Welcome
An Introduction to UKDD
Welcome to the UK Design Directory. This little corner of the web is where I intend to find and showcase some of the best design sites out there. As a professional web designer/developer, this site is a personal, pet project, where I want to try out some new techiniques with CSS, AJAX and Javascript.
If you'd like your site to be featured here, submit it here. I'd be more than happy to share high quality sites! As well as well designed sites, I will also be sourcing tutorials for all skill levels, in topics such as CSS, XHTML, JavaScript, jQuery, Ajax, Flash and Actionscript, so check back regularly.
Tutorials
Learn the latest techniques
How to Make Great Fireworks in Photoshop
This tutorial will show you how to make some really great fireworks using Photoshop. It’s a great technique to use on celebration cards and posters, as well as graphics pertaining to holidays such as New Years and Independence Day.
Build a Parallax Gallery
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make a Flash parallax scrolling gallery from scratch. Parallax scrolling is frequently used in most 2D animation and games, where the background images and foreground images scroll at different rate of speed. This will create an illusion of depth as the background images are moving slower than the foreground images.
Create a CSS Hoverbox Gallery
This is a very nice roll-over photo gallery that uses nothing but CSS. While I'm a huge fan of jquery, and have built this sort of thing with it, there is definitely a need for better photo galleries and it’s very simple to add a image gallery like this one, that only rely on CSS
How to create CSS Drop Shadows
They’re the corkscrew in every graphic designer’s Swiss Army knife. Much used, oft maligned but always popular, drop shadows are a staple of graphic design.
Although easy to accomplish with image-editing software, they’re not of much use in the fast-changing world of web design. On the web, adaptability and ease of use dictate trends — and static images with a fixed background effect are not very adaptable.
Create a Style Sheet Switcher
Since it was first released in 2001, Paul Sowden's Style Sheet Switcher has been downloaded and used by thousands of designers and developers and has spawned many client-side and server-side adaptations.
This article examines accessibility and the ability to add more choices to the technique.
Articles
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