Over the years I have a saved a decent sized library of useful design and blogging related PDF ebooks, I love them. I have voraciously collected them, and all stored on my mobile for whenever the chance of quick read arises. In this post I would like to share my… read more
When it comes to adding JavaScript functionality to a website, jQuery has become the solution of choice for web designers and developers. With it’s ease of use and ever-growing selection of plugins, there’s really no point to look elsewhere. Awesome jQuery plugins are popping up everyday, and we’re always on… read more
Build an iPad-Themed Image Slider With jQuery
In today’s video quick tip, we’ll be reviewing JavaScript’ logical AND operator. Those of you who are just beginning to get into JavaScript, or even a library like jQuery, might not realize that they can even be used as micro if statements! Subscribe to our YouTube page to watch all… read more
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 to Leverage… read more
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 is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers 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 or even… read more
In this CSS (2 & 3) round-up article we have focused on highlighting as many varied techniques covering as many aspects of web, mobile and application development as possible. And believe me, it wasn’t easy!
Due to CSS3s current popularity, the volume of new tutorials and fresh ideas has jumped… read more
In this post we release a yet another freebie: Academica WordPress Theme, a free WordPress theme designed specifically for educational websites such as universities, schools etc. It’s a flexible and versatile free theme that can be easily customized and branded for any university, academy or non-profit organization. The theme is… read more
Today we present some useful free CSS/(X)HTML templates which are available for free download and use. You may want to consider using them for your next projects or build upon them, creating more advanced themes from these basic templates.
Free CSS/(X)HTML Templates
Blue Jeans (Demo | Download)
Stand out from… read more
Dreamweaver is a tool for making web sites. Learning Dreamweaver can be a bit of an uphill struggle if you are new to either web design, html or the program itself. When you first open it, even the welcome screen can look daunting, there seems to be 1000 tools you… read more
jQuery plug-ins provide an excellent way to save time and streamline development, allowing programmers to avoid having to build every component from scratch. But plug-ins are also a wild card that introduce an element of uncertainty into any code base. A good plug-in saves countless development hours; a bad plug-in… read more
Make HTML-based touch applications. Easy.
In the last two years the rapid growth and diffusion of touch devices such as iOS or Android based platforms has forced developers and web designers to rethink the model of their own webapps for the new “touch experience” introduced by the iPhone in 2007.
During this… read more
The initial idea for this article was to highlight all web design related events and conferences up until the end of 2010. As the article evolved, the primary focus and direction changed – no longer were we only highlighting some important and essential conferences, we soon realized we were privy… read more
Every upgrade brings something new, but Dreamweaver CS5 brings more goodies than most previous upgrades, and you can put these new features to use right away. Here’s how to use some of the coolest new features, from troubleshooting CSS with the new inspect option, to adding advanced Ajax and jQuery… read more
How to easily create charts using jQuery and HTML5
There are well-known proverbs that imply (or state outright) that beauty is superficial and limited in what it can accomplish. “It’s what’s inside that counts” and “Beauty is only skin deep” are a few simple examples. Because the Web design industry is now flooded with a lot of raw talent,… read more
The jQuery community never ever fails to let you down. Its constantly evolving, constantly improving and, thankfully, constantly releasing a tidal wave of fresh and powerful freely available plugins for every possible requirement.
Today we round-up the best and most powerful jQuery plugins from the last few months. You will find… read more
Sporadically, over the course of each month, we’ll post a “Dissecting jQuery” video quick tip. The idea behind these is that we’ll take a single chunk of the jQuery source at a time, break it down, and determine exactly what’s going on under the hood, so to speak. Then, with… read more
It’s hard to believe that a year has passed since our last WordPress theme collection, but there you have it — the time has come again. Once a year we feature the most useful and interesting WordPress-themes that we are collecting over months and present them in a nice quick… read more
With CSS3 stealing all of the design headlines recently, and with jQuery as popular as it is, it is very easy to forget about any other image and content slider/gallery options you may have. And as such, in this post, we take a look at the best of what MooTools… read more
It is always amazing to designer incorporating different element of nature in their designs. This time the inspiration is cloud, sky and blue palette colors. In this post we are featuring some really beautiful website that used sky, cloud images and illustrations in their design.
Some of this website used… read more
This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.
