Xoom Debuts Sans Flash: What’s Going On, Adobe?

More than a year after Apple drew critical fire for its decision to forego Flash on the iPad, the first “real” Android tablet, the Motorola Xoom, will also be making its Flash-free debut.

Motorola promises that Flash support will be coming to the device in spring 2011, presumably… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 3, February

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 from… read more

jQuery plugin: Easy Image Zoom

I have been working on a little script for a client of mine, that required product image magnification. The task was to create a script that will allow users to see large details of the product while moving cursor over medium sized image. During the process I decided to create… read more

Essential Tips for Maintaining and Speeding Up WordPress

WordPress is one of the most popular and widely-used blogging platforms and CMSs (content management system). The reason is it’s easy to install and use, so you can focus on creating content rather than building and maintaining your website. Everything from small personal blogs to big digital magazines like Smashing… read more

How To Become a Better Reader

There are literally dozens of articles online about how to write better articles, but I’ve never come across one with tips on being a better reader. This is a shame, because it’s not all about the writer; for every writer of a Web design blog, there are 10,000 readers.

So for… read more

Daily Inspiration #750

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Feb 14-Feb 20, 2011

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40 New Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed

The long winter is almost over and as the weather gets ever better we at Mashable are hard at work bring you a list of tools and resources for your digital life.

Here you’ll find stories on how a computer beat Jeopardy champions, pics of the latest toys… read more

Best of the Week #159

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Converting Dezign Folio From PSD to HTML [Very Detailed]

Converting Dezign Folio From PSD to HTML [Very Detailed]

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Daily Inspiration #749

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Useful Photography-Related Tutorials

There are a lot of tutorials out there from which we can learn from. All we need is time and an ounce of inspiration to create our own special artwork. We’re glad to present to you another wonderful roundup of Photoshop tutorials that will most probably help you find that… read more

Sites of the Week #141

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Tower and Polyester Studio. Also we’re featuring the special site for Nike The Chance and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will… read more

20 New and Free Professional Drupal Themes

Drupal has perhaps one of the most misunderstood reputations within web design. It is generally thought of as an overblown and hard to learn CMS that is aimed only towards large corporate/business websites. Yes, it can handle very large and complex web sites, but the truth is Drupal can be… read more

15 Awesome Web Design Blogs Every Web Designer Should Follow

15 Awesome Web Design Blogs Every Web Designer Should Follow

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Create a Clean and Minimal WordPress Theme with HTML/CSS

Create a Clean and Minimal WordPress Theme with HTML/CSS

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Daily Inspiration #748

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Seven Tools To Start Your Hassle-Free HTML5 Project

There are many tools out there for designers and developers, but getting by free and good ones is not that easy. That is why I am sharing Seven Tools To Start Your Hassle-Free HTML5 Project. Read each entry in the list… read more

CMYK | An Exploration of Wordplay

CMYK | An Exploration of Wordplay

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Trends: the new retrò web design and the “CSS3 style”

Trends: the New Retrò Web Design and the “CSS3 style”

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jQuery Menus with Stunning Animations

jQuery is a great tool that helps our imagination turn ideas into reality. We can do almost everything we can think of with the help of this useful tool. Apart from being a lightweight cross-browser JavaScript library that simplifies HTML and Ajax interactions for rapid web development, it also gives… read more

Top CSS Galleries List To Get Web Design Inspiration

Top CSS Galleries List To Get Web Design Inspiration

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Create a Custom (Creepy) Fanpage for Your Favorite Band

Ever loved a band so much that you’ve gone rooting through their trash, just to feel close to the mundanity of their everyday life? No? Me neither. But I bet there’s a couple among you who have hosted embarrassing, Geocities-esque fan sites.

That’s the premise behind Fans Forever… read more

Daily Inspiration #747

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Invoice Dude: Free Hosted Invoicing for Your Business

As freelancers, many of us need to create invoices on a regular basis. Invoicing is about as fun as doing your taxes, except for one nice exception: invoices are all about you getting paid, not you paying someone else. Still, there should be a way to make invoicing easier and… read more

Internet Explorer In A Web Designer’s Life � Problems And Solutions

Internet Explorer, this current pain in the� code for designers nowadays, had its days of glory a long time ago, when IE6 was launched, cause at that time IE6 was a top notch browser. With time, things have changed and changed dramatically. read more

Beautiful Faculty of Law, in Sydney

This project of a Faculty of Law is the result of an international competition that took office FJMT chosen to develop this as it is a architecture landmark at the University of Sydney, Australia.

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Besides all the aesthetic appeal, the big difference of this project is the concern with sustainability, among… read more

110 Ideas to Get More Freelance Work and Generate New Client Leads

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Whether they’re designers, developers, copywriters, or some other creative professional, most freelancers ask themselves the very same question: How can I find more clients?

