35 Highly Advanced Yet Simple To Use jQuery Plugins

January 30th, 2012
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Smashing Apps

jQuery is a speedy, succinct library that make traversing HTML documents, handling events, performing animations, and adding AJAX simpler. jQuery imparts web developers the opportunity to make websites better with incredible elements without the necessity to write down dozens of lines of code.

In this compilation, you will find top 35… read more

15 jQuery Calendar Date Picker Plugins

January 19th, 2012
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Smashing Apps

In this collection, you will see some of the best jQuery Calendar Date Picker Plugins that will allow you output planners and calendars even more easily. Majority of these plugins are built on jQuery and jQuery UI (User Interface). With this collection, we tend to help those who need frameworks… read more

Benefits and Pitfalls of Using Code Frameworks

January 18th, 2012
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A code framework is nothing more than a collection of pre-formatted classes and functions. There are frameworks created for practically every language out there – even including frontend web development like JavaScript and CSS. Developers would be wise to follow these trends of working on… read more

Background Animations Using Jquery, Ajax

January 14th, 2012
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Background Animations Using Jquery, Ajax

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Usability Design for Online Web Forms

January 12th, 2012
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Web Design Ledger

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Designers aren’t just creating pleasing graphics for the Internet anymore. As a web designer you need to consider other properties of user interaction and coding. UX design is possibly the most important topic to cover, and this is especially true designing web forms. All webmasters should… read more

Facebook Shower Curtain Lets You Clean Up With Your Favorite Site

January 6th, 2012
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Mashable

Your favorite social network offers another type of privacy! This Facebook Shower Curtain has a transparent square in the screen that lets you create a profile image while you suds up. No drama, no “complicated status.” Just good ol’ bathtub jokes and tagged photos with the shower head.

We found… read more

Best Of 2011: Best Useful jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

December 26th, 2011
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jQuery is one of the most accepted JavaScript library that possesses an enormous collection of plugins which makes it even more powerful. On the other hand, there is a good deal of additional codes or modules, from simple alert functions to multifaceted galleries or form validation methods, that are hard-coded… read more

User Interface Design in Modern Search Engines

December 23rd, 2011
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The search engine is our best tool for sifting through all of today’s websites. There are billions of domains online and many of them haven’t even been crawled by search engines! Google is certainly the pioneer of this industry. But over the years we have… read more

30 Amazingly Great CSS Menu Tutorials

December 22nd, 2011
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At the moment, we would like to give you an idea about some amazing and useful CSS menu tutorials that will help you in using CSS more efficiently and expertly. CSS for sure is the wonderful language for designing attractive and eye-catching navigation menus. It is able to be employed… read more

50 Fantastic Premium Business WordPress Themes From 2011

December 22nd, 2011
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Noupe

Whilst Joomla and Drupal are popular amongst website designers, WordPress is by far the number 1 used CMS in the world. Which is one of the reasons that WordPress themes are seen as such a hot commodity these days in the design world.

It’s popularity amongst design firms could explain the… read more

Our 50 Favorite Web Developers Resources and Tools from 2011

December 15th, 2011
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As a developer, anything that can save you just a little bit of time is well worth its weight in gold. If you agree with that statement, you will love this. What we have for you is our selection of the best, the most useful… read more

Animate a Custom Dialog Box with CSS3 and jQuery

December 7th, 2011
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I am a particular fan of the jQuery UI library and have been following the team since it’s release. It features dozens of examples of how to pull together the best animations from such a small library of code. However in a lot of websites these… read more

50 Awesomely Useful Yet Free jQuery Tooltip Plugins

December 5th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Tooltips are used to inform the users about the expected results of a button or option and are particularly helpful in making them learn how to use a product, software and website. Fundamentally tooltips are employed to put up additional information on website. With the help of jQuery, where loads… read more

Quick Look: UberTags

December 3rd, 2011
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Quick Look posts are paid submissions offering only a brief overview of an app. Vote in the polls below if you think this app is worth an in-depth AppStorm review!

In this Quick Look, we’re highlighting UberTags. The developer describes UberTags as a tool to manage tags on your site. Third… read more

40 Beautiful Free HTML5 & CSS3 Templates

December 1st, 2011
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Noupe

Over the last few years there has been great collections of quality free HTML & CSS templates published on Noupe such as 50 Free High-Quality and “New” (X)HTML/CSS Templates (2009) and 40+ Elegant Free CSS/(X)HTML Templates (2010).