As smartphone sales continue to soar, more and more developers are focusing their efforts on building applications for mobile devices. Whether it is a native application or a mobile-optimized website, mobile innovation… read more
At one time or another, we are all newbies. That’s right: you can deny it all you want, but not one of us got into this game with a full deck stacked in our favor. We entered as newbies, born fresh after the start screen loaded. However, unlike in a… read more
This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers 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 or even… read more
20 Best jQuery Slideshow / Photo Gallery Plugins
jQuery Plugin repository keeps growing everyday with new plugins which has useful functions. These plugins makes our job as web designer so easy. In this post we are sharing with you 25 recently released jQuery plugins that will amaze you. read more
jQuery sliders are becoming more popular day by day; with more free and premium sliders pouring in regularly. Knowing how an advanced slider like this works is becoming a must. In this week’s premium tutorial, we are going to create a full-fledged jQuery slider which supports inline comments. Let’s get… read more
You’ve been seeing it for a while now with Google’s Reader, Gmail, and most recently, on Facebook. Probably, you, too, would like to write RESTful evented JavaScript applications. Well, fellow developers, meet Sammy.js, a tiny JavaScript framework built on top of jQuery. Sammy utilizes the URL hash (#) to allow… read more
New apps and websites seem to appear on an almost-daily basis.
Trying to find the best ones each week or month can be tough, especially considering how many come out that aren’t that great.
Here we’ve compiled some of the best apps and websites that have come out in the past few… read more
This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers 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 or even… read more
Displaying Your Tweets On Your Website With jQuery
SAG is a jQuery scroller that takes a regular UL list and scrolls it upwards, one LI at a time and pausing in between. It can be set to either auto scroll, or on user demand via the navigation panel as part of its interface. read more
Education is expensive…very expensive! But, luckily, 95% of the tutorials and courses on Nettuts+ are free! And, should you require more training, a Tuts+ premium subscription is extremely cheap, at only $9 per month. Whether you’re hoping to learn jQuery, WordPress, CSS, Tumblr, PHP, CodeIgniter, or JavaScript, we’ve got you… read more
We’re a week late due to some server trouble last week. Now that we’re back to smooth sailing, we’re bringing you a new edition of Creative Bookmarks. Enjoy!
Quick Nav:
Photoshop TutorialsIllustrator TutorialsWeb/Blogging TutorialsFreebies, Inspiration, & ResourcesPhotoshop TutorialsCreate Beautiful Abstract Female Art in Photoshop
In this tutorial, from PSDTuts+, you’ll learn how to… read more
25 Beautiful Image Styling Tutorials With CSS & jQuery
The list of some fresh and useful jQuery plugins which are never referred yet. Together with CSS3, jQuery can refresh your web site design by changing the look and feel with no more boring. read more
This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.
WordPress 3.0 was released a little over a month ago, ushering in a bevy of new features for designers and developers. Just last week, WordPress 3.0.1 was released, fixing a few minor… read more
The explosion of JavaScript libraries and frameworks such as jQuery onto the front-end development scene has opened up the power of JavaScript to a far wider audience than ever before. It was born of the need — expressed by a crescendo of screaming by front-end developers who were fast running… read more
Here’s another amazing premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift for our premium members. deLucide is a very sleek and elegant portfolio WordPress theme to showcase your photos or any other work in a professional and lucent design. Manage your porfolio without any programming skills.
If you’re not yet a WDL Premium member,… read more
This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers 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 or even… read more
In this article you will find the best jQuery tutorials for July 2010. read more
You don’t have to always use Photoshop to style your images. Some cool effects can be achieved trough CSS, jQuery etc too and read this article to know how! read more
Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Start. If you were a video gamer in the late ’80s, there’s a very good chance you’ll have pressed that combination of buttons more than a few times.
The code was a secret cheat that appeared in many of Konami’s early… read more
This is Tutorial9 Community Showcase #2, a collection of user submitted recent creations. Take a look below, and be sure to join in next time if we missed you!
Carson Kahn: A web-app collaboration tool by designers, for designers, called Draftboard. http://www.draftboardapp.com — we’re launching the private beta soon!
Thierry: This… read more
You may have bookmarked one of their CSS or Javascript tutorials, or you could have read one of their concise and refreshing articles on Smashing Magazine, you may even use one of their web apps, or it could be that you downloaded one of the many useful development tools they… read more
jQuery is one of the most popular Javascript framwork out there. It is very easy to use and full of cool features. It can be hard for us to know how to use the code and create amazing stuff using jQuery. read more
Today we have the unique opportunity to offer three of our readers the chance to win a free professionally developed web template from a recently launched start-up called Admin Template.
