Packaging design has one primary goal, and that is to attract customers’ attention away from competing products.  This is usually done by a unique and attractive visual presentation.  Anything from design styles to shapes and materials used in the packaging itself can make all the difference and impact sales of a product and how it’s viewed by customers.

Today lets take a look at some deliciously amazing food packaging examples for your inspiration

Kiyu Taro

Food Packaging

Sir Kensington’s Scooping Ketchup

Food Packaging

Waitrose High Fruit Jams

Food Packaging

Rahal Farms

Food Packaging

Steve’s Leaves

Food Packaging

Northern Spring Water

Food Packaging

Chocolats

Food Packaging

Pom Wonderful

Food Packaging

Babees Honey

Food Packaging

Norsk Ol

Food Packaging

Jelly Fruits

Food Packaging

Jooze

Food Packaging

Tesco Cream

Food Packaging

Coffee Time

Food Packaging

Borderfields

Food Packaging

One Village Coffee

Food Packaging

The Olive Experience

Food Packaging

My Smoothie

Food Packaging

Baba Coffee

Food Packaging

Via XX Settembre

Food Packaging

Moonstruck Chocolate Bar

Food Packaging

Krc&Ko Popcorn

Food Packaging

Love Tub

Food Packaging

Chip Ship

Food Packaging

Milk Cocktail by Joe

Food Packaging

Chrome is now the second most popular browser in the world, surpassing Firefox at the end of last year.  One major reason is its rapidly expanding  One of the reasons it has grown in popularity could be because of its expansive Chrome Web Store. In this “store” you will find thousands of applications that will extend the functionality of Chrome.  Anything from games to productivity and security apps.  

Today, lets take a look at some of the more useful and all around fantastic chrome extensions that will make your work day more productive, cut down on wasted time and a more pleasurable experience.

Search by Image

Once ‘Search by Image‘ has been installed, you can right click any image on the web and do a search by image on Google and find where that image and similar images are being used on the web.

Chrome Extensions

Page Rank Status

Shows Google PageRank and AlexaRank of current web page, quick access to Geo IP Location, Whois, Alexa, backlinks and indexed pages

Chrome Extensions

StayFocusd

StayFocusd is a productivity extension for Google Chrome that helps you stay focused on work by restricting the amount of time you can spend on time-wasting websites. Once your allotted time has been used up, the sites you have blocked will be inaccessible for the rest of the day.

Chrome Extensions

Google Publisher Toolbar

An essential extension for anyone who makes money through Google Adsense. The extension has two main features. Firstly, it lets you easily glance at your stats quickly without logging into your account. Secondly, it places an in site ad overlay over the advertisements on your website that shows exactly how much each zone is making.

Chrome Extensions

Awesome Screenshot

Capture the whole page or any portion, annotate it with rectangles, circles, arrows, lines and text, one-click upload to share.

Chrome Extensions

Google Similar Pages

Enjoying the page you’re looking at and interested in other similar pages?  Trying to find more pages about a topic you’re researching, but having a hard time coming up with the right query on Google?  Google Similar Pages can help. Now you can quickly preview and explore other pages that are similar to the one you are browsing — on the fly.

Chrome Extensions

Boomerang

For Gmail users, Boomerang will prove very useful. Schedule messages to be sent at specific point in the future, or even at a random time. Prepare email reminders, or schedule that reply for better timeliness. Boomerang integrates nicely with Gmail, and scheduling messages is a simple matter making a selection through a easy access drop down menu.

Chrome Extensions

Ghostery

See exactly what a website is tracking with Ghostery. It shows trackers, web bugs, pixels and other hidden scripts. It can also be used to block images and embedded objects from websites you don’t trust.

Chrome Extensions

Taskforce

Use Taskforce and convert emails within Gmail into tasks with a one click. Add collaborators by linking their emails to each project, so that they can interact with and update tasks even if they don’t use this Google Chrome extension.

Chrome Extensions

Google Chrome to Phone Extension

This extension adds a button to Chrome that lets you seamlessly push links, maps, and currently selected text and phone numbers to your Android device.

