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65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In September
We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 65+ Must See Resources Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
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10 Stunning Photos That Look Like They are Photoshopped But Are Not
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
21 Brilliant Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers
50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects
21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations
15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies
43 Really Useful Photoshop Tutorials For Excellent 3d Effects
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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82 Earth-Shattering ZBrush Tutorials
56 Absolutely Brilliant and Intriguing Photoshop Video Tutorials
45 Tutorials for Learning Pixelmator
27 Excellent Digital Photography Tutorials
40 Useful Photoshop Tutorials for Photo Manipulation
10 Wonderful Letterpress Type Tutorials
6 Different Ways to Make Your Text and Images Glow [Tutorials]
11 Fascinating and Educational Tutorials Teaching You How to Produce Better Photo Effects
How to Effectively Use Contrast, Auto Levels, and Batch Processing
50+ Most Amazing Adobe After Effects Tutorials You Need to Learn
20+ Car Pimping and Tuning Photoshop Tutorials
15 Of The Best Character Illustration Tutorials Online
Photoshop Tutorials You Do Not Want to Miss
Urban Art Tutorial in Photoshop and Illustrator
Top Places to Find Quality Illustrator Tutorials Online
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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Typographic Portraits That Are Absolutely Beautiful
100 Artworks from the Top 20 Designers in The Middle East and Africa
23 Colorful And Smart Examples Of Beautiful Web Designs
70 Fresh and Inspirational Blog Designs
Stunning illustrated typography on dark backgrounds
Best of Best WordPress 404 Error Page Designs
20 Amazing Examples of Vector Artwork
Website Design: Some of the most uniquely designed E-commerce websites
40 Gorgeous Fantasy Wallpapers to Spice Up your Laptop
40 Creative and Inspiring Website Backgrounds Techniques
13 Striking Digital illustrations of Horror Girls by Yoshitaka Kawakami
40 Excellent Examples of Interior Designs Rendered in 3D Max
25 Examples of Web 2.0 and Traditional Design Rules Coming Together
33 Creative and Beautiful Logos
50 Inspiring Web Application and Service Web Site Designs
50 Beautiful & Unique Twitter Profile Designs
30 Powerful and Inspiring Street Fighter Characters Artworks
50 Websites (and More) for Your Design Inspiration
20 Creative Illustration Advertisements from behance
40 Breathtaking & Creative Logo Designs Just to Inspire
Amazing Character Designs: 75 Brilliant Examples
25 Inspiring Examples of Abstract Vector Design
15 Mind Blowing Dragons Illustrations and Artworks
Javascript and Ajax
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40 Super-Neat JavaScript Plugins
25 Useful jQuery Tooltip Plugins and Tutorials
35+ Create Amazing Image Effects and Sliders with These Awesome jQuery Plugins
10 Easy jQuery Tricks for Designers
xHTML and CSS
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Create a photorealistic web layout – CSS/XHTML available
CSS Wishlist: New Ideas, Debates and Solutions
51 Form Element Resources and Tutorials Using CSS And Javascript
30 CSS Best Practices for Beginners
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60+ Totally Free Rusted Metal Textures for Designers
460 Free High Quality Icons For Web Designers
60 High Quality Photoshop PSD Files For Designers
Massive Collection of Stunning Photoshop Actions
27 Best WebSites to Download Free Seamless Patterns
Fresh Free High-Quality Icon Sets
Style Switchers Showcase and Resources
76 Dirty, Extreme And Creative Free Grunge Fonts
99 High-Quality Free (X)HTML/CSS Templates
Five Free Tools for Multi-Monitor Computer Set-Ups
14 Best Online Typography Tools for Web Designers
16 Free “Premium Quality” Wordpress Magazine Themes
13 Excellent Firefox Add-Ons That Are Absolutely Useful
49 Amazing Resources for Free Vector Graphics
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20+ Powerful Wordpress Security Plugins and Some Tips and Tricks
10 Revealing Infographics about the Web
30 Incredibly Useful WordPress Hacks
The Only SEO Tools You’ll Ever Need
The Difference Between Art and Design
Must See SEO Guide for All WordPress Bloggers
21 Stylish CSS/jQuery Solutions To Beautify Your Web Designs
We are always in search of great free tutorials, resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Everyday we work hard to find new and useful stuffs for designers like you. Today, we have another great post related to design a beautiful website using stylish effects with CSS/jQuery. In this, we made a list of 21 Stylish CSS/jQuery Solutions To Beautify Your Web Designs. We obviously cannot cover all of the best available on internet, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
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Fancy Thumbnail Hover Effect w/ jQuery
This is very beautiful thumbnail hover effect with jQuery tutorial using xHTML and CSS. If you switch up the absolute position coordinates, you can create various ways the hover effect pops out as well.
