Fortunately, the SVG format can do a lot more than just provide vector-based graphics. Animations are possible as well. With JavaScript, you can control and influence these animations in many different ways. The jQuery plugin DrawSVG allows you to draw the paths of an SVG graphic in an animation. This opens interesting ways of drawing the paths. Requirements for DrawSVG As a jQuery plugin, this well-known JavaScript all-rounder has to be integrated into the HTML head together with the plugin. After that, it is possible to animate the paths of an SVG graphic. These are the SVG shapes created via ,,<path>" element. Line width and colour can be defined as usual, using attributes or CSS. A fill colour should not be assigned to the paths as it would not be animated and thus would always be visible. DrawSVG uses ,,stroke-dasharray" and ,,stroke-dashoffset" to draw the paths. Because of that, these two attributes should not be used elsewhere. Two States of the Animation Since the plugin requires access to the DOM tree of the SVG graphic, the SVG source should be tied to the HTML element. A simple animation can be created by a single line of JavaScript. $("svg").drawsvg("animate"); The example accesses […]* You might also be interested in the following articlesAnimsition: User-Friendly jQuery-Plugin for Animated Page TransitionsLazy Line Painter for jQuery Animates SVG Onto Your WebsiteComing to a Screen Near You: CSS3 Animations and The New JavaScript…Adobe’s Snap.svg: Animations With HTML 5, Without FlashSVG and JavaScript: What Is Possible, What To Consider?HTML 5: Speed Up Your JavaScript-Animations with requestAnimationFrame

When working in a team, we focus so much on the work, that we often forget that we all have something in common. Something that is so obvious that we underestimate it: we all are human beings. And well, if we want to grow as a team and get better at what we do, we should embrace this fact more. In fact, I just came back from a week-long team retreat where we had team activities, team games, and sessions and discussions about how we can achieve just that. We figured out how much we value diversity, we realized how different the English language and its words are perceived by people from different countries, and we've seen short talks on various topics like work-life-balance but also on technical stuff like Docker or intercepting any computer's traffic with a Raspberry Zero. So if you have the chance to work in a team, use the opportunity and exchange views and share information with your co-workers. Work is part of your life, so why not make it a lovely part?The post Web Development Reading List #167: On Team Retreats, Immutable Cache, And Eliminating Clearfix Hacks appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Have you already published that blog post and just noticed that you forgot some important aspects? We all make mistakes when writing our articles. It happens a lot that you forget something and get angry at yourself for clicking “Publish” too early. Highly successful bloggers always use a checklist that contains the most important aspects for that exact reason. You can then simply go through the list, and will never forget anything again. Today, we will show you how you can easily create a checklist like this. Why You Need a Checklist for Your Blog Posts As a blogger, you have developed a particular process that you go through when constructing and publishing your articles. When you work in a team, like I do here at Noupe, you are lucky, as there is a chief editor that will look over your articles before they see the light of day. However, when you are working on your own, mistakes are made much more quickly. For example, articles without a featured or any post image at all go live, or you forget to check the spelling to prevent at least the most obvious mistakes. Another very popular mistake is publishing an article […]* You might also be interested in the following articlesWeb Developer Checklist and Userium: 2 Useful Helpers for Oblivious…New and Unspent: 10 Fresh Free WordPress Plugins (Edition: March 2015)Boon or Bane? The Jetpack Plugin for WordPressTips for Designing Small Websites Faster and Cheaper without…WordPress: 10 Things to Pay Attention to Before Launching your WebsiteTen Fresh Free WordPress Plugins in October 2015

Vintage, retro or classic style of logos (or badges, if you prefer) are very popular at the moment, with many designers using them to create their personal branding and others... The post 15 Free Vintage Logo Template Collections appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Let me start off by asking you a question. How many of you have switched toothpaste brands over the course of your lives? How about deodorant, shampoo, or motor oil... The post As a Freelance Designer, What Is Your Unique Selling Point? appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

On the TutsPlus.com site they've posted a new tutorial for those needing to manipulate images in their PHP applications. In this new tutorial they walk you through the basics of using the GD image processing functionality that's included in every PHP release. The internet would be pretty dull without images. However, maintaining and manipulating hundreds or thousands of images for your web site can be a headache. As your site design changes, you might need to modify all your images--for example, you might need to convert all your images to grayscale or resize them to 50% of their original size. You might also want to compress or crop different images. Doing this manually is time-consuming and error-prone, but with a little programming knowledge it can be automated. In this tutorial, you will learn about the GD (Graphic Draw) library in PHP. You'll see how this library can be used to manipulate images by resizing, cropping, rotating or filtering them. The post starts with a bit of background on GD and how to set it up on Windows versus Unix-based environments. They then get into some of the functionality that comes with GD including: getting data about the image flipping and rotating applying filters (ex: brightness, contrast) The post also includes two "real world" examples of GD in use: resizing an entire directory of images and applying grayscale/contrast filters to images.

In this episode, we're talking about React performance. What factors slow our React apps down, and how can we fix it? Drew McLellan talks to expert Ivan Akulov to find out.

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A collection of CSS & JavaScript snippets for creating the parallax effect. Play around with code and use them in your own projects. The post 10 CSS & JavaScript Snippets for Creating the Parallax Scrolling Effect appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

CSS Grid has become one of the more talked about developments in web design in recent times. The reason for all of the excitement is simple: CSS Grid looks like... The post An Introduction to CSS Grid appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.