I really must refer to Colorburned post here – He did a great job by bringing up so many companies and idea, which helped me to directly find related companies, which could sponsor my website too. It’s been a while and now I wanted to take a deep research about current companies, which use and actually buy those advertisement banner places thereby supporting design community in return helping to build good page rank and actually get very targeted design related clients. I listed here all the companies I’ve found advertising on graphic design, web design, blogging related blogs, showcase sites like mine is. Now after research I must say I was surprised, browsing through all those blogs daily I didn’t checked those sites, but now I found many good softwares, services I would really love to try myself! Not always the best stuff available is for free and really what did I see was very reasonable prices for several really good services.

Also it was interesting research which kind of banners different companies use, what design and what did they put into those banners – what kind of text, images, animation. If You are designer yourself you’ll understand me – I don’t see advertisements in real life – I look at composition, idea, color scale, accent distribution and things like that. Here I did the same, because I believe every banner is created by professional designer and here you have to manipulate with limited space to attach emerging customers, clients.

I also added short description from their own sites so you could know what company behind that banner is offering. And short tip – if you have good traffic and good price, but have no advertisers, I strongly recommend you writing these companies explaining why they should choose to advertise there, tell them what your blog is about and show them your stats. I am sure you’ll get

PSD To Html Services

1.W3Markup

PSD conversion to CSS,HTML service.

2.PSD2HTML

PSD2HTML.com provides fast, high quality conversion of graphic Web design into Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and its extensions, as well as skins / themes / templates for various engines.

3.Markup-Service

Markup Service provides hand-coded conversion of your designs into high quality, W3C valid XHTML/CSS in less than 8 hours.

4.PixelCrayons

XHTML.pixelcrayons.com (a specialized division of Pixelcrayons) offers high quality hand coded pixel-precise markup services and implementation into skins, themes, CMS, shopping carts and more.

5.XHTML4U

PSD to HTML hand coding service.

6.FeatherCode

PSD to XHTML/CSS conversion service.

7.PSDslicing

Top notch psd to html coding service.

8.LightCMS

LightCMS is a content management system for web designers. Design sites, upload them to our content management system,and deploy world-class websites your clients can manage themselves.

Web Template And Theme Selling Companies

9.WooThemes

Company selling premium Wordpress themes.

10.ThemeForest

At ThemeForest you can buy and sell site templates and themes to skin popular CMS products like WordPress, Drupal and Joomla. Files are priced from just five dollars, based on the complexity, quality and use of the file.

11.ThemeLayouts

Premium WordPress Themes & Joomla Templates.

12.DreamTemplate

DreamTemplate offers exclusive premium web content solutions for web developers and webmasters. In addition to website templates, they also offer other web content solutions such as CSS templates, Flash templates, logo templates, photoshop web designs, company form designs, newsletter templates and abstract images.

13.TemplatesFactory

Company selling premium web and flash templates.

14.StudioThemes

Company selling premium Wordpress themes for small business companies.

15.ThemeAtlas

Theme Atlas is WordPress premium theme index.

16.WPBest

Company featuring and selling the very best Premium WordPress Themes and WordPress Plugins available

17.ElegantThemes

Company selling premium Wordpress themes.

18.Press75

This company offers professional quality Wordpress themes with really wide selections.

19.DaThemes

Company selling premium Wordpress themes.

20.Templatica

Templatica is a membership based template club.

21. BuyStockDesign

Service which allows You to buy and sell website templates.

Graphic and Web Design Blog Advertising

21.Designers-Revolution

Graphic design resources for Illustrator and Photoshop.

22.WPZoom

WPZOOM is a blog about the latest WordPress premium & free themes.

23.Splashnology

SPLASHnology is an exciting new platform of web community dedicated to Web Design, Web Development, with a focus on Graphic Design, Art, Technology, Blogging, SEO and Freelance. The primary purpose of this site is sharing web related knowledge, resources and ideas. Everyone can register at SPLASHnology and start to post something interesting web stuff in personal or group blogs.

Stock Photography & Vector Art, Icons Marketplaces

24.ShutterStock

Shutterstock is subscription-based stock photo agency, every day adding thousands of photographs, illustrations, and vectors to collection of premium, royalty-free images.

25.StockVault

Stockvault is a stock photo sharing website where designers and photographers can meet to share their images.

26.FotoLia

Fotolia offers huge image bank of free and affordable royalty free photos and illustrations perfect for any medium, web or print.

27.ProtoShare

Collaborative website wirefrime and prototype tool.

28.VectorStock

VectorStock™ Media is an independent Vector only stock agency with focus and passion to creative vector art.

29.Veer Marketplace

Veer provides visual elements for use in professional creative work, such as graphic design, motion design, advertising and filmmaking. Their products include stock photography, illustration, typefaces, and unique merchandise

30.TextureVault

Texturevault is a community driven supplier of royalty free texture images. Unlike the usual stock photo site, texturevault focus is strictly on providing high quality, creative and “top of the class” textures that digital artists and designers can use in their creative work.

31.123Vectors

Free vectors showcase site.

32.IconShock

Professional stock icons for web and software applications.

33. FlashDen

At FlashDen you can buy and sell royalty-free stock files for use in Adobe Flash projects and general websites. Files sell for between 1 and 40 dollars depending on the complexity, quality and use of the file. Anyone is free to sign up for an account and begin trading or purchasing files.

34.BrandStack

Creative marketplace, where you can find professionally designed logos, websites, print designs, find premium domain names.

35.FeedMyApp

Feedmyapp is a Web 2.0 Directory with the best and latest web 2.0 sites, daily updated. Feedmyapp classifies web apps by tagging them and creating a brief description for each one listed.

Online Printing Services

36.Moo

MOO is a printing company printing beautiful products, using images you’ve uploaded directly, or designs from their designer galleries.

37.HotCards

Hotcards is a full service full color printing and graphic design house.

38.RoyalButtons

RoyalButtons create high quality full color 1″, 1.25″, 2.25″ & 2″x3″ buttons and magnets.

39.ModernPostcard

Modern Postcard is your expert source for high quality printing, targeted lists and in-house mailing services, everything you need to successfully market your business with postcards.

40.Taste Of Ink

High quality online printing service company.

41.PremiumCards

Online printing service especially specialized on business card printing.

42.All Time Print

Really wide variety focused online printing service.

43.UPrinting

UPrinting is online printing company that provides high quality printing for very affordable prices.

Website Builders

44. Wix

Wix is a Flash website builder, built to create a simple way for everybody to build and design Flash websites.

45.Artister

It is Joomla template generator and Wordpress theme generator.

46.MediaLab

Company distribute currently program SiteGrinder2, which is kind of automated PSD to HTML service, but right inside Photoshop.

Other Design And Business Management Companies

47.Logo Design Team

A Graphic logo design company offering original, custom and professional logo designs.

48.HelpDeskPilot

Help desk software.

49.Page-Flip

FlippingBook flash page flip engine – PDF to flip book convertor or xml-swf version.

50.Boonex

This company produces community software, build a community of customers and operate as a community ourselves. BoonEx explores and introduces the power of collaboration in social life and business relations.

51.Code-Line

Software for creative professionals.

52.KickApps

Use KickApps to power audience growth & engagement on your website. Build your own community with social networking and photo & video sharing; create your own widgets, custom video players and much more.

