Arranging and Designing Synchronized User Interfaces

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In the design field there is a deep understanding of intuition vs science. Often designers will stress when trying to perfect a layout. This could be within sizes, positioning, page structure, color theory, or a whole host of other categories. But as you mature your design… read more

Adobe Muse Now in Free Public Beta, Makes Website Creation Easy

Adobe released the public beta of its new website creation software, code-named Muse, on Monday.

Unlike Dreamweaver, Adobe’s flagship web development tool, Muse is for graphic designers who want to create elegant websites without having to code.

We’ve been playing with Muse for the past two weeks as part of the… read more

45 jQuery Plugins And Tutorials To Enhance Your Forms

Creating awesome and appealing forms for your website has now become easy, thanks to jQuery plugins. Here we are sharing with you a collection of some extremely useful plugins and tutorials to help you create beautiful and awesome web forms.

Web forms are the crucial element for any website as website… read more

Mind Your En And Em Dashes: Typographic Etiquette

An understanding of typographic etiquette separates the master designers from the novices. A well-trained designer can tell within moments of viewing a design whether its creator knows how to work with typography. Typographic details aren’t just inside jokes among designers. They have been built up from thousands of years of… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 3, August

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

Showcase of Italian Web Design Pt.1

It all started in the middle 90s. The Internet in Italy was slowly coming out from its early age when it was somehow still synonymous with cyber-culture. World Wide Web was becoming larger known and young dudes with 14k remote modem connections were spending their nights updating rudimentary personal pages… read more

How to Build a Fully Functional CSS3-Only Content Slider

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Content sliders are a great way to make a website more dynamic. They add flair, and if used correctly, could be the difference between a purchase and a back button. Normally, they would be built with jQuery or some other Javascript library. However, with the advent… read more

35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Data Presentation and Grid Layout

35 Useful jQuery Plugins for Data Presentation and Grid Layout

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20 Stylish WordPress Plugins Using jQuery UI

20 Stylish WordPress Plugins Using jQuery UI

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15 Cool and Creative Jquery tutorials

15 Cool and Creative Jquery tutorials

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Integrating Datepicker with jQuery

Integrating Datepicker with jQuery

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The most awesome jQuery photo slider with a nice retro look

The most awesome jQuery photo slider with a nice retro look

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20+ Awesome JQuery Slider Tutorials

20+ Awesome JQuery Slider Tutorials

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Techniques For Gracefully Degrading Media Queries

Media queries are the third pillar in Ethan Marcotte’s implementation of responsive design. Without media queries, fluid layouts would struggle to adapt to the array of screen sizes on the hundreds of devices out there. Fluid layouts can appear cramped and unreadable on small mobile devices and too large and… read more

How to tame forms in web design

Forms are often considered one of the most painful HTML elements to program. But form design and development has progressed by leaps and bounds; it is not nearly as hard as it once was.

That being said, while the industry has made tremendous progress, some hurdles are still… read more

20 Cool jQuery Social Media Plugins

20 Cool jQuery Social Media Plugins

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Display your Favorite Tweets using PHP and jQuery

Display your Favorite Tweets using PHP and jQuery

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30 Best jQuery Animate Plugins And Tutorials

30 Best jQuery Animate Plugins And Tutorials

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.98)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook,… read more

jQuery popup solution

jQuery popup solution

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Showcase of Web Design In Argentina Pt.2

Last week we brought you the first installment of an inspiring look at the state of the web design industry in the country of Argentina. This week we cap off the look with more insightful interviews, site showcases, recommendations and more. Let’s dive right in.

Excerpt from Part One

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What’s new for designers – Aug 2011

The August edition of what’s new out there for web designers and developers includes a number of new web apps, JavaScript plugins, tools for creating smartphone apps, and browser tools, along with fifteen great new fonts.

Most of the resources below are free or very low cost, and are sure to… read more

Simple Accordion Effect Using Jquery: How to

Simple Accordion Effect Using Jquery: How to

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How To Make Entire Block Clickable Using jQuery?

How To Make Entire Block Clickable Using jQuery?

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25 Best jQuery Photo Gallery Plugins

25 Best jQuery Photo Gallery Plugins

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Changing Backgrounds Dynamically On Blogger Using Jquery

Changing Backgrounds Dynamically On Blogger Using Jquery

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Into the Ring with knockout.js

In the red corner, weighing in at just 29Kb (uncompressed), is knockout.js; a pure JavaScript library that simplifies the creation of dynamic user interfaces. Knockout is library agnostic so can easily be used with any of the most popular JavaScript libraries already out there, but it works particularly well with… read more

The Neglected Necessities Of Design

Right now is an exciting time to be in the Web design community. Every month we seem to stumble on a new thought-provoking way to put our expanding tool set to use for our clients and the patrons of the Web. Many designers are chomping at the bit to litter… read more

40 Best Free jQuery Plugins For Web Developers

40 Best Free jQuery Plugins For Web Developers

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Utilizing The Power Of Recycling In Web Design

Truth be told, I am a philistine. When people talk about recycling, I don’t think of saving the planet.