We’ve updated our monster list of over a hundred ideas designed to help you do just that. Not all of these ideas will make… read more

CSS: Innovative Techniques and Practical Solutions

Although CSS isn’t that difficult, useful CSS techniques are not easy to find. Sometimes finding a cross-browser solution might take time, but you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every single time. Other designers may have had the same problem in the past and thus the main goal of this… read more

The Anatomy of a Perfect Login Page

In this article I am going to analyze what a perfect login page or login form should have. Also you are able to download the pure CSS3 login form for free. read more

9 Seriously Useful Online CSS Code Generators

9 Seriously Useful Online CSS Code Generators

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27 Great CSS Frameworks You Must Check Out

If you are a busy web designer or developer, using a CSS framework could speed up your work dramatically and make your task far easier. read more

What Happened Tuesday at Mobile World Congress

The Mobile World Congress Series is supported by Snapdragon by Qualcomm. Inside your smartphone beats the heart of a dragon.

This being Barcelona, it seems fitting that day two of Mobile World Congress kicked off with a little ChaCha and Salsa. Those are the names of HTC’s… read more

Daily Inspiration #746

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

HANDS ON: Sony Ericsson’s “PlayStation Phone”

The Sony Ericsson booth at Mobile World Congress is much like any other at the week-long event in Barcelona: neon lighting, shag carpeting and racks of phones on large plastic stands. But most of the phones are looking distinctly unloved. Just one of their brethren is getting… read more

Learning at the Speed of Technology

If you’ve been using design software for as long as I have, you will no doubt have more than a few obsolete skills up your sleeve. Those of you who have mastered the notoriously difficult QuarkXPress will know what I mean. Dropping to a 25% market share, behind InDesign, many… read more

5 Website Features You Can Easily Offload to Reduce Costs

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum, where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business.

The term “offload” or “offloading” in information technology and computer science refers to the transfer of something from your system to an external system…. read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.73)

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, on Stumbleupon or by… read more

Free Business Template which is CSS & Xhtml converted with source PSD

Free Business Template which is CSS & Xhtml converted with source PSD

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Daily Inspiration #745

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Designing with Web Standards

Web standards, simply put, are the basic rules that all Web designers, coders, and programmers should understand and follow when designing and building webpages. While these standards mostly deal with coding and other behind-the-scenes issues, they can also greatly affect a site’s design and influence how visitors access the content… read more

25 Super Web-based HTML & CSS Tools

HTML and CSS are the two most commonly used languages on the web. While it may not be the most advanced form of web development, every website made in the past decade uses both languages. Needless to say, there’s a lot to learn here, but that doesn’t mean tools can’t… read more

Upcoming Conferences and Events for Designers and Developers in 2011

We’re well into 2011, and many designers and developers around the world are planning their travels for the year, including the possibility of attending any Web design or development conferences. To help you out with your plans for the upcoming months, we’ve put together a list of conferences and events… read more

Tutorial: Case Study with Html5 + CSS3

Last month I did a talk at the Campus Party, one of the biggest technology events of the world, talking about Fireworks, HTML5 and CSS3. It was very nice, the receptivity of the audience was sensational, and thinking that many of you would also like to see the contents of… read more

Daily Inspiration #744

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

CSS3 Drop Shadow | Download Source Code

CSS3 Drop Shadow | Download Source Code

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Best of the Week #158

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Daily Inspiration #743

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

#TypeNerdyToMe: Top 5 Valentine One-Liners [PICS]

Two weeks ago, we asked you to send us your best Valentine’s Day one-liners for a chance to have your valentine designed by Shane Snow, Mashable guest writer and founder of PrintingChoice.com.

After enjoying a number of delightful — and occasionally inappropriate — submissions on Tumblr, on Twitter… read more

The Bright (Near) Future of CSS

This article is an excerpt from Eric Meyer’s recent book Smashing CSS, published by Wiley in cooperation with Smashing Magazine.

In this article, the focus is on what’s coming: styling techniques you’ll use in the immediate and near-term future. From styling HTML 5 elements to rearranging layout based on display parameters… read more

Sites of the Week #140

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as the new Simple as Milk and Dydra. Also we’re featuring the special site for Campaign Monitor is hiring and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to… read more

Daily Inspiration #742

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Gartner: Symbian Is Still the Number One Smartphone Platform [REPORT]

A recent report from Canalys touted Android as the top smartphone platform in Q4 2010, but a new report from Gartner disputes that claim.

According to Gartner, Symbian barely edged out Android in the fourth quarter with the help of Symbian-based products by Fujitsu and Sharp, and legacy… read more

What’s New for Web Designers – February 2011

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Best of Tuts+ in January 2011

The first month of the year was a very busy one for Tuts+. Here’s a catch up of the Editor’s picks from each site in case you missed them!

