Love the web

fadeSlide.js is a different kind of jQuery carousel. The previous and next items are slightly visible, giving a cool graphical effect. Great for impressive looking home pages!

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Earlier this year, Paul Boag wrote a great article explaining to clients why progressive enhancement is better for their site. Inspired by this, I decided to write a song.

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The NZ Festival 2012 site is live, and there's heaps of cool stuff to share from it.

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Did you know you can use sillly UTF-8 characters in HTML, CSS and Javascript?

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A handy jQuery plugin that preloads your images hover state, then displays it "onHover".

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A handy jQuery plugin that turns container elements into links. Supports command/control click (open link in new tab).

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I read a great book recently. It did make me a little scared about what the internet was doing to my brain though. Luckily at around the same time I discovered a tool that makes reading online more enjoyable and…

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An illustrators thoughts on work for the web

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Ajax is awesome, we all know it. But, one of the most annoying things with it is not having a URL to specifically relate to a result loaded with an Ajax call. Well, we have a way around it!

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How to increase your productivity, otherwise known as "Eat That Frog".

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The Springload site is now fully internationalised! どうも有り難う!

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I am on the command line everyday at Springload and these shortcuts are simple yet indispensable.

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Leveraging Photoshop's colour-range modification capabilities can enhance the appearance of your web graphics and save on file size.

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Drop shadows can take a fair amount of time to create using CSS, up until now!

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This article is about a very nice little productivity application for the Mac that saves you countless keystrokes with customized abbreviations for your frequently used text strings and images. This piece of…

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The main benefit of chunked transfer encoding is that it progressively shows content while your HTML loads. Enter unobtrusive JavaScript and its often used "onDOMReady" event. Combine the two and the problem arises…

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Get an idea of our musical vibes via Last.fm!

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With the release of Internet Explorer 8, browser testing got just that little bit more difficult, and getting all the browsers you need to test in, working seamlessly in one desktop environment, became almost…

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We frequently use the TinyMCE WYSIWYG here at Springload, and were faced with the problem of it not resizing when content gets added. This resulted in a limited overview of the content and a lot of scrolling. We…

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Drop-down-pop-open application menus. A story of good vs. evil.

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Sometimes for slower connections can't manage to lose functionality for the beautiful animations. Alternate content is needed and Flash is the to-go guy for the rescue!

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Determining which framework to build sites with is a choice that can make or break. Over the last few months we've looked at a large assortment of JavaScript frameworks/libraries and made our decision. Here's why…

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Textmate is a powerful text editing application for the Mac that can make life easy when it comes to coding.

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Give your HTML text a lift with drop-shadows. This method works in IE6 and IE7, as well as our more compliant browsers.

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Create a styled submit button that varies in length as its value changes, without relying on Javascript!

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A brief look at the colour contrast guidelines, how they relate to your designs and the tools to check them.

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How to 'stick' the footer to the bottom of the screen

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Reach out and touch the web, and speed up your browsing to boot. Mouse gestures are one of the biggest changes to my web experience since online gaming, and that’s saying something.

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The exciting and challenging task of designing an iPhone optimised version of Kiwibank's Internet banking pages.

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Often when viewing your website on a narrow display (800x600) some of your backgrounds may disappear when you scroll horizontally. Go ahead and try it on the footer of this page. D'oh, Player has since fixed it on…

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When designing the architecture of a website, it pays to have some structure.

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The limited selection of typefaces at a web designers disposal is an ever present headache.

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Taking web design from good to great. Is it worth it? Does anyone notice anyway? And is it likely to force more usability issues in the process?

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What could be more interesting or challenging for a Swiss designer than to start his first New Zealand project with a bank?

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This series of articles starts with what lies behind the science of website usability and then explores some of the basic principles and techniques that can be applied to website design.

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Why has usability become such a big player in contemporary website design?

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How can we help users find the information they are looking for? Some basic steps to good web design.

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