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How To Take Advantage Of HTML5 Trends & Tools

HTML5 is already making its mark on today’s internet era by overcoming the limitations of its Flash and HMTL predecessors. The unification of HTML and XHTML syntax and the introduction of application programming interfaces (APIs) are good examples. HTML5 also simplified multimedia and graphical content management without having to rely on proprietary plugins and APIs. Simply put, the videos and photo apps that we enjoy using today are predominantly being supported by this platform.

Created by Opera Software, HTML has been a core technology of the internet. The 5th revision, or HTML5, has made multimedia more readable by humans and understandable to devices and computers. The benefits of using the tool include faster image downloads, improved SEO, refined animation effects and easier web and mobile app development.

We’ve been following improvements, controversies and news related to HTML5 for some time and today we offer a few pieces of expert advice, target markets for developers, users and designers, and top tools currently supporting the technology. Read more…

The ultimate HTML5 resource guide

Despite the fact that the HTML5 specification won’t officially be finished until 2022, (though it will be mostly finalized by 2014), a lot of designers are already diving into the parts of HTML5 that currently have support in modern browsers.

HTML5 opens up some whole new avenues for web design and web application development, things that were previously only possible with either JavaScript or Flash.

Here we’ve rounded up 175 refsources for learning HTML5. Included below are tutorials, frameworks, examples, and a lot more.

Feel free to share more high-quality resources in the comments! Read more…

Create Flash Animations Entirely in Illustrator

previewThe world of animation can seem really intimidating – between AfterEffects, Flash and everything else, there’s so much to learn. And who has time? Never fear – you can create simple Flash animations without ever leaving the familiar confines of Illustrator, and without any knowledge of Flash. Here are two easy ways to get things moving. Read more…

Illustrate and Animate a Bouncing Ball: Part 2 – Adobe Illustrator + Flash

This tutorial expands on techniques covered in Part 1 of the Illustrate and Animate a Bouncing Ball series. We’ll be using Illustrator’s 3D tools to improve Flash’s spinning movement of the bouncing ball and taking a look at working between the two applications. The steps involved can also be followed independently of Part 1. Read more…

Illustrate and Animate a Bouncing Ball: Part 1 – Adobe Flash

Part 1 of this tutorial will take Flash novices through the fundamental principles behind drawing and animating vectors in Flash. We’ll be drawing and animating a bouncing beach ball. Prior knowledge of Flash will of course help, but the following techniques should be accessible to everyone and with most software versions. Part 2 coming soon… Read more…

20+ Demos Showing Advanced jQuery Effects

 

undefinedJust a short while ago, Flash was one of the primary technologies used by web designers to add interactivity to a website.

Since the introduction of the iPad, with its lack of the Flash Player, there’s an acceleration in the web development world to use alternative technologies to Flash, such as jQuery, Ajax and others.

Although Flash is still a very powerful and useful tool, which works great on many cases, several of the effects that web designers are accustomed to creating in Flash, can be just as easily implemented using jQuery.

Here are 21 online demos that show the power of jQuery for creating advanced effects and interactivity that can rival Flash. Read more…

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