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Tip : Share Link Across Different Social Media Networks with Shareaholic

Tom — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:24:30 +0000

In this video is a good tip for submit your links across different social media networks. There’re many social media networks out there for sharing or bookmarking your links, but this tool will help you save time and headache.

Shareaholic is a tool that help you submit your links across different social media networks. It’s a plugin that work with all major web browsers such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome and Safari and you can download this plugin for free.

If you obsessed with sharing sites across different social media networks. Veronica from Tekzilla is waiting to share this nice tip for you in the video.

Link: Shareaholic

11 Classic CSS Techniques Made Simple with CSS3

Tom — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:45:30 +0000

Want to learn CSS? all these tutorials from Nettuts are good. they show the code for CSS 2 and CSS 3. You’ll learn how to code…

Rounded Corners
Box Shadow
Text Shadow
Fancy Font
Opacity
RGBA
Background Size
Multiple Backgrounds
Columns
Border Image
Animations

Link : 11 Classic CSS Techniques Made Simple with CSS3

Create CSS Rollover Menu With Sprite Technique (Video tutorial)

Tom — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 23:31:57 +0000

CSS Sprite technique is one of the most famous CSS technique for creating CSS rollover menu. This technique is not requirere to preload image like the usual javascript menu. The video tutorial is great explain.

View Demo | Download Source Code

Link : Exactly How to Use CSS Sprites

12 Tools for Test Web design, Validate Code, Speed Test, Debug and ect.

Tom — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 18:11:51 +0000

There’re several tool to help you create a website but testing your website for error, browser compatibility are also important.

IETester, Browsershots and Adobe Browserlab offer you tools for checking your web design in multiple version of Internet Explorer, but Adobe Browserlab and Browsershots offer more options to let you test your web design. On Adobe Browserlab, you can test you design in Internet Explorer (Version 6, 7, 8), Safari on Mac, Firefox version on a PC and a Mac OSX.

W3C Tools for Validate CSS, HTML, dead link checker and mobile compatibility are also great to test your website or blog for errors and also HTML Tidy help clean you code for legible.

Down for everyone or just me? is a simple tool to check your website status when you see it down and you’re not sure that your website is down or your internet is down.

And all the developer toolbars work great for debug your web, validate codes and save your time.

1. IETester

Browser Compatibility Check for Internet Explorer Versions from 5.5 to 8. IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Windows 7, Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

2. Adobe BrowserLab

Adobe BrowserLab is a browser compatibility service that provides designers exact renderings of their pages on leading browsers. This tool offers you a tool for test your web site in all major web browser on both windows and Mac

3. Browsershots

Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your web address, it will be added to the job queue. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server here.

4. Browser Chooser

Browser Chooser is a small tool acting as the default browser allowing you to choose what browser to open the link in. It gives you the flexibility to choose what browser to use for any given task.

5. HTML Tidy

HTML Tidy is a tool for checking and cleaning up HTML source files. It is especially useful for finding and correcting errors in deeply nested HTML, or for making grotesque code legible once more.

6. Down for everyone or just me?

Want to know your website is down because of your internet connection or because server down? This tool is for checking that.

7. W3C Link Checker

This Link Checker looks for issues in links, anchors and referenced objects in a Web page, or recursively on a whole Web site.

8. W3C Markup Validation Service

This validator checks the markup validity of Web documents in HTML, XHTML, SMIL, MathML, etc.

9. W3C mobileOK Checker

This checker performs various tests on a Web Page to determine its level of mobile-friendliness. The tests are defined in the mobileOK Basic Tests 1.0 specification. A Web Page is mobileOK when it passes all the tests.

10. Web Developer

The Web Developer extension adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools such as CSS validate toool, browser resize tool and more. There is also Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar made by Microsoft

11. Firebug

Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of web development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

12. Yahoo! YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the Firebug web development tool.

50 Cool CSS Menus, Free Source Codes + Tutorials

Tom — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 19:26:14 +0000

Tom — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:36:59 +0000

]This video tutorial will show you how to install Wordpress blog on your computer. First step you need to download Xampp (available free for Windows, Mac and Linux) and install it on your computer.