iCarousel is an open source (free) javascript tool for creating carousel like widgets. iCarousel is fully configurable. You can change any default option just initializating the class with an object in JSON.
In this tutorial, author combine the versatile canvas element with the robust jQuery library to create a bar graphing plugin. In this first part, he is going to code the core logic of the plugin as a standalone version.
Styling and Adding Sort Options
This article consists of 2 parts: one is marking up and styling tags and the second is adding behavior to tag cloud using client-side script.
Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) and css, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.
FancyUpload is a file-input replacement which features an unobtrusive, multiple-file selection menu and queued upload with an animated progress bar. It is easy to setup, is server independent, completely styleable via CSS and XHTML and uses MooTools to work in all modern browsers.
This tutorial will show you how to create beautiful animated menus using jQuery.
Improve form usability with auto messages
Animated auto messages are useful to improve FORM usability and Scriptaculous is a great framework to use in this case. In this article, you will learn how to improve form usability adding an auto message which appears and disappears with a nice fade-in and fade-out effect when an user select a field.
Unobtrusive Table Actions Script
An attempt at writing an unobtrusive (and fast) script that adds commonly required “actions” to data tables.
Control.Tabs attaches creates a tabbed interface from an unordered list of links/anchors that point to any elements on your page that have an id attribute. Since it attaches these behaviors to HTML that already has semantic meaning, it will degrade gracefully for browsers that do not support JavaScript, and is search engine friendly. It attaches in one line of code for simple use cases, but is highly customizable and can be used in a variety of edge cases.
Simple Page Peel Effect with jQuery & CSS
You have probably seen these forms of advertisings where you can peel a corner of a website and see a message underneath. It seems most are flash driven, but this one was developed using some simple lines of jQuery.
Create a Slick Tabbed Content Area using CSS & jQuery
Tabbed content is a great way to handle this issue and has been widely used on blogs recently. In this article, author is going to build a simple little tabbed information box in HTML, then make it function using some simple Javascript, and then finally we’ll achieve the same thing using the jQuery library.
Create Vimeo-like top navigationÂ
In this tutorial, you will learn to create Vimeo-like top navigation. The base for this tutorial is simple CSS drop down menu based on unordered list.
Animate an image while hovering it and show the visitors information while doing that. It’s quite simple, you will make a list with a relative position, the image you will place with an absolute position, while hovering it you will give jQuery the command to give it a nice animating effect.
jQuery Tutorials for Designers
This article contains 10 visual tutorials intended for web designers and newbies on how to apply Javascript effects with jQuery.
Style Your Website’s Search Field with JS/CSS
SearchField is a simple lightweight, unobtrusive script that adds styling and behaviour to your search form fields. All you need to make SearchField work is a simple form field and 2 lines of code (links to css and js file) and you are ready to rock.
FancyBox is tool for displaying images, html content and multi-media in a Mac-style “lightbox” that floats overtop of web page.
Create an Image Rotator with Description (CSS/jQuery)
An image rotator is one great way to display portfolio pieces, eCommerce product images, or even as an image gallery. Although there are many great plugins already, this tutorial will help you understand how the image rotator works and helps you create your own from scratch.
Simple CSS + Javascript Tooltip with jQuery
This is simple and easy way to create a javascript tooltip with jQuery. Author break it into several sections: getting the mouse xy axis, anchor tag structure, how to hide default TITLE tooltips, css plus rounded corners box.