Chrome Extensions

Incredible StartPage

Replace your boring Chrome default page with the Incredible StartPage. The app replaces your start page with a stylish board that shows all your bookmarks, apps and closed tabs. There’s also a handy note taking feature and links to Gmail and Google Calendar.

Chrome Extensions

TinEye Reverse Image Search

Similar to Search by Image from Google, TinEye locates other versions of a selected image. Find out where else an image has been used, or higher resolution versions. Easy reverse image search is just a right-click away!

Chrome Extension

Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer

By clicking on a link for a supported document format you’ll be taken to the Google Docs Viewer. No more downloading large files and launching another application just to view it. The Google Docs Viewer does not work on files that require a log-in to view, but you can make it ignore specific domains in the options so you will still download the file.

Split Screen

Split Screen is a simple extension that lets you view two websites at the same time, side by side, without having to resize your windows.

Chrome Extensions

Temporary Email Alias

The way Temporary Email Alias works is, right-click on the email address field and select generate an email address. All of the messages will be forwarded to your Gmail account.

Chrome Extensions

dotEPUB

Love reading Wikipedia but simply don’t have the time right now to read through everything? dotEPUB lets you turn entire web pages into ebooks, so that you can read them on your favorite e-reader, tablet, smartphone, and of course PC

Chrome Extensions

iMacros for Chrome

iMacros was designed to automate the most repetitious tasks on the web. If there’s an activity you have to do repeatedly, just record it in iMacros. The next time you need to do it, the entire macro will run at the click of a button! With iMacros, you can quickly and easily fill out web forms, remember passwords, create a webmail notifier, and more.

Chrome Extensions

One of the more popular and sought after design styles is consistently that of vintage and retro styles in the web design community. The term retro is used to describe or classify culturally outdated or aged trends, fashion, or fashion, from the overall post-modern past.  Today lets take a look at more than 20 great retro websites that will do wonders for your inspiration.

Practice Cafe

Retro Websites

Amelia Earhart

Retro Websites

Lather Bee Rich

Retro Websites

This is Tommy

Retro Websites

Forefathers Group

Retro Websites

Silky Szeto

Retro Websites

Mom and Pop Corn

Retro Websites

Atticus Pet Design

Retro Websites

82 Design

Retro Websites

Miss Havisham’s Attic

Retro Websites

Bright Bulb Design Studio

Retro Websites

Vancouver WordPress

Retro Websites

Huxley Prairie Festival

Retro Websites

Kultika

Retro Websites

Tangled Decals

Retro Websites

Bean Exchange

Retro Websites

Dale Inghram

Retro Websites

Big Sweater Design

Retro Websites

All Star Lanes

Retro Websites

Bit Foundry

Retro Websites

Min Tran

Retro Websites

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Retro Websites

In 2012 business cards need not be dull or boring – lets will take a look at the opposite end of the spectrum.  Presenting a great looking business card to a potential business connection can often make the difference between getting the job or not.   It goes without saying that most ordinary business cards end up in the trash after awhile.  Unusual shapes, materials, interactive elements and concepts can really help set you apart from your competition.

In our quest to find the best, most creative design out around in order to inspire people with new ideas, today lets take a look at 40 more extremely creative and memorable business cards.

Smart phones became really smart these days. People came out of phobia to access internet only on PC and using tabs and mobiles now. Whether it could be a business site or news site or a simple blog, it’s important now more than ever to have a mobile version of our websites.

Thankfully WordPress community woke up early and started creating mobile friendly WordPress themes. There are quite a lot of WordPress mobile friendly themes out there now. Few are free and others were paid.

