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From ilike2Flash –Pendulum swing effect in Actionscript 3:
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In this tutorial you will learn how to create a Pendulum swing effect in Actionscript 3. A pendulum effect is where an object continually swings horizontally back and forth. To achieve this effect I…
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From Paulund –How To Create Fixed Position Share Box Using CSS :
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Having a fixed position share box allows your social media buttons to always be on the screen even when the user scrolls to read the rest of the page, giving them easy access to click on a button to share your article.
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From EntheosWeb – Tutorials For Flash –Checkboard Transition Effect in Flash:
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Learn how to create a cool checkboard transition effect using masking in Flash.”
From Coder’s Cabin –css3 expanding icons:
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We will be making a social networking icon, it uses just one single image. All the backgrounds and animation effects are generated by CSS3.”
From NineVectors –Displaying 3d textured models on the website (Esquimo used):
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This tutorial shows the workflow of building a web page with interactive 3d model viewer. Making the viewer in Esquimo is almost a one-step process which results an SWF file…”
From Design Resource Box –Great Examples Of Website Menu Designs:
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I’ve been watching the new website releases to observe the trends and when it’s about menus, I’ve noticed that designers are more keen on insisting on typography, rather than creative buttons for the menu. This is happening mostly because now you can use easily a custom font for a menu with @font-face or Cufon. However, this doesn’t mean that menus with buttons are not used anymore. There are a few cases that I’ve presented here that look pretty good.
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From DesignBeep –10 Useful and Easy 3-D Typography Tutorials :
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You can create a pretty amazing effect using nothing but text . While images can establish an immediate context to a poster or design, you can generate a tone…
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From A List Apart –What I Learned About the Web in 2011:
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As the year draws to a close, we asked some A List Apart readers to tell us what they learned about the web in 2011. Together their responses summarize the joys and challenges of this magical place we call the internet. We need to continue to iterate, to embrace change, and challenge complexity to keep shipping. Above all, we must continue to reach out to one another, to teach, to support, to help, and to build the community that sustains us.
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From Good-Tutorials: Newest Tutorials –Flash AS3 Tutorial: Flaming Mouse Trail:
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In this tutorial we will make a Mouse Trailer in the shape of a burning flame. We will use Actionscript 3 and the popular tweening engine, Tweenlite.
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From Grafpedia » Tutorials –
How To Create The Green Business Layout:
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This Tutorial about Photoshop will be useful to help you to create an incredible ecological and design Template. Follow it step by step to discover unique techniques you can use in Photoshop: creations of shadows, buttons, carousels and more.
The must of this tutorial is regarding the fact I add the whole .psd sources files […]
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