Create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery
This is really useful tutorial to create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery.
How to implement a news ticker with jQuery and ten lines of code
In this post, author is discussing to illustrate you how to implement a nice news ticker using jQuery and just ten lines of Javascript code.
50+ Promising Collection Of Resources And Inspirations For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In April
We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 50+ Promising Collection Of Resources And Inspirations For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
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31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
23 Magical Photographs To Believe That Are Not Photoshopped
13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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115+ Ultimate Round-Up of 3D Studio Max Tutorials
40+ Cartoon Character Illustration Tutorials
40 Apple-themed Photoshop Tutorials
30+ Most Wanted Photo Manipulation Tutorials in Photoshop Part I
101 Examples of Text Treatments on the Web

Create a Cute Easter Bunny Vector
Create a Glossy Volt Icon in Photoshop
30+ Fresh & Useful Adobe Illustrator Tutorials & Neat Tips
33 Tutorials to Unleash the Photoshop Beast in You
Create a Bright Retro Grunge Vector Illustration
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Working with Textures
Create an Asian Inspired Illustration with Impact
How to Make a Stylish Glowing Box in Photoshop
30 Hand-picked Flash and Essential Actionscript 3.0 Tutorials
44 Must Learn Web Design Layout Tutorials in Photoshop
How to Create a Retro Vector Illustration with Stylized Lines
35 Tutorials to create amazing Vector Graphics using Inkscape
14 Tutorials for Creating Photoshop Brushes
Retro Rainbow Tutorials and Design Showcase
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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41 Great Looking Free WordPress ThemesÂ
15 Best Places to get Inspirational Web Designs
30 Creative Illustrative Website Headers
70+ More Rainbow Colors Inspired Photos and Pictures
50 Great Wallpapers about Design
30+ Cute and Clever Anime Paper Child Art
50 Beautiful Websites with Illustrated Landscapes
15 Stunning Examples of Underwater Photography
40 Stylish, Minimal and Clean Free Wordpress Themes
Beautiful And Creative Logo Designs For Your Inspiration
Hover Effects in Web Design: Best Practices and Examples
Wonderful Fantasy Landscape Artwork
Javascript and Ajax
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20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know
18 jQuery scripts and tutorials to improve your portfolio
20 Useful PHP + jQuery Components & Tuts for Everyday Project
Essential PHP Techniques for Web Designer and Developers
xHTML and CSS
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30 Exceptional CSS Navigation Techniques
The Mystery Of CSS Sprites: Techniques, Tools And Tutorials
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21 Free Apps For Mac OS X That Are Useful and Productive
50+ Sources To Download High-Quality Free Vector Stuff
44 Excellent Free Icon Sets Everyone Must Have
270+ High-Res Rough and Grungey Photoshop Brushes
20 Free Original Hi-Res Ink Stained Paper Textures
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50 Totally Free Lessons in Graphic Design Theory
Beginner’s Guide to E-Commerce Solution
100+ Massive Wordpress Tutorial Collection
6 Tips to Help You Get the Most Out of Google Docs
7 More Useful Tips To Help Your Site Convert
40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In March
We are always in search of great free resources, tips, tricks, etc. for our readers. Every day we work hard to find new resources and inspiration for designers like you. Today, we have another great post, “Discover the Best of the Web” on SmashingApps. In this, we made a list of 40+ Must-See Resources And Inspirational Collections For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
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5 Useful And Free Photo Viewers For Your Mac OS X