We gathered 20 best mobile friendly WordPress themes that would be handy for you. Hope you enjoy the collection.
1. White Board Frame Work (Free)

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2. On Demand ($49.99)

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3. Vidley Mobile Theme ($39.99)

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4. WP Tap (Free)

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5. Mobius (Free)

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6. 1stGiantLeap Mobile Template Word press Edition ($15)

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7. Simple ($20)

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8. i Phonsta (Free)

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9. My Mobile Page Word press Theme ($20)

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10. i World ($25)

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11. i Themes 2 (Free)

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12. Yoko Themes (Free)

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13. WP Touch (Free)

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14. Word Press Mobile Pack (Free)

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15. ARI Word Press Theme (Free)

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16. O Box Mobile Theme ($50)

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17. Mobile News Mirror Theme (9)

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18. My Mobile page V3 Word press Theme ($20)

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19. Touch Mobile and tablet theme (20)

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20. My Mobile V2 Page ($20)

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Over the past several months we have been looking at various types of Photography and today we will be focusing on Slow shutter speed photography.  Slow shutter speed photography is the process of closing the aperture  and therefore capturing less light during the shot, allowing a photograph to be “slowed down” and taken over a longer period of time without becoming overexposed.   Its an breathtaking method of photography for capturing high speed motion or a slice of the world around you.

Today lets take a look at an amazing Collection of Slow Shutter Speed Photography for Your Inspiration

Burn Blue

Slow Shutter Speed

Phoenix Light Rail

Slow Shutter Speed

Niagara Falls by Night

Slow Shutter Speed

Lipstick

Slow Shutter Speed

Tyler Westcott

Slow Shutter Speed

Pinwheels

Slow Shutter Speed

Super S

Slow Shutter Speed

Shanghai

Slow Shutter Speed

Amusement Ride

Slow Shutter Speed

Lighthouse

Slow Shutter Speed

Glowing Barrel

Slow Shutter Speed

Light Speed

Slow Shutter Speed

Paris Fountain

Slow Shutter Speed

Marble Canyon Waterfall

Slow Shutter Speed

Wagner Rides

Slow Shutter Speed

Slide

Slow Shutter Speed

Circuit of Iridescence

Slow Shutter Speed

Tribal

Slow Shutter Speed

Feira de Cristova

Slow Shutter Speed

Symphony of Lights

Slow Shutter Speed

The Starseed Lure

Slow Shutter Speed

Slow Shutter Speed

Slow Shutter Speed

Bronxville Falls

Slow Shutter Speed

Serenity

Slow Shutter Speed

Going Nowhere

Slow Shutter Speed

In today’s world of web development, WordPress has really taken its place as a top notch tool for creating websites.  In order to keep your site well known and well visited you need to invest time in Social Media.  In 2012 those in development and especially in WordPress, tap the power of WordPress social networking since it is a very important factor for site traffic and popularity.
If your viewers like your content they would always want to share that article with their friends and fellow readers and followers. It is always a wise way to provide a list of all the most used social bookmarking sites right into your article. To enable this exploding trend there are a lot of wordpress social bookmarking plugins that are available all around the web.

Today lets take a look at some of the best social media/networking wordpress plugins.

Disqus Comment System

There are a lot of different comment systems out there that take the place of the native WordPress one, but Disqus wins for both its functionality as well as its streamlined design.  It has full functionality which provides for threaded comments, white listing and black listing of commenters by username and/or IP address, and of course the ability to allow your users to post their comments to Facebook and Twitter in addition to your blog post.

Best Social Plugins

Sociable 

This is one of the most popular social media plugins of WordPress. This plugin will place the buttons to numerous social bookmarking sites on each of your posts, so that users can easily vote for you. It also allows you to choose the buttons you want to include.

Best Social Plugins

Gregarious

With Gregarious you can promote your blog posts on Digg, Reddit, Del.icio.us and many more. It provides many different options that you can customize according to your needs.

iShare jQuery Sharing Buttons for WordPress

iShare is a professional social sharing buttons plugin for your personal blogs and busineses.

I Love Social Bookmarking

This plug-in focuses on providing WordPress users with the ability to submit their blogs to social media services like Digg, del.icio.us, Facebook, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Technorati and more.

Notable

Similar to Sociable in function, Notable attaches an icon bar which allows your readers to send your posts into the proper networking and bookmarking channels.

SEO Facebook Comment

This plugin helps you leverage the power of Facebook by embedding comments in your site. It’s easy to setup and you can have it running within a few minutes. The plugin also allows you to define the width of the Facebook comment box to better fit your site’s theme.