In my earlier post, “Lessons Learned: Productivity Tips For Running A Web Design Business,” I wrote about how we can reuse and recycle what we do in the Web industry to save… read more

30 Excellent CSS3 Tutorials

In this post we have collected some useful and fresh CSS3 tutorials for developers and designers. If you like these CSS3 tutorials you might also want to check out our previous posts below.

26 Useful jQuery Navigation Menu Tutorials

28 Fresh jQuery Tutorials

Making a CSS3 Animated Menu

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25 jQuery image galleries and slideshow plugins

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Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.97)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook,… read more

Using jQuery To Create Smooth Page Scrolling

Using jQuery To Create Smooth Page Scrolling

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Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, August

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

Showcase of Web Design In Argentina Pt.1

Argentina is a melting pot of races and cultures, and its people have developed a complex identity. Tango, political passion and soccer are just some of the features of this South American country’s make-up.

Argentina is an important cultural center, with a plethora of museums and art galleries where the European… read more

Resize Images in a Post with jQuery, and turn it into a plugin

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Resize Images in a Post with jQuery, and turn it into a plugin

If you own a blog, chances are you post pictures in your posts once in a while. Likewise, you have probably encountered the problem of resizing the pictures so that they fit in the… read more

Google Plus Photo Stack Animation using jQuery and CSS3

Google Plus Photo Stack Animation using jQuery and CSS3

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Build a jQuery Lightbox Effect – Best Tutorials

Build a jQuery Lightbox Effect – Best Tutorials

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How to Create a jQuery Image Cropping Plugin from Scratch – Part II

Web applications need to provide easy-to-use solutions for uploading and manipulating rich content. This process can create difficulties for some users who have minimal photo editing skills. Cropping is one of the most used photo manipulation techniques, and this step-by-step tutorial will cover the entire development process of an image… read more

Simple Slide Effect On Blogger Using Jquery

Simple Slide Effect On Blogger Using Jquery

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JavaScript Enlightenment: Now Available

I’m pleased to help promote the follow-up to Cody Lindley‘s fantastic jQuery Enlightenment eBook, appropriately titled, JavaScript Enlightenment. Building upon his previous book, this newest release focuses exclusively on JavaScript objects, and will assist you in transitioning from a library user, to a full-fledged JavaScript developer! Need a Sample If… read more

What Web Designers Can Learn From Video Games

Games are becoming more Web-like, and the Web is becoming more game-like. If you need proof of this, you have only to look at Yahoo Answers. Random questions are posed, the top answer is chosen, and credibility points are given to the winner. It’s a ranking system that accumulates and… read more

70+ Awesome Tumblr themes

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Resources for Styling Lists

In our continuing quest to listen to our readers and give them what they are looking for, we have a post of resources that we were asked to compile. With the amount of content being shared through the web, so much of it is presented in lists, designers are constantly… read more

40 Useful CSS Tutorials, Techniques And Resources

We have previously posted many articles on CSS tutorials and resources you can learn CSS from. Today, again we come up with yet another great list of 40 CSS tutorials, techniques and resources that you will enjoy exploring. Every developer knows very well how important it is to learn and… read more

40+ Websites with Unusual Navigation

Navigation is the most important part of a website without which no website can effectively operate. Achieving unique navigation that effectively fulfills its purpose is nearly akin to climbing Mount Everest. Having a unique navigation with perfect functionality makes the website easy to navigate, thus ensuring a better users experience.

Here,… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.96)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook,… read more

21 Useful jQuery Slider Tutorials

21 Useful jQuery Slider Tutorials

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Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 4, July

Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated staff and volunteers… read more

6 tips to create better one-page websites

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HOW TO: Integrate Google+ Into Your WordPress Site

Already using Google+? Follow Mashable’s Pete Cashmore for the latest about the platform’s new features, tips and tricks as well as our top social media and technology updates.

This month’s hot topic has been, without a doubt, Google+. Whether the new social service from the world’s largest search company will be… read more

WDL Premium: Real Estate WordPress Theme deCorum

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Today for our premium members, we’ve got a new premium WordPress theme from ThemeShift. deCorum is a complex and fully-featured real estate WordPress theme. The minimal style and extensive layout options let you easily change it to your special needs with no coding skills.

