February 2012
1 post
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Skeleton: Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive,... →
A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development.
September 2011
1 post
3 tags
Fractal →
HTML Email Validator and Optimizer
December 2010
1 post
Turn any webform into a powerful wizard with... →
This detailed tutorial will show you how to turn long webform into a wizard with “steps left” information. A plugin is also available for download.
September 2010
4 posts
3 tags
Create Featured Content Slider Using jQuery UI →
Showing off the best content of your website or blog in a nice intuitive way will surely catch more eyeballs. Using an auto-playing content slider is the one of techniques to show your featured content. It saves you space and makes for a better user experience, and if you add a pinch of eye candy to it, then there’s no looking back.
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SyntaxHighlighter →
SyntaxHighlighter is a fully functional self-contained code syntax highlighter developed in JavaScript.
SyntaxHighlighter is currently used by Apache, Aptana, Mozilla, Yahoo, Wordpress, Bug Labs, Freshbooks and others.
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Create an Options Page For Your WordPress Theme →
Including a Theme Options page for your theme is one of the best ways to increase ease-of-use for managing a complex theme. However, a few quick Google searches later and most people give up. Such a great inclusion for theme design appears to have such little documentation, that it appears to be one of those heavily guarded secrets which only the crème de la crème of designers hold the key to.
2 tags
Fancybox - Fancy lightbox alternative →
FancyBox is a tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style “lightbox” that floats overtop of web page. It was built using the jQuery library. Licensed under both MIT and GPL licenses
August 2010
1 post
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Convert Pantone Colours to RGB →
We are sometimes asked to use a Pantone® color in a website design. We use the following colour conversion chart to convert Pantone® spot colors to RGB color values (Red/Green/Blue) and Hexadecimal color values. source: http://www.seoconsultants.com
July 2010
2 posts
1 tag
10 Free Online Books for Web Designers | Freebies →
There’s a never ending supply of information out there for us web designers. If there’s something we need to learn, we can find it in one form or another. Sometimes it may be on a blog or it could be in a book. While you may have to shell our some money for a good web design book, there are a number of them out that have online versions that are totally free. Here are 10 you should find very...
June 2010
3 posts
2 tags
QuicklyCode →
Cheat Sheets and programming stuff
Theme Lab →
Free WordPress Themes and WordPress Tutorials at Theme Lab
jQTouch →
jQuery plugin for mobile web development
May 2010
3 posts
Lightbox_me - Stupidly Simple Lightboxing →
What is it?
Have you ever had a DOM element that you wanted lightboxed, but didn’t want all the fanciness of all the lightbox-related plug-ins out there? Lightbox_me is for you.
Lightbox_me is an essential tool for the jQuery developer’s toolbox. Feed it a DOM element wrapped in a jQuery object and it will lightbox it for you, no muss no fuss.
Ars Grafik →
Graphic Downloads for the Designer
The League of Moveable Type →
We’re done with the tired old fontstacks of yesteryear. Enough with the limitations of the web, we won’t have it. It’s time to raise our standards. Here, you’ll find only the most well-made, free & open-source, @font-face ready fonts.
April 2010
18 posts
3 tags
104 Free Fonts for Web Designers and Logo Artists →
It’s very essential for Designers to have an good understanding of typography and selection as the importance of typography in design can’t be neglected.
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Elegant Themes →
Premium Wordpress Themes
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FreePSDTheme →
A collection of premium themes, available free
A UI Design and Prototyping Treasure Chest |... →
When designing a user interface there are always times that you will find yourself using the same graphical element over and over. So in order to be more productive, it’s a good idea to keep a library of common elements such as form elements, buttons, icons, browser templates, and windows. Having these close by will save time and speed up your design and prototyping work flow. Here is a...
50 Fresh Design Blogs You Should Be Reading →
The last year or two has seen a dramatic increase in the amount of new design and development related blogs breaking out in to the community. In this article, you will see a list of fresh and new design blogs worth subscribing to and reading. Our goal here is to help you discover a few sites that you might not have heard of before.
