Make your own jQuery slider using XML

Make your own jQuery slider using XML

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Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Feb 28-Mar 6, 2010

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

Sites of the Week #92

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as FWA and Cog’aoke. Also we’re featuring a wonderful Wordpress Theme called Simplify Business and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be… read more

jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide – Free Book Giveaway, Comment to win

For this months book giveaway we have jQuery 1.4 Reference Guide, written by Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg.
To give yourself a chance of winning this book all you have to do is leave a comment below, and tell us how jQuery has helped you improve your web development projects, or… read more

Mashable’s Weekly Guide to Social Media & Web Development Jobs

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… read more

15 jQuery Plugins to Create Stunning Image Zoom Effects

15 jQuery Plugins to Create Stunning Image Zoom Effects

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Need Interactive Charts For Your Personal Website? Try Highcharts

If you have a non-commercial website and you need to add charting capabilities in your website, Highcharts may suit your needs.  Highcharts is a free charting control developed purely with Javascript so that you can show interactive charts on your website.  Since its purely developed with Javascript, you don’t need… read more

Best jQuery plugins for Twitter integration

Today we presents collection of jQuery plugins for working with Twitter. read more

25 Mega Menus for Your Design Inspiration

Navigation is a critical element to any website. Mega menus are a current trend that take drop down menus a step further in attempt to make it easier for visitors to navigate through a large site.

In this post we’ll showcase 25 examples of mega menus in use. For more, see… read more

How to Kill the Design Community

Recently, the notion of killing the design community has come up on a few blogs (sometimes indirectly), creating many intense conversations on the direction the design community has taken over the past couple of years, and what can be done about it.

The possibility that such discussions… read more

Web Tools – Support Details

Hey guys, it has been a while…I’ve been doing a lot of cool stuff lately. Stuff that I will soon post about but for now I just wanted to post something that I came across while browsing the internet. It’s called Support Details, it’s an awesome web application that gives… read more

Extend the Firebug Console with these 15 Extensions

There are a lot of useful tools for web designers and developers, they do tend to come and go and it usually depends on personal preference whether or not any tool is used. There is only one tool that has lasted the test of time and is not only universally… read more

Top Articles On The Web Design Billboard In February’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

Free HTML/CSS Template for Download

A few weeks ago we published a tutorial How to Design a Blue Marketing Company Layout in Photoshop. Our friends at SnobbySlice have taken that design, coded it, and made it available for free download. The template includes the homepage design that was created for the tutorial, as well as… read more

80+ Incredible Collection Of Inspirations, Tutorials And Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In February

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

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.26

This is my weekly Twitter Design News Round-Up, a collection of fresh design related resources that I have shared via Twitter in the past week.

Just in case you are not one of my Twitter followers, click here: twitter.com/speckyboy, and you’ll be kept up to date with loads of design news… read more

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Quick Tip: Learning jQuery 1.4’s $.proxy

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Getting Buggy CSS Selectors to Work Cross-Browser via jQuery

Getting Buggy CSS Selectors to Work Cross-Browser via jQuery

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10 jQuery Transition Effects: Moving Elements with Style

10 jQuery Transition Effects: Moving Elements with Style

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Link Nudging Using Dojo

In the past we’ve tinkered with link nudging with MooTools and link nudging with jQuery. In an effort to familiarize myself with other javascript frameworks, we’re going to try to duplicate that effect with another awesome framework: Dojo. read more

25 Amazing and Fresh jQuery Plugins

Keeping up with the new jQuery plugin releases and developments sometimes feels like a full-time job! Every other day something new and better crops up that catches the eye and you think yourself “Wow, that looks good, I could use that!“.

