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100 Essential Web Development Tools

Vernon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:22:00 +0000

100 Essential Web Development Tools

As web technologies constantly advance, the skills a developer is expected to have are constantly increasing. When developing your applications, you simply can’t create every element yourself. In an effort to save you a few hours crawling the web in search of the perfect third-party solution, we have compiled this list of essential development resources.

Nivo Slider – Another Awesome jQuery Image Slider

Vernon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:19:53 +0000

Nivo Slider: Another Awesome jQuery Slider

Nivo Slider is another entry into the field of jQuery Image Sliders and it is a great option to use. It has 9 unique transition effects including slices, folds and fades. There are loads of settings you can tweak and the markup is simple, clean and valid. There is built in directional and control navigation and the packed version weighs in at only 5kb.

CodeIgniter from Scratch: File Operations

Vernon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:16:53 +0000

CodeIgniter from Scratch: File Operations

In today’s episode, we are going to be working with several helper functions, related to files, directories, and downloads. We are going to learn how to read, write, download files, and retrieve information about both files and directories. Also at the end we will build a small file browser that utilizes jQuery as well.

185+ Categorized CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets

Vernon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:15:31 +0000

Huge Collection of CSS Tools, Tutorials and Cheat Sheets

In this article you will get access to one of the largest collections ever of CSS Tools, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets etc. It builds on previous CSS posts in tripwire magazine with the purpose of creating a one stop fit all CSS resource. Several new resources have been added.

Creating Seamless Textures from Photos in Photoshop

Vernon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:14:05 +0000

Creating a Seamless Texture from a Photo

In this quick, but very useful tutorial I will teach you how to create a seamless texture from any stock photo or image. This can be very useful when creating repeatable backgrounds for your websites background, or for your 3D modeling projects.

10 Examples Of Futuristic CSS3 Techniques

Vernon — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:12:07 +0000

Futuristic CSS3 Techiniques

CSS3 has not been here for a long time, but talented designers have already found a lot of great ways to use it to create beautiful and efficient techniques. In this article, I’ll show you the top 10 examples of what you can do using the power of CSS3.

8 jQuery Rating Scripts

Vernon — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:08:40 +0000

8 jQuery Rating Scripts

Poll , vote or rating in any new project is very common. We developers, use our most of time in searching good scripts for rating or poll. Today I have collected 8 jquery rating scripts for better user experience for your next project.

Top 10 Best Practices For Front-End Web Developers

Vernon — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:07:17 +0000

Top 10 Best Practices for Front-end Developers

Front-end web developent can seem to be easy at first, but producing a clean, semantic, and cross-browser code is definitely a hard job. In this article, I have compiled the top 10 best practices that have been useful to me in the past 3 years.

Create Twitter-Style Dropdowns Using jQuery

Vernon — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:05:30 +0000

Create Twitter-Style Dropdowns Using jQuery

Twitter does some great stuff with javascript. What I really appreciate about what they do is that there aren’t any epic JS functionalities — they’re all simple touches. One of those simple touches is the “Login” dropdown on their homepage. I’ve taken some time to duplicate that functionality with jQuery.

A jQuery-powered Social Dropdown Menu

Vernon — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 13:04:00 +0000

jQuery Social Dropdown Menu

When David Walsh posted his article on using jQuery’s sliding effect for use in FAQs, I was once again reminded of the beauty of jQuery in its simplicty. I thought I’d take it a step further and show how it could be used for a static dropdown menu for your site/blog’s social media links.