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25+ Highly Useful jQuery Plugins Bringing Life back to HTML Tables

2009-12-20T19:31:00.000Z

By adding a bit of jQuery you will be able to create very useful solutions with html tables that your users will find easy and intuitive to use.

http://www.tripwiremagazine.com/2009/12/25-highly-useful-jquery-plugins-bringing-life-back-to-html-tables.html

Top 10 Really Creative and Fresh Premium Site Templates

2009-12-20T19:29:00.000Z

High quality and affordable Premium Site Templates.

Website: http://blog.fazai38.com/index.php/2009/12/19/creative-fresh-premium-site-templates/

ImageSizer - AIR application for designers

2009-09-14T11:51:00.002+01:00

ImageSizer is a batch image processor tool built to resize, optimize and rename multiple JPG files. Once your images are processed, they can be exported as a single ZIP file, making it convenient to transfer groups of images on the internet.

Webiste: http://www.psyked.co.uk/adobe/apollo/imagesizer-updated-and-now-with-a-crop-tool.htm

5 Advanced Photoshop Techniques for Web Designers

2009-09-12T06:36:00.000+01:00

If we look at web design today, it’s anything but simple. Sometimes you need that extra Photoshop knowledge in order to achieve the look we need.

In this step-by-step tutorial, I’m going to show you how to create five killer effects for your site.

When I was choosing examples for this article I visited some design galleries and roundup posts and took screenshots of design details that are used (sometimes overused) in web design. I don’t encourage you to follow trends but rather develop your own style. Nevertheless, it is always useful to polish your Photoshop skills a bit more. Let’s get rockin’!

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Top 10 Biggest Website Redesigns of All Time

2009-09-12T06:31:00.000+01:00

In honor of the new FreelanceFolder redesign, we decided to create a list of the top 10 most beautiful, most dramatic, and some cases just biggestwebsite redesigns we could find. Some of these designs showcase monumental leaps in design, whereas others portray a more subdued and calculated approach to redesigning a major website.

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Top 10 Forums for Web Designers

2009-09-09T23:17:00.001+01:00

Forums are important for web designers and web developers। Web Design companies, freelance web designers as well as website owners themselves rely on forums for a number of reasons such as finding solution to web design or technical issues, to research new areas or simply to participate in discussion with other designers.

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Learn 3 Excellent JavaScript Libraries at Once

2009-09-07T06:33:00.000+01:00

Let’s go with a hands-on approach today. We are going to write a tiny snippet of code in jQuery and then port it over to several different libraries. Outside of that chunk, we are going to look at how to implement some basic, necessary functionality in each of these libraries. Sounds fun? Let’s dive in!

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22 Beautiful jQuery Plugins for Web Designers

2009-09-06T20:04:00.000+01:00

This collection of jQuery plugins might come in handy next time you’re building a site। This post highlights some of the more aesthetic plugins online that can add a spark of creativity into your web design.

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45 Inspirational Corporate Website Designs

2009-09-06T19:59:00.000+01:00

As you already seen in our previous showcase of Corporate Website Designs that a perfect layout, A good design and nice resources can produce a creative output. Layout, textures and patterns are used more often than one may think but the outcome of different combination can result verity of excellent designs. However, When it comes to corporate website design you need to take care about many things which includes simplicity, readability, presentation and accessibility.

In this presentation, you’ll find variety of highly-creative, beautiful and most importantly inspirational corporate designs which is easy to accessible and convenient to approachable। The main purpose here is to stimulate your creativity and to inspire your imagination to design or redesign your work site to show your skills to potential clients.

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7 Useful And Free Mac OS X Apps You Probably Want To Know

2009-09-06T19:52:00.000+01:00

This is the post where we are listing out few great free apps for Mac Operating System, this is an exclusive post for our those readers who are the Mac users। But our other readers will also enjoy this post. Don’t forget to bookmark this post for your future reference as it has few most useful and free application that will be helpful for you when you are on your Mac system. This is absolutely a great list of 7 Simple, Useful And Free Mac OS X Apps You Probably Want To Know.

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Design a Transparent Website Layout in Photoshop

2009-09-06T19:48:00.001+01:00

Would you like a Transparent Website Layout? It can be very useful if you would like to have a different theme for your website, but do not want to change too much of the design। Simply changing the background image can also give you a whole different feeling sometimes. We are going to teach you how to design a transparent website layout in Photoshop. Hope you would find it useful.

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Resources - 16 Of The Best Textmate Plugins, Bundles & Themes

2009-09-06T10:56:00.001+01:00

TextMate, also known as the missing editor for Mac OS X, is a very powerful tool that is used by many of us web-designers, developers and programmers। It can be used to write PHP, HTML, CSS, Python, ActionScript and many other languages. Today we’ll have a look at some of the best plugins, bundles and themes that can help make TextMate an even better editor!

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11 Cool and Free Textures For Your Next Design Work

2009-09-06T10:38:00.001+01:00

Yes, this is very true that one can never have enough Textures with him/her. And once in a while, you may want to try a different approach in design. In this article, we attempt to showcase you 11 Cool Textures from which designers can take advantage of. Hope you like them.