For this post I have collected 25 of the best… read more

How jQuery is Killing Flash + jQuery Tutorials & Plugins to Beat Up Flash Animations

In most cases, jQuery can do better than Flash. We’ll round up some tutorials and jQuery plugins that are simply awesome. Each of these teaches how to get a desired Flash effect, but with jQuery instead. read more

How To Get Digg, Delicious and Tweet Counts Using jQuery

How To Get Digg, Delicious and Tweet Counts Using jQuery

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Usability Review of Charity Websites Taking the Lead

Over the years designers have pushed themselves to create unique and inspiring designs. Companies have yearned to have websites which are innovative and make them stand out against their competitors. Yet charity websites have not progressed along with trends and expectations — they seem to have been designed for launch… read more

Useful and Practical jQuery Image ToolTips Tutorial

In this tutorial, we will learn how to create a thumbnail image tooltip with jQuery. It displays a tooltip image when user hover on the thumbnail with fadein and out effect. it’s a useful script for your website. read more

Coding your First jQuery UI Plugin

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Awesome Wordpress Themes at Woothemes!

Best jQuery plugins – February 2010

In this article we presents collection of best jQuery plugins for February 2010. read more

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

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

Learning jQuery: Your First jQuery Plugin, “BubbleUP”

A jQuery tutorial which helps you create your own jQuery Plugin. Learning jQuery with a fun and easy way to generate a bubble effect for your menu list and we’re going to call it BubbleUP. read more

Mashable’s Weekly Social Media Conference Guide

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s… 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

Free Dark and Clean WordPress Theme: Designpile

In this post we are glad to release DesignPile WordPress Theme, a theme designed by Site 5 and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme comes with 3 color styles and a couple of jQuery-based goodies. It can be used for portfolios and blogs as well as corporate… read more

Wordpress and jQuery: Troubleshooting, Implementing Sidebar Tabs and More

Wordpress and jQuery can work effectively if implemented correctly. It can enhance your blogs functionality and usability. In this post we will look at some wordpress-jQuery troubleshooting tips, techniques and also how to add tabs to your sidebar. read more

12 Amazing Buddypress Themes and Getting Started Guides

Out of the box Wordpress is a highly versatile, powerful and feature rich CMS. Add to that, the seemingly endless professionally developed themes and there huge library of powerful plugins and you now have the potential to build anything you could ever possibly conceive without limitation…. Or are… read more

Quick Tip: Easy Sequential Animations in jQuery

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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

Integrating PHP and jQuery: New Plus Tutorial

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How to Design a Blue Marketing Company Layout in Photoshop

Today we’ll be going through the process of designing a website for a fictitious marketing company, step-by-step. The design uses a blue color scheme and is intended to put the emphasis on services offered and what the company can do for its clients. Our friends at SnobbySlice… 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

Creative Button Animations with Sprites and JQuery (Part 1: Photoshop)

This tutorial will show you how to build creative hover animations for buttons using sprites. The particular effect illustrated in this tutorial is inspired by the “Download” buttons on Tutorial9.net. Part 1 of this tutorial explains the design process in Photoshop. In Part 2 we will convert it to XHTML… 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

How to Pull Your Google Buzz with jQuery

Embed your buzz stream into a website yourself by pulling your Google Buzz using jQuery. 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

10 Stylish jQuery caption plugins

10 Stylish jQuery caption plugins

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Mashable’s Weekly Social Media & Marketing Event Guide

It’s a brand new week, which means it’s time for Mashable’s guide to upcoming social media and web events, parties, and conferences. For more upcoming event listings, check out Mashable’s Events section.

Is your event not on this list? Contact us at least one month before your event and let’s establish… 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

Making a Sleek Feed Widget With YQL, jQuery & CSS3

Making a Sleek Feed Widget With YQL, jQuery & CSS3

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30 Best jQuery plugins inspired from Twitter and Facebook

30 Best jQuery plugins inspired from Twitter and Facebook

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Fluid Navigation – How to create an informative menu-bar with jQuery & CSS

Fluid Navigation – How to create an informative menu-bar with jQuery & CSS

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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

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

20 Cool jQuery Tricks for Web Developers

20 Cool jQuery Tricks for Web Developers

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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

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.23

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

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

Expandable Drop Down Ticker

A one of a kind jQuery ticker script that can be viewed both sequentially and simultaneously, via drop down menu. The ticker’s contents can be defined either inline on the page, or inside an external file on the same server and fetched via Ajax. read more