Xampp will make you computer be able to run PHP and mySQL. The video is a bit fast, but you can read along the article from this link.

10 Free Online Tools for Compressing CSS Code

Tom — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:30:17 +0000

This list is a collection of online tools for compressing your CSS code. If you want to make your site load faster a bit or you want to save bandwidth to reduce server load, these are the tool that you’re looking for.

I’ve tried these tools and it works great, CSS compressor can reduce my CSS file 30.61% (File size before optimization: 12.35 KB, after optimization : 8.57 KB .

You may think 3-4 KB is not much, but load faster is always good.

1. CSS Optimizer

Online CSS Optimizer/Optimiser is a web tool for reducing the file size of cascading style sheets. In order to save more space optimized files would be messy even so you may output it as a file. Non-valid or hacked (for certain browsers) CSS files may result in error.

2. CSS Drive – CSS Compressor

Use this utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well.

3. Icey CSS Compressor

Icey CSS Compressor is one of a good CSS compressor tool.

4. CSS Compressor

Use this Cascading Style Sheets, CSS Compressor to compress CSS to reduce CSS code size and make your web pages load faster. You can select from four levels of compression, depending on how legible you want the compressed CSS to be versus degree of compression.

5. Clean CSS

Simple interface, but powerful tool for compress your CSS code

6. Arantius CSS Compressor

This tool was inspired by a similar one at Dark Rift Studios. This is, though, written in javascript so it’s all client side (no transmitting your CSS to someone elses’ server), and it has a few more capabilities, plus configurable options. It basically takes out comments and whitespace from a CSS file, which can save more space than you might imagine.

7. CSSTidy

CSSTidy is an opensource CSS parser and optimiser. It is available as executeable file (available for Windows, Linux and OSX) which can be controlled per command line and as PHP script (both with almost the same functionality).

8. CSS Redundancy Checker

Use this tool to find CSS selectors that aren’t used by any of your HTML files and may be redundant.

9. Online Css Compressor

Another Online CSS Compressor

10. W3C CSS Validator

This tool is very important, it’s not a compressor tool, but you have to check errors on your CSS code.

PortableApps.com Suit – A Complete Collection of Portable Apps

Tom — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:58:06 +0000

If you have to work on multiple computers, this tool is great for you. PortableApps.com Suit is a complete collection of portable apps including a web browser, email client, office suite, calendar/scheduler, instant messaging client, antivirus, audio player, sudoku game, password manager, PDF reader, minesweeper clone, backup utility and integrated menu, all preconfigured to work portably. Just drop it on your portable device and you’re ready to go.

This tool is a freeware and mostly of portable apps are free and open source. You can also add more portable apps as you want.

As a web developer, don’t forget to add FileZilla, Notepad++ and Google chrome portable to the suit.

Link : More info and download

Creating a Greyscale Fading Hover Image Effect

Tom — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 11:39:24 +0000

Cool Image effect technique using CSS and jQuery. I see many sites use this technique and I think it’s really cool. The tutorial is on sohtanaka. Check out the link below.

Link :

View the Tutorial
View Live Demo

Download Free Color Tools For Web Designer

Tom — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 19:06:31 +0000

Great tools for all web designers for choosing great color harmonies for their works. Sometime, choosing color is not easy but these tools can help you easily choose color palettes that were created by all designers around the world. You can download free for Windows and OSX.

COLOURlover Desktop Color Finder

You can use the Desktop Color Finder to search our entire database of nearly 1 million named colors and more than 300,00 user created color palettes.

Kuler Desktop

Color inspiration: Browse and search color themes from kuler, an online application to create and share color harmonies.