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Showcase of Fresh and Well-Designed Online Shops

2009-09-06T09:00:00.000+01:00

E-Commerce websites are often thought of as typically being unattractive or poorly designed. In this post we will feature 35 appealing designs of online shops. Those featured in this post include examples from a variety of different industries and showcase several different styles of design.

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The Definitive Guide to About Me Pages

2009-09-06T08:46:00.000+01:00

In this guide, we’ll walk through the most essential aspects of any “About Me” page. At the end, you’ll be totally empowered to make your own page, because we’ll strip away all of your excuses!

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Showcase Of 40 Website Designs Featuring Clouds And Skies

2009-09-06T08:41:00.000+01:00

Maybe it’s because we’ve had a not-so-awesome summer here in Montreal but lately I’ve been more and more interested in website designs that make good use of weather elements like clouds, skies, suns, earth, stone, etc… So I figured, why not try to find some of the best designs and start with the ones that feature clouds and skies?

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38 jQuery And CSS Drop Down Multi Level Menu Solutions

2009-09-06T08:39:00.000+01:00

Hello again, it’s time for comprehensive programming article. Here you’ll find 38 mainly jquery and CSS based drop-down or just multi level menu tutorials with down loadable files and explanations as well. My favorite here is the first pick – Outside the box with very unique navigation menu. It’s always good to have such reference articles in your bookmarks and when you have to create some really big website with a lot of content and menu sections – just return here. Shorten your developing process with already premade menus, which can be easily modified with little touch of CSS.

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31 Websites Using Huge Type

2009-09-02T21:15:00.000+01:00

In this post I put together a list of 31 websites using huge type to achieve its visual goals and keep it simple yet attractive and professional.

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Easy Slider 1.7 - Numeric Navigation jQuery Slider

2009-09-02T20:51:00.000+01:00

I got a lot of emails and feedback about my easySlider plugin, thank you all for that. However, I have to apologize to all of you who sent emails asking for a little help with implementation or small bug fixes. I simply don't have the time to answer all of your emails. I wish I do.

What I am presenting you today is an easySlider update with 2 new features. When going through your feedback I noticed 2 feature suggestions appearing very often:

numeric navigation (as an alternative to next/previous buttons)
continuous scroll instead of jumping to the first (or last) slide

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Perfect Full Page Background Image

2009-09-02T20:42:00.000+01:00

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Design Trends: 20 (MORE) Of The Coolest iPhone APP Website Designs

2009-09-02T20:37:00.001+01:00

In a previous article, I explored the design trend of iPhone app website designs. You’ll imagine my surprise when I realized that the 25 websites featured were just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to kick ass iPhone app website designs – and today, I’m featuring 20 MORE of the coolest iPhone app website designs.

So, if you were amazed at some of the unique layouts from the previous article, be prepared to be visually stunned by this article (ok, so I’m embellishing a bit, but trust me, you’ll enjoy the article). If you have any other iPhone app websites that you haven’t seen featured, feel free to leave us a comment and let us know.

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Letter Frame - A Free WordPress Theme

2009-08-21T10:18:00.000+01:00

What you have before you is Letter Frame: an elegant and unique WordPress theme that you can download and use for free. Letter Frame was designed and developed by Brian L. of TemplateLite.com and released here on Six Revisions. To see a live demo of Letter Frame in action, head on over the Letter Frame Demo page.

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30 Clean and Bright Website Designs

2009-08-20T13:22:00.000+01:00

Clean and Bright Web Design

In this age of increasingly artistic and grungy website design, it can be very refreshing to see designers who keep things simple, yet bold. I’m personally a huge fan of the clean and bright look, as it really captures attention, and evokes positive moods in your viewers.

I’ve hand selected 30 great examples of clean and bright web designs, all of which are relatively new, so hopefully you haven’t seen many of them before!

I would love to hear your thoughts on clean and bright website design and recommend that you check out all of these fantastic websites!

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10+ Creative and Inspiring Photoshop Layout-Template Tutorials

2009-08-20T13:20:00.000+01:00

here is a list of 10+ awesome Adobe Photoshop website template/layout tutorials to help you learn and master the various techniques involved in creating beautiful web layouts।
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15 Beautiful Free Web 2.0 Fonts

2009-08-20T13:18:00.000+01:00

The term Web 2.0 refers to the second generation of web development incorporating websites designed to encourage sharing and collaboration between users, like social networking sites (e.g. Facebook), video sharing sites (e.g. Youtube), wikis (e.g. Wikipedia) and blogs (e.g. this one).

Of course, Web 2.0 sites are not only accessed through desktop computers with large displays. They are increasingly being viewed on portable web-ready devices, from mobile phones to netbooks and car dashboards, not to mention on TVs and through a plethora of video game consoles. The best Web 2.0 fonts, therefore, must look great at a range of scales regardless of what device is being used.

Web 2.0 sites aim to encourage participation and Web 2.0 fonts must do the same. In addition to being highly legible, the best are inclusive and accessible to all. They are cool, original and striking, but not to the extent that they are only appreciated by certain groups with specific aesthetic sensibilities.

Here are 15 great ones to download and start using in your designs!

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