53. Flowzit

Flowzit is a state-of-the-art file presentation and approval system.

54. MailChimp

This company makes easy to send email newsletters to your customers, manage your subscriber lists, and track campaign performance. I am sure you’ve heard about this company before.

55.RightBanners

RightBanners is an inexpensive and efficient banner creative specialist.

56.GoodBarry

GoodBarry is a Business Catalyst brand created to reach more small business owners online.

57.Freshbooks

Online invoicing, time tracking and expense service

58.BillingsApp

Professional time billing for anyone.

59.MyEmma

E-mail marketing for agencies and designers.

60.SonarHQ

The easiest way to create your own survey site.

61.TumaSoft

Company selling Preset Viewer, which is Photoshop brush, pattern, shape viewer.

62.LogoMyWay

LogoMyWay connects clients needing design work such as Logo designs, T-shirts designs, Business card designs, Print ad designs and more to a thriving community of talented logo designers exploding with creativity.

And actually interesting approach to banner and looks like it works too.

Job Boards And Services

63.AllDevJobs

Design and development job board.

64.AgencyTool

List of hundreds of top web design and creative agencies throughout the United States.

65.LimeExchange

Global services marketplace connecting businesses and professionals.

66.Webdesigners-Directory

This Web Design Directory is a national directory of 9,109 web designers, job board. Click on a state below to find a web designer in your area.

67.CampaignMonitor

Rebrandable email marketing software just for designers.

Project Management Software

68.ActiveCollab

activeCollab is a project management & collaboration tool that you can set up on your own server or local network.

69. 5PMweb

5pm is project management, task organizer, team collaboration and time tracking software

70. ProWorkFlow

Project management software – Easy control of your projects, tasks & time.

CMS E-commerce

71.CMS Advantage

A professional Content Management System (CMS) for web designers and graphic designers.

72.Shopify

Shopify is for people and small businesses who want to sell great products through an online store that does those products justice.

73.FoxyCart

FoxyCart is not a CMS, but is built to integrate into whatever CMS you like.

Hosting Companies

74.WpWebHost

Very good hosting company I currently use.

75.FireHost

FireHost provides secure hosting without sacrificing the redundancy and speed you would expect from an enterprise hosting provider.

76.Mosso

Cloud hosting.

77.Site5

Web hosting for webmasters.

78.MediaTemple

Hosting company.

Showcase Galleries

79.TheBestDesigns

The Best Designs recognizes the best Flash and CSS web sites from around the world. Websites are categorized by CSS or Flash and also by elements of the design.

80.MixCSS

Beautiful website showcase gallery

To end this article I wanted to share my thoughts and have a little question to my readers.

Here it goes..

I am considering in future to buy and test such services I’ve listed here and give honest reviews how did those tools, companies work and what kind of problems I interfaced. I believe such help with project management tools, job boards, automated softwares and good psd to xhtml service could really ease and help to automate web development, designing, printing and project management process.

Now I just want to ask – do you want to see that kind of articles here?? Because really I’ll try to do my best to satisfy my readers at the first place, and it’s your call. I will be very pleased if you could spare some time to give honest answer here.

Thanks for Your time!

Before I start, you can view my StumbleUpon profile as well, to see I am not just talking nonsense, I really spend time to build relationship, find more good friends and finally be active myself and help my friends as good as I can! I strongly encourage to look through this article, look for guidelines you are interested in and I am sure you’ll find something you didn’t know too!

How to find more related friends

- Meet people like you

I did this proactive activities for some time, because I was struggling with too less contacts and friends, who could help get more stumbles, because really – more stumbles you can get in short period of time, more traffic it will deliver. Right..it’s not so easy but in short, that’s all that matters.

I’ll now explain how to find similar friends, just go to your friends section and on the right sidebar under your friends you’ll see section – with title “Meet people like you” (see the screenshot below). In my case address is http://dainix.stumbleupon.com/friends/. Now just spend time to establish relationship, I suggest you to send message explaining what’s you are up to before and only then friend request. In that way you’ll be something more than just some unknown fellow in their friend request page.

If you’re really serious about finding very focused people to your niche, also use this “”Browse stumblers” feature:

You’ll find it on your public profile – http://dainix.stumbleupon.com/public/ in my case and there you really can search by interests, gender, find people from your country and more.

- Check what kind of people are stumbling your website

If they like your content already, why not establish good relationship with them? To dig even deeper, check also who is stumbling related sites in the same niche, for example I am checking other design blog article review pages to find new friends.

- Buy sponsorship

I tried this one just know and sponsorship is really rewarding. Thing is – you pay 10$ (minimal donation price) and become a sponsor for a year. Before you start complaining why to that, I’ll explain my reasons. The first thing you get is that small sponsorship badge on your profile (you can see it on my profile too), which means that you’re respected SU user and second the most valuable one – your account shows on StumbleUpon Sponsors page and it actually delivers ~3-5 friends every day. I find it really rewarding because I don’t have to do proactive friend searching any more.

How to establish better relationship

- Don’t spam to your friends with numerous non-related content webpages every day. This is obvious I think, nobody loves spammers;

- Try to respond to your friends shares and establish personal relationship, people will help much more gladly people they know.

- This is time consuming task if you have many friends, but if you spare time and write reviews (testimonials) to your friends, you’ll be more likely noticed – remember before you ask others something to do, be first to take action! People love friendly and helpful friends!

- Spend time to create good profile – fill About me page, customize theme so it looks more eye candy – let people know what you really are!

- When adding new friend, write him a short message explaining why do you want to be friends with him and introduce yourself building personal contact in that way.

How to share article

If you use StumbleUpon in daily basis, you should know several months ago SU added Share This feature to easily share websites between your friends automatically. I just love this feature because it let’s me more focus on stumbling articles, not spending like an hour to share it between my friends manually.

This feature is a little bit hidden so I’ll explain it too. The first thing to do is stumble and review article you want to share. Then just go to your profile, in my case it is dainix.stumbleupon.com. You’ll find reviewed article on Reviews section, now all you must do is mouse hover to the image and Share button will reveal.

Click to it and you’ll get Share this feature pop-up on right side of profile. And one more thing – I strongly recommend you to enter that optional personal message, because usually it’s the best way to get personal relationships with friends. Now just check all friends and send your new discovery – and you’re done!

How to get StumbleUpon traffic

This is common question how to play with StumbleUpon good enough to get traffic from it. And it’s really easy – as soon as you got 10-20 friends to Stumble your website quickly you’ll get like ~500-1000 new visits almost immediately! StumbleUpon is great for new blogs, it was main traffic for my website in early month and even now it always take 3-4th place in top traffic sources.

- Get many active friends

More friends you’ve got – better traffic it will deliver. In short that’s so true, more stumbles you can get in short period of time, better your new article will do.

- Create your IM friend list

This is very powerful tool not only for StumbleUpon but for other social networks. I use Gtalk (it’s very popular between Digg users) for my all business contacts and there I can contact with my friends rapidly and contact only ones are online – I strongly recommend you start using IM if you’re serious about bringing traffic and social networking. If you’re just starting, here you can dowload Gtalk and feel free to add me as your friend too (Gtalk user-name: dainis@1stwebdesigner.com) , I already benefit from such networking!