Instant Highlighter

When visitors click on highlighter button, their mouse cursor changes to a pen and then they can highlight and post any part of your web-page to any Social Network or Social Bookmark sites.

SexyBookmarks 

Social bookmarking plugin, includes the usual Facebook, Twitter, +1 but adds a huge variety of other services – confession, some of them even we had never heard of! The plugin interface lets you pick and choose which social bookmark services are displayed and how they appear – highly configurable.

Social Metrics

This is a great reporting plugin which tracks how many times your posts have been shared across the following social networks: Twitter, Facebook, Google +1, Google Buzz, StumbleUpon, Digg and LinkedIn. The results are displayed in tabular format and are accessed from the WordPress Admin bar. It is easily configurable to display results for posts and/or pages and you can filter results to display by category and month.

Digg Digg

Digg Digg is one of the most feature packed social media plugins you will find. It main feature is the way it integrates with your design, you can have it just sit on your page or float and scroll with your mouse.

Drag-To-Share Extended

Drag and drop the content you wish to share on anyone of your favorite social media sites.

While it is important to keep on top of and practice our HTML and CSS skills sometimes we need tools to help us stay at the top of our game.  Finding new resources, tools and ways to do routine and especially more cutting edge tasks can help us save time, streamline our tasks and improve our skills.  With these great CSS tools and generators we will be able to create stylish, optimized and cross browser friendly websites

Today lets take a look at 25 Best CSS Tools and Generators for Designers and Developers.

CSS Template Generator

Generates a basic CSS stylesheet for an HTML page and gives you the CSS code for it, which you will need to copy/paste in your stylesheet.

CSS Tools

Quick CSS

CSS Tools

Layout Generator

Generating multi-column and grid layouts with CSS 2.0 techniques using %, px, or em.

CSS Tools

Primer CSS

Just paste some HTML in the box and Primer will pull all classes and IDs to get you started with your stylesheet.

CSS Tools

CSS Text Wrapper

Make your HTML text wrap in other shapes than just boxes.

CSS Tools

The 1KB CSS Grid

This is a brand new procure on the CSS grid that aims to be light weighted. You can use it to simplify page templates in support of content management systems.

CSS Tools

Wordoff

Wordoff applies the following rules to strip the cruft that is pasted into WYSIWYG editors from Word:

• Attributes are removed for all elements except <a>s
• <span>s and <div>s are removed
• Empty elements are removed
• Consecutive line breaks are reduced to two

CSS Tools

Modernizr

Modernizr uses feature detection to test the current browser against upcoming features like rgba(), border-radius, CSS Transitions and many more.

css Tools

CSS Button

Create CSS buttons by choosing your style from several dropdown lists.

CSS Tools

CSS Sorter

CSS Sorter is a free online tool for sorting CSS files. It organizes CSS rules alphabetically so that it will be easier for you to maintain your CSS files.

CSS Tools

CSS Typeset

For CSS newbies, this website lets you enter text and configure it visually, then gives you the CSS.

CSS Tools

CSS Menu Maker

Allows you to create your own customized CSS menus and generates them for you in a simple, HTML/CSS format, so you can download and use them right away. The menus are cross-compatible and will look the same in all the browsers (except maybe transitions for Internet Explorer).

CSS Tools

YAML

Besides being able to select the basic information needed to create a layout, you can also go a bit more in-depth if you have enough knowledge of coding.  The columns and the layout have properties, you have presets, you can play with the flexible grids, choose coding options and many others.

CSS Tools

Moo color finder

Retrieve any website color from CSS files. The cool part? It now even produces Photoshop color palette files.

CSS Tools

Variable Grid System

The variable grid system is a quick way to generate an underlying CSS grid for your site. The CSS generated file is based on the 960 Grid System.

CSS Tools

PrefixMyCSS

PrefixMyCSS helps you save time by letting you write your properties one way. Paste in your code, pres the Prefix button and it adds all of the necessary vendor prefixes for you.

