At Newedge, we recently had a site to build where the client required a vertical news ticker. We immediately thought ‘Simple. We’ll use jQuery’. With its vast library of built in and community built modules we were sure that we could find something, or at the very worst, be able to use some of jQuery’s animation features to build our own.  Fairly quickly we came across vTicker, a plugin that would do what we were after.

After a few modifications, mainly to change the tick speed and the speed of the animation when shuffling articles, we slotted vTicker into the site and began to test. read more »

As mobile browsing becomes an everyday part of our lives and the growing number of people watching TV while using a mobile device is exploding, responsive website design (or RWD) is a must when developing a new website. In October Facebook launched a new iPad app along with upgrading its mobile versions of the site to look similar to the native app. read more »