If you’re… read more

Learn how to create a beautiful form with pop up message boxes using CSS & Jquery

Learn how to create a beautiful form with pop up message boxes using CSS & Jquery

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40+ Awesome JQuery Tutorials & Cheat Sheets

40+ Awesome JQuery Tutorials & Cheat Sheets

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Managing Your Time with Freelance and Personal Design Projects

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Providing your services as a freelancer is hard work. It will require a lot of your time, patience, and gratitude towards your customers. Set aside the fact you’ll be slaving away on many projects just to pay bills, all the while often ignoring your own creative… read more

How to Create a jQuery Image Cropping Plugin from Scratch – Part I

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Web applications need to provide easy-to-use solutions for uploading and manipulating rich content. This process can create difficulties for some users who have minimal photo editing skills. Cropping is one of the most used photo manipulation techniques, and this step-by-step tutorial will cover the entire development process of an… read more

Creative ways to display your content using a jQuery slider.

Creative ways to display your content using a jQuery slider.

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60+ New WordPress themes, summer 2011 edition

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Create An HTML/CSS Mobile Web App Using Sencha Touch

The world of mobile app development is quickly becoming a crowded and complicated space, especially for those outside of the development niche.

“Which development platform should I use?” “Do I go native or Web-based?” “Which devices should I plan for?” “Can I build my mobile website by hand or should I… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.95)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook,… read more

The New and Improved Way to Create Forms with HTML5

AutoFocus Fields

The current way in HTML4 to do autofocus is using javascript to focus the first input field on a web form. As soon as a web page loads, the page will move the focus to the particular input field, just as the javascript does. What’s the difference? Since this… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 3, July

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Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated… read more

Orbit and Reveal: jQuery Plug-Ins For Image Sliders and Modal Windows

A visitor comes to your website all giddy to learn more about your product, when suddenly a snazzy slideshow loads with some snap. Impressed, they go to register and are greeted by a most elegant modal window. At this point they are finally overjoyed by the velociraptor that suddenly charges… read more

Our favorite tweets of the week Jul 11-Jul 17, 2011

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Email Newsletters Worth Subscribing To

Staying on top of the most recent developments in your craft takes time, especially when you have to scan websites daily for articles and news worthy of your attention. Quality newsletters do the job for you. Just check your email inbox every couple of days to find a condensed and… read more

Sites of the Week #162

For this Sites of the Week we have selected some great sites such as Typo Popote and Syropia. Also we’re featuring a nice app Photovine, and much, much more! As usual we would love to hear from you, keep sending your suggestions to us and we will be more than… read more

15 jQuery Space-Saving Content Sliders and Carousels

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We all know about the popularity of jQuery image and video sliders and galleries. For the most part they are all feature-rich and perfect in their own way, but very few of them have been built to accommodate non-image content (blocks of text) that would allow… read more

Basic Tips for Getting Started with jQuery Development

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The jQuery programming library has dramatically changed the way we work online. Web developers are able to prototype animations and backend effects much quicker with fewer lines of code. This brings to the table a profound collection of functions which you can read about here. It… read more

50 Must Have Cheat Sheets For Web Designers & Developers

Today we are featuring a collection of more than 50 extremely useful cheat sheets that every designer and developer must have. A cheat sheet is a guide of a peculiar programming language, software or framework that can be printed for easy access.

Cheat sheets are basically intended for those designers and… read more

Comment to Win – Inkscape 0.48 Illustrator’s Cookbook

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Inkscape has been around for some time now, and with each new release it has become the vector editor of choice for many illustrators and web developers the world over. Learning more about Inkscape has been on my "to-do" list for some time now, so today I’m excited to… read more

Behind The Scenes Of Nike Better World

Perhaps one of the most talked about websites in the last 12 months has been Nike Better World. It’s been featured in countless Web design galleries, and it still stands as an example of what a great idea and some clever design and development techniques can produce.

In this article, we’ll… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.94)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook,… read more

10 Important jQuery Selectbox/DropDown Plugins

10 Important jQuery Selectbox/DropDown Plugins

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Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 2, July

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Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated… read more

What’s new for web designers – July 2011

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Our favorite tweets of the week Jul 4-Jul 10, 2011

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Tutorial: Getting Started With jQuery Animations

Tutorial: Getting Started With jQuery Animations

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15 Fresh and Brilliant jQuery Tutorials

15 Fresh and Brilliant jQuery Tutorials

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Showcase of Beautifully Designed Charts & Graphs

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Charts are some of the best graphical representations of data we have. On the modern web it’s very popular to share information via pie charts, graphs, plots, grids, and more. These can even be constructed dynamically with libraries such as jQuery and MooTools. And with HTML5/CSS3… read more

20 Valuable Examples of jQuery Sliders in Web Design

20 Valuable Examples of jQuery Sliders in Web Design

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Contest: 10 PRO licenses of TN3 Gallery

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Here on WDL we love to offer freebies, giveaways and everything we can to our readers. In this contest we’ve teamed up with TN3 Gallery to give away 10 of their Pro licenses. Keep reading to learn how you can be one of the lucky winners… read more

Building an Elegant Tooltip Dropdown Menu Powered by jQuery

Within the jQuery library it’s possible to create some fantastic effects. These can enhance the overall user experience dramatically and often work hand-in-hand with new CSS3 and HTML5 techniques. As the field of web design has evolved, prominent new techniques have evolved as well.