- Good Design

Really people on StumbleUpon are more to look not to read, well designed logo and website is very crucial to leave good first impression and people will much more likely stumble website in that case and may even remember your website.

- Don’t use many ads

If the first thing new visitors see will be many ads, you’ll really turn them away, of course you need to monetize your site, but don’t do it too much.

And finally be always active and helpful because these kind of people are rare, your friends are your success!

StumbleUpon Addons, Buttons And Tools

1. Promote Your Site with StumbleUpon Buttons & Tools

Add a button to your site to make it easy for your visitors to submit your content to StumbleUpon. Simply copy and paste the code into your site and start receiving free exposure on StumbleUpon.

2. Tag Blaster Online

This page modifies text so that it will not be parsed by stumbleupon.com as HTML/PHP formatting. It also fixes URLs so that they will not be changed to SU review links. It is designed for web developers to be able to post visible HTML/PHP code for tutorials or problem solving.

3. StumbleUpon Random Group

Great tool if you’re searching for new groups, but you enjoy how SU offers you random links – here you get random StumbleUpon groups! Just refresh that page to get a new random group.

4. SU Archive Links Creator

5. SU Music Player

This tool let’s you to create a custom music player for your StumbleUpon blog. After registering, you can add MP3 links, customize your player and then embed it into your blog page.

Wordpress plugins

6. WP_StumbleDigest

WP_StumbleDigest is a Plugin to create daily posts on the things you stumble across on the web. Using you StumbleUpon Account.

7. Stumble! for WordPress

Stumble! for WordPress extends WordPress to support a “random article” feature, similar to StumbleUpon’s StumbleThru and Wikipedia’s (Mediawiki’s) random article feature. Not really SU related plugin, but interesting plugin with that kind of feature – should work good for blogs!

8. StumbleUpon WordPress plugin

Wonderful plugin which shows the popularity of ALL your links and gives you can active StumbleUpon bookmark button.

9. StumbleUpon Favorites

StumbleUpon Favorites is a widget based on the default RSS widget that was developed to allow the sharing of bookmarks with blog visitors. This plugin makes it much easier to use and customize the list grabbed from your own StumbleUpon account. Also there are several features you can change on the panel, which is not supported by default RSS

StumbleUpon Related Userscripts (Greasemonkey required)

10. EmbedWidgets

Allows viewing and embedding of flash widgets on StumbleUpon Pages.

11. SU Visitor Icons

The visitor icon script has optional dynamic updates. If you have dynamic updates enabled and your visitor page open, any new visitors will be added to the top of your visitor list. Any changes to friend/subscriber status are also dynamically updated.

Additional visitor count displays the number of visitors added to your visitor list since you opened the page.

Dynamic update switch allows you to enable or disable the dynamic update functionality. Visitor icons will still be enabled.

12. SU Status Indicator

This script adds functionality enabling you to set and display an online status on your public profile page, similar to MSN. It does not affect your normal SU online status indicator, this script is meant to provide an additional indicator, with more options. You can set your status on your favorites page, which will stay that way until you change it to something else (so don’t forget to set to offline when you go to bed).

13. SUEditor

A WYSIWYG Editor for Stumbleupon.com, works on blog, forum, contact, and site review pages

14. SU Element Styles

Basic HTML/CSS editor for SU. Preview blog posts and edit CSS styles by clicking on any element.

15. Clean’n'Readable

Very small script that solves the problem of low-contrast, over-styled and plain unreadable su blogs. It collapses all custom backgrounds, sets bg color to white and font color to black.

16. SU Extended What’s New

This script adds an option to generate an extended “what’s new” page, with the following:

• Full length posts
• Blog posts
• Thumb down reviews

It generates this page by visiting the first page of up to 20 people you subscribe to, and checking for new posts. It remembers approximately the last 1800 posts it has shown you and doesn’t show anything over 24 hours old, so you should always get only what is actually new. Retrieving the first page does register as a visit, so the script keeps track of the last 60 people it has taken posts from and refrains from visiting again for at least another 3 refreshes of the page.

17. SU Page Control

This is a simple script which replaces the normal page control on SU pages with a drop-down box, and buttons. Currently works on the following pages:

• Blog
• Reviews page
• Favorites
• Discoveries

18. Tag Details for StumbleUpon

This script replaces StumbleUpon tag clouds with ordered lists.

FAQ and Guide for Stumbleupon

19. Unofficial StumbleUpon FAQ

Read this unofficial StumbleUpon FAQ to get many more and different questions answered than in official SU FAQ.

20. StumbleUpon Wiki

StumbleUpon Wiki is a place where groups of stumblers work together to describe and evaluate the best of the web.

Other related resources and useful reading:

• StumbleUpon Addons
• How To Take BackUp Of All The Email Ids Of Your Friends On StumbleUpon
• 28 Tips To Make You a StumbleUpon Superstar
• Building Your Blog With StumbleUpon
• How To Get StumbleUpon Traffic
• How to Write Posts That Set StumbleUpon on Fire
• A Comprehensive Guide to StumbleUpon: How to Build Massive Traffic to Your Website

I’ll be happy to hear about your experience with StumbleUpon and maybe you know more StumbleUpon tools I didn’t list here?

I divided this article in three sections – Web development, Social development related plugins and finally just overall handy plugins for better browsing.

Also I must remind you, you will not find already popular and well known extensions here, since the mayor community already are know such plugins like – GreaseMonkey, WebDeveloper or Firebug tools for example. Just scroll through the list, check screenshots and hopefully several of these plugins will be useful for your daily Firefox internet browsing.

Web Development Related Firefox Plugins

1.Palette Grabber 0.4.1

Creates a color palette for Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, GIMP, Flash, Fireworks, Paint.NET, or OS X based on the current page. This plugin is great using together with ColorPicker, actually extends possibilities.

2.LinkChecker (not for 3.5  just yet)

Sorry for misleading – this extension hasn’t been updated to newer version just yet, it’s still only for 3.0 version.

Check the validity of links on any web page, this plugin is good for web designers and actually bloggers too.

There’s also a tool-bar button that can be added for easier access to LinkChecker. Just right click on your tool-bar, choose “Customize” and look for the button with the underlined blue check.

3.View Cookies

Just a little bit faster and handier way how to check site cookies.

It adds a tab to the Page Info dialog box, which shows the cookies of the

current web-page. This is interesting for developers, privacy-conscious users and others.

4.ViewSourceWith

The main goal consists to view page source with external applications but you can also…

- open page source as DOM document, read faq

- open CSS and JS files present on page

- open images using your preferred image viewer (e.g. GIMP or ACDSee)

- open PDF links with Acrobat Reader or Foxit Reader or what you prefer

- edit textboxes content with your preferred editor and automatically see modified text on browser when you re-switch focus on it, this simplifies wiki pages editing, read faq

- open server side pages that generate the browser content, this simplifies web developer’s debug, read server-faq

- open files listed in Javascript console. When editor open file the cursor can be moved to line number shown on javascript console, read js faq

For desperate cases you can add Microsoft IE to editor list.

5.Text Link 3.1.

Allows URI texts written in webpages to be loaded by double clicks.

Without this extension, when you discover an URI text not linked, like “http://piro.sakura.ne.jp/”, you have to do following steps to load the page:

1. Select the URI text completely. (It may be a hard work if the page is rendered with a proportional font. This operation always chafes me.)