31 Masterpieces Of Creative And Clever Advertising Concepts
23 Magical Photographs To Believe That Are Not Photoshopped
13 Premium-Like Wordpress Themes That Are Free And Stunning
21 Really Stunning Photoshopped Photos For Creative Inspiration
17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
43 Of The Extremely Creative Wonders Of Macro Photography
27 Best Places You Should Visit To Get Incredible Web Design Inspiration!
13 Simple And Elegant Free Wordpress Themes
21 Extremely Vibrant And Creative Advertisements With Animals
39 Masterpieces Of Creative Advertisements
17 Digital Image Illustration Which You Probably Never Seen Before!
15 Digital Photo Manipulation From Flickr To Get Inspiration
23 Awesome Photos That Look Like They’re Photoshopped But Are Not
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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20 Beautiful Photoshop Montage Tutorials
30+ Photoshop Tutorials in Creating Amazing Posters
50 Stunning Photoshop Text Effect Tutorials
Create A Cute Panda Bear Face Icon
40+ High Quality Adobe Fireworks Tutorials, Resources & PNG Files
15 Tutorials for Recreating Authentic Photo Effects
RocknRolla Style Twitter Icon Tutorial
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating that Perfect Web Page Design
Use type as a creative effect in Adobe Photoshop
How to Create Super-Malleable Effects with Colorful Lines
Create An Amazing Diamond Advertisement Poster in Photoshop
44 Must Learn Web Design Layout Tutorials in Photoshop
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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40 Excellent Logos Created with Helvetica
Bizarre Surreal and Dark Art Pictures
50 Stunningly Creative Interactive Flash Websites
15 Beautiful Typography Inspired Websites
50 Brilliantly Photoshopped Movie Posters
26 Floral Websites in Full Bloom

25 Beautifully Colorful Websites – Part 4
15 Powerful Military Photographs
30+ Excellent & Inspirational Digital Paintings
25 Impressive and Inspirational Dark CSS Web Designs
Designing Drop-Down Menus: Examples and Best Practices
Cartoon Websites and Characters
Javascript and Ajax
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25 Powerful and Useful jQuery Tutorials for Developers and Designers
70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques
xHTML and CSS
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10 Rare HTML Tags You Really Should Know
20 Useful CSS Tips For BeginnersÂ
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50 Excellent Image Galleries You Can Use Today
A Huge Compilation Of 60 Free Illustrator Brushes
10 Free Grunge Photoshop Textures
The Ultimate List Of Sources For Free Background Patterns
10 Must Have Firefox Plugins For All Bloggers
30 Photoshop Actions for Touch Ups and Enhancements – Part 2
12 WordPress Plugins for Theme Development
200 Free Exclusive Icons: Siena
60 Excellent Free 3D Model Websites
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50+ Essential Techniques and Tools for Visualizing your Data
9 Steps To A Happy Relationship With Your Hosting Provider
10 User Friendly Tips for Good Content Heavy Web Designs
23 Ultimate Collection Of Useful Ajax Tutorials & Resources
Ajax a short form of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a set of techniques used by many modern and popular web sites. This technique allows portions of a Web page to be updated without refreshing the entire page and to increase the web page’s interactivity, speed, and usability that is a significant advance in the development of websites and web-based applications. For example, a site might allow you to rate a product or item by clicking on a star image. With Ajax, your vote could be registered without having to load the entire page again. If you already know about Javascript, HTML, CSS and XML then you will need to spend your 1 hour to start with AJAX. Here is the list of 23 Ultimate Collection Of Useful Ajax Tutorials & Resources that includes some useful tutorials and few great resources like script, examples etc. We are hoping that you will learn further on Ajax after reading out this post.
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Introducing the ASP.NET Ajax Frameworks
This article takes a brief look at the features of some of the more widely used ASP.NET Ajax frameworks.
How To Build Quick and Simple AJAX Forms with JSON Responses
In this tutorial, you will learn the steps to setting up an AJAX form, which will return a JSON response used to display success/error messages.
Create a shoutbox using PHP and AJAX (with jQuery)
In this tutorial, You will learn how to create a dynamic ajax based shoutbox with jQuery from scratch. It will be very interesting to know how to use the ajax function of jQuery and how it can be used to insert and recover data from a MySQL database via PHP in a way asynchronous.
Vista-like Ajax Calendar version 2
The Vista-like Ajax Calendar (vlaCalendar) version 2 is a unobtrusive web version of the slick and profound Windows Vista taskbar calendar, by using the MooTools javascript framework, AJAX, XHTML, CSS and PHP.