Color Browser

Color Browser is intended as a way to organize favorite color palettes locally. Since it would be a pain to reproduce palettes you’ve created yourself in Adobe apps, or online with Kuler, or ColourLovers you can import ASE files into the application.

Download Free 1000 Icons

Tom — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:18:13 +0000

Another set of 1000 icons for free download under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. The icons are in 16*16 and 32*32 pixel.

Link : Download (.zip)
Link : www.fatcow.com/free-icons/

Creating a PHP Contact Form With PHPMailer + Ajax + jQuery (Tutorial)

Tom — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 22:27:40 +0000

If you’re looking for a PHP contact form for your site, this is a very nice contact form. Tutorialzine made a good tutorial and offers the demo script for free download.

This contact form is beautiful, the script works great with PHPMailer, Ajax and jQuery and they provide a good tutorial on how to create this contact form too.

In the tutorial you are going to learn how to make an AJAX contact form which leverages modern web development techniques.

Link :
View the Tutorial
View Demo
Download File

Easily Create CSS Web Layout with CSS Grid Editor (Free Download)

Tom — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:17:32 +0000

I just found this tool and I think it’s a useful tool for all web designer. Boks helps you generate CSS web layout fast and easy.

Boks is an AIR application (so it works on Windows, Mac and Linux) that provides a User Interface for Blueprint CSS’s framework. It’s been designed for those who think the Grid System is good but never really took the time to give it love.

It handles grid configuration, baseline rhythm pimpin’, CSS (with or without compression) and grid.png export, HTML layout and much more goodie-goodie!

This tool is a free download and If you have no idea how this tool work, they also provide video tutorials too.

Setting up your grid

Building a layout

Link : More Info and Download
Link : More Video Tutorials

Capture Web ScreenShot Online

Tom — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:00:59 +0000

One of an online tool that can help you capture any webpages online without installing any software on you computer. Aviary Screen Capture : Talon is an online webpage capture tool and it’s very easy to use.

It will perform a screen capture and then open the image instanly in a basic image editor where you can do markup (draw arrows and rectangles), edit (crop, rotate and resize) and get the exact pixel colors of the image.

When you want to capture a webpage and you don’t have a capture tool on you computer, you just simply add Aviary.com/ to the beginning of the URL!

Ex. http://google.com > Aviary.com/http://google.com

Want even more power? This tool is available as Firefox add-on and it’s free too.

Link : aviary.com/launch/talon

Smart Way to Search for Videos

Tom — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 21:01:40 +0000

Videosurf.com is a great way to search video online, this video search engine can search video from multiple video sites.

Free Download SEO cheat Sheet

Tom — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 22:26:58 +0000

Every Web developers need their web rank well in search engine especially Google. This is a free download SEO cheat sheet from SEOmoz that you should have.

Link :
Download (PDF File)
Free Download SEO cheat Sheet

Free Download 101 CSS Web Templates

Tom — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:12:41 +0000

A list of 101 free XHTML and CSS web templates, very nice, professional, high quality design and free download, these all 101 web templates coded using XHTML and CSS.

If you want to build your own website in a fast way and you know a basic XHTML and CSS you can easily edit these templates. visit the link below for the full list.

Link : View all templaes

Taking your Site from One to One Million Users by Kevin Rose (Video)

Tom — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:19:19 +0000

I like this video, Kevin Rose, founder of Digg.com shares really useful tips to get more users to your sites.

In this talk from FOWA London (bit.ly/fowa-london-09) Kevin shares the secrets to digg.com and wefollow.com explosive user growth. He covers nine unique strategies that turn passive users into passionate advocates.

You’ll learn:

1. How to encourage users to tweet about your app
2. The concept of “The Circle of Life” in web apps and how it affects you
3. Growing your userbase: What worked and what didn’t for digg, WeFollow and Pownce
4. And more …

Slides Version

30 Cool Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

Tom — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 15:54:55 +0000

Various styles of cool text effects created by using Photoshop that collected by Six Revision. Luckily, there are tutorials that we can learn how to create them all.

