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30+ Killer Web Development Screencasts to fine tune your skills Posted: 07 Aug 2010 03:00 AM PDT A single image helps us to understand the concept better than a description of 1000 words. In a similar manner reading a code of thousand lines wont make us learn a software than a single video demonstration. There comes the purpose of Screen shots which helps us in the form of screen casts to learn our task in a quick and relaxed manner. So sit back and do your task in an effective manner.Updating the information on the site or developing the site as a whole is Web Development. Targeting the specific users , a website is developed by planning, analyzing, designing and implementing the same. Then comes the promotion of the site which plays a major role and after promoting, thinking of novel ways to sustain in the industry. A screen cast gives you a much clear idea by its interactive way of explaining as similar to a live version with the help of a clear audio as in the case of Microsoft Office or Photoshop tutorials. These Screen casts on jQuery, AJAX, PHP and CSS takes you to a tour from the scratch to a level of professional growth. AJAX:1.AJAX refreshing RSS contentOvercome the hassles of page refreshing by updating the contents without a manual page refresh. This video demonstrates the do’s and how’s to refresh the RSS feeds with the help of AJAX. If you're doing just one feed, I think it'd be more efficient to roll your own JavaScript code, especially if it's just parsing RSS. From what I remember, SimplePie seemed to be a lot of overhead. 2.Simple-Jquery-spy-effectThe great thing about Realmac's QuickSnapper site is that if JavaScript is turned off, the list of snaps is visible by default. So we'll follow suit. It's also worth noting that their version only keep pulling in new items until it hits the end. I'll show you how you can keep the list looping, and in a follow up tutorial I'll show you how to hook this in to an Ajax hit that doesn't hammer your server and keeps the effect nice and smooth. 3.Top 25 AJAX video tutorials from youtubeThe tutorials presented here gives a beginning from the scratch of how to create a HTML document, adding javascript and also linking an external javascript to that to that,building AJAX chat, adding AJAX elements to a web page using Spy framework,inserting AJAX objects into Adobe Dreamweaver, how to create Mash up applications using AJAX framework,create a Delphi for PHP web also about AJAX MySql database Jquery:4.Sliding headers like iphoneEver Got frustrated when you cannot find the header while browsing a content and got lost with your subject 5.Slidedown animation jump revisitedYou would have noticed that your animation jumps towards the end, which could be because of height problems.This screen cast helps you to find a solution by considering the height factors by storing an inline height and setting an an inline height later and proceed accordingly whether we are revealing or hiding the element.We can use this action to show our results or can use this in FAQ’s also.So there’s no need to refresh the page. 6.Slider galleryWanna create a gallery with a slide to navigate the items? This screen cast helps you with simple steps to translate the sliders position to slide the products inversely with the help of Markup, slider-widget control, jQueryUI, CSS and certain plug-ins which provides faster scroll and a pause when needed.Using this slider you can display your products and you can roll your images etc. 7.Jquery for absolute beginnersA 15 day Absolute beginner series in Jquery with Theme forest.net as a reference by Jeff Way who has exclusive videos for each day where you could learn all the methods, Jquery style switcher, hover effect and lots more used in Themeforest.net. This screen cast series will teach you Jquery clearly and effectively.Each screencasts has the own style and it would be very useful for beginners who needs to learn Jquery in an defective manner. 8.Build Lava lamp style navigation menuLearn to create a lava-lamp style menu from the beginning which initially demonstrates the same process by using a three level menu and then create a lava-lamp menu by using a Javascript library in this screen cast. It’s highly professional way to monetize your website and this type of menu will give you a good look to your website. 9.Automatic infinite carouselMost of the times a scroll action doesn’t stop automatically and we have to control it manually when needed, So to make a scrolling action automatic and pause it when the mouse is over the carousel using Jquery is demonstrated in this screen cast. We can use this carousel for dynamic purpose too. 10.Jquery look tim van dammeThe key effects of Tim the Accordion and Hover effect which work only in Webkit can also work in jQuery when two factors namely animated margin – left and Background rgba crossfade effect is taken into account. For further details go through the screencast and find it on your own. 11.Popup login windowAn authentication is always done with the help of a password.This screen cast will be very useful for authorization purposes. In this screen cast we create a simple pop up window which verifies the password of an account in an LDAP server and where data is passes from a link to the dynamically created window. 