How to Code a Fun To-Do List With PHP and AJAX
This tutorial will help you to build a to-do list that will allow you, or your user, to create, update, and delete items asynchronously. To accomplish our task, we’ll be using PHP and jQuery’s AJAX capabilities.
In this tutorials, Author is trying to explain that how you can speed up the process and reduce any frustration in finding preferred username. Server-based validation can be delivered with a page refresh, or live as this tutorial will explain, i.e. for checking whether a username is taken.
8 Ajax Data Controls and Effects to Work with Tables
An useful collection of Ajax Data Controls and Effects that will help you to work with tables.
Making an Ajax PHP Watermarker Script
In this post, you will learn that how to make an Ajax PHP Watermarker script. So, all a user will have to do is select a file from a folder, enter his watermark text and watermark them instantly using Ajax.
Creating AJAX websites based on anchor navigation
In this tutorial we will see how to create an AJAX website without lose the reference to the URL.
Getting started with AJAX using PHP
In this article you will learn about what AJAX is, how it works, and how can you use AJAX with PHP. Please remember, AJAX is not a programming language, so you don’t have to learn any new technology. AJAX can be implemented by using existing standards (JavaScript and XML) in a different way.
In this tutorial author is showing you how to create an Ajax contact form from start to finish. This includes the form HTML/CSS, the JavaScript and the PHP backend.
In this article, you’ll learn about Ajax security tools, which you’ll be using to scan for SQL injection and cross-site scripting vulnerabilities; to set a master password; and to restore the state of all windows after crashes etc.
Creating An Amazing jQuery Style Switcher with Ajax Techniques
In this tutorial author is showing you how to create a style switcher using jQuery and PHP. The end result will be an unobtrusive & entirely degradable dynamic style switcher which will be quick and easy to implement.
Google’s AJAX APIs let you implement rich, dynamic web sites entirely in JavaScript and HTML. You can add a map to your site, a dynamic search box, or download feeds with just a few lines of JavaScript. If you want to play around with them, try using the Interactive Code Playground.
ASP.NET AJAX is a free framework for quickly creating efficient and interactive Web applications that work across all popular browsers. ASP.NET AJAX is built-into ASP.NET 3.5. It is also available as a separate download for ASP.NET 2.0.
20 Excellent Websites for Learning Ajax
There are many sites out there that’ll help you “grok” Ajax and the various technologies surrounding it. Here are 20 top-notch websites that cover the subject of Ajax.
This free app should be great for any newsletter management needs. Copy this one file onto your site, and you’re ready to send and archive all newsletters, manage e-mail addresses and categories, and configure a template for your e-mails.
AJAX Your Blog – Plugins, Source Code, and Tutorials
This is a list of AJAX components you can add to Wordpress, Expression Engine, and Moveable Type.
script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to make your web sites and web applications fly.
70 New, Useful AJAX And JavaScript Techniques
In this article, they presented 70 new and useful JavaScript and AJAX techniques, all of which are of the highest quality and are more or less easy to configure. You will also find some very useful but better known techniques to use on almost any project you work on.
Ajax Rain is a diverse collection of over 900 Ajax examples, java scripts, jQuery plug-ins, DHTML codes and demos from around the web, it gives you the perfect start to web development.
A showroom of nice looking simple downloadable DHTML and AJAX scripts.
AjaxWith has a huge collection of Ajax tutorials, resources that will help you to learn Ajax in an easy way.
25 Excellent And Useful Adobe AIR Tutorials & Resources
Adobe AIR is a cross-platform runtime environment for building rich Internet applications using Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex, HTML, or Ajax, that can be deployed as a desktop application. Anyone who realize the future of Adobe AIR really want to learn it. To see the magic of Adobe AIR, we must suggest you to check out this showcase applications on Adobe’s website. Here is the list of 25 Excellent And Useful Adobe AIR Tutorials & Resources that includes some useful tutorials and few great applications that has been developed on Adobe AIR. We are hoping that you will learn further on Adobe AIR after reading out this post.
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This tutorial will introduce you to Adobe Air, a framework to build rich internet applications. This first introduction will show how to create a simple application using Html/Js technologies.