The tutorials are very good quality, easy to follow and come from top Photoshop tutorial sites.

Personally, I like a “Gold Text Effect” and “The sugar Bag Effect”. If you’re looking for some cool text effects you should take a look.

Link : 30 Cool Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials

CSS Tutorials For Beginners

Tom — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:35:21 +0000

Comprehensive CSS tutorial for all beginners or even you’re already have some basic of CSS. Smashing Magazine post a new article on their site “Mastering CSS Coding: Getting Started” very awesome, if you want to learn to code web using CSS.

I think, it’s a really good list of tutorial from basic CSS to advance CSS techniques. You’ll learn some basic CSS from padding, margin, float and alignment to how to convert your design in Photoshop to HTML and CSS.

Link : CSS Tutorials For Beginners

Free Social Media Bookmark Icon, Digg, Twitter, StumbleUpon, Facebook ect.

Tom — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:02:21 +0000

This is a beautiful and free social media bookmark icon that designed by “nouveller” a member of deviantArt. I think it’s a good set of icons design.

In the zip file, you’ll get 3 sizes of all the popular social media sites icon such as Digg icon, Facebook icon, deviantART icon, StumbleUpon icon, redit icon, Wordpress icon, blogger icon and more.

The buttons are available in 16*16, 32*32, 122*42 pixel in .png format. You can download and use wherever you like, for free as well!

Link :
Download
nouveller.deviantart.com

Free PHP Chat Script + Tutorial

Tom — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 22:49:28 +0000

This is a nice tutorial + free source code of PHP + jQuery live chat system. I really like it, if you want to have a live chat system on you web for customer support or chat box for your community, you may like this simple chat box.

The interface of this chat is clean and simple, the system run smoothly using PHP + jQuery. The chat application is also quite simple. It’s include a login and logout system, AJAX-style features, and will also offer support for multiple users.

You’ll learn from the source code and their tutorial on how to create this chat box is good. You can also chage the box design easily using CSS.

Link : View the tutorial + Download free PHP chat script

Building a jQuery/PHP Powered Chat Room

This is another great Chat script with PHP + jQuey. Building a jQuery/PHP Powered Chat Room

Creating CSS Tabbed Box

Tom — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:44:26 +0000

I always like the jQuery effects that use for web navigation, box, slide tab, image viewer and many more. This one is a good CSS + jQuery effect that use for tabbed box that I found this on jcargoo.org

If you’re looking for a good CSS tabbed box, this is a good one, and on their website, I found the other cool CSS + jQuery effect that you may like it, such as “Easy Tooltip and Image Preview Using jQuery”, “Star Rating System with CSS and jQuery”, “7 Vertical Menus With jQuery Effects”, “Submit Button Enabling With jQuery” and more.

You can learn to create the tabbed box from their sample code or just copy and paste to create your own tabbed box. Visit the links below for demo and the tutorial

Link :
View Demo
View the tutorial

Free PHP and mySQL Cheat Sheets

Tom — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 20:44:41 +0000

PHP and mySQL is a very popular language for web development and they’re both really good and free. I’ve found these cool PHP and mySQL cheat sheets and I want to share with you.

The cheat sheets is really to read, even you’re a new or pro to PHP and mySQL, I think you should have these cheat sheet.

Link :
PHP Cheat Sheet
mySQL Cheat Sheet

FireFox Tip : Delete Just One Visited Site From History

Tom — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 17:20:50 +0000

When you visited some websites and you want to delete some them or just one of them out of your Firefox’s history page without clearing all the cache of your Firefox.

In this video, from Tekzilla Daily will show you a nice little tricks for you to remove one particular website from your history.

Securimage – Download Free Open Source PHP Captcha Script

Tom — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:15:30 +0000

Nowadays, spam is one of a big problem for all web admins and this is one of a good script for protecting spam on your site.

