Manage Social Media with NutshellMail

The world of social media is generally hectic and always evolving faster than most people are capable of keeping up with. Twitter alone can be a challenge to manage, let along Facebook, LinkedIn or other networking sites. Most people use multiple social media networks, which means piles of emails, notifications… read more

The AIDA Marketing Model in Web Design

By Louis Lazaris

If you’ve been formally educated in marketing, more than likely you’ve learned about a marketing model called AIDA. AIDA is an acronym that represents the different steps involved in selling a product or service. Very often, the principles of AIDA are applied naturally when a useful product or… read more

Quick Tip: Private Variables in JavaScript

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Shalom! Showcase Of Web Design In Israel

Israel is a young country with an old heart. It has been quickly built up over the last 60 years as an independent democratic Jewish state and is shockingly cutting edge for a country so new.

It is a tiny surreal sliver of land smack dab in the middle of the… read more

The mobile webkit CSS fixed position problem

If there is one thing you will be missing while developing your mobile web application for Webkit, it is the CSS fixed position. You cannot effectively fix an element on the iPhone, and mobile devices are no powerhouse to emulate it with javascript. read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.25

A couple of days ago our follower count crossed over the 10,000 mark – which is simply awesome! A little flattering, but awesome all the same. Thanks to everyone that follows us.

Anyway this is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that I have… read more

A JavaScript Content Switcher That Works Without JavaScript

This is a variation on the popular JavaScript/jQuery content sliders/switchers. This example switches content with JavaScript disabled. read more

13 Useful Google Chrome Extensions for Web Developers

Google Chrome, like Firefox, has the ability to increase its functionality and capabilities through the use of extensions. If you’re a web developer, Google Chrome comes with a nice set of developer tools built in that will make your life easier. But there are also a number of extensions… read more

Happy Cog’s Redesign of VisitPhilly.com: An Exemplary Modern Website

In January, Jason Santa Maria sent out a tweet announcing that visitphilly.com had been redesigned by world-renowned design studio Happy Cog. My interest was piqued, and I couldn’t help but take a peek.

I can honestly say that I’ve never been more impressed with a website redesign than… read more

The Seven Deadly Sins Of JavaScript Implementation

Using JavaScript has become increasingly easy over the last few years. Whereas back in the day we needed to know the quirks of every browser, now many libraries such as jQuery, YUI, Dojo and MooTools allow someone who doesn’t even know JavaScript to spruce up boring HTML documents with impressive… read more

25 jQuery Tutorials for Creating and Working with Forms

A few weeks ago we published a collection of jQuery plugins for working with forms. While those plugins can be very useful, there may be times where you would rather learn how to code the solution yourself rather than simply using a plugin. There are a number of quality tutorials… read more

Best of the Week #107

It’s time for our best news of this week, the first one of 2010. 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… read more

deLuxe: A Premium WordPress Theme

Today we’re releasing another beautiful premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift to our premium members. deLuxe is a warm and elegant WordPress theme. Use it on any site for hotels, restaurants or resorts or for websites about lifestyle and luxury. It makes your site look professional and unique, or simply deluxe…. read more

How Facebook Became Twice as Fast (But Still Not Fast Enough)

There’s an interesting post today at Facebook’s engineering blog, detailing how Facebook’s engineers managed to make the site two times faster in a six months period, from June of 2009 till the beginning of 2010.

It’s an interesting (albeit somewhat technical) read. In short, their primary concerns were shortening network… read more

Scripting Illustrator Part 2 – How to Meld a Gradient into a Flat Process Color

In Part 1 of this two part tutorial series, we learned how to code a script which converts a flat process color into its matching gradient. In this tutorial, we will learn to code a script that converts a gradient fill into a flat process color. We will melt the… read more

35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Slideshows, Graphs and Text Effects

By Angel Wardriver

jQuery can empower a developer with the tools required to create a rich user experience. The way in which we display images, text, charts and graphs can enhance functionality for the wide range of users. Let’s take a look at 35 powerful and effective jQuery plugins and techniques… read more

50 Useful Coding Techniques (CSS Layouts, Visual Effects and Forms)

Although CSS is generally considered a simple and straightforward language, sometimes it requires creativity, skill and a bit of experimentation. The good news is that designers and developers worldwide often face similar problems and choose to share their insights and workarounds with the wider community.

