool can help you design your images into sprites using this awesome jQuery, CSS3 and HTML5 tool.

Online 3D Sketch Tool

This is no ordinary sketch tool, it uses the power of HTML Canvas to create 3D drawing. To rotate the canvas in 3D, you need to hold down SPACE and then DRAG horizontally with your cursor. You can also make the drawing vibrate and draw in dashed lines too. Pretty Cool.

Online Font Testing Tool

As a designer, choosing a decent font can be a tough process! Use this awesome font bookmark to instantly view any web page in a new font without changing any HTML or CSS! Harness the power of HTML5 and @font-face by dragging the font.ttf files into the top toolbar and they will appear in a list for quick view. There are hundreds of free websites just type in “Free Fonts” into Google.

Online Velocity Sketch Tool

Velocity sketch is a unique online HTML5 canvas drawing tool which you can create strange looking web like things. I did a quick one (in the screenshot) but I’m sure you web designers can be creative with such a tool and create something quite awesome.

Online Pattern Generator Tool

This online tool coule be pretty useful for web designers when it comes to creating page and header backgrounds or even heading backgrounds. I uses the power of HTML canvas to provide you with the pattern your looking for in seconds! It has heaps of options and is really easy to use! Great stuff.

Online XRay Tool

With Online XRay Tool can quickly view details of page elements on any webpage at the click of a button! Simply drag the bookmarklet on their website into your bookmarks, visit the webpage you want to analyse, click Xray bookmar then click any element on the page. It also can handle HTML5 elements such as canvas and provide you with the design information you need.

Online Automatoon (animation) Tool

Automatoon is pure HTML5. Since no Flash is used, your animations will play just fine on iPhones, iPads, Android devices, and all common web browsers. Awesome-atoon!

Online HTML5 Audio Maker Tool

I think with the introduction of the the audio tag in HTML5 we will start seeing more and more websites utilize the power of audio. This is an online audio maker tool which can help introduce you to the new audio features HTML5 has to offer. There is also a online HTML5 video maker tool which does a similar thing.

For more go over here 10 Online HTML5 Tools For Web Designers | Tools.

Can We Change our Behavior to Make Us Happier?

This is a fun and creative title sequence for “The Happy Film” (scheduled to be released in 2012). It was directed by reknown designers Stefan Sagmeister and Hillman Curtis, produced by Ben Nabors, and cinematography by Ben Wolf.

Notes about the movie (from official website):

The Happy Film takes a look at the strategies serious psychologists ‘recommend to improve one’s personal well-being and overall happiness. Questions such as ‘Is it possible to train our mind in the same way’ that we train our bodies?’ and ‘Can we change our behavior to make’us happier?’ will be put to the test in this highly visual documentary.

Designer Stefan Sagmeister will attempt a long list of various strategies – ‘from the sublime to the ridiculous – and report back on the results. ‘The documentary’s experiments and explorations are loosely based on Stefan’s book Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far. Though the focus will be on the ability of meditation, cognitive therapy, and pharmaceuticals to significantly alter well-being – the maxims from his book will ‘serve as access points to a larger exploration of happiness, it’s cultural’ significance, our constant pursuit of it, and its uniquely ephemeral nature. Throughout these experiments, our team will work closely with a group’ of health professionals to properly define and assess Stefan’s happiness.

Links via: Film stills © The Happy Film Link via Boooooom  &  

Illusion.com

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165 Awesome jQuery Sliders and Other Useful jQuery Effects

jQuery library has undoubtedly made the life of JavaScript programmers easier and made it possible for non-experts to do fancy stuff themselves. With jQuery, we can do a lot of really advanced and dynamic things by writing just few lines of codes. Since its arrival, jQuery has revolutionized the way we do a great variety of web designing and developing tasks. With jQuery, we can create not only simple photo gallery or slides but also some fancy animation schemes using texts and other objects.

Because jQuery effects work wonders in our designs, it makes sense that we take steps to acquire a sizeable collection of ready to use plugins in various categories. To make things easy, we are showcasing a substantial array of awesome jQuery effects web designers and developers must have so that they can save time in finding the right solution for their design concepts.

Take a look at this amazing round-up of jQuery effects and enjoy!

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 Full Page Image Gallery with jQuery

This is a stunning full page gallery with scrollable thumbnails and a scrollable full screen preview. This works with thumbnails bar at the bottom of the page that scrolls automatically when the user moves the mouse. When a thumbnail is clicked, it moves to the center of the page and the full screen image is loaded in the background. Now the user can move up and down and the image will get scrolled automatically, giving him the opportunity to see all of the image.