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KreativeThemes.com - High Quality Free & Premium... →
Introducing, a creative themes collection
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Microsoft Design Toolbox →
See what .toolbox students have been up to. Check out their latest achievements as they go from Rookie, to Player, to Starter, to Captain – and join them in their pursuit to become the next design All-Star!
MiniAjax.com →
Highlighting Rich Experiences on the Web
CSS Tools: Reset CSS →
The goal of a reset stylesheet is to reduce browser inconsistencies in things like default line heights, margins and font sizes of headings, and so on.
Cufón - Fonts for the People →
Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use.
The Theme Foundry ~ Handcrafted WordPress Themes →
We release handcrafted WordPress themes of the highest quality and provide professional support, tutorials, and extra features to our members.
Creative Sessions | Tuts+ →
Character illustration is a huge creative field. It is intimately connected to animation and comic traditions, and has a long history of being used in advertising to both promote products and brand companies.
Rockstar WordPress Designer | Rockable Press →
Theme Like a Professional! Managing web content has always been tricky, but with WordPress, any web designer can have a flexible, free and powerful CMS to use not just on blogging projects, but on all sorts of websites. In How To Be a Rockstar WordPress Designer you will learn step by step how to take a straight HTML site and power it with WordPress.
9 Ways To Improve the SEO of Every Website You... →
One of the biggest challenges that online businesses face today is maintaining relevance in the eyes of the search engines, especially Google. With Google controlling more than 90% of the search traffic in the US alone, it’s not surprising that the most important goal of any web-based marketing strategy is to be number one in Google.
BuddyPress.org – WordPress Social Network Software →
Social networking in a box. Build a social network for your company, school, sports team or niche community all based on the power and flexibility of WordPress.
BuddyPress is completely free and open source. Unlike hosted services, BuddyPress allows you to stay in control of your site and create a totally customized, unique experience.
Daniel Marques →
Great website idea. :)
MediaLoot →
Premium Graphic Design Resources, only pay one fee every month for as many resources as you want to download
The Piecemaker →
Free Flash image rotator gallery.
March 2010
2 posts
HTML5 & CSS3 Checklist →
Web Design Checklist for CSS3 & HTML5 Properties and Attributes by Browser
Tumblr: An Introduction Guide For Microblogging →
Tumblr is set to become the blogging tool of 2010 with its massive growth, yet still many people don’t fully understand what Tumblr does, or how it works.
February 2010
2 posts
Iconfinder →
Search through 152,568 icons or browse 444 icon sets
14 Amazing Email Marketing Tools to Create the... →
Some would read the phrase ‘email marketing’ and grimace in distaste. But it doesn’t have to be that way. When used tastefully, email newsletters can add a personal touch to the persona of your company.
January 2010
7 posts
3 tags
HTML Email Gallery →
Inspiration for email design.
Font Squirrel →
Handpicked free fonts for graphic designers with commercial-use licenses.
Myows | Free Online Copyright Protection and... →
It’s an easy-to-use app dedicated to providing a full suite of copyright solutions, from registration to management.
Myows has been created for designers, photographers, bloggers, writers, musicians and anyone who creates copyrightable work.
All in one place, online, for free.
Code | Drew Wilson.com →
Some great jQuery plugins.
Backgrounds Etc. →
Free high quality background images.
Icons Etc. →
Royalty Free Icons & Clipart Stock Images
WebTreats ETC →
Great free Textures, Seamless Backgrounds, Icons, etc. for you to use in your designs.
December 2009
4 posts
24 ways: Have a Field Day with HTML5 Forms →
Forms are usually seen as that obnoxious thing we have to markup and style.
Posterous Custom Themes →
Creating custom themes for Posterous by using HTML and CSS.
40+ jQuery Plugins Improving Your Website Look and... →
Making more and more appealing and interactive user interfaces have been one of the never ending competitions between web designers since html and browsers came about in the mid nineties
Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery | Build... →
These sliding box animations work on the same basic idea. There is a div tag (.boxgrid in my css) that essentially acts as a window where two other items of your choosing “peek” through.
November 2009
12 posts
jQuery Parallax →
Parallaxing jQuery plugin to explore ways to give the impression of depth to web graphics, and was a little surprised by the response.