There have been some great free templates released over the last year so… read more

40+ Useful and Fresh jQuery Plugins

November 29th, 2011
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Noupe

Plugins are there to assist you and let you perform the desired action in a more convenient and speedy manner. Therefore, today we decided to come up with an exciting and interesting collection of 40+ fresh and cool jQuery plugins for our reader’s convenience. This compilation is targeted at the… read more

How To Improve Your WordPress Plugin’s Readme.txt

November 24th, 2011
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Smashing Magazine

If you’re a plugin developer and you just love to write code, then writing a readme.txt file for a plugin in WordPress’ repository might be your idea of hell. When you’ve written all of that lovely code, why must you spend time writing about how to use it?

Unfortunately, some plugin… read more

Learning to Code for the Web Interactively at W3Schools

November 18th, 2011
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Web App Storm

As I progress in my path as a designer, I realized that it was probably time that I learned to make my own website. My instinct was to jump right into using Adobe Dreamweaver, but I remember an old boss telling me that most people have problems with that software… read more

Getting Started With jQuery: A Beginner’s Resource Guide

November 17th, 2011
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Noupe

Javascript is one of a web designer’s best friends. Learning how to use this powerful tool to its fullest potential can prove invaluable to our work and our clients. jQuery helps make JS more accessible. jQuery is a free, fast, and concise JavaScript library that allows you to efficiently write… read more

Freedcamp: Manage Projects Like a Pro for Free

November 17th, 2011
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Web App Storm

Over the past few years the way we work has changed drastically – most companies now implement intranets or web apps to communicate within their organizations, invoices and accounting are managed in the cloud and teams share ideas and work together without being in the same office or even the… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.111)

November 15th, 2011
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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)
If you would like to receive our daily updates you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our… read more

What’s new for designers – Nov. 2011

November 7th, 2011
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The November edition of what’s new for web designers and developers includes new web apps, frameworks, some JavaScript tools and resources, some great project management tools, and a number of great new fonts.

Many of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to be useful to… read more

Create Native Admin Tables In WordPress The Right Way

November 3rd, 2011
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Design Informer

List tables are a common element in WordPress’ administration interface. They are used on nearly all default admin pages with lists, and developers often integrate them into their plugins. But creating one of these tables is not really intuitive if you haven’t done it before, and I’ve seen people try… read more

Top 10 content management systems

October 31st, 2011
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There are dozens of great CMSs out there. Regardless of what type of site you’re building, there’s probably one perfectly-suited to it.

The problem is that most designers and developers don’t want to spend time learning a bunch of different CMSs. They want to learn one, or maybe… read more

Google’s AJAX Crawling Approach – A Realistic Picture

October 29th, 2011
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Google’s AJAX Crawling Approach – A Realistic Picture

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50 Great Free WordPress Themes From 2011

October 28th, 2011
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Noupe

There are probably a good amount of Noupe readers who would think little to nothing of paying money for a high quality WordPress theme if it was exactly what they were looking for. When compared to spending thousands of dollars on a unique design, a $40 investment in a premium… read more

Theme Review: Garnish

October 27th, 2011
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Finding a minimal WordPress theme that delivers a rich media experience can be challenging. You don’t want it to be so vanilla that it gets lost in the crowd, but it shouldn’t be so different that it causes usability issues or appears thrown together. I can’t tell you how many… read more

Essential Elements of a Design Agency Website Layout (with 30 examples)

October 20th, 2011
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Today, I’d like to cover some really crucial tips to constructing a great template for your company. Design labs and agencies either work with set clients or tend to release a few products and maintain support from customers. Thus your website is intended to sell… read more

Simple Bug and Issue Tracking with Sifter

October 19th, 2011
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Web App Storm

Bugs and programming go hand in hand. You can probably measure a developer based on how much attention he/she pays to finding bugs, fixing them and tracking them to see if they ever show up again. Bug tracking is not the glamorous part of being a developer, but is the… read more

How To Use AJAX In WordPress

October 18th, 2011
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Design Informer

In the last few years, AJAX has crept onto websites and slowly become the way to create dynamic, user-friendly, responsive websites. AJAX is the technology that lets you update the contents of a page without actually having to reload the page in the browser. For example, Google Docs utilizes this… read more

Teaching Yourself Web Design While You Freelance

October 18th, 2011
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Web Design Ledger

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There is plenty of opportunity to make a decent living online. The field of web design is extremely popular in the current information age. Everybody needs to have a website up and you can always find a few solid business clients. But what about building upon… read more

Flash Isn’t Dead Yet!