Securimage is an open-source free PHP CAPTCHA script for generating complex images and CAPTCHA codes to protect forms from spam and abuse.

I’ve tried the demo on their site, I’m really impressed, I think this script is really good. The Securimage script has full featured, customizable and required PHP 4.3+ and GD library 2.0+.

If you’re looking for a free open source PHP Captcha script, this is the right script for you, go check out by yourself from the link below.

Live Demo
Link : Securimage – Free Download Open Source PHP Captcha Script

Free CSS Speech Bubbles Code

Tom — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:35:24 +0000

This is a good design CSS speech bubbles that you can download and use it on your web design project for free. These bubbles are available in 3 styles and tested in all major web browsers.

Download
Link : Free CSS Speech Bubbles Code

The Beginner's Guide to Make a Blog With WordPress

Tom — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:36:30 +0000

If you’re looking to start a blog with Wordpress and have no idea where to start, this article from LifeHacker.com is right for you.

Link : The Beginner’s Guide to Make a Blog With WordPress

Interview Matt Cutts "How to Get Better Visibility on Google"

Tom — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:59:26 +0000

This video is a short video interview Google engineer Matt Cutts on how to get your site to the top of Google with 5 basic rules, common sense and SEO tips.

30 Top Photoshop Tutorial Websites For Web Designers

Tom — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:42:38 +0000

Top 30 amazing photoshop tutorials site you should checkout.

Link : 30 Top Photoshop Tutorial Websites For Web Designers

30 CSS Best Practices for Beginners

Tom — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 23:10:59 +0000

Nettuts+ post a new article “30 CSS Best Practices for Beginners” It’s is a list of 30 CSS techniques+tips and tricks. They claimed this for beginners, but I think this good for all of CSS coder even you’re not new to CSS.

Link : 30 CSS Best Practices for Beginners

Foxy SEO Tool – Nice SEO Plugin For FireFox

Tom — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:54:17 +0000

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.

The tools menu currently offer a Spider Simulator function which displays a web page just as a search engine would read it, in the order of the html code of the page, without the layout code. The experts will appreciate.

The toolbar also has convenient links to many big name sites publishing hot topics for niche ideas and links to the always necessary keywords research services.

If your Firefox menu is already cluttered with a lot of indispensable toolbars, you can easily disable it and just use the contextual pop menu instead (right click menu). I may take it personally, however, since I worked very hard on those little cute icons.

Link : Foxy SEO Tool

14 Useful Firefox Add-ons You should Have

Tom — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:48:53 +0000

Firefox is my favorite web browser, it’s great and has lot of good add-ons. This is a nice list of useful firefox add-ons you should have that collected by Download Squad team. if you’re using Firefox, please visit the link below for the list.

Link : 14 Extremely Useful Firefox Add-ons

Browser Chooser – Pick the Right Web Browser for Your Job

Tom — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:34:40 +0000

One web browser is not enough for a web designer or maybe not enough for regular users that have many things to do on the internet. I think this tool is good for all of you that like to use more than one web browser at a time to work and play the web.

Browser Chooser is a small tool acting as the default browser allowing you to choose what browser to open the link in. It gives you the flexibility to choose what browser to use for any given task.

You can download this tool for free for your Windows. It is developed in VB.Net and geared towards Windows Vista and Windows 7.

Link : Browser Chooser

HTML and CSS Video Tutorial for Beginners

Tom — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:28:56 +0000

If you’re looking to learn HTML and CSS for coding your web, this video tutorial is right for you. This video is the VERY basics of what HTML and CSS is, for the absolute beginner. HTML and CSS is the basic knowledge for creating a web page.

The video tutorial is from CSSTricks by Chris Coyier, it’s very good tutorial, well explain, easy to understand and the video is for everyone who new to HTML and CSS. You just need a good Text editor for writing code and web browser for preview your web page.