Adobe AIR and Flex – Getting Started
This article is going to be a short tutorial on how to get your first AIR application going. This tutorial requires a small knowledge of Flex.
Using the AIR Debug Launcher (ADL)
This will help you to use the AIR Debug Launcher (ADL) to run both SWF-based and HTML-based applications during development.
This Beginners Adobe AIR Tutorial covers the fundamentals for creating a simple AIR application.
Simple Copy Paste In Adobe AIR
This is a simple example that demonstrates how to copy a Text to clipboard and also how to retrive the same.
Developing cross-platform Adobe AIR applications
This article discusses some of the best practices for developing AIR applications that work well on all supported platforms and operating systems.
This will help you to learn Installing Adobe AIR on Linux.
Adobe AIR Tutorial For HTML / JavaScript Developers
The learning curve for building an Air Application if you already know JavaScript and HTML is quite small. Run through this quick tutorial and you will be unstoppable.
Adobe AIR Read And Write File System – Part1
This tutorial will help Adobe AIR developers the ability read, write and manage files and folders.
Adobe AIR For JavaScript Developers Pocketguide
Adobe AIR for JavaScript developers provides an introduction to Adobe AIR for developers using interested in building AIR applications using JavaScript, HTML and CSS.
Notification Windows with JavaScript and AIR
This article will walk through what a notification window looks like to AIR, and explore some of the various options you have when you want to alert the user.
Implementing Drag And Drop Between The OS And AIR
In this, you will explore integration possibilities using drag and drop, a technique familiar to most desktop application users.
Best Practices: 6 AIR Features That May Annoy Your UsersÂ
AIR provides developers with a lot of features that could potentially annoy users if not used wisely. In this article author listed down some features that he just want you to think about them before you add them to your application.
Recreating MapCache On Adobe AIR
This article demonstrate how you can integrate web-based and desktop technologies by way of an Adobe AIR sample app that brings Yahoo! Maps to the desktop.
How To Build A Contact Manager In AIR Using XML
In this tutorial, you’ll be reading, parsing and searching an XML into an AIR application and going through the whole getting it to compile and exporting a release version.
How To Build A Contact Manager In AIR Using XML – Part 2
In this part, you will be learning how to save and edit the file and how to setup the bindings between the xml and component.
Creating A Downloader For YouTube with Flex/Air
In this article, you will learn to build a cross platform application that searches for YouTube videos and then provides a mechanism to download those videos and view them locally.
Building an Adobe Air application with Flex
In this tutorial you will learn how to build an Adobe Air application with Flex, an open source set of technologies for the development of rich internet applications.
This article will guide you to publish your work and create an installer for it.
Syntax Highlighting in Flex for AIR
This tutorial will show you a basic example of how to use the SHJS (Syntax Highlighting in JavaScript) library inside a Flex/AIR application.
8 Useful Adobe AIR Applications That Work In Linux
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20+ Great Adobe AIR Apps for Photos & Videos
5 More Cool Adobe AIR Applications
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15 Beautiful Web Designs Empowered With Ajax Techniques
Ajax a short form of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML is a set of techniques used by many modern and popular web sites. This technique allows portions of a Web page to be updated without refreshing the entire page, a significant advance in the development of websites and web-based applications. For example, a site might allow you to rate a product or item by clicking on a star image. With Ajax, your vote could be registered without having to load the entire page again. In this post, we are listing down 15 Beautiful Web Designs Empowered With Ajax Techniques for your inspiration. If you like this post so please spread the word as much as possible via twitter.
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35 Mindblowing Inspirations And Resources For Designers And Developers To Discover The Best Of The Web In October
We are always in the search of great free resources, tips and tricks, etc for our readers. Every day, we works hard to find new resources and features them here for you. Today, we have another great post Discover The Best Of The Web on SmashingApps. In this, we will find and make a list of 35 Mindblowing Inspirations And Resources For Designers And Developers To Discover The Best Of The Web In October. Maybe, we could not cover all of the best from around the web but we will try our best to cover as much as possible.