October 17th, 2011
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Noupe

It’s been really popular lately for many professionals to dismiss the use of Flash. Many designers and developers push the idea to discontinue use of the almost 20 year old technology. There are a range of what seems to be problems from the heaviness of Flash projects, the inability to… read more

10+ Jquery Ajax File Uploader Plugins for web developers

October 16th, 2011
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10+ Jquery Ajax File Uploader Plugins for web developers

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How to Create a Web Service: Start to Finish – New on Premium

October 12th, 2011
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Nettuts+

There’s no two ways about it; putting together a website is hard! You need to know a myriad of programming languages (HTML, PHP, CSS, AJAX, Javascript, MySQL, just to name a few). You also must understand how to combine these tools into one cohesive whole, which is hopefully more than… read more

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The Developer’s Guide To Conflict-Free JavaScript And CSS In WordPress

October 12th, 2011
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Smashing Magazine

Imagine you’re playing the latest hash-tag game on Twitter when you see this friendly tweet:

You might want to check your #WP site. It includes two copies of jQuery. Nothing’s broken, but loading time will be slower.

You check your source code, and sure enough you see this:

<script src=”/wp-includes/js/jquery/jquery.js?ver=1.6.1″ type=”text/javascript”></script>
<script src=”/wp-content/plugins/some-plugin/jquery.js”></script>

What Went… read more

10 CMSes for Easier Image Management

October 5th, 2011
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While WordPress (using the numerous portfolio themes and plugins) has become a very popular choice for creating photo blogs or online portfolios, sometimes you may just need a dedicated CMS in order to create a web gallery. In this article, we shall take a look at… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.106)

October 4th, 2011
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This is our weekly column were we share our favorite design related articles, resources and cool tidbits from the past week. Enjoy :)

If you would like to receive our daily updates you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebookor by subscribing to our RSS feed.

Scalable and… read more

10 Online HTML5 Tools For Web Designers

October 4th, 2011
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If you haven’t heard, HTML5 is taking the web by storm! It is currently being enhanced by experts to provide us Web Designers & Developers with awesome new revolutionary web page features!

HTML5 Background Information

For those of you who are new to HTML5, here is some quick… read more

Designers Know Your Code: Web Design Tutorials

October 3rd, 2011
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Noupe

As almost any web designer worth their salt, and a large percentage of web developers will tell you, to be fully considered a web designer you have to have some background in code. Not to the depth that full on developers must, but it really is unfair to the rest… read more

How to Animate Threaded Comments with CSS and jQuery

September 28th, 2011
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DesignM.ag

With many social applications the use of threaded comments has become a staple in functionality. Webmasters today are focusing much more on user experience rather than content generation, and because of this there has been a rise in custom animation effects.

Below I’ll be going over a guide to building your… read more

Searchable Dynamic Content With AJAX Crawling

September 27th, 2011
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Smashing Magazine

Google Search likes simple, easy-to-crawl websites. You like dynamic websites that show off your work and that really pop. But search engines can’t run your JavaScript. That cool AJAX routine that loads your content is hurting your SEO.

Google’s robots parse HTML with ease; they can pull apart Word documents, PDFs… read more

The new amazing ferroSlider jQuery plugin!

September 26th, 2011
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Do you have a portfolio online? Are you a designer, a photographer or an artist? Do you have to create a gallery online but you don’t want to make a classic slideshow? We have a new AMAZING jQuery plugin for you!
As maybe you know i’ve just launched the redesign… read more

Why Colleges Need to Better Prepare IT Grads [OPINION]

September 24th, 2011
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This post reflects the opinions of the author and not necessarily those of Mashable as a publication.