This is where we come in…. read more

Make Your MooTools Code Shorter, Faster, and Stronger

MooTools is one of the most flexible, modular, and well written JavaScript frameworks available. This post will provide you with fifteen simple tips for making your MooTools code shorter, faster, and stronger. read more

Scripting Illustrator Part 1 – How to Convert a Flat Process Color into its Matching Gradient

We all are quite familiar with Adobe Illustrator and its User Interface. In our daily creative tasks we use a lot of features, such as: menu, pallets, colors, plug-ins and tools. We use these features in the form of a UI. These UI features are brought forward to us through… read more

RIM Shows Off Much Faster BlackBerry Browser [VIDEO]

The BlackBerry Browser often gets dinged for its slow performance and for stumbling through sites containing a lot of JavaScript. However, it stands to see a marked improvement reasonably soon, if RIM’s Mobile World Congress demonstration has any indication.

The new browser is based on WebKit, the layout engine that’s… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.24

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.
Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy.
As always, if you have any cool links that you would… read more

Creative Button Animations with Sprites and JQuery (Part 2: CSS, XHTML, JQuery)

In Part 1 of this tutorial, you designed a button sprite that will be coded with HTML, CSS, and JQuery in this part of the tutorial.

If you do not want to complete part one of this tutorial, you can download the source files created in that lesson here.

Step 1 –… read more

Creating A Quality WordPress Theme: 12 Points to Consider

By Cameron Chapman

Many designers enjoy creating WordPress themes. And creating a theme isn’t that difficult if you have a basic grasp of CSS and can follow directions (WordPress’s Codex has extensive documentation). But that doesn’t mean that every designer out there who can create a theme has created a good… read more

Smashing Network Update: Add Widget To Your Site and New Members

In the last few months, you may have noticed some major changes happening on Smashing Magazine’s front page. Since November 2009, when we launched the Smashing Network, which features manually selected articles from the best design blogs, we’ve been working hard to improve the usability of our website and make… read more

You Can Use CSS3 Right Now

CSS3 makes a designer’s work easier because they’re able to spend less time hacking their CSS and HTML code to work in IE and more time crafting their design. It is the future of web design and can be used today.

This article will hopefully show you to care a little… read more

4 SlideDeck Pro Licenses up for grabs, comment to win.

SlideDeck is a new way to display content on websites, mobile phones and kiosks. It delivers a better user experience by removing the information overload and providing a fun, quick and beautiful way to interact with digital devices.

Use SlideDeck For:

Product Tours
Service Descriptions
Explaining Complex Processes
How-To Tutorials
Feature Rich Slide Shows
Landing Pages

SlideDeck is… read more

17 Google Chrome Extensions for Web Designers and Developers

Firefox is the browser of choice for most designers and developers in part because of the vast selection of add ons that are available. While Chrome does not offer anywhere close to as many extensions (yet), there are still a number that can be very handy for designers and developers…. read more

20 CSS3 Tutorials and Techiques for Creating Buttons

In May last year we published an article entitled 22 CSS Button Styling Tutorials and Techniques, it proved to be pretty popular, and the most amazing thing about that post is that none of the tutorials even touch on the subject of CSS3.. What a difference a year makes!
Of… read more

40 Examples of Cool Javascript

40 Examples of Cool Javascript

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The Life, Times (and Death?) of Internet Explorer 6 (Comic Strip)

In recent years Internet Explorer 6 has become the browser web designers love to hate. Security issues, JavaScript errors and inexplicable CSS rendering quirks have made it the brunt of many jokes. With IE6 in its twilight and big companies like Google dropping support, it seems like a good time… read more

5 Fantastic Free Tools to Showcase Your Portfolio

This series is supported by Webdesigner Depot, a popular web design blog covering tutorials, design trends, blogging and inspirational posts. You can visit WDD at webdesignerdepot.com and follow WDD on Twitter @designerdepot.

