Lovely & very useful presentation from Dan Calladine ( Head of Media Futures at Aegis Media) - also check out his blog at digital-examples.blogspot.com - some really useful and inspiring creatives documented for your viewing advertising pleasure.
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I recently had the pleasure off doing some front-end dev, Jquery, email template build work for the new beauty startup SalonBoo.com site & brand design by my man Griffinabox (@griffinabox) back-end implementation by Darren Kenny @darren_kenny
The budding startup Salon Boo promises to offer users "fantastic offers and other cool stuff" at their local hair & beauty salons.
I for one am looking forward to seeing Salonboo.com grow in 2010.
Visit salonboo.com or follow @salonboo on twitter for more info on their future launch.
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Over the last couple of years i've seen the trend sway away from using flash for flash sake (navigation, carousels, image gallery's ) which is a good thing in this creatives mind the developments in browser technology and the introduction of JQUERY JavaScript library in my opinion has revolutionized the possibilities for websites to be functional, valid (to some degree) & sexy (moving,sliding things).
Elements which in the past where created in Flash (.swf) or Silverlight (Well maybe not) can be created easily & quickly by those of us who are from a design or creative background rather than hardcore front-end developers.
JQuery with it's excellent documentation and associated online community has enabled many including myself to get to grips with making sexy front-end web apps.
There are some awesome resources out there for anyone who is starting out on the JQUERY front-end making stuff move path here is a list of my favorites (BookMarks)
Straight from the horses mouth - straight forward referencing with examples.. NICE!
The best place for any designer / newbie to start, even includes a filter by level feature, which will get you coding up your first app in no time at all.
With a ever updating list of articles dating back from 2007 it's a pretty decent resource, once you get over all the annoyingly placed ad placements
All hail Envato - quite possibly the biggest Tutorial / knowledge base on the net today - if it's web production NetTut has it covered.
The JavaScript Code Quality Tool has saved me hours de-bugging, but be warned "JSLint will hurt your feelings".
QUnit is a powerful, easy-to-use, JavaScript test suite. It's used by the jQuery project to test its code and plugins but is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code (and even capable of testing JavaScript code on the server-side).
QuirksMode.org is the home of the Browser Compatibility Tables, where you’ll find hype-free assessments of the major browsers’ CSS and JavaScript capabilities, as well as their adherence to the W3C standards.
Peter-Paul Koch - Couldn't of said it better myself
That's it for now, If I come across any other resources I will of course let you know via Twitter, Follow Me
Footnote: Some good resources (slides etc) can be found at the Full Frontal Conference website (http://2009.full-frontal.org/) although not sure how long this will remain live
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