Aaron Stibel serves as senior vice president of technology of Dun & Bradstreet Credibility Corp, the leading provider of credit building and credibility solutions for businesses. He holds a BS in computer science from… read more

Upcoming Web Design and Development Conferences in 2011-12

September 12th, 2011
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Smashing Magazine

We spend a lot of time learning and thinking about the designs we see online, yet what we miss quite often are practical insights into the design process and workflow of our colleagues. This is why conferences are great for our industry. We meet people who think very much like… read more

AJAX in JQuery using jQuery.get and jQuery.post methods

September 11th, 2011
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AJAX in JQuery using jQuery.get and jQuery.post methods

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How to Create a jQuery Animated Sliding Sub-Menu Navigation

September 6th, 2011
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DesignM.ag

We have seen a lot of different jQuery techniques over the years. This comes at a time when website navigation is at an utmost importance. User experience is key in all forms of design. Without perfecting your layout it will be difficult to keep visitors coming back for more. And… read more

Simple Code Snippet To Get the Number of Your Twitter Followers

September 4th, 2011
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Many people often use plug-in or complex piece of code to display the number of their Twitter followers on their websites. Here is a simple code snippet to get your followers number using jQuery and some lines of JavaScript code.

In your page, create a HTML element (div, span, p…) with… read more

10+ WordPress comment management plugins

September 2nd, 2011
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Web Designer Depot

We’ve covered advanced commenting systems for WordPress before, but what about those bloggers who want to use the stock WordPress commenting system?

Not everyone wants to manage a third-party comment system. And those are the users who will find the comment plugins below really useful.

Below are eleven plugins that can handle… read more

Extensive Collection Of Useful jQuery Plugins For Working With Tables

September 2nd, 2011
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Smashing Apps

jQuery plugins are quite in these days in the field of web designing and are extensively used because of their aesthetically appealing results. Through jQuery tables plugins, you can attain the maximum results in terms of functionality and flexibility. The level of flexibility and functionality that jQuery provide cannot be… read more

Coding an Instant Login Form with jQuery and PHP/Ajax

August 31st, 2011
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DesignM.ag

Login forms have been around for decades. In web design these are very common with so many social media interactions occurring on a daily basis. However the static web has gone by the wayside to make room for much more dynamic content. With popularity growing for the jQuery library it… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.101)

August 30th, 2011
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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook,… read more

Sites of the Week #168

August 26th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as The Lounge and Rice Bowls. Also we’re featuring a food related websites, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more… read more

45+ Free Online Tools To Create Charts, Diagrams And Flowcharts

August 26th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Charts and graphs are the best ways to represent information and relationship between two interlinked entities. Not only do charts and graphs inform visitors about the trend or relationship you want to show them but also add a visual connection with the visitors.

Several online tools are available that help you… read more

Reveal: A Responsive Portfolio Theme for WordPress

August 24th, 2011
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Web Design Ledger

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At Theme Trust, we just released our latest and greatest WordPress theme. This one is called Reveal. It’s responsive and designed to showcase your portfolio. The “responsive” part means that it’s built to look great across multiple devices and screen sizes, which includes the desktop and… read more

100 Great CSS Menu Tutorials

August 23rd, 2011
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Noupe

Navigation is such an important part of your website. It’s how your visitors navigate to the main areas of your site and makes it easy for them to find your good content.

CSS is of course the perfect language for designing beautiful navigation menus. It can be applied to any type… read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of UberTags Subscription

August 16th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which UberTags 1 Year Subscriptions Giveaway were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them UberTags 1 Year Subscription.

Winners of UberTags Subscription

Krunal Bharatiya
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What Is UberTags’ Cloud-Based Tag Management System?

Let’s say you manage… read more

45 jQuery Plugins And Tutorials To Enhance Your Forms

August 15th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Creating awesome and appealing forms for your website has now become easy, thanks to jQuery plugins. Here we are sharing with you a collection of some extremely useful plugins and tutorials to help you create beautiful and awesome web forms.

Web forms are the crucial element for any website as website… read more

Showcase of Italian Web Design Pt.1

August 15th, 2011
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Noupe

It all started in the middle 90s. The Internet in Italy was slowly coming out from its early age when it was somehow still synonymous with cyber-culture. World Wide Web was becoming larger known and young dudes with 14k remote modem connections were spending their nights updating rudimentary personal pages… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 2, August

August 8th, 2011
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Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

Showcase of Web Design In Argentina Pt.2

August 8th, 2011
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Noupe

Last week we brought you the first installment of an inspiring look at the state of the web design industry in the country of Argentina. This week we cap off the look with more insightful interviews, site showcases, recommendations and more. Let’s dive right in.