Link : View the video tutorial HTML & CSS – The VERY Basics (32:15 Min)

Beautiful CSS Web Buttons

Tom — Sat, 12 Sep 2009 20:36:30 +0000

Such a nice style of CSS buttons that I found on ZURB. They created beautiful CSS web buttons in multiple color and give you free code for using for you web. You can learn how to create CSS web button using CSS3 by your own from their sample code, learn some techniques or just copy and paste the code on your web.

You can change color of the button to your favorite color by just change the color of RGBA Hex color and you can also change the size of the button freely.

The buttons are beautiful and good for all web designers, you can view demo from this link.

Link : Beautiful CSS Web Buttons
View Demo

Free HTML5 Code Cheat Sheet

Tom — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:12:07 +0000

A useful cheat sheet that I found on Woork. This is a HTML 5 cheat sheet for all web developers and designers. This cheat sheet is really nice design and essentially a simple visual grid with a list of all HTML tags and of their related attributes supported by HTML versions 4.01 and/or 5.

There’re available in image format (JPG high-quality, dark or white background), PDF format. You can download for free from the link below.

Link : Free HTML5 Code Cheat Sheet

Free Download Beautiful Social Networking Icons

Tom — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:42:29 +0000

There’re many free social media and social networking icons free for download on the internet and here is 2 set of really nice and beautiful free icons for download.

The first one is from csi.nfshost.com, but there’re not much icons but they have very nice style icons The second one is from blogPerfume, They called their icons set “Circular Social Media Icons” there are 27 icons style in the set and available in 3 sizes, 128*128, 64*64 and 32*32.

You can check it out from the link below, free download.

Set 1

Link : Set 1

Set 2 – Circular Social Media Icons

Link : Set 2 – 27 Circular Social Media Icons

11 Useful CSS Techniques

Tom — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:22:08 +0000

I found these 11 useful CSS techniques on Nettuts+ and I want to share with you. It’s a list of CSS techniques that you can found all over the web and you may like to learn how to create by your own.

The bonus in these 11 CSS techniques is you will get the code for creating in classic way(CSS 2) and CSS 3 way. You will see the CSS code for creating…

Rounded Corners
Box Shadow
Text Shadow
Fancy Font
Opacity
RGBA
Background Size
Multiple Backgrounds
Columns
Border Image
Animations

Demo
Link : 11 Useful CSS Techniques

10 Tips to Avoid Malwares Attack Your Websites

Tom — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:46:39 +0000

This is a nightmare of all webmasters, when your website or blog get attack by malware and Google showed a message in a search result page that your website is dangerous. Not only you lose your visitors but Google will drop your rank on search result page too.

Some of my friends told me that their blogs were attack by malware because a crack version of FTP software. I found this really useful 10 tips to avoid malwares attack your website such as check your site’s reputation at McAfee SiteAdvisor, register your site with Google Webmaster Tools and Bing Webmaster Center and more… you can see all the tips from the link below.

Link : 10 Tips to Avoid Malwares Attack Your Websites

Firefox Tip – Sync Bookmarks Across Different Computers

Tom — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 19:14:56 +0000

Need to access your bookmarks remotely? Veronica demonstrates a simple extension that allows you to keep the same set of bookmarks and passwords on multiple computers on today’s Tekzilla Daily.

Check Broken Links on Your Website

Tom — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 18:49:18 +0000

No one likes broken links! Find out how to avoid those deadends without having to check them manually on today’s Tekzilla Daily.

Test Your Web Design in Multiple Versions of IE

Tom — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:33:35 +0000

One of a problem I found when designing a website is my CSS layout is not working properly in all version of IE. Many people still use IE 6 as their web browser, but I have only IE 7 on my PC and I don’t have IE 6 and IE 8 for testing. Finally I found a tool that can solve my problem.

This is a great tool for all web designers. IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

IETester is available for free download, try it yourself!