CSS Tools

CSS Table Wizard
You can use this wizard to try out table border styles and create style source code. This wizard applies dynamic HTML to alter the style of the table in place, without loading another page.

CSS Tools

Layer Styles

Layer Styles is a HTML5 app for creating CSS3 in a intuitive way. The interface will remind you a lot of Photoshop.

CSS Tools

Tabs Generator

Tweak size, colors, corners and more, generate your design, then download and use in your css style sheet!

CSS Tools

Csstxt

Csstxt helps you in illustrating the lots of different ways to add a style to a text file with the help of ‘a’, ‘p’ or ‘div’ tags.

CSS Tools

CSS Lint

CSS Lint is a tool to help point out problems with your CSS code. It does basic syntax checking as well as applying a set of rules to the code that look for problematic patterns or signs of inefficiency.

CSS Tools

Ultimate CSS Gradient Generator by ColorZilla

This ultimate CSS gradient editor and generator, created by ColorZilla, is a powerful tool to create CSS gradients having cross-browser support.

CSS Tools

Spiffy Corners – Purely CSS Rounded Corners

Spiffy Corners is a simple way to generate the CSS and HTML you need to create anti-aliased corners without using images

CSS Tools

CSS Generator

It’s similar to the tools for grid systems, only this one doesn’t really keep a grid system (you will have to code it afterwards). You can, however, generate a stylesheet with link colors, font size, margins, hover color and so on – and spare some valuable time later on during the coding.

CSS Tools

CSS Layout Generator

This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.

CSS Tools

Every few months we take a look around, survey the terrain and look for the best, high quality free fonts that are available to download.    Since the choices are endless with thousands released each year, it can be very hard to find the right ones which you will want to use in your designs.   Today lets take a look at a great selection of 20 new fonts to help kick off 2012 on the right foot.   I hope you enjoy the post and would be interested in hearing which are your favorite.

Bree

Free Fonts

Franchise

Free Fonts

Sofia

Free Fonts

Cubano

Free Fonts

Lavandaria

Free Fonts

Sansita One

Free Fonts

La Boheme

Free Fonts

Hands Up

Free Fonts

Cassannet

Free Fonts

FF Basic Logic

Free Fonts

Yeseva

Free Fonts

Lorena

Free Fonts

Code Pro Demo

Free Fonts

232 MKSD Round

Free Fonts

Sketch Block

Free Fonts

Wonderful

Free Fonts

RBNo2

Free Fonts

Dock No11

Free Fonts

Soul Ninja

Free Fonts

Haymaker

Free Fonts

As we have discussed before, jQuery Plugins are there to assist you and let you perform the desired action in a more convenient and speedy manner. This selection of plugins is targeted at the designers and developers who want to extend their sites, create amazingly interactive websites that are attractive and accessible to the widest range of browsers.

Every few months its important to review the most current and exciting jQuery plugins so we can stay on top of what is being developed.  Those involved in jQuery are constantly creating new plugins that useful, creative and cutting edge.  Today lets take a look at some of the brand new and extremely awesome jQuery plugins that we will surely be using in future projects

Parallax Slider with jQuery

Parallax slider with jQuery uses parallax principles and if used with slider to slide image it will give a nice perspective, depth to the whole sliding.

jQuery

Cuepoint

Cuepoint.js is an open source plugin for adding cue-points and subtitles to your HTML5 video.

jQuery

Subway Map Visualization Plugin

Allows you create interactive subway map visualizations with HTML. Its style has been based on London’s Underground maps, with smooth curves & interchange connectors and 45-degree diagonals.

jQuery

jShowOff – A jQuery Content Rotator

A jQuery plugin for creating a rotating content module. It works by creating ‘slides’ from the child elements inside a specified wrapper element on which .jshowoff() is invoked. It then rotates through the slides, with options for controls, links, and more.