 Bubbleriffic Image Gallery with jQuery

With Bubbleriffic you can create a bubbly image gallery that shows your images in a unique way. The idea is to show the thumbnails of albums in a rounded fashion allowing the user to scroll them automatically by moving the mouse. Clicking on a thumbnail will zoom in a big circle and the full image which will be automatically resized to fit into the screen. Navigating through the images will slide the current image to the side and make the new one appear in a zoom like fashion.

 Panning Slideshow

This slideshow has the ability to showcase imagery automatically. This is a twist from classic slideshows which uses a kind of transition to animate between slides.

 Coin Slider

This unique slider features smooth transition effects and is compatible with Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+, Safari 2+, Google Chrome 3+, Opera 9+

 Sliding Boxes and Captions

The animation of the sliding element of this plugin either show or cover up the viewing area, thus creating the sliding effect.

 Sideways – Fullscreen Gallery

Sideways is a simple, yet elegant fullscreen image gallery created with the jQuery framework and some simple CSS.

 PieceMaker

Piecemaker is a open source Flash image slider that displays images with 3D slice effects. The slide images  can be  configured from a XML file like setting the tween type, distance, time, delay, etc.

 Magic Scroller

Scroll your elements with this nice effect which is easy to install. With magic scroller, you can scroll your display vertically to expose its elements, iframes, or imáges. As a precondition all the elements have to be of equal size, and the mask needs to be proportional to the elements per row.

 Zoomer Gallery jQuery Plugin

This jQuery effect, zooms your images inside a beautiful gallery once your mouse is on top of it. It does so in a flashy zoom style.

 Galleria

Galleria is a JavaScript image gallery framework built on top of the jQuery library. Its goal is to simplify the process of creating professional image galleries for the web and mobile devices.

 Contextual Slideout Tips With jQuery & CSS3

This effect is an easily configurable set of contextual slideouts. Each can be opened in one of four directions – bottom-right (default), bottom-left, top-left and top-right, and each can be in one of three colors – green (default), blue, and red.

 Animated fullscreen background image slideshow

Changing the background can be done using this effect. A nice textbox can also be added to show information which is simultaneously displayed with the background.

 Background Image Navigation with jQuery

This is a beautiful navigation that has a background image slide effect. It has three list items that contain the same background image but with a different position. The background image for each item is animated to slide into place in different times, creating a really nice effect.

 jReel Gallery

This little jQuery image gallery plugin recreates the standard built-in window scrolling with a smooth easing effect.

 Dynamic PNG shadow position & opacity with jQuery

In this animation, you can drag objects and place them anywhere you want. It also features a switch that can be turned on to amaze your visitors.

For Much more handsomeness: Head over here!

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30 Outstanding Tutorials for Photo Manipulation in Photoshop

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Designers love to be able to use Photoshop to create interesting and amazing things. Photo manipulation allows you to use your creativity and put it to use with Photoshop. There are lots of great tutorials available online that take you through the process of creating a specific photo manipulation. In this post we’ll showcase 30 tutorials that are great for learning more about photo manipulation. You may also be interested in an our older (from 2009) collection of photo manipulation tutorials.

Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel

  

Create a Superhero Movie Inspired Photo Manipulation

  

Don’t Leave Me

Blend a Planet Transparently into a Photo Manipulation

  

Roses Bouquet Splash Effect

  

For many many More tutorials: Go Here

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10 High Quality Seamless Patterns You Must Add To Your Design Arson

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So its coming up to 6months since Creative Nerds team launched their 3^rd design blog Vector Patterns so far it’s been pleasure to work on. To celebrate 6months of Vector Patterns where going to run down Top 10 Vector Patterns which we have featured on the site, this is to showcase to new readers to vector patterns the best content which has been featured on the site so far. Stay tuned to Vector Patterns because there’s a lot more great content on the horizon.

A Very Beautiful Floral Seamless Vector Pattern

 Metal Seamless Photoshop And Illustrator Pattern

Ornament Free Seamless Vector Pattern

For many more Patterns go over here to download: http://creativenerds.co.uk/freebies/10-high-quality-seamless-patterns-you-must-add-to-your-design-arson/

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Sintel: Stunning ShortMovie created with Free OpenSource Software From Blender Community.