Whether you’re an artist, designer, or photographer, your web portfolio is your calling card and your showroom. While… read more

7 wonderful Analog and Digital clocks using CSS and Javascript

7 wonderful Analog and Digital clocks using CSS and Javascript

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14 Fantastic Free WordPress Themes

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

Whether you’re a web developer whose clients need a great look and feel for their blogs, or just someone eager to bring a fresh new look to your own web site, there… read more

BoonSpace: Sending Gifts the Easy Way

Valentine’s day is nearly upon us and, like many, you may be short on ideas for gifts for that special someone; or maybe that special someone lives far away and shipping a physical item won’t arrive in time. You could send an e-card, or maybe send some money through Paypal,… read more

Developing Sites With AJAX: Design Challenges and Common Issues

Almost every movie has a scene in which a character pull the protagonist aside and says, “There’s something you should know about [insert another character's name here].” Most of the time, we find out some dark secret about a supposed friend of the protagonist or that the main ally is… read more

Mobile Web Design: Tips and Best Practices

Last year, more than 63 million people in the United States accessed the Internet from a mobile device. It’s forecast that by 2013 there will be more than 1.7 billion mobile Internet users worldwide. With those kinds of numbers, it’s imperative that web designers and developers learn optimal development and… read more

Applying Mathematics To Web Design

“Mathematics is beautiful.” This may sound absurd to people who wince at numbers and equations. But some of the most beautiful things in nature and our universe exhibit mathematical properties, from the smallest seashell to the biggest whirlpool galaxies. In fact, one of the greatest ancient philosophers, Aristotle, said: “The… read more

Code a Corporate Website from a Photoshop Design: PSD to HTML Tutorial

Last week we published a tutorial for designing a basic corporate website layout in Photoshop, and in this tutorial we will walk through the process of coding that design in HTML and CSS. Here is a look at the design that we will be coding (click the… read more

10 Brilliant CSS3 and jQuery Examples

This post is all about CSS3 and Javascript. With all the new features that come with CSS3, there are whole lot of animation possibilities that can’t be achieve before. So, Check this out and get inspired. read more

13 Useful JavaScript Solutions for Charts and Graphs

Graphs and charts are used to simplify complex data and make it easy to read and understand. So it really wouldn’t make sense if it was difficult to integrate a graph into a website. Thanks to Javascript and a bunch of talented developers, we have at our disposal solutions for… read more

Manage Tasks with Twitter and todoTweet

Now that Twitter has reached an age of maturity, it’s being used for more than just micro-blogging. More recently, Twitter is being used for more unconventional tasks such as task management. todoTweet takes the micro-blogging platform a step further to accomplish this so you can accomplish your day-to-day tasks.

Getting Started

Heading… read more

15 jQuery Plugins for Better Web Page Element Layouts

CSS does a pretty darn good job of helping to lay out a web page… but not always. Even with all the versatility that CSS offers (including CSS3), it sometimes is not enough and, dare I say it, I really hate to say it – HTML tables are on [very… read more

JavaScript WYSIWYG Editor � TinyEditor

TinyEditor is a simple JavaScript WYSIWYG editor that is both lightweight (8KB) and standalone. It can easily be customized to integrate with any website through CSS and the multitude of parameters. read more

9 Funniest JavaScript Effects

9 Funniest JavaScript Effects

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Beautiful Motion Graphics Created With Programming: Showcase, Tools and Tutorials

When you hear the word “creative”, what type of profession comes to mind? Maybe a graphic designer, painter, sculptor, illustrator, or writer? It’s unlikely that you would consider a “programmer” when thinking of creative fields of work. But programmers have the potential to be creative and come up with ideas… read more

How to Plan for the Absence of JavaScript

Though the methods used to gather website traffic statistics call into question the validity of the stats themselves, the fact is that some of your website’s visitors will have JavaScript disabled.

You could divide your traffic sources into four broad categories:

Search engines, mobile visitors, visitors… read more

Real-Time Web Analytics with Clicky

One of the most popular web analytics apps available right now is Google Analytics. While it has a powerful collection of features and capabilities, one of the features I wish it had most is live tracking. While I do care what happened yesterday, last week and during the month; I… read more

11 Outstanding Online Resources for Web Developers

This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.