Link : IETester

8 Cool Online WYSIWYG Text Editors

Tom — Fri, 29 May 2009 12:05:44 +0000

If you’re developing a blog or website and looking for a nice online text editor that has all features you need and easily integrate with your website.

This is a list of 8 cool Online WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get)Text Editors that I found on blog.themeforest.net. Mostly, you can download for free.

TinyMCE and FCKeditor are my favorite WYSIWYG Text Editors because it’s widely use and easy to setup. You can visit the link below for the list.

Link : 8 Cool Online WYSIWYG Text Editors

Creating a simple PHP shopping cart tutorial

Tom — Fri, 29 May 2009 10:03:13 +0000

This is a PHP tutorial on how to create a simple shopping cart system. If you want to learn to create your own PHP shopping cart. The tutorial is in 3 parts, you can view the tutorial from the link below.

Tutorial part 1
Tutorial part 2
Tutorial part 3

22 Professional Photoshop Image Enhancing Tutorials

Tom — Sun, 24 May 2009 20:19:01 +0000

Adobe Photoshop is the premier tool for digital artists when it comes to professionally enhancing images. Whether you’re a beginner just learning the ropes or an advanced user looking for unique techniques to add to your Photoshop arsenal, you’ll find some tutorials here that you’ll surely want to bookmark.

In the article I found from sixrevisions.com, you’ll discover plenty of tutorials that deal with enhancing images, adding unique and impressive effects, and recreating digital replications of popular traditional photography techniques.

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Topics
1. Cross Processing 2. Lomo Photography 3. HDR Photo Effect 4. Gritty Effect 5. Dave Hill Look Photo Effect 6. Soft Focus Photography 7. Movie Photo Effect 8. Extreme Contrast Photo Effect 9. Infrared Photo Effect 10. Soft Focus & Glow Effect 11. High Pass Filter	12. Vintage Photo Effect 13. Split Toning Black & White Effect 14. Change Hair Color Tutorial 15. Coloring Effect Tutorial 16. Light Effects 17. Snow Photo Effect 18. Streams Of Dusty Light 19. Photo Color Correction 20. Enhance Skin Tutorial 21. Gaussian Blur 22. Tilt-Shift Miniature Fake Technique

Link : 22 Professional Photoshop Image Enhancing Tutorials

25 Advanced CSS Techniques

Tom — Sun, 24 May 2009 00:51:35 +0000

Nowadays, CSS is a really powerful tool for designing webs. Here is a list of 25 advanced CSS techniques that collected by desizntech.info.

In the list you will see some cool CSS techniques such as CSS opacity techniques, shadow technique, CSS menu effect, CSS hover swap effect and more… you can checkout the full list below.

Link : 25 Advanced CSS Techniques

Free Download Photoshop Brushes and Patterns

Tom — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:06:25 +0000

brusheezy.com is where you can browse ton of photoshop brushes and patterns for free and they add new everyday.

If you’re a web designer and you want cool photoshop brushes or patterns for web design or other design projects, you can browse from their database.

And if you create your own brushes or patterns, you can submit your work into their database too.

Link : Free Download Photoshop Brush and Pattern

21 CSS Plugins for Dreamweaver

Tom — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:26:32 +0000

Dreamweaver is one of a great tools for coding CSS, If you are using Dreamweaver for coding CSS and need more options for coding CSS. I found this list on Digg and i want to share to you.

This is a list of 21 CSS Plugins for Dreamweaver, mostly is freeware. you can checkout the link below.

Link : 21 CSS Plugins for Dreamweaver

50 Free Social Media Icon Sets for Your Blog

Tom — Wed, 20 May 2009 19:06:47 +0000

If you’re a blogger and you want cool social media network icons for your blog, here is a nice list of free 50 sets of social media icons such as RSS feed icon, facebook icons, last fm icons, youtube icons, digg icons, redit icons, wordpress icons and more…

This list was created by directoryfordesigners.com, you can checkout the link below for full list.

Link : 50 Free Social Media Icon Sets for Your Blog