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

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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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

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

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

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

50+ jQuery Plugins for Form Enhancements

50+ jQuery Plugins for Form Enhancements

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A Set Of jQuery Accordion Tutorials

A Set Of jQuery Accordion Tutorials

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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

Lightest jQuery content slider ever – 380 bytes

Lightest jQuery content slider ever – 380 bytes

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CSS Transitions 101

Transitions work by changing a style over a period of time between different element states. For example, the color value of the default state of an element will pass through intermediate colors in the spectrum before appearing as the color value for the hover state.

A Simple Transition

Let’s consider… 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

jQuery plugin: Simplest Twitter-like dynamic character count for textareas and input fields

There are numerous small improvements that you can perform to make things easier and obvious for the end user. In this article I will present a jQuery plugin built for that purpose. read more

Useful Web Design Proposal Resources, Tools and Apps

Lets face it there is no enjoyment in writing a proposals. You became a web designer to build web sites, no one thought to mention anything about the processes you would have to follow to find new contracts and clients. Unfortunately, web design proposals are one of those essential processes… read more

Web Design Case Study – Refilmagem

It is a great honor for me to present you the new project that I was working on called Refilmagem. A site about movies that was planned to add in a same place all the information about movies premiers, upcoming and showtimes from our home town, Porto Alegre. The project… read more

10 Super jQuery and Ajax Scripts for Web Developers

In this post I have shared free jQuery and Ajax scripts to help our upcoming web developers. In this list includes – Rotating jQuery Tabs, Sliding Login Panel with jQuery, AJAX Loading Panel, Mysql Ajax Table Editor, jQuery youtube playlist plugin etc. read more

Improve Usability and CTR: Make an Entire List Item Clickable

Larger clickable areas make for greater usability and a higher click-through rate. Here’s how to expand a clickable area to an entire list item using jQuery. 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

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

This Weeks Twitter Design News Roundup N.19

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

Advanced Event Timeline With PHP, CSS & jQuery

Advanced Event Timeline With PHP, CSS & jQuery

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10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications

Every web designer and developer should have a good and reliable wireframe (mockup or prototype) tool at there disposal. The importance of such a tool differentiates amongst web designers and developers, some use them, some don’t. Personally, I use them. It is in this initial stage of development that makes… 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

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

This post illustrates how to use jQuery getJSON() method to implement a simple Twitter and Flickr search. 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

15 useful jQuery plugins and tutorials

I’ve been looking for some new plugins for an ongoing project, so I extended my research a bit to share these cool jQuery plugins with you. read more