Excerpt from Part One

The design industry… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, August

August 1st, 2011
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Freelanceswitch

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

What Web Designers Can Learn From Video Games

July 27th, 2011
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Smashing Magazine

Games are becoming more Web-like, and the Web is becoming more game-like. If you need proof of this, you have only to look at Yahoo Answers. Random questions are posed, the top answer is chosen, and credibility points are given to the winner. It’s a ranking system that accumulates and… read more

20+ Best Ajax Forms

July 27th, 2011
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20+ Best Ajax Forms

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Uploading Files with AJAX

July 26th, 2011
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Nettuts+

I can’t seem to reach the end of the fun stuff you can do with emerging web technologies. Today, I’m going to show you how to do something that—until the last while—has been almost unprecedented: uploading files via AJAX. Oh, sure, there have been hacks; but if you’re like me,… read more

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UberTags 1 Year Subscriptions Giveaway

July 26th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

UberTags is running a contest, where 10 winners will get the free 1 year of UberTags service worth $600. Well, you guys know what they are offering? Lets say it once again for n00bs.

What Is UberTags’ Cloud-Based Tag Management System?

Let’s say you manage a website. You want to track how… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 4, July

July 25th, 2011
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Freelanceswitch

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

8 Things Newbie Web Designers Should Know About SEO

July 24th, 2011
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Even the most SEO obsessed web site owners still want a site that looks good. Design aesthetics play a huge role in the success or failure of any site. Elements of design can impact conversions, credibility, and engagement. But some designs can also limit a web… read more

HOW TO: Integrate Google+ Into Your WordPress Site

July 22nd, 2011
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Mashable

Already using Google+? Follow Mashable’s Pete Cashmore for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as our top social media and technology updates.

This month’s hot topic has been, without a doubt, Google+. Whether the new social service from the world’s largest search company will be… read more

Orbit and Reveal: jQuery Plug-Ins For Image Sliders and Modal Windows

July 17th, 2011
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Smashing Magazine

A visitor comes to your website all giddy to learn more about your product, when suddenly a snazzy slideshow loads with some snap. Impressed, they go to register and are greeted by a most elegant modal window. At this point they are finally overjoyed by the velociraptor that suddenly charges… read more

15 jQuery Space-Saving Content Sliders and Carousels

July 15th, 2011
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We all know about the popularity of jQuery image and video sliders and galleries. For the most part they are all feature-rich and perfect in their own way, but very few of them have been built to accommodate non-image content (blocks of text) that would allow… read more

Comment to Win – Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook

July 12th, 2011
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Vector Tuts

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Inkscape has been around for some time now, and with each new release it has become the vector editor of choice for many illustrators and web developers the world over. Learning more about Inkscape has been on my "to-do" list for some time now, so today I’m excited to… read more

15 Plugins Every WordPress User Should Know About

July 8th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

The reason why WordPress is preferred by majority of bloggers is due to the number of plugins available for it. If you browse WordPress plugins database, you will notice that the number of plugins available for WordPress are endless. There are plugins which help you improve SEO of your blogs,… read more

Inside Google’s User Experience Lab: An Interview With Google’s Marcin Wichary

July 8th, 2011
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Smashing Magazine

Marcin Wichary’s fascination with the relationship between humans and machines began at an early age. As a boy in Poland, he was mesmerized by the interaction between arcade patrons and the video games they played. Years later, Marcin would help shape the way that millions of computer users interact with… read more

Building an Elegant Tooltip Dropdown Menu Powered by jQuery

July 5th, 2011
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DesignM.ag

Within the jQuery library it’s possible to create some fantastic effects. These can enhance the overall user experience dramatically and often work hand-in-hand with new CSS3 and HTML5 techniques. As the field of web design has evolved, prominent new techniques have evolved as well.