Top 15 Jquery CSS Animated Navigation Tutorials

Top 15 Jquery CSS Animated Navigation Tutorials

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100+ Resources for WordPress Theme Developers

One of the great things about working with WordPress and developing your own themes is the community and all of the resources that are available. If you’re not sure how to do something or looking to see what solutions other theme designers and developers are using, you… 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

Making a Photoshoot Effect With jQuery & CSS

Making a Photoshoot Effect With jQuery & CSS

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SimpleFolio: A Free Clean Portfolio WordPress Theme

Today we are glad to release a beautiful, simple and clean portfolio WordPress theme — SimpleFolio, designed by Omar E. Corrales and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. SimpleFolio is a portfolio theme that includes a blog and a very extensive option page, that allows you to exclude all… read more

How to Build a jQuery Brush Stroke Navigation

How to Build a jQuery Brush Stroke Navigation

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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

Hire the Best of Web Designers, By Design – Guest Post

Usually I am sitting on the designers side of the fence, where the web design processes are clear and defined. And maybe sometimes I do sneer at the client who has never even heard of what HTML or CSS is, never mind what good design is. So, when the opportunity… read more

10 jQuery Plugins for Easier Google Map Installation

At first glance the Google Map API may seem scary, I mean, were do you possibly start? You probably only want to display a simple map that displays directions to your clients address, you don’t really want an all singing and dancing interactive map with more options than necessary. There… read more

10 Stunning Examples of jQuery Animations

jQuery can pretty much do anything you can think of. If you are interested in using jQuery for animated effects, here are 10 Stunning Examples of jQuery Animation to get you on your way. 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

The Informer Volume 1

Design Informer is 3 Months Old
Incredible Growth in Just a Few Months

I have been an avid follower of blogs such as Smashing Magazine and Web Designer Depot for a long time. A little over 3 months ago, I decided that it was time that I also gave back to the… 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

25 UI Inspiration and Design Pattern Resources

Are your fresh design ideas no longer fresh or are you a designer who continually re-uses the same old and trusted design patterns that have followed you for many a year? Or, you might just be a UI designer that is stuck in a rut? If you are looking to… read more

Our Favorite Tweets of the Week Jan 24-Jan 30, 2010

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers.

The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick… read more

25+ Powerfull Tool Tip Solutions made Simple with jQuery

25+ Powerfull Tool Tip Solutions made Simple with jQuery

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Group Interview of WordPress Theme Sellers

Over the past few years there has been a drastic increase in the number of premium or commercial themes available to WordPress users, and more theme sellers have continued to enter the market. Some are well-known individuals or companies who have developed a reputation in the WordPress community, and others… read more

Easier Web Browsing with this Selection of Powerful Bookmarklets

A bookmarklet is a tiny JavaScript application contained within a URL, designed to add a one-click functionalty to a web page that will allow you to alter not just your own web page but any page that you choose.
The functions that they can perform vary – you could do… read more

Awesome jQuery Solutions for Online Portfolios

Awesome jQuery Solutions for Online Portfolios

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A Selection of Useful jQuery Plugins

A Selection of Useful jQuery Plugins

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AJAX-enabled Sticky Notes With PHP & jQuery

AJAX-enabled Sticky Notes With PHP & jQuery

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Creating Charts And Graphs Using jQuery

Creating Charts And Graphs Using jQuery

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Best jQuery Plugins – December 2009

Today we presents the collection of best jQuery plugins for December 2009. 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

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

25 Fresh, Clean and Unique Wordpress Themes

Lets be honest, when you look at the volume of WP themes that are available, there is not really that much originality. They are basically they same theme re-hashed in a different style. That maybe fine for some, but not for me.

I look for all of those individual elements that… read more

75+ Top jQuery Plugins to improve Your HTML Forms

75+ Top jQuery Plugins to improve Your HTML Forms

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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

Star rating using CSS Sprite and Jquery – With Demo

Star rating using CSS Sprite and Jquery – With Demo

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Sites of the Week #86

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as the Digital Podge and IGN. Also we’re featuring a amazing flash site for Alice in Wonderland, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and… read more