All you will have to do enter this competition is leave a comment below telling us about yourself or about… read more
This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers 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 or even… read more
By Cameron Chapman
Tables have been part of HTML almost since HTML began. As the internet progressed and as people started doing more things online, designers started using tables to create multi-column website layouts. This was never the intention of those who created HTML standards, but it quickly caught on and… read more
An effective, well-organized workflow is an important asset of professional web designers. The more useful and time-saving your tools are, the more time you can focus on important things, thus creating a foundation for timely good-quality results. The problem is that there are just way too many tools, services and… read more
With all the talk of Cloud computing at the moment and after reading a short article on Dzones blog a few months back that questioned whether or not It Was the Right Time for Web-Based IDEs? (it was a split poll), we were inspired enough to venture out and find… read more
There’s a never ending supply of information out there for us web designers. If there’s something we need to learn, we can find it in one form or another. Sometimes it may be on a blog or it could be in a book. While you may have to shell our… read more
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
If you’re new to creating website designs using Photoshop, learning to transform those .PSD files into semantic, standards-compliant CSS and HTML files can be a bit intimidating.
After all, there are plenty of great services out there that can slice up and code your files for you. But… read more
After months of study, designing, and developing, the new Abduzeedo is up. I know it might sound quite dramatic but this probably was the design I put most thought into. I tried to define exactly how the user experience would be and also what I could do to make that… read more
Just a short while ago, Flash was one of the primary technologies used by web designers to add interactivity to a website.
Since the introduction of the iPad, with its lack of the Flash Player, there’s an acceleration in the web development world to use alternative technologies to Flash, such as… read more
Grid based layout designs can be very useful for building structured, usable and content rich (not limited to) websites. Grid design certainly has some major benefits for developers (its really easy to to plan where things should go), but its real power lies in what it can do for your… read more
This series is supported by Rackspace, the better way to do hosting. Learn more about Rackspace’s hosting solutions here.
We’re big fans of the micro-blogging service Tumblr. Like other blogging platforms including WordPress.com, Posterous and Blogger, Tumblr is free to use and doesn’t require users to install or manage any software… read more
It’s great to see the portfolios of web designers. With the increase in usage of jQuery and its great functionality, website designs are getting better than ever. Recently, I have come across a lot of portfolios that are designed very creatively, leaving a BIG impact on the viewers, especially the… read more
A website is never done. Everyone has worked on a project that changed so much after it launched that they no longer wanted it in their portfolio. One way to help those who take over your projects is to produce a style guide.
Edward Tufte once said: “Great design is not democratic;… read more
When it comes to online tutorials and articles, you have to be very careful in choosing the right one from tens of thousands of articles you find as you are seeking help in the Web. So today we present nice articles and tutorials which are easy to understand and will… read more
In this article we presents a collection of most useful jQuery plugins for July 2010. read more
No doubt every web designer has spent many endless hours mocking up web pages, and as such every designer should have a good set of re-usable and uniform Web UI elements that they can rely upon to save them precious time and spare headaches when they are in the initial… read more
Most jQuery validation plugins are too bloated for what I really need, so I finally made a simple validation plugin that is about 1.5kb. read more
In April Google officially announced they were integrating loading time into their algorithm. As they put it, “speeding up websites is important — not just to site owners, but to all Internet users. Faster sites create happy users and we’ve seen in our internal studies that when a site responds… read more
We are regulalry collecting useful JavaScript and jQuery snippets, libraries, articles, tools and resources and present them in compact round-ups here, on Noupe. This time we are again covering some useful JavaScript and jQuery techniques, plugins and tools that may help you improve the user experience for your site.
Useful… read more
This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers 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 or even… read more
CSS3 continues to both excite and frustrate web designers and developers. We are excited about the possibilities that CSS3 brings, and the problems it will solve, but also frustrated by the lack of support in Internet Explorer 8. This article will demonstrate a technique that uses part of CSS3 that… read more
An all singing and all dancing CMS (who uses all of there features anyway?) is not always the best option for every web design project, sometimes all you need is something with a little less punch, something with a smaller learning curve and something that is really, really light.
All of… read more
In previous video roundups, we’ve collected together some interesting videos and presentations from a variety of speakers discussing topics covering usability, graphic design, CSS frameworks, web standards, and more. In this small roundup, we’ve included seven videos that we think would be of great interest to web app developers in… read more
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
In this post, we are going to create a simple dropdown menu with the help of jQuery, take a look at the demo of it first. I assume you know at least the basics of jQuery and CSS. The key to creating the dropdown menu is to use the CSS’s… read more
Welcome to the first Tutorial9 Fan Showcase! This week, we got our fans to share what they’ve been working on in a “Show & Tell” fashion. Check out some of the submissions below!