Below I’ve gone into depth over the… read more

Free WordPress Themes: 2011 Edition

July 5th, 2011
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Smashing Magazine

It’s interesting to look back at our previous WordPress themes round-ups. It’s almost like looking at a visual timeline not only of WordPress’ advances in theme design, but of the rapid development in functionality of the CMS itself. The themes from year to year clearly differ in style as Web… read more

Sites of the Week #160

July 1st, 2011
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Abduzeedo

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Dolce Caffè Font and Cheesemonger. Also we’re featuring the nice portfolio from Tiny Big Studio, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we… read more

80 Apps and Resources for Cloud-Based Web Dev

June 27th, 2011
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Web App Storm

Web development is one of the fastest growing industries in the world. The value of the web has become apparent and business and individuals alike have jumped on board the web bandwagon. During it’s humble beginners, you might find a web developer writing his code in a text editor like… read more

Useful Ideas And Guidelines For Good Web Form Design

June 27th, 2011
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Smashing Magazine

The input form is an essential element of almost any website or application these days. Input is a core method of interaction, and in many cases it represents the hard conversion point between success and failure. With the amount time and effort we put into bringing users to our sign-up… read more

HTML5 and CSS3 Form References, Resources and Tutorials

June 27th, 2011
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This article explores some of the new HTML5 form features and how it has greatly improved text inputs, search boxes and other form fields by providing better and cleaner controls for validating data allowing you to build complicated forms with far less code and even less… read more

Help Scout: Professional Email With A Personal Touch

June 24th, 2011
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Web App Storm

It’s that dreaded word in any small development team: support. Anyone with a love for software design or development probably doesn’t have a great love for customer relations. They feel more at home pushing pixels in Photoshop or writing code in a text editor. They’re familiar with email, sure: email’s… read more

CodeIgniter Toolbox- Essential Tutorials and Resources

June 20th, 2011
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CodeIgniter is a powerful framework that lets you create web apps very simply and elegantly. It’s an open source PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications.

Cool, that sounds great, so… read more

Sites of the Week #158

June 17th, 2011
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Abduzeedo

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as KOKOKAKA and GuyVernes. Also we’re featuring a nice service called RemindTV, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than… read more

Regular Expressions That Makes You an Expert Developer

June 17th, 2011
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InstantShift

Regular expressions are an essential part of any programmer’s toolkit. These are very useful kits for web developer to validate, match or replace text. To help user there are number of tools and resources are developed. The tools and resources like Greedliness / Laziness, Back referencing, Word boundaries, Named Groups,… read more

10 Free Desktop Applications for Managing Your Code Snippets

June 15th, 2011
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Why reinvent the wheel? And by extension, why keep re-typing or copy/pasting commonly-used pieces of code over and over again? Copying and pasting pieces of code into text files and the like is disorganized and wastes your precious time. Instead, you can use code snippets to… read more

Get Your Brain Together With thinkery

June 8th, 2011
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Web App Storm

Remembering things is harder than ever. Stuff to do, links to refer, ideas to develop, articles to read, videos to watch – there is just way too much stuff online to keep track of. We definitely need a digital assistant to track all that stuff for us. thinkery helps you focus on… read more

40 Amazing Tools To Enhance Your Flickr Experience

June 8th, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Flickr is a platform that lets you upload and share your photos with the world including your friends, colleagues, relatives, fans and etc. People cannot only rate the shared photos but can also leave their comments on the photos they like. This is not only boosts the self confidence of… read more

40 Free Online Tools and Software to Improve Your Workflow

June 8th, 2011
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Noupe

Charts and graphs are the most effective ways to show the relationship between two different and interlinked entities. On a web page, a comprehensively designed flowchart, diagram or graph can be worth a thousand words. Creating such charts that inform your visitors about all the necessary details is a daunting… read more

Build a Neat HTML5 Powered Contact Form

June 7th, 2011
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Nettuts+

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In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to create a swanky HTML5 AJAX powered contact form. The form will use some of the new HTML5 input elements and attributes, and will be validated using the browser’s built-in form validation. We will use jQuery and Modernizr to help… read more

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45+ Useful Yet Free eBooks For Designers And Developers

June 2nd, 2011
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Smashing Apps

Internet has made the world of knowledge and information so much open than it ever had before. With thousands of tutorials available online and proper standards in place, it just takes few days of study to master even the most complicated skills.

Designing community always require useful resources and new techniques… read more