Category: Web Design

Jquery Scrolling plugins

TheSmithy

Source:

http://www.cssauthor.com/jquery-scrolling-plugins/

I liked these particularly:

  • AnimateScroll
    AnimateScroll is a jQuery plugin which enables you to scroll to any part of the page in style by just calling the animatescroll() function with the Id or Classname of the element where you want to scroll to.
    demo
    https://github.com/ramswaroop/animatescroll.js
  • Scrollify
    A jQuery plugin that assists scrolling and smoothly snaps to sections. Fully configurable and optimised for touch.
    demo
    https://github.com/lukehaas/Scrollify
  • jQuery slimScroll
    slimScroll is a small (4.6KB) jQuery plugin that transforms any div into a scrollable area with a nice scrollbar
    demo
    https://github.com/rochal/jQuery-slimScroll/
  • Portfoliojs
    Portfoliojs is a lightweight jQuery gallery plugin for your beautiful images with horizontal scrolling which supports desktop, tablet and mobile browsers
    demo
    https://github.com/abhiomkar/portfoliojs
  • Scrolltab
    add tabs visually associated to their position relative to the scroll bar
    demo
    https://github.com/cjsaylor/Scrolltab
  • SMINT – Sticky Menu including Navigation Thingy
    demo
    download
  • JQuery Custom Scrollbar
    Highly customizable custom scrollbar jQuery plugin. Features include vertical and/or horizontal scrollbar(s), adjustable scrolling momentum, mouse-wheel (via jQuery mousewheel plugin), keyboard and touch support, ready-to-use themes and customization via CSS, RTL direction support, option parameters for full control of scrollbar functionality, methods for triggering actions like scroll-to, update, destroy etc.
    demo
    download
  • Infinity JS 
    Developed for AirBnb. Is a UITableView for the web: it speeds up scrolling through long lists and keeps your infinite feeds smooth and stable for your users. It is small, battle-tested, and highly performant.
    demo
    https://github.com/airbnb/infinity
  • ALS – Any List Scroller
    jQuery scrolling plugin by musings.it to scroll any list with any content.
    demo
    http://als.musings.it/
  • JQuery Animation Scroll Plugin
    A mobile friendly viewport triggered animation jQuery Plugin using greensock.
    demo
    https://github.com/mpalpha/animate-scroll
  • JQuery.ScrollTo
    Lightweight, cross-browser and highly customizable animated scrolling with jQuery
    demo
    https://github.com/flesler/jquery.scrollTo
  • Endless Scroll JQuery Plugin
    Endless Scroll not only helps you build highly customisable infinite scrolling effects, it also offers features not commonly seen. Such features include: a) The ability to up-scroll and prepend content to the beginning of the page b) The ability to limit the number of available ‘pages’, i.e. data truncation c) And there are more exciting features in the works, including SEO-friendly URLs!
    Demo
    https://github.com/fredwu/jquery-endless-scroll

More Scrolling Plugins

 

Exporting SVG from Ilustrator

TheSmithy

Update:

Export artboard to SVG ‘for web’.

  • Save as, use artboard
  • Choose ‘try’ to export for web
  • Choose options
  • Careful when choosing ‘responsive’: it somehow adds vector parts that are outside the artboard area to the svg.

 

Source

SVG profiles

SVG 1.0: all modern desktop and mobile browsers support SVG 1.1, so never choose this option.
SVG 1.1: You will almost always want this.
SVG Tiny/Basic: this is a subset of SVG intended for mobile devices. Only a handful of devices support SVG Tiny and not the full spec, so go for SVG 1.1.

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Retina Sprites

TheSmithy

Updated June 3 2015

1. Make sure you have all png images in both the normal and the retina version.

2. Make sure the retina versions are exactly 2x bigger than the normal versions

3. Create 2 zip files. 1 for the normal images and 1 for the retina versions

4. Got to http://spritegen.website-performance.org/

5. Upload the normal zip file. Choose offset of 25px. Copy the css and download the file
Update: because of some Safari bug it may be better to use 50px for the normal and 100px for the @2x sprite

Drag the images to the generator. Choose padding of 5px. Choose a vertical layout. Click downloads and save the sprite and the stylesheet.

6. Upload the retina zip file. Choose offset of 50px. Do the same for the retina images, but choose a padding of 10px. Copy the css and download the file

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Fonts

TheSmithy

Source: awwwards.com/20-best-web-fonts-from-google-web-fonts-and-font-face

Basically, there are two implementation models:

1. Web font embedding services

2. Embedding fonts using the @font-face rule

Web font embedding services

Google Web Fonts (GWF) or Typekit are systems which allow the use of fonts hosted on their servers. One of the most valued characteristics of GWF is the option to download a desktop version of the fonts for use in the project design phase. Read More