2. Copy it. (press “Ctrl-C” or use “Copy” from the “Edit” menu)

3. Paste it to the location bar.

4. Press “Enter”. Then, Firefox loads it.

or,

1. Select the URI text completely. (It chafes me again!)

2. Drag the selection string to the tab bar and drop it. Then, Firefox loads it.

With this extension, you can load the URI only following one step:

1. Double-click on the URI text. Then, Firefox loads it. I’m happy.

6.Custom Buttons

Gives a possibility to create custom toolbar buttons – beautiful for designers or just personalized theme lovers, suited for me perfectly at least!

7.Subtile

Subtile is a Firefox extension that provides generic support for toolbar menus.

The menu can be located anywhere in the browser toolbars, attached to an icon that can change its appearance when an event occurs.

If you are a Webmaster, you can create your own menus and distribute them easily to your users. With the dynamic capabilities of Subtile, you can alert people when some content has changed or new messages are available.

If you are simply a curious Web user, enjoy the available menu configurations from http://www.subtile.net/subtiles.php or build easily your own video site monitor from http://www.downloadhelper.net/st-build.php

8.FirePHP

FirePHP enables you to log to your Firebug Console using a simple PHP method call.

FirePHP is ideally suited for AJAX development where clean JSON or XML responses are required. All data is sent via a set of X-FirePHP-Data response headers. This means that the debugging data will not interfere with the content on your page.

You must have Firebug installed and the “Net” panel enabled to use this extension.

You must also download a PHP library from http://www.firephp.org/HQ/

9.FireShot

FireShot is a Firefox extension that creates screenshots of web pages (entirely or just visible part).

Unlike other extensions, this plugin provides a set of editing and annotation tools, which let users quickly modify web captures and insert text annotations and graphical annotations. Such functionality will be especially useful for web designers, testers and content reviewers.

The captures can be:

- uploaded to FREE public screenshot hosting;

- saved to disk (PNG, GIF, JPEG, BMP);

- printed;

- copied to clipboard;

- e-mailed;

- sent to configurable external editor for further processing;

10.SenSeo

SenSEO analyzes web pages and tells you how good they fulfill on-page Search Engine Optimization criteria. SenSEO is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. The code is based on the YSlow extension. SenSEO gives you:

- Overview of SEO-important web page components

- Analysis of on-page-SEO-criteria

In the current version SenSEO checks:

- Correct usage of Document-Title, Meta-Description and Meta-Keywords

- Headlines, Domain and URL-Path

- Other general content-criteria

You must install Firebug.

11.Foxy SEO

Foxy SEO Tool is a free, open source toolbar that provides quick and easy access to a multitude of search engine functions such as Google Site, Yahoo! Site Explorer, Live Fromlinks. Also included are famous web traffic analysis sites such as Alexa, Compete, Quantcast, popular statistic aggregators like Quarkbase and WebSiteOutlook. You can check a site’s listing in important directories like Dmoz and Yahoo! Directory, buzzing Web 2.0 sites such as Technocrati, Wikipedia, Digg, Delicious and links to useful network functions like Whois, Geotool, Internet Archive, etc.

12.Save Complete

As more and more sites use CSS, Firefox’s built-in complete save becomes increasingly less effective, as it doesn’t support stylesheets. This extension fixes this, and saves the complete page, including all images, stylesheets, flash, javascript, and anything else associated with the document, even imported stylesheets and images referenced in the stylesheet files.

13.Nuke Anything Enhanced

Allow hiding of almost anything via context menu ‘Remove Object’ or ‘Remove Selection’ with possibility of multiple undo of ‘Remove Object’. You can also make a selection and chose “Remove everything else” to clear the page and only leave the selected text.

Once you decide what you want to Remove, Right click on it or select it, then select “Remove this Object” from the menu.

The effect of this extension is temporary, which is useful before printing a page, you can use another extension, ‘Remove It Permanently’ if you want your removed objects to be remembered.

Social & Communication Related Firefox Plugins

14.Social Media for Firefox

This plugin actually is reason I thought about such article creation. It’s experimental plugin but I enjoy using it a lot, since I am very active on social networks.

Status bar that will show you how many votes content has at many social sites. Find good content first to build your social news accounts.

15.ScribeFire Blog Editor

ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs.

16.ClipMarks

nstead of copying and pasting links, Clipmarks is like adding a pair of scissors to your browser, letting you capture exactly what you want others to see (text, images or video). Your clips are saved on clipmarks.com and can easily be syndicated to FriendFeed, Twitter, Facebook or other sites. You can also post anything you clip directly to your blog (supports Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad and more) or send it directly to friends or co-workers via email. Clipmarks also gives you a way to help the environment by printing only the parts of a page that you need. By printing just what you need, you’ll save ink, paper and trees, thus making a contribution to a cleaner environment.

17. Facebook Toolbar

Integrate your Facebook life into your browser, this toolbar will help not to spend so much time on Facebook page, but keep track on everything what’s happening there while you’re browsing the web!

18. TidyRead

TidyRead turns your web reading into a fast, smooth, no-fringe experience again. It intelligently extracts the core text of news articles and blog posts — even multi-page ones. TidyRead allows you to quickly grasp the main message of the page.

19. Cluster Tabs for Firefox

Install cluster tabs for Firefox to end tab overload, make your browser faster and share public & anonymous cluster tab web addresses with others.

Help make search better, create clusters that interest you!

20. Feedly

A magazine-like start page. A fast and stylish way to read and share the content of your favorite sites and services. Provides seamless integration with Google Reader, Twitter, Frienfeed, Delicious and YouTube.

21. Chameleon Bob

Chameleon Bob is a free add-on that helps you to change a style of your Facebook!

Install the add-on and you will be able to change skins, backgrounds and colors in Facebook. Choose any skins from our collection that were created for your pleasure!

22. Shorten URL

Shorten long URL from context menu or toolbar button with your selected URL shortener and display the result in location bar. Supports up to 100 URL shorteners.

23. OnlyWire – Social Networking Auto-Submitter

Submit hyper-links to over 20 social networking sites with one button click. Join thousands of publishers and bloggers using OnlyWire’s free tools to streamline the social networking submission process.

24. Socialite

Socialite provides elegant Firefox integration with reddit.com and other sites using the open source reddit engine. Socialite displays a context-sensitive toolbar above pages linked from reddit, allowing you to vote articles up and down, view comments, and save pages to your profile. In addition, Socialite provides a streamlined lookup-or-submit button in the location bar that allows you to check if what you are browsing is posted to reddit and submit it with one click.

25. Shareaholic

Shareaholic is the ultimate add-on for the link sharing addict! If you use sites like Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Digg, Gmail, LinkedIn, etc you’ll likely enjoy having Shareaholic by your side. Get one step closer to making your life a little easier.

Other Useful Firefox Plugins For Daily Use

26. SmoothWheel

Scrolls the document smoothly when scrolling the mouse wheel (or using keyboard arrows). I enjoy this plugin as designer, sort of resembles of popular jquery sliding effects

27. Wordpress Detector

Ever wanted to know which of the sites you visit is powered by Wordpress? If yes, then this small, nifty tool could be just for you!