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Merging Image Boxes with jQuery

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Image Wall with jQuery

If you want a Image wall with jQuery which arranges the images in a ribbon slider than look no more. Check out this nice tutorial.

jQuery

Timelinr

  Timelinr is a simple jQuery plugin that helps you to give more life to boring timelines. It supports horizontal and vertical layouts, and you can parameterize the majority of attributes: speed, transparency, etc.

jQuery

Dropkick.js

Creating custom dropdowns is usually a tedious process that requires a ton of extra setup time. Oftentimes lacking conveniences that native dropdowns have such as keyboard navigation. DropKick removes the tedium and lets you focus on making the menu look good.

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Sliding Background Image Menu with jQuery

Sliding background image menu with jQuery gives out the possibility to have different background images for each panel. This menu comes with configuration options like image size and hover effect customization.

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Grumble

grumble.js provides special tooltips without the usual limitations of north/east/south/west positioning. A grumble can be rotated around a given element at any angle, all 360 degrees. Any distance can be specified. Any CSS style can be applied. There’s auto-magic size adjustment for use with localized text.

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Mobily Map

MobilyMap is a jQuery plugin (7KB) that can create a Google Maps-like, draggable interface from any image.

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Smart Validate
It is a jQuery credit card validation plugin that makes credit card format validation an easy chore. It makes sure that the user has inserted a legitimate credit card number prior to making the actual transaction. Smart Validate supports the subsequent credit cards: American Express, MasterCard, Visa, Diners Club, and Discover.

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Mobiscroll

Mobiscroll is a wheel scroller user control optimized for touchscreens to easily enter date and/or time. The control can easily be customized to support any custom values and can even be used as an intuitive alternative to the native select control (dropdown list). It is designed to be used on touch devices as an alternative to the jQuery UI date picker.

jQuery

HTML5 jQuery Music Player

A HTML5 music player that uses an awesome design created by Orman Clark and jPlayer.

jQuery

Sliding Panel Photo Wall Gallery with jQuery

If you want to create full page photo wall gallery than this one is for you try this and you thank us later

jQuery

Reveal

Reveal is a lightweight plugin that lets you easily create modal windows.

jQuery

FlexSlider

FlexSlider is an awesome, fully responsive jQuery slider plugin. It has simple, semantic markup, slide and fade animations, and is supported in all major browsers so you won’t have any compatibility issues. Flexslider is built for beginners and pros alike.

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jQuery Formwizard

The form wizard plugin is a jQuery plugin which can be used to create wizard like page flows for forms without having to reload the page in between wizard steps.

jQuery

Diapo
Diapo is a free and open source jQuery slideshow plugin. You can recommend changes or enhancements if you wish.

jQuery

Lettering.js

Lettering.js is a jQuery plugin for radical web typography. Web type is exploding all over the web but CSS currently doesn’t offer complete down-to-the-letter control. Lettering.js solves that: it’s a jQuery plugin to give you that control. Kerning type, editorial design, manageable code, and in general complete control can all be easily done with Lettering.js.

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Related Posts Slide Out Boxes with jQuery and CSS3

Now this got my eye while I was searching to replace my related post area. Very nicely done tutorial and it works as well. We are working on this and will be including Related posts slide out boxes with jQuery and CSS3 on our blog as well.

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Mosaiqy

Mosaiqy is a jQuery plugin for viewing and zooming photo working on Opera 9+, Firefox 3.6+, Safari 3.2+, Chrome and IE7+. Photos are retrieved from a JSON/JSONP data structure and randomly moved inside the grid.

jQuery

FancyMoves a jQuery Product Slider

If you are looking for a jQuery product slider with awesome features than you don’t have to look around anymore. FancyMoves jQuery Product slider is all in one slider solution for images and products. The features of this awesome plugin includes, Multiple navigation ways for user to navigate products/images, ability to lower the size of images as they are entered, easy customization of width, image enlarge with overlayeffect, Hash Tags, panel selection and much more…

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ImageSelect

ImageSelect is a jQuery plugin that allows the user to select an image by means of a nice looking dropdown.

jQuery

Ajax PayPal Cart

AJAX PayPal Cart is a easy to use JQuery plugin for web developer to add a full function shopping cart in their website. The AJAX cart can included a cart widget which allow display of cart information easily. Support PayPal Website Payment Standard.

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