If you’re a web developer, you’re almost certainly constantly looking for ways to improve your skills, expand your technology arsenal, and keep on top of the latest trends in development and design…. read more

Mashable’s Guide to Social Media Job Openings

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 our resource lists, how-tos and expert guides to help you get hired. In particular, you might want to see our articles on How to Leverage… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.22

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.
Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy.
As always, if you have any cool links that you would… read more

85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In January

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list… read more

Google Chrome Gets Greasemonkey Support

Since debuting in December, more than 2,000 extensions have been created for Google Chrome. Now, Chrome users have access to about 40,000 more, thanks to support for Greasemonkey scripts in Chrome 4.0 for Windows and the Chrome Developer builds for Mac and Linux.

We’ve covered Greasemonkey and the browser-awesome it can… read more

20 Years of Adobe Photoshop

Photoshop has been a part of every web designer’s life since they picked up their first mouse.

On February 10th, 2010, Photoshop turns twenty. To mark this anniversary, we’ve come up with an article that takes you through the evolution of Photoshop from its modest beginnings as a… read more

Discover Mobile Apps with appSpace

Mobile apps? They’re all the rage right now, especially now that the Anroid and Blackberry platforms are finally getting the ball rolling on their own app stores. Whether you own one of these platforms or not; you probably know, or have at least heard, about the massive number of apps… read more

Creative Bookmarks: Best of January 2010

Happy belated new year Creative Bookmarkers! We’re well on our way into twenty-ten, and have a handful of outstanding resources to share from January.

Quick Nav:

Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsCreate a Clean Blue Portfolio Design in Photoshop

There are a couple of nice photoshop layout tutorials from around the… read more

50 Brilliant CSS3/JavaScript Coding Techniques

CSS3 is coming. Although the browser support of CSS 3 is still very limited, many designers across the globe experiment with new powerful features of the language, using graceful degradation for users with older browsers and using the new possibilites of CSS3 for users with modern browsers. That’s a reasonable… read more

Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In January’10

A perfect layout, A Good Design and Nice Resource can produce a creative output. Layout, textures, typography and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. Professionalism is built upon knowledge and experience. However, When it comes… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.21

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.
Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy.
As always, if you have any cool links that you would… read more

Easy Invoices with Blinksale

There is an abundance of invoicing web apps available these days, capable of meeting just about anyone’s needs. The difficult part, however, can be finding the invoicing app that meets your needs and works the way you want it to. With an ever growing selection of invoicing apps available to… read more

45 jQuery Navigation Plugins and Tutorials

By Paul Andrew

As many of us know, the initial 15-20 seconds of a new user’s visit to a web site will have a large impact on whether on not they are going to like or dislike the site, prompting them to decide whether they will stay or go. This means… read more

25 jQuery Plugins for Working with Forms

Almost every website uses a form of some kind. Contact forms and other types of forms can be enhanced with the use of a number of jQuery plugins that are readily available. In this post we’ll feature 25 useful plugins that you may be able to use in your own… read more

30 Useful Tutorial for JavaScript Framework Navigation

Web site or blog is nothing without navigation. You should place good and user friendly navigation to making it easy for your visitors to get around fast on the most elemental elements of web design and development simply.

It is hard for most web developers to create a dynamic navigation solution… read more

The New Hotness: Using CSS3 Visual Effects

Previously in this series on CSS3, we talked not only about how to create scalable and compelling buttons but about how to effectively use new CSS3 properties to speed up development and quickly create rich page elements. In this final article of the series, we’ll really get into it and… read more

35 Beautiful and Effective E-Commerce Websites

Despite any financial recession and economic stress, online purchasing continues to grow. Expansion of the market and evolving technology that simplifies our daily lives help to set the pace of e-commerce design. Customers want the shopping process to be quick and easy, and merchants want to increase sales by making… read more

Useful Tools for Testing Cross Browser Compatibility

A few weeks back I gave you some tips for cross-compatibility, but in this article we are going to focus more specifically on cross-browser compatibility. Building websites to work properly and look good in multiple browsers is a fact of life that web designers must deal with. It is probably… read more

Publishing different: What the tablet brings to the table

Like newspapers before them, traditional book publishers are facing the reality of the new digital world. With Apple’s much anticipated tablet expected to debut within the next few months, they’re under more pressure than ever before to “Think Different”. Moving from print to digital isn’t a smooth or easy path,… read more

Firefox 3.6 now available

<p on over to Getfirefox.com, Firefox fans. Version 3.6 of your favorite browser is now ready. The video explains the major changes in this version, but here are the highlights.