Cgtuts+ | CG & 3D Tutorials

Coding a ‘Blueprint Manager’ in 3DsMax – Day 1

This month, Anton Vasilescu began his amazing three-part… read more

18 Talented Illustrators To Keep An Eye On

18 Talented Illustrators To Keep An Eye On

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Best Examples of CSS3 Navigations and Menu Tutorials

Best Examples of CSS3 Navigations and Menu Tutorials

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Amazing Raiffeisen Finanz Center, in Austria

The Raiffeisen Finanz Center is bank building a little atypical. The bold forms and the search for a deconstruction, even subtle, make this building a landmark in the city of Eisenstadt, Austria.

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The project by Pichler & Traupmann Architekten ZT GmbH it responds to all building restrictions that a bank must… read more

100+ Fresh and Excellent Photoshop Tutorials

When it comes to Image editing or photo enhancement, Adobe Photoshop is usually the primary option to consider. However, the software package itself is a quite hard to learn — and extremely hard to master.

Display beautiful images is a potent element in web and graphic design, where there is less… read more

The Shapes of CSS

Shapes you can make with a single HTML element and CSS. Very interesting experiment by mr. Coyier. read more

Examination of Japanese Website Design Trends

Japan plays host to some very impressive website designers. Their skills in the arts cannot be compared and demonstrate a powerful digital force among Internet readers. Luckily understanding how to read Japanese isn’t required to admire their website graphics and animation effects.

We’ll be looking into a few Japanese website designs… read more

MooTools Star Ratings with MooStarRating

Star rating systems are attractive, allow us to avoid ugly forms, and prevent unnecessary page reloads. MooStarRatings is a great star rating plugin for MooTools. read more

9 Mobile Framework to Kick Start Your Mobile Development Career

In the mobile industry, it has quite a few of frameworks available aiming to create a mobile web app rapidly. To help you start up your mobile development, I have done some research on all mobile frameworks, and below is the list. read more

Web Designing: 7 Deadly Mistakes To Avoid

Web Designing: 7 Deadly Mistakes To Avoid

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20 jquery and css3 Tutorials

20 jquery and css3 Tutorials

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Useful Web Services, Tools and Resources For Web Designers

We know how hard it is to find good useful tools that all of your developers and designers out there spend hours searching for. And for that reason, we’re regularly collecting useful online web services, tools and resources — little time-savers that can boost every designer’s workflow and save time… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.72)

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, on Stumbleupon or by… read more

Watch Every Super Bowl XLV Ad [VIDEO]

Miss some of the ads from Super Bowl XLV Sunday? Never fear, the web has your back. As in years past both Hulu and YouTube have assembled all the ad spots for your viewing pleasure. Mashable also joined the fun and we created our own video gallery… read more

How the Social Media World Reacted to Super Bowl Ads [STATS]

It was a good year for Super Bowl commercials all around, according to data released the day after the big game.

Online discussion about Super Bowl commercials increased 9% in the 12-hour period following the game’s start, compared to last year, according to marketing agency Zeta Interactive. Most… read more

Drawing Calendar Icon With CSS3

In this article I am going to use some of the CSS tricks to create a calendar icon you can use for your blog posts or something similar. It is important to notify that there are no images used here and the markup couldn’t be simpler than it is. read more

Ultimate List of jQuery Plugins

jQuery plays an important role for every web development project nowadays. read more

Bowtie: Controlling iTunes with Polished Pixels

Any avid Mac user with an eye for style and simplicity will probably tell you they think iTunes is a bloated app. While it’s generally not in an Apple fanboy’s nature to question what Apple does or doesn’t do, iTunes is the one Apple app that gets the most “hate”… read more

Things to Remember Before Launching a Website

Effective web-browsing experiences are absolutely necessary in this climate of competitive business and advancing technology. Finding a niche, making a good first impression and staying fresh are among the website owner’s goals. Maybe you’ve got a great concept, selected the perfect designer, brainstormed about design ideas, made decisions and worked… read more

6 Time-Tested Applications for Freelance Web Designers

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31 CSS Code Snippets To Make You A Better Coder

Besides the ones that solve common and annoying problems there are also some that solve new issues brought by the new technologies. read more

25 Video Tutorials for Getting Started in Web Design

The best designers never stop learning. Only the mediocre ones think they know it all, that there’s nothing else to learn. But you don’t don’t want to be a mediocre designer, do you? That’s right – you want to be a great designer. One that’s always hungry to learn a… read more

30 Dark and Inspiring Web Designs

Almost a year ago we featured a showcase with 50 Inspiring Dark Web Designs and today we decided to gather a new list of dark websites to inspire you. It’s always nice to remember that a dark layout also has it’s beauty, specially when everybody is talking about clean white… read more

Thanks to Our Weekly Sponsor: Smaller

I’d like to take a moment to say a big thank you to our weekly sponsor, Smaller.

