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12 Useful jQuery Plugins for Working with Tables

November 26th, 2009
12 Useful jQuery Plugins for Working with Tables

The days of using tables for layout are hopefully gone. This doesn’t mean that tables don’t have a place in web design and development. When you have tabular data, tables are the way to go and are what you should be using. However, ordinary tables can be limiting to the user when you have complex [...]

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35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins

November 2nd, 2009
35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins

Quick and powerful, jQuery can help designers and developers create awesome interactive websites that are appealing and accessible to the widest range of browsers. For your audience, the visit to your site will be both exciting and entertaining. Navigation, galleries and slideshows, are hot points for a site to shine. Here are 35 useful fresh [...]

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70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques

October 30th, 2009
70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques

As the Web grows and becomes more dynamic, more and more websites have user-generated content and tools that greatly improve the user experience in terms of usability and accessibility. Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, upload, auto-complete, image cropping, slideshows, tool tips, sliders and tables are being developed that use nifty JavaScript and AJAX [...]

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10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques

October 21st, 2009
10 Useful WordPress Coding Techniques

Since last year, the WordPress themes market has grown incredibly. The reason? Great designs, of course, but also a lot of amazing new functionality. Top WordPress developers are always looking to get the most out of WordPress and use all of their knowledge to find ways to make their favorite blogging engine even more powerful. [...]

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40 Useful JavaScript Libraries

October 11th, 2009
40 Useful JavaScript Libraries

Popular JavaScript libraries such as jQuery, MooTools, Prototype, Dojo and YUI can be great for accomplishing common JavaScript tasks. These libraries provide many functions, whether the matter is related to events or effects or AJAX. And if one of these libraries can’t do the job, a plug-in probably exists that can. Such flexibility is great [...]

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Useful tips for writing efficient CSS

October 5th, 2009

Jonathan Snook has posted a few great CSS coding tips in Top CSS Tips. Several of them come down to personal preferences, and it seems my preferences differ a bit from Jonathan’s in some cases, so I thought I’d go through his tips and note my take on each of them.

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75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques

September 30th, 2009
75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques

By Glen Stansberry and Smashing Editorial Team Developers and designers are using more and more JavaScript in modern designs. Sometimes this can be a hindrance to the user and take away from the simplicity of the design, and other times it can add greatly to the user's experience. The key is a) adding the right [...]

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15 Useful Batch Image Processors

September 26th, 2009
15 Useful Batch Image Processors

Whether you're a Web developer, Web designer or blogger, you've probably had to deal with the headache of converting many images to different sizes and formats. It's not much fun if you have to convert all of them by hand. Batch image processing can reduce this process from hours of work to just a few [...]

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Drop-Down Menu: 30+ Useful Scripts to Enhance Header Navigation

September 21st, 2009
Drop-Down Menu: 30+ Useful Scripts to Enhance Header Navigation

Drop-down menu (also known as pull-down menu) is an essential in most web design. It plays important role in the creation of an effective and user friendly website. It's a good solution to trim down long menu that is overwhelming the screen space, getting them to display in a more organize category-sub category pattern.

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60+ Useful Photoshop Actions For Photo Enhancements

June 28th, 2009
60+ Useful Photoshop Actions For Photo Enhancements

Each Photoshop action stores a sequential series of tasks/jobs, and by hitting the ‘play' button you get the same effect again and again without the need to repeat steps individually. Photoshop actions are powerful and great time saver when it comes to batch photo processing. Adobe Photoshop comes with a default set of actions pre-installed [...]

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