ScrollMagic is a complete rewrite of its predecessor Superscrollorama by John Polacek.
Like Superscrollorama it relies on the Greensock Animation Platform (GSAP) to build animations, but was developed with specific regard to former shortcomings. Read More →
Tag Archives : How-To January 2015
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Real Sass, Real Maps
Adventure seekers describe a map as a guide. A symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of some space, such as objects. To travelers, maps are a must and soon you’ll discover the powerful benefits of using maps as well, but with Sass. Sass maps are about to become your new BFF and here’s why. Read More →
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Detecting Scroll Position
JavaScript is that magical creature that can add tremendous flavor to your interactions especially when its events like scrolling. The following is a review of properties available to authors that help detect scroll and position. Read More →
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Lazy Flexslider for WordPress
Carousels/sliders are one of the most widely used widgets in development for the Web today (although the debate over using them still varies in opinion). In my experience w/sliders there’s literally no need to load every single image for a slider on init window load. Today I share my implementation for a client project brought to me by Staple Web Design using WordPress and Flexslider (which does not support lazy loading out of the box). Read More → -
WordPress Plugin Directory Tips
I wrote a WordPress plugin recently called Admin Stylur and I thought this would be a good time as any to explain the process a bit and share some inside knowledge I gained while submitting to the WordPress plugin directory. This won’t be one of those posts where I tell you each facet about making a plugin or how to generate that awesome plugin idea. I’m simply saying “here are a few things I caught along the way and here is a post about said things.” Hopefully all that will help to make the process more simplistic, and less stressful as you begin. Read More →
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Deploying a Jekyll site with a Rakefile
So, you have an awesome website built with Jekyll, but you need an easy way to publish it. For those unaware, Jekyll is a static site generator written in Ruby. With that in mind let’s talk about a little utility called Rake. It’s a Make-like program implemented in Ruby. This means you can create a Rakefile that contains a set of build rules. Simply put, it’s a file that you write some tasks in. The main task we want to achieve is publishing our site from a local machine to a server. Read More →
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A CaveMan WordPress Workflow
In the continuing efforts to share workflows of other developers(Windows/Ubuntu, Tooling & Workflow) I’m happy to introduce Welling Guzman. Welling was passionate about sharing a portion of his workflow with the internets regarding WordPress. I’ll let Welling take it from here. Read More →