Smaller is a graphical user interface for YUI Compressor on the Mac. It helps you batch minify CSS and JavaScript files with a nice drag and drop interface, and is the perfect tool… read more

Daily Inspiration #738

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jan 31-Feb 6, 2011

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How Good Web Design should be like Good Hygiene

One of the first things a child is taught when they are growing up is a proper daily hygiene routine. This matter is stressed heavily throughout a child’s formative years because these routines are one of the few things that a child will take with them into adulthood. Of course… read more

50 Useful CSS3 Tutorials

50 Useful CSS3 Tutorials

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Best of the Week #157

It’s time for our best news of this week. We have a lot of graphic and web design, a bit of architecture, ads, tech news, awesome reads and other crazy stuff! So take a look at the links we’ve selected for your inspiration and to keep you updated about what’s… read more

Daily Inspiration #737

This post is part of our daily series of posts showing the most inspiring images selected by some of the Abduzeedo’s writers and users. If you want to participate and share your graphic design inspiration, just send us, via email, the image with the link from where you found it,… read more

HOW TO: Design & Program a Facebook Landing Page for Your Business

Jonathan Goldford is a partner at JG Visual, an Internet strategy company that works with organizations to develop and implement their online presence. You can connect with Jonathan on the JG Visual Facebook Page.

Right now Facebook Pages and custom landing pages are bigger than bottled water was… read more

Sites of the Week #139

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as the new Mailchimp and Chocoladesign. Also we’re featuring Readability app 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 happy… read more

8 Useful Online Tools for Web Designers and Developers

Finding stuff to make your life easier is one of our passions. Whether it be freebies like fonts and icons, or tools to help you do your job, we search and find them so you can focus on the important things. For this post, we’ve found some online tools that… read more

Bringing Interactivity To Your Website With Web Standards

Adding interactivity and animations to a design doesn’t have to be complicated or make the website inaccessible when you use modern Web standards. In this article, we’ll explore several examples and theories that employ CSS, HTML, SVG, the canvas element and JavaScript. Some of these techniques you’ll know, others you… read more

WDL Premium: Altered Perspective – Tumblr Theme

For this week’s WDL Premium file, we’ve go a premium Tumblr theme from our friends at Mojo Themes. Altered Perspective is designed especially for photographers and the creative type, the Altered Perspective theme features a custom javascript photography header and a unique left to right scrolling/post feature. Nothing says creativity… read more

The practicalities of CSS Media Queries, lessons learned

CSS Media Queries are part of CSS3 and in brief: they allow you to tailor your websites appearance for different screen sizes. This article is a first hand experience of using them. read more

10 jQuery Image Zoomers

Sometimes it’s hard to see what’s on the image posted in your web page. Well, with the help of these bunch of jQuery Zoom plugins, viewing images by your naked eyes will not be that hard anymore. read more

Ultimate Collection of CSS3 Tools for your next Web Development

Ultimate Collection of CSS3 Tools for your next Web Development

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Find a Great Job in Social Media or Web Development

If you’re seeking a job in social media, we’d like to help out. For starters, Mashable’s Job Lists section gathers together all of our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How… read more

50 Free Web UI, Mobile UI, Wireframe Kits And Source Files For Designers

Designers always need some basic user interface elements to create a model of user interface either of a website or software. For that, they need wireframing and UI design kits which help them mock-up the user interface.

In this roundup, we have collected some web and mobile user interface kits which… read more

15 Free Alternatives to Popular Mac Software

There’s a huge range of amazing paid software out there, but more often than not there is some form of free alternative. For those of us who can’t afford to spend up on every great app we desire, gathered here are 15 great free pieces of software that achieve… read more

Customizing the Facebook Fan Box Widget with CSS

Step by Step Tutorial showing how to customize your facebook fan box widget with CSS.

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The New Lance Armstrong Foundation Office

The new headquarters of the Lance Armstrong Foundation is a project to fill your eyes. A restoration made in a former warehouse in Texas, bringing new life to the building and the neighborhood of Austin.

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Are already memorable all actions and movements made by the foundation, and it was only fair… read more

25 Fresh and Professional CSS and HTML Templates

Ready-made CSS templates are one of the most sought after resources within the web design community. They not only offer a quick and easily edited solution for a static website or as a theme for your favorite CMS, they also offer a great avenue for exploring beautiful code, learning new… read more

Useful jQuery Tutorials – January 2011

In this article you will find collection of interesting jQuery tutorials for January 2011. read more

The Smashing Book 2 Is Available: Get Yours Now!

The Smashing Book 2 is here. It’s printed. It’s available. And it’s being delivered worldwide at this very moment as you are reading this. All pre-ordered books have been sent out from our warehouse via air mail and should reach all countries soon. In fact, some readers have already received… read more