28. Flash Video Downloader

Flash Video Downloader helps you to download embedded flash video (.flv) from YouTube-like video sharing websites in one click.

29.ImageBot

Bulk/Batch/Mass Image Uploader

ImageBot is bulk/batch/mass image uploader, it allows you upload your images to a free image hosting service (ImageShack or Photobucket).

ImageBot lets you sort, filter, and make image galleries out of your images in a snap. It is especially good for your eBay auctions by way of the Thumbnail Gallery template included by default.

30.HyperWords

With Hyperwords you can select any word on any web page and choose from powerful commands, including:

• Reference • Search • Translation • Conversion • Email • Twitter • Facebook • Tag • Blog • & More.

Highly customizable & very, very easy to use.

Demo Video available on YouTube.

Unfortunately those three plugins aren’t compatible with Firefox 3.5 just yet, but I think they still are pretty useful in several occasions, so I added them anyway hoping that these plugins will update soon, we can also be patient now:

31.CodeBurner for Firebug 1.1 ( version Firefox 3.0)

CodeBurner is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug, to extend it with reference material for HTML and CSS.

The extension’s core functionality is centered around a new Reference panel, which contains a search tool for looking up HTML elements, attributes, and CSS properties.

32.Locationbar² ( 3.5 compatible *updated)

* Puts emphasis on the domain to reduce spoofing risk

* Linkifies URL segments (press Ctrl, Meta, Shift or Alt)

* More URL formatting options configurable

33.Extended Statusbar 1.5.3 (not with 3.5 yet)

A Statusbar with speed, percentage, time and loaded size (similar to Opera’s one).

Adds an Opera-like statusbar that shows:

- percentage of the page loaded,

- number of loaded images,

- bytes downloaded,

- average download speed,

Also consider checking my other previous Firefox posts showcasing really popular and well known Firefox plugins:

Popular Firefox Extensions for SEO masters

The Best 50 Firefox add-ons for Web-developers!

And maybe you know some more really good and new Firefox plugins, which is not so well known but should be? I also encourage You to comment this article – what’s your favorite plugin from this showcase and why? What kind of problems or successes you faced while using?

Finally also don’t use too much plugins and regularly clean your addons section from plugins you really don’t use – it’s the same as in Wordpress – the more plugins you use, slower Firefox,Wordpress stay! I currently use like 20 plugins I cannot live without – what’s your number?

This list is pretty comprehensive – there are many new blogs, also several good blogs which don’t update very actively,but you can check their HTTP version then (but still those sites are great for analysis). Topics of these blogs cover graphic-design, SEO tricks, coding, programming, twittering, social marketing, podcasts, few self-improvement related blogs and actually lots more. But don’t worry if You enjoy reading my blog, you will be definitely enjoying also those blogs I am currently subscribed to.

At first I thought I should arrange this list by topics they cover (if there will be people asking me to do that, I certainly will anyway), but then again – I am offering you complete .opml list, you can download and then just delete the blogs you don’t enjoy reading. Of course, you can also subscribe to these blogs one by one, but I think the best way is to import this list, create separate folder for it and then slowly filter it – believe me it’s harder to find good blogs not to leave them!

Please don’t judge this list – of course, there will never be complete one, but we can always try! And finally at the end of this article I got you few links to other good list articles with very good design blog picks and also one nifty tool, which helped me to convert my .OPML file to HTML file, like you see it below, rapidly! I didn’t add any images, because I believe it will only slow down this article’s load time, because this time it’s really huge. What can I say – I hope you’ll find good use to this article!

Download complete .OPML file

How to use .OPML file

- just open your Feed reader and start like you were just adding new feed, you should find also an option to Import Feeds. Now just find your downloaded OMPL file on your computer and upload it, it’s easy as that! If You didn’t find on your RSS Feed reader how to import feeds, I should suggest to read FAQ or put search and I am sure you’ll find explanation right away! 

Download complete .OPML file

Other related articles from other resources and Opml2HTML tool:

• 25 Most Useful Blogs for Web Design & Development
• 50 Inspirational Web Design Blogs
• 80+ Must-Read Design Blogs to Enhance your Creativity and your Career
• 160+ RSS Feeds For Web-Designers And Developers
• The Biggest Ever List of Graphic Design Blogs?
• 99 Sites ALL Designers Must Know About
• The Best Graphic Design Articles from 34 Top Design Blogs as Chosen By The Authors Themselves
• 50 Websites to follow if you’re into Web Design
• OPML To HTML Convertor Tool

Enjoy, subscribe and comment and I’ll try to improve this article as good as I can! Tell me your opinion, because otherwise how can I know what You like, don’t like and how can I improve this blog to make it maybe to your new home too!

Don’t forget to check also my last discovery – it’s very unique social bookmarking site, but guess what, it showcases only WordPress related articles, freebies, tutorials..and things like that, pretty cool don’t you think?

Updated list – now there are 14 Wordpress Showcase sites and 2 Wordpress related social bookmarking sites!

1.WeLoveWp

This site is dedicated to showcase only WordPress based sites, very good collection and website, I think this is the most popular Wordpress showcase site for now.

2. WP Inspiration

Website showcasing the best WordPress sites on the Internet – at least they are saying so. Now it’s your turn to judge this expression.

3.LoopPress

This is one more site, created by one more WordPress fan, who really want to know how other developers and designers are using ut, designing for it and adding to it and LoopPress is a gallery devoted to beautiful websites, blogs and themes built on the Wordpress platform.

4.WPLuxe

WPLuxe brings you news on the top Premium WordPress themes and plugins, and provides a showcase of gorgeous sites using Premium Themes.

5.Official WordPress Showcase

Also some time ago WordPress added showcase section to their own site too, where you can rate, vote and submit Your WordPress based designs.

6. WPCube

This site is created to showcase best designed Wordpress sites around the net, main objective is to display well designed unique WP themes created by great designers and the gallery is updated frequently, the sites listed are collected while we browse the net or submitted by our visitors or by authors themselves…

7. WP Garden

WP Garden – is here to highlight some of the beautiful websites, created using WordPress. It gives an opportunity for the site creators to show off their work and it also benefits common people as a means of inspiration. All websites featured here are carefully chosen by a panel of experts.

8. WP Float

Here at WP Float you will find an up-to-date collection of websites created using WordPress – truly amazing and open source platform.

9. WPInspire

WPInspire is is a place where beautifully designed websites powered by WordPress are showcased.

Its purpose is to showcase designers’ work and be source of inspiration for others.

10. MixCSS

Also one more beautiful website showcase site, not completely dedicated to blog websites, but has inspiring section there. One friend of mine told me this site is really previous year treasure mine, must know this one.

11. Best Web Gallery

Again not completely dedicated, but with great Blog section there, I am sure you’ve heard about this one.

12. CSSArtilery

CSSArtillery, showcase of web standards state-of-the-art & inspirational websites from all around the globe. Not specifically created for blog showcasing, but they have a nifty “Blogging” section there.

Of course, there are many web-design showcase sites with blogging sections, but I just featured three best ones in my opinion. If you feel I am thinking wrong, you can always add your picks to create this article more complete!

13. WpVote

At last I found this site and was very excited about it, maybe you’ll feel the same way, not really showcase site – but something every WordPress lover will evaluate.

WpVote is the social bookmarking site for everything related to WordPress, from hacks to news.

