Saran Chamling loves the web technology, and enjoys designing, exploring and writing about it @sanwebe.com. You can find him at Twitter, Google or Facebook.
Custom Animations are probably Google’s most noticeable addition to Material Design. What they let you achieve is a variety of effects when a certain action or input is observed within an Activity. For the purposes of this post I will be using a few of developer oriented terms such as Intent and Activity so if you are unfamiliar with them, then I do advise you to just look up these terms.
Canvas is a great feature in HTML5 that allows us to draw graphics on web browsers using JavaScript. For instance, it can be used to manipulate photos, draw and animate shapes, play videos or renders hardware-accelerated 3D graphics with WebGL support! Sky’s the limit. But it has also been used to make really awesome digital arts by pros… In past few months I have encountered many great examples of HTMl5 canvas, and today I am going to list some of them here for you to enjoy.
Everyone notices Youtube loading bar on top of their video pages, it indicates page is loading and which actually looks pretty cool. Today I will show you how you can quickly add Youtube like progress bar on our website.
Recently I needed to create a Facebook likebox WordPress widget for my friend, which of course can be easily created using a WordPress text widget, but since my friend is new to WordPress and has no clue about coding, and to make matters worse, she wanted to display it only on certain pages like single and category pages! So, I decided to quickly create a custom WordPress Widget, which should be flexible enough for her needs.
