In this tutorial I explain how to create a Polaroid style Flickr gallery using the Flickr API and then how to apply user actions such as dragging and resizing and to those images.

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Ambient user experience relates to the tone and personality of a site. It’s about shaping how users feel and influencing their perception. It’s something additional to a site that is unrelated to how the site functions, and providing it can have a powerful effect on users and their emotional connection with a site.

Here is a list of 7 sites that provide an ambient user experience:

Vimeo
Vimeo’s homepage features an informal and friendly welcome message as well as making use of sky and sun imagery in the background. These features give the site a warm, relaxed and friendly feel.

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Here is a free set of 13 hand drawn social media icons. Including icons for YouTube, LastFM, Redit, Stumble Upon, Twitter, Yahoo, Blogger, Delicious, Design Float, Digg, Facebook, Feed and Flickr.

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This is part of a series of posts that showcase examples of inspirational graphic design.

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jQuery is a javascript framework, first released by John Resig in 2006. Today it is the most popular JavaScript framework in the world. jQuery appeals to a wide variety of JavaScript developers, from those just starting out, to seasoned experts. This is in no small part due to the elegance and simplicity of jQuery, with just a few lines of clear and concise code you can create anything from complex animations to advanced ajax functionality.

In this tutorial I will start from the beginning and give you a brief introduction to some of jQuery’s core concepts such as element selection, manipulation and events.

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