*Updated List

Thanks to regular readers I found out about 2 more Wordpress Showcase site and one more Wordpress related social bookmarking site:

14. WpCount

Nice showcase site with 341 Websites Currently Submitted!

15. WpForest

16. Wp-Popular

One more beautiful Wordpress related social bookmarking site, I happen to know about.

This time I wanted to showcase really successful and creative blog designs I found through a lot of searching and comparing to give necessary inspiration for you, and actually for myself too a little bit. I divided all 55 blog designs in three categories – Dark Design Showcase 1-10, Colorful and Very Creative Design Showcase 11-45 and Clean And Elegant Design Showcase 46-55. Hope You enjoy this one!

Dark Design Showcase

1.RoH Blog

2.TextureLovers

3. OTK47

4. AppStorm

5.CSSEvo

6. ArtsThanea

7.Kineda

8. Level Opacity

9. Lubuski Hiphop

10. JosDigital

Colorful and Very Creative Design Showcase

11.Phodana

12.WCRIA Design

13.Cult-Foo

14. Forty Two

15.OcTwelve

16.Productive Dreams

17.Raduceuca

18.PopCultureTees

19.BlogSolid

20.Design Bombs

21.DavidG

22.EvanEckard

23.Tutorial9

24. Samk

25.I Love Colors

26. PodLob

27. DezinerFolio

28.DaleAnthony

29.HenryJones

30. EntropiaBlog

31.Ectomachine

32.LeslyG

33.NYQ Design Group

34.DreamScaper

35. DesignLab

36. Avalon Star

37. DaveJay

38. Zinac

39. Missy

40.FlickOut

41.IconDock

42.ElitistSnob

43. Lense

44. Chronus

45. SplitDaDiz

Clean And Elegant Design Showcase

46.MonoFactor

47. E-Paper Central

48.Kirstin Pauk

49. Line25

50. iPhone Toolbox

51.Campr

52. Brian Jeremy

53.TheCreativeDisctrict

54. Made By On

55.I Love Typography

Other similar resources and further reading:

• 60+ Unusual WP Blog Designs
• 50 Beautiful Blog Designs
• Now More Than Ever: 50 More Excellent Blog Designs
• 45 More Excellent Blog Designs
• 100 of the best inspirational blog designs
• 100 Nice and Beautiful Blog Design
• 40 Excellent Blog Designs
• Blog Designs: 50 Of The Most Creative

Official Twitter badges are boring, let’s put something fresh in your design!

Birdies: Cute Free Twitter Icons For Your Blog

Create a Twitter Style Bird Mascot

Using some basic shapes, effects, and gradients this tutorial will show you how to create a Twitter mascot for your blog or website.

Follow me on Twitter badges / logos / buttons

30 Free Vector Twitter Buttons Download

Twitter Birds by InaliBlast

Tweet Tweet Cute Tweet: Another Free Twitter Bird Icon

Free Twitter Bird Icon Set

8 Free Cute & Simple Twitter Bird Vector Graphics

31 Twitter buttons and icons

Commercial Use is forbidden.

6 Free New Social Icons – Digg, Twitter, Stumble, RSS, Delicious & Reddit

The Cutest Freebies: Twitter Bird Icons & Illustration

10 Twitter Buttons for free

Free Twitter Graphics

Free Vector Icons Set + Twitter Birdy Icon

IconTexto WebDev Social Bookmark Icon

It’s Twitter Time! Free vector icon set

Twitter Icons with Attitude

Follow Me…Twitter Icon

Free Twitter Icon

Practika: A Free Icon Set

Twitter bird vector icon set

Free Fat Twitters icon pack

(max)Icone Blog – Set #3

Twitter Icon

2 Twitter Icons

Twitter Icons .PSD by JuliusX

Tweeties: A free icon set

Web 2.0 0rigami

Twitter Block Icons

Kweet- A Free Twitter Bird Icon

Free PSD’s Give Away: High Resolution Twitter Bird Icons

Twitter Eggs

Free Twitter Caps

Twitter bird icon

IconsPedia Search: Twitter

This website has listed and featured many lovely twitter icons, now there are 46 Twitter related icons.

FREE TWITTER BUTTONS (Includes Animated GIFs) ( nearly 30 buttons)

Lisa’s twitter bird

40 Cute Free Twitter Graphics: Badges, Icons & Buttons…

Twignature

This webpage is Japanese creation that asks you to enter your Twitter account name and rapidly have personalized Twitter button with you name on it, several sizes and icons available there.

TweetDeck Replacement Icons by tylersticka

Cute Tweeters Icon Set

Free Twitter Icons – Happy Birds

Twitter 4 by jasonh1234

Freebies: 2 Awesome Twitter Icons

TweeterIcon

Just enter your Twitter ID, copy the code and you can use linked twitter icon right away, wide variety of different Twitter icons.

50 Free and Exclusive Twitter Icons

Huge giveaway from WebDesignerDepot.

Free Rockin’ Twitter Icon for Your Blog

Twitter Icon – Follow me

Alternate Icon For Twitter

Flickr Twitter Bird Pool

This is also nice Flickr group trying to get featured many birdies!

As always feel free to add your links! Maybe there are something I didn’t listed here?

This list just features 22 resource sites and several very well written articles with premade pattern collections, it was very interesting for me to write this article, I am hoping it will be interesting reading and useful resource for bookmarking.

DinPattern ( ~120 patterns)

SquidFingers ( 158 patterns)

Pattern8

DreamsTime

Did you know there are huge collection of free patterns as well?

Alice Grafixx (609 patterns)

Pattern4U Kollermedia (174 patterns)

Kaliber 10000 (k10k)

Noqta Dromoscopia (33 patterns)

TileMachine ( 130668 patterns)

Really huge collection, a lot of old patterns, but in the bunch I found many useful ones too, there are also pattern maker.

EveryDayIcons ( ~100 patterns)

Ava7Patterns (~ 1000 patterns)

Many creative patterns, also mouse over evil ladybug, kill the fly for extra fun – beautiful website.

Citrus Moon Patterns

Site hasn’t been updated for a while, but still many beautiful patterns can be found there.

DeviantArt Photoshop Patterns

Deviantart is everything related to art, of course there are big collections of patterns!

HoverWebDesign

Design and all those advertisements aren’t quite welcoming, but still a lot of patterns there.

PaternCooler

Another great pattern collections:

200+ Beautiful Seamless Patterns Perfect for Web Design

1000+ Background Patterns You can Use for Free

Nice picks from DeviantArt, big collection.

250+ Free Seamless Vector Patterns Ideal for Print and Web Design

100+ Free Seamless Vector Patterns Ideal for Web Design and Print Work

400+ High Quality Patterns

Beautiful picks from Deviantart.

The Ultimate Collection Of Free Photoshop Patterns

And of course how could I miss the ultimate collection with Photoshop patterns from SmashingMagazine.

Huge Collection of High Quality Patterns

Nice and very fresh collection from VectorDiary.

And little add, Ronald from Naldzgraphics also compiled nice pattern list which I feel is suitable for including in this article.

Here You go -

500+ Truly Useful Resources of Free High Quality Patterns

I also added WordPress site monthly download statistics to let you know how popular these plugins are, but don’t underestimate new plugins. Just scroll through the list and maybe you’ll get several new features on your blog to make life easier. Hope you like this!