12.Screencasts to build your own jquery pluginTake the guidance of experts James Padolsey, Jeffery Way and Dan Wellman in this screen cast to create your Jquery plugins and use them in your programs. Lear how to set defaults,pre-load images, create call back methods and create dynamic radio buttons using Jquery, CSS. To learn the full steps study the complete screen cast. 13.Jquery video seriesA more elaborate and precise training regimen of 10 minutes for Themeforest.net and using the same how to use the Jquery library and create your our own projects with the help of video series description for 15 days. The whole series will bring the beginners as a successful professional in Jquery.They can edit and customize the Jquery applications flexibly. PHP screencasts:14.Diving in to PHPA short tour on various topics in PHP are given as separate tutorials.These self contained tutorials by Jeffery Way teaches you to upload files using PHP with the help of ThemeForest blog which is a complete source on PHP queries. This screen cast covers the different type of topics for the beginners and intermediate level users. 15.PHP Json Jquery Ajax screencastTo create a communication between PHP and JSON data source using jQuery’s AJAX functionality where we create a script to send the JSON data, then a PHP array then we load the file and our data source is populated. To learn the full steps please view the complete screen cast.It’s an advanced screencast for PHP lovers. 16.Photo admin site using PHP and JqueryThis screencast helps you to create a photo site using PHP and jquery where a database is created with collection of photos, and the admin is given the rights of updating the title of the photos as well as maintaining any sub-directories by clicking on the text. You can administrate the whole photo gallery as per your requirement.The specialty of this screen cast is using Jquery we are accessing the galleries. CSS screencasts:17.HTML and CSS the very basicsHelp the absolute beginner with the basics of HTML and CSS which are only text files to a level where you can use them as a preview in your website. This screen cast teach you that HTML is the content and CSS is the design of the website and also how to create a website with good quality.Here you can learn the very basics of both HTML and CSS so you can handle the websites easily when learned the basics well. 18.Editable CSS3 image galleryWe build a pretty typical image gallery design pattern, a grid of images that pop up larger when clicked.This image gallery will give you a highly professional look for your web development. But this image gallery page makes use of hot semantic HTML5 markup, loads of visual treats with CSS3 and jQuery, and made editable through the CMS PageLime. 19.How to use CSS spritesCSS Sprites have been a hot topic for a long time now. The fact is that each image on a web page is a separate server request and you can dramatically increase the performance of a page.Reducing the number of HTTP requests improves the load times. To achieve this we use CSS sprites, How to create a CSS sprite and how to those sprites describe here. This will give you an good idea about CSS sprites and how to use this with your web development side. 20.Detailed look at 960 CSS frameworkThe 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem. You don’t have to master the code to create a web application .CSS frameworks are there for you to write your code.Spend some time with this screen cast to learn about the frameworks and to efficiently develop your web applications. 21.Image switcherImage Switcher is a free JavaScript that automatically inserts a series of images into one single hot-swappable view port.This is a pure CSS image switcher that is lightweight and standards-compliant. It could be used for a gallery or any similar function. Any number of list selection options can be used so long as the width can accommodate them. To change the images as you move across a link is what this screen cast teaches you without the help of JavaScript.You need only z-index switching on hover and a bit of absolute positioning to achieve this. 22.Building a photo galleryLike many people out there, you may want to create a web site to show off your photos of friends, family, vacation, wedding, etc. Well, this small tutorial will show you how to create a photo gallery and upload it to the Internet. A photo gallery which automatically builds itself with the images from a directory as well as the sub-directories is possible by CSS . Chris Coyier teaches in this screen cast to build an automatic photo gallery. 23.Embedding audio |
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