Thanks for participating folks! It’s pretty clear that this is an event the Tutorial9 community enjoys. Sorry if… read more
Last year we posted a collection of jQuery slider techniques and plugins. In a years time the trend of using these types of sliders or slideshows to display featured content has only grown more popular. This means more sites are using jQuery sliders and more people are coming up with… read more
It has been almost two years since we last published a post on Wordpress Social Bookmarking Plugins. What a difference that short period has had on user expectations, design trends and overall acceptance and popularity of social bookmarking.
Many of the plugins from the previous post are now pretty much… read more
Today we presents a collection of best jQuery carousels plugins. read more
All of the printable sketching templates that you will find below have all been designed specifically for web designers. Each of the sketching templates have an imprint of a web browser (they either use Safari, Chrome or Firefox) just waiting for you to wireframe or sketch your next design project.
Each… read more
This series is supported by Webtrends Mobile Analytics, which lets you monitor the adoption and usage of your mobile apps and mobile sites. To keep up with Webtrends Mobile, add their blog to your RSS reader.
One of the most difficult aspects of designing for the mobile web is making your… read more
A few months ago we published a popular article called 12 Useful and Free Downloadable Web Design Books, and the positive response we received from our readers was phenomenal. But, just as there is with most things, there is always room for improvement.
With the help of readers and authors… read more
This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers 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 or even… read more
Improve Your Skills: 25 jQuery Beginner Tutorials Roundup
To establish a unique identity in the online publishing universe, you need to have a great content & a great blog design as well. It is hard to keep people stick around your blog if you are running the Wordpress Kubrick theme.
Hence, we at Web.AppStorm always insist on great content… read more
To get you really excited about CSS3, last month we announced the CSS3 Design Contest and encouraged designers to experiment and get creative with CSS3. As expected, we have received many creative and original submissions. To choose the winners of the contest, we considered the originality of the technique or… read more
By pulling in feed from the Yahoo API with jQuery, you can style your website according to the Weather! Find out how by following this step by step guide. read more
In this article you will find a comprehensive selection of tutorials and techniques that make use of some exciting and fresh CSS3 properties and injected this with some innovative jQuery.
You will some truly creative image galleries/sliders, a marvelous selection of innovative navigation techniques, a handful of original form solutions and… read more
Web design is a tricky art that combines both the creative and the analytical skill sets to create something unique and visually compelling. At the end of the day, good web design is more than the sum of its parts. Beginner and amateur designers may think that web design consists… read more
Web professionals have to be both flexible and creative to meet the needs of each client — and these characteristics often transcend the design and development process. Each of us has a unique approach to our work. The particular mindset and methods by which each of us turns a mental… read more
Do you want to become drag and drop feature expert? Then look no further – mostly these plugins are in jQuery, they are super easy to customize and implement! read more
For many PHP programmers, object-oriented programming is a frightening concept, full of complicated syntax and other roadblocks. As detailed in my book, Pro PHP and jQuery, you’ll learn the concepts behind object-oriented programming (OOP), a style of coding in which related actions are grouped into classes to aid in creating… read more
Jason Lengstorf was nice enough to offer our community a handful of copies of his latest awesome book, Pro PHP and jQuery,. Be sure to read his latest Nettuts+ tutorial, “Object-Oriented PHP for Beginners,” based on his book. “This book is for intermediate programmers interested in building Ajax web applications… read more
Lex parsimoniae is the Latin expression of what is known in English as Occam’s Razor, a philosophical rule of thumb that has guided some of the world’s best and brightest minds (including Isaac Newton).
It is named after the 14th-century logician and theologian William of Ockham.
But what the… read more
When I sat down to write this post, my first intention was to write about minimal design and how popular they have become over the last few years. Of course, I couldn’t do that without listing some clever examples. But while I was on the hunt for what to include… read more
This useful jQuery plugin will allow you to sequentially fade in and fade out elements on a website. read more
Hello guys, I just collected a list of 47 jQuery Image Sliders from FREE to PREMIUM all in no particular order. All effects of this slideshows uses jquery scripts to make it usuable and easy to integrate. read more
jQuery Carousel Plugins: Best Resources, Tutorials And Examples
Today we presents collection of best jQuery tutorials. read more
How To Create Your Own Twitter Prototype With SQL, PHP and jQuery
This is our weekly column in which we share our favorites posts, articles and resources with our readers 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 or even… read more
30 jQuery Accordion Menus, Tutorials And Best Examples