1. WP Greet-Box

This plugin lets you show a different greeting message to your new visitors depending on their referrer url.

For example, when a Digg user clicks through from Digg, they will see a message reminding them to digg your post if they like it. Another example, when a visitor clicks through from Twitter, they will see a message suggesting them to twit the post and follow you on Twitter. You can also set a default greeting message for new visitors (not matching any referrer URLs) suggesting them to subscribe to your RSS feed. Having these targeted suggestions will help your blog increase exposure, loyal readership, and reader interaction

Downloads 39,232

2. My Page Order

Gives you manual control over the order of your Wordpress pages by letting you easily set an explicit order. Works with subpages too. Now with built-in Widget support.

Downloads 93,157

3. Stray Random Quotes

Stray Random Quotes helps you collect and display random quotes everywhere on your blog with many features. The plugin is so flexible that it can be used to display random words of all sorts: taglines, “leave a response” messages, footer or header sections etc.

Downloads 21,667

4. No Self Pings

Prevents WordPress from sending pings to your own site, for example there are times when you want to link directly related articles like Part 1, Part 2, by default site will get pinged by itself.

Really self explaining so this time I didn’t add any screenshot to this one.

Downloads 12,539

5. GD Star Rating

GD Star Rating plugin allows you to set up rating and review system for posts, pages and comments in your blog. You can set many options for displaying the rating stars, and also add widgets into the sidebars for displaying top ratings and other statistics generated by the plugin. Plugin includes advanced settings panels that will allow you to control many aspects of rating. Plugin also supports multi ratings.

Downloads 87,474

6. SEO Smart Links

SEO Smart Links provides automatic SEO benefits for your site in addition to custom keyword lists, nofollow and much more.

SEO Smart Links can automatically link keywords and phrases in your posts and comments with corresponding posts, pages, categories and tags on your blog.

Further SEO Smart links allows you to set up your own keywords and set of matching URLs. Finally SEO Smart links allows you to set nofollow attribute and open links in new window.

Downloads 59,285

7. Broken Link Checker

This plugin will monitor your blog looking for broken links and let you know if any are found. Pretty useful in long run especially if you have lots of content on your blog.

Downloads 63,951

8. Google Analyticator

Google Analyticator adds the necessary JavaScript code to enable Google Analytics logging on any WordPress blog. This eliminates the need to edit your template code to begin logging.

Downloads 347,793

9. Post Ideas

Manage and keep track of your blog article or post ideas. I usueally save my links on notepad, but this is a great way how to start writing article or just collect your ideas doing a little research. Set priority, sort ideas, everything is up to you.

Downloads 1,769

10. HeadSpace2 SEO

HeadSpace2 is an all-in-one meta-data manager that allows you to fine-tune the SEO potential of your site, click through the link to see many features. Pretty popular plugin already, but I think in most cases underestimated, since there are All in One SEO Pack.

Downloads 190,535

11. Eventr – Event Registration Plugin for WordPress

Use this plugin if you want to use your blog an an event management tool. This will let people signup for the event – it can also show a list of all the attendees. Once the event is done, you can just deactivate the event – and no more signup will be allowed.

Downloads 2,776

12. FV Community News

Many blogs out there can only produce a couple articles a week while their visitors ask for loads more. It’s sometimes a good idea to add related articles from other blogs to your sidebar. Adding them manually takes lots of time we don’t have. With this new Community News plugin you allow your visitors to add articles to the sidebar. Complete with moderation panel and a settings page, you can sit back while you have full control about the look and articles that being posted.

Downloads 4,679

13. Sphere Related Content

The Sphere Related Content plug-in displays an icon link at the end of your blog posts. When a reader clicks on the icon link, Sphere finds blog posts and media articles related to your content. See it in action on over 1 billion article pages on popular media sites and blogs like the WSJ, New York Times, TechCrunch and Real Clear Politics. See it live on intowit website.

Downloads 29,274

14. Welcome Visitor

Welcome-visitor is a wordpress plugin, which will welcome visitors ( who come from others sites, e.g. google search, yahoo! serach or your friends’ links), and ask them to bookmark your site or to subscribe your rss feed. It will help you to get more readers and more attention!

Downloads 2,565

15. Role Scoper

Role Scoper is a comprehensive enrichment for access control in WordPress, giving you CMS-like control of permissions. Assign reading, editing or administration roles to users or groups on a page-specific, category-specific or other content-specific basis.

Downloads 7,184

16. Live Countdown Timer

Widget that will enable you to show a beautifull live countdown timer for an event, where y ou can choose from different designs. Requires JavaScript Enabled (for the countdown to work) or it will not work.

Downloads 882

17. Sliding Panel

The Sliding Panel plugin adds a panel that opens and closes to the top of your WordPress-powered blog. If you’re in need of an area to house more content yet not get in the way, this is the ideal plugin.

The plugin is built off the wonderful jQuery library and is fully widgetized, so you can add any content you want. If you want a login form. Add it. If you want welcome text. No problem. Category list? You’re covered.

This plugin is for WordPress 2.8+ only.

Downloads 723

18. Adsense Stats

Adsense Stats is a widget for WordPress to display detailed statistics about your Google Adsense earnings without requiring login into your Google account.

Downloads 280

19. WP Wall

WP Wall is a “Wall” widget that appears in your blog’s side bar. Readers can add a quick comment about the blog as a whole, and the comment will appear in the sidebar immediately, without reloading the page.

All comments are internally handled by WordPress so that means you have normal comment moderation, SPAM protection and new comment notification.

WP Wall is fully customizable with a CSS file and included graphics.

Downloads 58,722

20. Different Posts Per Page

“Different Posts Per Page” plugin will allow you to modify the number of posts shown in home, category, archive or search page. You can even set the order of posts by ascending or descending order.

There’s more settings if you prefer more control over your blog. You can set custom number of posts for other pages as well like: Author, Paged, Feed, Date, Month etc.

Downloads 24,408

*updated!

21. Page Link Manager

Page Link Manager is a WordPress plugin that adds an administration panel that allows you to pick which page links are included in your site’s navigation. Adding it to your WordPress installation is as easy as ever

Downloads 26,609

Maybe you have some more new, but promising plugins in mind? Share them with us!

From jQuery homepage – “jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.”

jQuery definitely is one of the biggest trends coming in up-to-date designs and the best of all, everything is done without countless code lines. Keeping in mind such aspects I created hopefully pretty complete collection of jQuery sites, tip and trick articles, video screencasts, tutorials, cheat sheets and lot’s more. Took a while to compile and research was really solid. Enjoy as always!

Getting Started

1.7 reasons why you really should learn jQuery

2. jQuery Crash Course

Introduction to Jquery, further reading and basics.

Huge Tutorial Series From Beginner To Intermediate User, Tips And Tricks

3. jQuery for Absolute Beginners: The Complete Series : Video Tutorials

Over the course of about a month, ThemeForest released fifteen video tutorials that teach you EXACTLY how to use the jQuery library. You’ll start by downloading the library and eventually work our way up to creating an AJAX style-switcher. Beautiful learning and resource!

4. 10 jQuery Tutorials for Designers by WebDesignerWall

This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery.

