Navigation is one of the most important aspects of a web design, but this doesn’t mean it needs to be overly complicated or over designed. In fact, when it comes to navigating a website, simplicity is a good thing. Some navigations make use of design elements like 3D bars, buttons, and tabs to appear clickable, which works great for certain web designs. However, clickability can be achieved with a focus on typography, placement, and maybe... 

Episode 52 of The SitePoint Podcast is now available! This week, Kevin Yank ( @sentience ) and Patrick O’Keefe ( @iFroggy ) are joined by Derek Powazek ( @fraying ), co-creator of JPG Magazine and creator of Fray to discuss the care and feeding of web communities. Listen in your Browser Play this episode directly in your browser! Just click the orange “play” button below: A complete transcript of the interviews is provided below. Download... 

In today’s episode, we are going to be working with several helper functions, related to files, directories, and downloads. We are going to learn how to read, write, download files, and retrieve information about both files and directories. Also at the end we will build a small file browser that utilizes jQuery as well. Catch Up Day 1: Getting Started With the Framework Day 2: Database  Read More →

Stickybits is an app and website which lets you use your iphone or android phone to scan in a barcode containing any kind of digital file from text, images, video and PDFs. The barcode is created by you on the Stickybits web site. You print it out and stick it anywhere you want. The app is free to download, as is the barcode and you can buy stickers on the site.  Read More →

One of Twitter’s stylish touches is the “Login” dropdown on their homepage. I’ve taken some time to duplicate that functionality with MooTools.  Read More →

Today we’re releasing another high quality vector pack for our WDL Premium Members from the talented people at Go Media . These scrolls are very organic, and have that “old-world” style that you have been looking for. A lot of these were created by hand and leave room for you to type a message on the scroll. Wrap these around your centerpiece or illustration to finalize that design that has taken so long …  Read More →

In this giveaway, five readers will get a chance to win an XTHML/CSS, Flash, or logo template of their choice from TemplateWire.com . Read on to see how you can partake in this giveaway. About the TemplateWire TemplateWire is a provider of premium XHTML/CSS  Read More →

We’re going to cover a few simple, yet prominent steps to designing a much more effective interface and increasing the quality of a mobile websites usability.  Read More →

Microsoft have reported that sales of Windows 7 have reached 90 million copies just 6 months after the new OS was launched to the public on October 22 2009 . The sales figures are more than double those of Vista throughout a similar period. Perhaps that’s not surprising: Vista obtained a bad reputation from day one and never recovered. Windows 7 is not a huge technical leap beyond Vista and many have dubbed it little more than a service... 

There are twenty-three Google Chrome extensions and two themes to try out. The following extensions are no more than a few weeks old, and thus, it’s highly unlikely that you’ve seen them yet.  Read More →

Tumblr’s popularity over the last year has increased exponentially. The reason why is quite simple: Tumblr is flexible, powerful, and, most importantly, a pleasure to work with. Unfortunately, there aren’t many training resources available for the platform yet. In this video series , we’ll go through the process of taking a Tumblr theme, designed in Photoshop, and converting it into a fully working theme – in just a few... 

If you’re a book lover, you may have noticed that the vast majority of book-related websites out there leave a bit to be desired when it comes to design and information architecture. In fact, some author and publisher websites make me feel like my eyes might bleed! But there are some gems out there, and we’ve collected some of the best. If you know of any other fantastic book-related websites, whether they’re for authors, individual... 

It’s not something we’ve done before, so I thought it was worth sharing the news. For years we’ve offered a free sample for each of our books; a sizeable download comprising several chapters. jQuery: Novice to Ninja is no different, we’ve made 3 out of 9 chapters freely available — that’s over 150 pages of jQuery goodness up for grabs. What’s different with this book is for the first time we’…  Read More →

We’re headed to Austin, Texas tomorrow along with the crew from Wired’s Underwire blog to attend South By Southwest Interactive . The week-long nerd fest starts Friday, and we’ll be reporting from the trenches. If you’re headed down to SXSWi, here’s what Webmonkey will be checking out. If you’re not going this year, you’ll be able to follow along from home here on the blog and everywhere else on the... 

Flash: quick or dead? A new study released Wednesday pits Flash Player’s video performance against that of native HTML5 video playback in several different web browsers. The verdict? Flash is a CPU hog in some cases, and native H.264 video is a CPU hog in some cases. That’s right — both options threw strikes and gutters. Video playback in the browser has been a central issue of discussion in the tech world of late. The forthcoming...