“Sintel” is an independently produced short film, initiated by the Blender Foundation as a means to further improve and validate the free/open source 3D creation suite Blender. With initial funding provided by 1000s of donations via the internet community, it has again proven to be a viable development model for both open 3D technology as for independent animation film.

This 15 minute film has been realized in the studio of the Amsterdam Blender Institute, by an international team of artists and developers. In addition to that, several crucial technical and creative targets have been realized online, by developers and artists and teams all over the world.www.sintel.org.

If You haven’t already seen this beautifully created ShortMovie : Sintel, created by artists from the Blender OpenSource Community, You should go watch it immediately. 

A ShortMovie, Brilliantly created and possibly with the most emotions displayed in just under 14 minutes.

The end soundtrack (oh, sigh)Soundtrack from “Sintel” Short Movie, by the Durian Open Movie Project.
Composed by Jan Morgenstern, Lyrics by Esther Wouda, performed by Helena Fix.
All Credits go to the Composer/Writer/Performer(s) and the Durian Team.

Blender is an OpenSource 3D Software programme, you just have to try:

Go Over here to download it or just satisfy your curiosity first: http://www.blender.org/

http://blenderartists.org/cms/content/view/12/30/

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Stunning Vintage Style Print Advertising From Canada

We are going to share with you amazingly creative and brilliant vintage print media ads from the creative print media agencies from Canada. The printing work is good enough to share for your inspiration. Old looks and new and impressive feeling, these print designs will give you bundle of creativity and vintage design techniques. The look and feel of these ads are very clean and simple yet the message is clear. No heavy graphics and design components but the focus is on idea and creation.

Great use of typography and less use of colors, most of the designs are kind of minimalist and clean. Focus on the exact message and written in big font is the deal of the day. So lets have look.

The Potato Coalition Of Manitoba

 

 

 

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Awesome jQuery Plugins And Techniques To Create Visually Excellent Websites

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Are you looking for some cool and handy jQuery Plugins, you landed at right place. Below we are presenting 45 most useful and handy plugins that you can use in your next project and make it stand out.

jQuery is the most well-known and open source JavaScript library which is being used all around the world because it simplifies the client-side scripting of HTML. You can also create marvelous effects by using these plugins. Enjoy!

gMap – Google Maps Plugin For jQuery

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GMap for JQuery

 

jQuery Quicksand

Demo | Download

quicksand jquery

 

Jquery Plugin MopSlider 2.4

Demo | Download

jquery plugin mopslider

 

Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider

Demo | Download

jquery content feuture slider

 

For many many more fantastic Plugins, head over: HERE

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10 MooTools Image and Content Sliders

Today i found Free Hugely-handy Software-Tools on SpeckyBoy.com read on and see a small selection of what is to find: (link below)

 

With CSS3 stealing all of the design headlines recently, and with jQuery as popular as it is, it is very easy to forget about any other image and content slider/gallery options you may have. And as such, in this post, we take a look at the best of what MooTools can offer. As you will see, the results are pretty impressive.

This is our weekly section were we highlight the Top 10 resources from any given field from within the design community. These mini-articles give us an opportunity to share some really useful resources which would be either-wise ignored and difficult to justify with a full blown article.

 

Floom

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Floom is a super-stylish blinds-like slideshow widget for MooTools 1.2.2+.
http://nouincolor.com/floom/1.1/Demos/

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slideGallery

slideGallery

slideGallery Docs & Download →  

slideGallery Demo →  

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 Nivoo-Slider

Nivoo-Slider

The Nivoo-Slider is an image gallery, featuring 14 different transition effects that has been based on the jQuery Plugin NivoSlider (http://nivo.dev7studios.com/).

Nivoo-Slider Docs & Download → 

Nivoo Slider Demo → 

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For More MooTools Image and Content Sliders head over to: http://speckyboy.com/2010/08/19/10-mootools-image-and-content-sliders/

108 Mono Icons: Huge Set of Minimal Icons

Over at http://www.tutorial9.net/resources/108-mono-icons-huge-set-of-minimal-icons/ You can download a Huge set of Mono-Icons. This Free Icon Pack is for use in your personal and commercial projects, and can be used without attribution. It may not be redistributed.

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This icon pack comes with 108 gray icons, but feel free to customize the color. In Photoshop, use layer styles and apply Color Overlay to customize. In Fireworks, simply apply Filters → Adjust Color → Color Fill and choose your color!

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Head over to: www.tutorial9.net to download this set.