One-click themes. Using the Personals Gallery, you can assign a new look and theme to Firefox with… read more

Skribit Helps Fight Writer’s Block

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Skribit

Quick Pitch: Skribit helps bloggers cure… read more

Firefox 3.6 Released

After months of testing, Mozilla has finally released Firefox 3.6, the newest version of its popular browser.

The new edition of Firefox sports a new array of features, least of which is an increase in speed — 20% faster than Firefox 3.5, according to Mozilla. It uses Gecko 1.9.2 web-rendering,… read more

Pull Yourself Together with Threadsy

Do you ever feel like your digital life has become rather… bloated? Between social media networks, instant messaging and email, it’s not uncommon for people to have 5-7 (or more) different services to check on a daily basis. In an ever increasing web-centric world, don’t expect this count to drop… read more

Tips for Coding and Designing Usable Web Forms

By Louis Lazaris

The web form has been one of the most discussed elements in web design for more than ten years now. We can’t help it. Call-to-action functionality often leads users to a form; purchases are made using forms; users register or subscribe using forms — the uses for forms… read more

Find The Right JavaScript Solution With A 7-Step Test

As Web developers and designers, we are spoilt for choice right now. To build a complex Web application or even just spice up a website with some highly interactive interface element, we have hundreds of pre-built solutions to choose from. Every library comes with widgets and solutions, and every developer… read more

HOW TO: Take Advantage of Social Media in Your E-mail Marketing

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

You’ve most likely had an e-mail newsletter for your company for much longer than you’ve had a presence on social media sites. But now that you… read more

Quix Reinvents the Bookmarklet

This post is part of Mashable’s Spark of Genius series, which highlights a unique feature of startups. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. The series is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark.

Name: Quix

Quick Pitch: Quix is an extensible… read more

Be Interactive

The Internet has been a heavily interactive medium since its inception. The terms, browsing and surfing, both used to describe people’s interaction with websites are two words that definitely imply a lot of interactivity. Traditional forms of Web interactivity include such things as clicking, dragging, and of course, typing. With… read more

Essential jQuery Tips, Plugins and Tutorials for Building a Fancy Website

In this post, I’m going to let you know all the plugins and scripts that I used in my recent project that requires intensive AJAX calls and javascript fanciness. I have made a list of plugins and tutorials. It’s going to be really useful to all of you. read more

25 Tutorials and Resources for Learning jQuery UI

There are many many tutorials and plugins for the jQuery core, but not so many that focus on jQuery UI. jQuery UI has been criticized in the past for its lack of documentation and support, but times have changed. Accompanied by its content rich website, in-depth docs and, especially, support… read more

Easy Web Forms with FormSpring

Forms. We all need them, yet they’re one of the elements of the web that most of us cringe at the thought of creating. They take a strong mix of skills between a developer and designer to create — forms that are a breeze to use, function perfectly and look… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.20

This is our weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that we have shared via Twitter in the past week.
Just in case you are not one of our Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy.
As always, if you have any cool links that you would… read more

14 Helpful Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Development

For web developers and designers, it can be difficult to memorize the syntax for multiple programming languages and frameworks, especially since they are always evolving and growing. This is where cheat sheets come in handy. Most cheat sheets are designed to be printer friendly, so you can have them laying… read more

10 Haiti Donation Sites Made Possible by Web Apps

As most of you may have heard, Haiti was recently devastated by one of the largest earthquakes in its history. This isn’t particularly web app news but what generally follows disasters such as this, is help from around the world. As we all know, help requires money which generally leads… read more

40 Valuable Tools and Resources For Web Designers

Web development can be tricky and time-consuming. To be more effective and productive, we, designers and developers, can integrate useful tools in our daily routine. Also, handy resources can be very valuable as they can help us enhance communication with clients and other developers as well as improve the quality… read more

Emerging Techniques Every Web Developer Should Know

The Web is evolving fast: new features, formats, user needs, continuously change the way we interact with websites. In this post I want to suggest you some interesting emerging techniques every web developer should know in order to build modern web applications.

HTML 5 Offline Application

The HTML 5 specification introduces… read more

Web Security: Are You Part Of The Problem?

Website security is an interesting topic and should be high on the radar of anyone who has a Web presence under their control. Ineffective Web security leads to all of the things that make us hate the Web: spam, viruses, identity theft, to name a few.

