All About the Favicon – Resources / History

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by Shane Jeffers

favicon

What is a Favicon?

Favicon’s are small images displayed to the left of the URL in your web browser. The main purpose of a favicon is for the small image to show in your bookmarks bar when someone bookmarks your site that way it stands out in your bookmarks. Favicons also show up in browsers that support tabbed browsing (Most modern browsers), to help you greater distinguish between each tab.

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Tutorials

Coding Apple’s Navigation Bar Using CSS Sprites

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by Shane Jeffers

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Here is the follow up tutorial to my most recent tutorial on how to create Apple’s navigation bar in photoshop. This tutorial is not going to go in depth about all the benefits of sprites, but will show you how to use the technique correctly.

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Apple Stuff, CSS, Tutorials

Create Apple’s Navigation Bar in Photoshop from Scratch

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by Shane Jeffers

applebar

Apple has one of the cleanest designed sites on the web, which is usually hard to achieve with so much volume, just look at craigslist. So today I dedicate this post to the awesomeness of Apple and their beautiful site. Today we will try to recreate the Apple navigation bar on their current website.

PART TWO IS HERE LEARN HOW TO CODE THIS EXAMPLE HERE – Which will show you how to code this using the CSS Sprite technique so Stay Tuned.

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Apple Stuff, Photoshop, Tutorials

5 CSS Dont’s for Beginners

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by Shane Jeffers

cssdonot

There are plenty of CSS tutorials out there that are aimed to increase your knowledge of CSS so you can cut down on mistakes.  This tutorial is going to point out some obvious mistakes that beginners to CSS coding make, with the intention of helping you stop doing these techniques.

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CSS, Tutorials

Lightbox 2 Tutorial – JS/XHTML

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by Shane Jeffers

Lightbox 2 Tutorial

Lightbox has become one of the most popular ways on the internet to view images.  In this video tutorial, I walk you through how to implement Lightbox 2 into your web design.  We start from scratch and finish with the very popular Lightbox effect.

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Tutorials

CSS Drop Down Navigation Tutorial

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by Shane Jeffers

CSS Drop Down Navigation

Drop down menus don’t have to be complicated… This tutorial shows just how easy it is to create a stylish drop down menu using only CSS.

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Tutorials