5.4 Jquery Easy Tips And Tricks Tutorial

6.jQuery Essentials Presentation at MinneWebCon (102 pages)

Very well written jquery essentials presentation. Really worth the time.

7.12 Useful and Handy jQuery Tips and Tricks

8.Improve your jQuery – 25 excellent tips

Great tips, even some intermediate users could now know few of these.

9.Build An Incredible Login Form With jQuery

In this tutorial, you’ll create a sliding panel, that slides in to reveal more content, using JQuery to animate the height of the panel.

Demo

10.Create a Photo Admin Site Using PHP and jQuery : ScreenCast

11.Building a jQuery-Powered Tag-Cloud

12.Wordpress Sidebar Turned Apple-Flashy Using jQuery UI

This tutorial assumes that you have a wordpress engine running on a server that you have access to upload files, download files and browse to.

Demo

13.How to Load In and Animate Content with jQuery

Demo

14.Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery

Demo

15.Styling Buttons and Toolbars with the jQuery UI CSS Framework

Coded real-world examples of themeable buttons and toolbars using the jQuery UI CSS framework, a system of classes developed for jQuery UI widgets that can easily be applied to any plugin, and even static content.

Demo

16.jQuery Slideshows With the Cycle Plugin

The jQuery Cycle plugin allows developers to quickly and easily create a slideshow out of anything contained within a given div element. However, this is more than just your grandmother’s slideshow fade plugin. The jQuery cycle plugin comes with a vast array of transition effects for you to use.

Demo

17. InnerFade with JQuery

InnerFade is a small plugin for the jQuery-JavaScript-Library. It’s designed to fade you any element inside a container in and out.

These elements could be anything you want, e.g. images, list-items, divs. Simply produce your own slideshow for your portfolio or advertisings.

Demo

18.Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP

Demo

19.Setting Equal Heights with jQuery

Demo

20.jQuery Tools: Scrollable

Scroll your HTML with eye candy

Demo

21.jQuery Tools: Tooltips

Demo

22.jQuery Tools: Overlay

Yet another, beautiful image displaying way – similar to popular Lightbox, but this one seems to be more elegant.

Demo

23.jQuery Tools: Expose

Expose is a JavaScript tool that exposes selected HTML elements on the page so that the surrounding elements will gradually fade out. Works like a charm if you want to stand out.

Demo

24.Create an amazing music player using mouse gestures & hotkeys in jQuery: Screencast

Demo

25.Create an Amazon Books Widget with jQuery and XML

Demo

26.Creating a “Filterable” Portfolio with jQuery

This tutorial will show you how to make portfolio “filtering by category” a little more interesting with just a little bit of jQuery.

Demo

27. jQuery Hover Sub Tag Cloud

Demo

28. How To Build Quick and Simple AJAX Forms with JSON Responses

Demo

29. Simple jQuery Spy Effect

jQuery Spy Effect scrolls the list in a beautiful way.

Demo

30. Slider Gallery Tutorial: Screencast

A tutorial explaining how to create a similar effect used to showcase the products on the Apple web site.

Demo

31. Semantic Blockquotes with jQuery

Blockquotes can really assist in making your text visually appealing. Jack Franklin gives us a great tutorial on how to create blockquotes using jQuery. Even beginners to jQuery will be able to learn how to make these blockquotes.

32. Jcrop – the jQuery Image Cropping Plugin

Demo

33. Horizontal Scrolling Menu made with CSS and jQuery

Demo

34. jQuery Sequential List Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to use jQuery to add a sequent of CSS classes to create a graphical list. The second example will show you how to add a comment counter to a comment list using jQuery’s prepend feature.

Demo

35. How easy to create a slide tabbed box using jQuery

Demo

36. How to Mimic the iGoogle Interface

This tutorial will be showing you how to create a customizable interface with widgets. The finished product will be a sleek and unobtrusively coded iGoogle-like interface which has a ton of potential applications!

Demo

37. jGrowl

jGrowl is a jQuery plugin that raises unobtrusive messages within the browser, similar to the way that OS X’s Growl Framework works.

38. Creating accessible charts using canvas and jQuery

Demo

39. jQuery and Google Maps Tutorial

This tutorial will walk you through how to get started using jQuery inside the Google Maps environment.

Demo

40. How To Create An Amazing jQuery Style Switcher

his tutorial will be showing you how to create a style switcher using jQuery and PHP. The end result will be an unobtrusive & entirely degradable dynamic style switcher which will be quick and easy to implement.

Demo

41. How-To: Reddit-style Voting With PHP, MySQL And jQuery

This tutorial will show you how to create a voting system similar to Reddit with jQuery, PHP and MySQL.

Demo

42. Selecting and Styling External Links, PDFs, PPTs, and other links by file extension using jQuery

This tutorial will explain how to use jQuery to select and style PDFs, PPT, images, and external links all differently using jQuery and CSS.

Further Reading, Advanced Tips and Tutorial Sites

43.Official Jquery Tutorial Directory

As first add is obvious, but on their official website you can find many tutorials related to mastering Your Jquery skills even in several different languages.

44.LearningJquery

Learning jQuery is a multi-author weblog providing jQuery tutorials, demos, and announcements. They have tutorials for all skill levels, and each entry is categorized by level of difficulty.

45.15 Days Of jQuery

Examples and tutorials to help you learn JQuery – it hasn’t been updated for a while, but still a lot of useful articles you’ll find there.

46.jQuery for Designers

Learn how easy it is to apply web interaction using jQuery – beautiful tutorials and website, if you still can’t find what you need, you can even request a tutorial.

47.Ultimate Jquery List

jQuery Ajax tutorials to jQuery UI examples, you’ve found the ultimate list of tutorials and plugins for jQuery! Everything from Ajax file uploaders to RSS feed plugins, all on one of the longest pages you’ll ever scroll.

48. Bassistance

This blog is about programming (with focus on web applications and JavaScript), music and other stuff the author happens to write about. It’s also the home of several jQuery plugins.

49. Remi Sharp’s Blog

Site with several good tips and articles related to jquery, also the same man behind useful tutorial site – jQueryForDesigners I showcased above.

Online jQuery Cheat Sheets

50.VisualJquery 1.2.6

An online cheat sheet and visual reference to Jquery, where you can find Jquery functions well explained, updated to jQuery 1.2.6. version. While playing with Jquery, this website seems to be a very useful place to visit.

51.jQuery 1.2 cheatsheet wallpaper

The size of wallpaper is 1280×960, two color variations.

52.jQuery 1.2 Cheat Sheet (*pdf file)

53. ColorCharge Jquery CheatSheet

Further reading, similar articles from other resources:

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54. UsejQuery

I got great addition to the list from mustardamus – UsejQuery website is inspirational website showcasing all jQuery based sites and regularly updating. Also there’s blog ThisBlog.UsejQuery with several jQuery tutorials You should check out.

55. jQuery User Interface

I don’t know how I missed this one too, but now here it is, many effects you’ll find here already been premade for you with great support.

jQuery UI is an open source library of interface components — interactions, full-featured widgets, and animation effects — based on the stellar jQuery javascript library . Each component is built according to jQuery’s event-driven architecture (find something, manipulate it) and is themeable, making it easy for developers of any skill level to integrate and extend into their own code.

Well, good luck in your learning process and feel free to add another great tutorials, links, tips, tricks and related sites.