The problem with Web security… read more

Flash on the iPhone, in demo form

Admittedly, this is a very preliminary build, that supports just these SWF tags. Also, to make this work, Flash developers will need to encapsulate the SWF into an HTML wrapper, importing the Gordon JavaScript source and then loading the swf, as shown here. I am not a Flash expert… read more

45 Powerful CSS/JavaScript-Techniques

CSS and JavaScript are extremely powerful tools for designers and developers. Almost every day designers and developers come up with fresh and clever CSS tricks and techniques and share them with other developers. We regularly collect all these tricks, filter them, sort them, revise them and prepare them for Smashing… read more

Online Accounts Backup with Backupify

We arm ourselves with an ever increasing arsenal of powerful web applications, which almost always tend to include some form of personal data storage. The large majority of web travelers use email, store and share photos and video, and interact on at least social media network. With all this information… read more

9 Rating and Voting Javascript Plugins and Tutorials

I have gathered a few of javascript rating plugins that are built with jQuery, Mootool or prototype framework and a few of tutorials if you want to know how it works or implement it by yourself. read more

5 Great IDEs to Start Coding in the Cloud

Cloud computing has started proceeding beyond the hype stage and into the beginning of mainstream adoption. Gartner had included cloud computing in their list of Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2009. They also reported that worldwide cloud services revenue is on pace to surpass $56.3 billion in 2009. As we… read more

Firefox 3.6 RC1 Now Available

Feeling adventurous? If so, you can try out the release candidate of the upcoming new version of Firefox, 3.6. The 7.7 MB download will give you a taste of what’s to come in this version, and we’re talking about some very interesting changes.

Firefox 3.6 runs on the well tested Gecko… read more

Best Practices To Develop Perfect Websites for iPhone and Mobile Devices

2010 will be the years of consolidation of internet usage via mobile devices. According to internetnews.com, which reports a Gartner analysis, mobile device sales will rise (9%) in 2010. This scenario will impose to internet companies, online newspapers, bloggers, to provide mobile versions of their websites to simplify the fruition… read more

17 Javascript Animation Frameworks Worth Checking Out

JavaScript is the one of the most utilized and popular programming language, because a large majority of the browsers are compatible with it. read more

jQuery 1.3 with PHP – Free Book Giveaway, Comment to win

For this months book giveaway we have jQuery 1.3 with PHP, written by Kae Verens.
jQuery 1.3 with PHP is for PHP application developers who want to improve their user interfaces through jQuery’s capabilities and responsiveness. Whether you are familiar with jQuery or have only dabbled a little with JavaScript,… read more

jQuery Lessons Series: How To Use JSON with Twitter and Flickr API

In this post I want to illustrate how to use jQuery getJSON() method to load JSON data using an HTTP GET request. I prepared two easy example to understand if you are a jQuery beginner. The first example is a simple Twitter search and the second one is a… read more

Website Performance: What To Know and What You Can Do

Website performance is a hugely important topic, so much so that the big companies of the Web are obsessed with it. For the Googles, Yahoos, Amazons and eBays, slow websites mean fewer users and less happy users and thus lost revenue and reputation.

In your case, annoying a few users wouldn’t… read more

10 Javascript Plugins that Skin and Beautify Web Forms

In this post, I have found 10 javascript plugin that will able to skin the web form, they will look consistent in different browsers. Some of them skin the entire form elements and some of them skin only checkboxes and radio buttons. read more

Seven Useful Web Development Tips & Tools for Cross-Compatibility

As a web designer, you would think that the major Internet browsers would’ve come to some sort of agreement on standards and best practices after all this time. In reality, browser compatibility is a minefield of confusing conflicts and picky platforms that refuse to play nice with each other. Here… read more

Instant Copyright Protection with Myows

As a digital media author and HTML/CSS template reviewer at ThemeForest.net, I know first hand how frustrating copyright can be — especially for those who pay their bills with the works they create. It’s difficult, at best, to keep an eye out for people infringing on your works let alone… read more

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.18

If you are needing a quick way of catching up on what has been happening within the design community after the festive holiday period, this is the round-up for you. Oh, and welcome back to work!
We love to share fresh design related news and resources through Twitter, this post… read more

70+ Promising Resources and Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In December

We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list… read more