Below I’ve gone into depth over the… read more

Free WordPress Themes: 2011 Edition

It’s interesting to look back at our previous WordPress themes round-ups. It’s almost like looking at a visual timeline not only of WordPress’ advances in theme design, but of the rapid development in functionality of the CMS itself. The themes from year to year clearly differ in style as Web… read more

Top Freelance Jobs from Job Board – Week 1, July

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Looking for a new client? The FreelanceSwitch job board is a great resource of freelance gigs and opportunities. These opportunities are in various fields, from development to writing to design, and come from a wide range of potential clients. The job board is hand-moderated by dedicated… read more

Congratulations To The Winners Of TN3 jQuery Image Gallery Pro License

Thanks to all of the participants of contest in which TN3 Gallery were givingaway. We ran the MySQL random query and selected these comments to give them free pro license of TN3 Gallery.

Ammar
Cody
Paul McClay
Tommy Brunn
Alex7
Kelly
LG
Andrew Browne
Kelvin
Angel

TN3 Gallery is a full fledged HTML based customizable image gallery with slideshow, transitions and… read more

15 Fresh jQuery Menu Plugins and Tutorials

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We haven’t actually taken a look at what new techniques and plugins are available for building menus with jQuery in quite a long time. For the most part, the plugins below are a great platform/canvas for you to build your navigation by offering fantastic customization options… read more

7 Great JavaScript Resources

As browsers and server-side platforms advance, and libraries new and old grow and mature, JavaScript evolves as well. Staying at the top of your game is important. As a JavaScript developer, you’ll need to keep up with the latest news and learn new skills.

We’ve put together a… read more

Diaspora: un successo per gli sviluppatori ma non per gli utenti

È un periodo di stravolgimenti e novità per quanto riguarda il mondo dei social network. Il lancio di Google+ e l’annuncio di una partnership tra Facebook e Skype, volta ad integrare un nuovo servizio di videochiamate direttamente su Facebook, hanno catalizzato in questi giorni l’attenzione della rete sui principali players… read more

15 Powerful jQuery Tips and Tricks for Developers

15 Powerful jQuery Tips and Tricks for Developers

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10 Highly Useful jQuery Form Validation For Developer

10 Highly Useful jQuery Form Validation For Developer

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TN3 jQuery Image Gallery Pro Licenses Giveaway

TN3 Gallery is running a contest, where 10 winners will get the full fledged HTML based customizable jQuery Image Gallery. Well, you guys know what they are offering? Lets say it once again for n00bs.

TN3 Gallery is a full fledged HTML based customizable image gallery with … read more

Best Websites To Learn jQuery

Best Websites To Learn jQuery

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Create a Media Player and Playlist: New on Premium

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With such a prevalent medium like video on the web it may be a matter of time before you need to build a video section with playlist and player. By using JavaScript (in this case the jQuery framework) a flash player and the new HTML5 data attribute you can… read more

The Keys to Making Fresh, Forwardly Aesthetic Web Designs

Great graphics. Beautiful typography. Clean design. These are all things designers typically think of when creating stunning websites. But is it really just that combination of elements that produces something that can take your breath away? Of course it’s much more than that; but what?

Far too often, web designers like… read more

Clarity: A Minimal Portfolio WordPress Theme

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At Theme Trust, we just released a brand new portfolio WordPress theme. Clarity is designed to let you easily show off your work, highlight your services, and share your thoughts – all in a super sleek format. You can showcase your projects with smooth animated filtering… read more

Weekly Design News – Resources, Tutorials and Freebies (N.92)

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This is our weekly column were we share our favorites design related articles, resources and resources all from the previous week.

If you would like to be kept up to date with loads of fresh design news and resources, you can follow us on Twitter, on Facebook,… read more

33 Excellent jQuery Tutorials

33 Excellent jQuery Tutorials

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HTML5 and CSS3 Form References, Resources and Tutorials

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This article explores some of the new HTML5 form features and how it has greatly improved text inputs, search boxes and other form fields by providing better and cleaner controls for validating data allowing you to build complicated forms with far less code and even less… read more

June 2011 – For Developers : 20 Excellent jQuery Tools/Tricks

June 2011 – For Developers : 20 Excellent jQuery Tools/Tricks

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