Creative Single Page Website Design: 70+ Latest Designs

As you’ve already seen in our previous posts about Single Page Website Designs that showcasing your work in single page design is a hot trend now days. It's kind of ironic to see what designers can do with single pages as modern age designers love to experiment with things and observe how people interact with their work. Even though this is not a common trend to follow but still as the new design styles come up, and as more and more designers notice them and make use of them in their work, this kind of trends emerge.

Creative Single Page Website Design: 70+ Latest Designs

In this presentation, you’ll find a variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational designs which is following the same trend of single page designs.

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Case-Study: Make Web, Not War

Internet is the most important scientific and technological discovery since mankind conquered the Moon in 1969. No discovery over the last years had such a great influence on our civilization. Since the 90’s a new step in human evolution was written, the new “Homo digitalis” makes room for a new era, driven by technological and scientific development, filling it furthermore with an essence of life.

Case-Study: Make Web, Not War

All the main discoveries in the post Internet period were helped by it due to its capability of showing everyone, everything at anytime. For instance, the human genome was decrypted more easily and faster because of the possibility of changing information almost instantly between scientists situated all over the world.

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Flash Banners, Comic Strips and an Awesome Giveaway- Winners!

A weeks ago, we created a contest at instantShift called Flash Banners, Comic Strips and an Awesome Giveaway had announced the giveaway of Three 1-year BannerSnack licenses each from BannerSnack.

Flash Banners, Comic Strips and an Awesome Giveaway- Winners!

We’ve got more than 90 response comments. After voiding spam and non-legit comments we have left with 49 valid comments. It’s really good to see that how we can able to help in our reader’s life and their profession.

In case, If you missed this giveaway, make sure you are ready for next one as we going to create more such giveaways in future.

Congratulations to all the winners!

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How to Optimize Your Site for Better Loading Time

In April Google officially announced they were integrating loading time into their algorithm. As they put it, “speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we've seen in our internal studies that when a site responds slowly, visitors spend less time there.”

How to Optimize Your Site for Better Loading Time

There are plenty of reasons a website could slow down such as large images, too many Flash files, video the list can go on and on. With that being said, there are plenty of tools and tactics to use to improve loading time for your clients webpage.

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Create Simple Dropdown Menu Using jQuery

In this post, we are going to create a simple dropdown menu with the help of jQuery, take a look at the demo of it first. I assume you know at least the basics of jQuery and CSS. The key to creating the dropdown menu is to use the CSS's properties: position, top, left, z-index.

Create Simple Dropdown Menu Using jQuery

With these properties, we make sure that dropdown menu appears exactly below the hovered link and over any other element. We then make sure that when mouse is over a link, we show the corresponding dropdown menu and when mouse is away, we hide it back. For these events, we use the jQuery's mouseenter and mouseleave methods. So that's all we need to know to create the dropdown menu, pretty simple stuff !

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Giveaway: Flash Banners, Comic Strips and an Awesome Giveaway

Folks! Are you interested in creating animated banners or comic strips (flash banners in particular) for yourself or your clients? We have something to give you that can perhaps fulfill your advertisements related needs (or maybe not). Once Again, we’ve came up with cool freebies giveaway as promised. This is our way of saying thanks to our readers for being part of the instantShift community. This time I’m pleased to announce our latest giveaway where you all have a chance to win some exciting flash components from BannerSnack which offers a great way to stay on top of your business.

Giveaway: Flash Banners, Comic Strips and an Awesome Giveaway

BannerSnack is an online tool that allows you to create flash banner ads and cool flash animations… in a snack break time!

So Hurry up, read the rules, drop a comment to enter in this contest.

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