In one of my earlier notes Super Fancy Scrolling I talked in brief about a few fancy jQuery techniques being used to achieve some rather impressive effects. One of my favourites in particular was the Down to the Wire 1989 page by New Zealand based digital outfit Heyday Digital—who created a plugin called Geared Scrolling, which controlled the rate at which varied height columns scrolled.
As I was going to have a tinker and fiddle with it anyway—I thought it might also be useful to put together a small demo and tutorial on how to get it working. It’s really very simple and easy to get up and running. Read on…
Or should I call it Instashite!? The wave of Instagram photos that have been littering Twitter’s bandwidth pipes for the past 6 months or so are really starting to get on my nerves.
These point and shoot photos hold absolutely no artistic merit, and are certainly not worthy of any dedicated Tweet, retweet, Facebook status or Tumblr post…
What doesn’t make sense to me is that we have sites like Flickr, 1X.com and deviantArt that host a vast array of visually stunning photos—most of which merely sit dormant, never to be found! Meanwhile Instagram just goes from strength to strength.
Recently I dipped under the hood of Vimeo’s website—primarily out of curiosity. What I noticed when looking through the markup was delightful.
Vimeo uses understandable, humorous and humanised markup—that really stands out from the average non-semantic garbage that litters the web today.
In the last few days there’s been a number of sites showcasing innovative scrolling techniques—which have spread through the Twitterverse like wildfire!
It seems people are really starting to push the boundaries, taking advantage of CSS3 3D transforms and jQuery to acheive some mind-blowing stuff. Another good thing is that these techniques are only supported in progressive browsers—which makes the likes of IE6 even more obselete. Anyway, here’s a few of my favourites.