Today my business is one year old and I’m still here to tell the tale! I’m returning to my “Going Freelance” diary to discuss my year, hopefully to give you some helpful pointers and insights into…

Earlier this year, I wrote a tutorial explaining how the Nike Better World website was created and how you could use jQuery to create that effect on your own website. Since the launch of Nike…

Anonymous asked: Ian, I'm curious whether you still plan to release the optimized NBW parallax script (as plug-in) you posted back in February. I am anxiously awaiting. (The nav ul list doesn't function as a fixed element on the iPad. I'm hopeful that will be addressed). Thanks, and keep up the great work!

You can find a very slightly updated version of the script here:

http://ianlunn.co.uk/plugins/jquery-parallax-1.1/

I haven’t really advertised this plugin yet as there’s a lot more work I plan to do to it, hopefully within the next few weeks. Keep an eye on my blog for updates.

Anonymous asked: Greetings~

I am contemplating in starting College for Web Design. My goal is to go freelance. I have some questions: how stressful is being a Web Designer per se? How stressful is going freelance vs working for a company?

Thank you!

Going freelance is more stressful than working for somebody else as every aspect of your work is your responsibility. Providing you’re dedicated, good at what you do, and charge a sensible price though, there’s no reason why you should be stressed about freelance work.

Working for a company is easier but will you be achieving everything you want in a restricted environment?

In today’s tutorial we’re going to develop a small script that allows a user to switch between product cards. It’s not the usual jQuery slider script though! In this demo we’ll use CSS to carefully…

A couple of months ago, I created a jQuery Vertical Parallax Demo that manipulated CSS to make multiple backgrounds move at different speeds relative to the users movement of the scroll bar. This…

Today’s tutorial combines two good friends, jQuery and dropdown menus! “That boring old combination”, I hear you cry. But wait, this is a dropdown menu with a difference! It takes away all menus…

This month, I feel I’m in my stride and my future as a self employed web designer is much clearer and more determined. A lot of my initial plans however, don’t seem to be coming to fruition —…

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