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Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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40 Cool Beauty Amplifying Photoshop Effects
30 Beautiful Photoshop Illustration Tutorials
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35+ Nature Tutorials for Photoshop
40 Beautiful Grunge Photoshop Tutorials 
35 Green and Earthy Photoshop Effects
Icon Design Tutorial – Designing a New Icon In Illustrator
20 Exceptional Websites for Learning Adobe Illustrator
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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50 Beautifully Dark Web Designs
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25 Website Designs To Draw Inspiration From
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9 Brilliantly Designed Portfolio Websites
Javascript and Ajax
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20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know
Using Javascript to Fix 12 Common Browser HeadachesÂÂ
xHTML and CSS
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Innovative (and Experimental) CSS Examples and Techniques
70+ Cheat Sheet Resources for Web Designers
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45+ Sources and Sets of Photoshop Custom Shapes
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The Ultimate Collection Of Useful Photoshop Actions
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21 Most Useful Free Resources For Designers And Web Developers
We are always looking to come up with the post that is attractive and useful for everyone. We most of the time focuses on the designer’s stuff, developer’s resources and where anything is going to launch free of cost. There are countless designer’s and developer’s free resources available which everyone should review at least once. In this post, I have collected 21 Most Useful Free Resources For Designers And Web Developers.
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40 Essential Tools and Resources to Visualize Data
A lot of people are excited to play with their data, but don’t know how to go about doing it or even start. Here are the tools that I found helpful for data visualization – starting with organizing the data, to graphs and charts, and lastly, animation and interaction.
13 Awesome Javascript Animated Flash Like Menus
This is the list 13 awesome Javascript CSS menus that will be very handy and easy to modify to suit your needs.
 75 (Really) Useful JavaScript Techniques
Sometimes we need JavaScript solutions that are a little more involved or specific. Here are 75 more handy JavaScript techniques that have made websites much sleeker and more interesting.
16 Free Ajax Contact Forms – For A Better User Experience
Depending on the features (or JS frameworks to be used) you may need, you can choose from these 16 very nice free Ajaxed contact forms & implement them easily to any website.
20 Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know
These are the top 20 Ajax effects that every web developer should know. They’re essential parts of any web developer’s toolbox. If you haven’t seen them yet, you no doubt will in your future web development endeavors.
7 Free CSS Editors, Which Is the Best? You Choose
I have always used Dreamweaver, and love it. But, I have been thinking, what are the FREE CSS editors like? This is the list of 7 Free CSS Editors to help with your choice.
Wordpress Featured Post Slideshow
This is the detailed tutorial in which you can read that how you can create wordpress featured post slideshow Jquery for your blog.
8 CSS Techniques for Charting Data
There are many ways you can present numerical, chartable data by styling elements using CSS. Using CSS to style your data prevents you from relying on static images and increases your content’s accessibility.
What Are The Benefits of Using a CSS Framework?
What are the benefits of using a CSS framework? And would you suggest that over starting from scratch?
30+ Tooltips Scripts With JavaScript, Ajax & CSS
This is the collection of 30+ Tooltip Scripts vary from CSS, Ajax based, mootools and jQuery with cool Animation . which you can easily incorporate into your future designs.
This post serves as a collection of useful tutorials on working with AJAX in a wide variety of ways. You’ll find tutorials on working with forms, building shopping carts, creating chat features, working with log-ins and usernames and much more.
Tutorial: Creating Custom Write Panels in WordPress
It seems the latest fad to hit the WordPress scene is adding thumbnails into a blog post. This is fairly easy to do with some knowledge of custom fields, but can be a little complicated if your client is new to WordPress, or blogging.
Using Javascript to Fix 12 Common Browser Headaches
Modern browsers have very good support for CSS  it’s certainly good enough for you to use CSS to control layout and presentation. Sometimes however, certain page elements will appear differently in different browsers.Don’t worry too much if you don’t know the reason why, play around with the CSS rules and check out this post Using CSS to Fix Anything.
How to Create an Object-Oriented Blog Using PHP
While there are countless excellent free blog platforms, the purpose of this tutorial is not to make a “better” blog but to use the process of making a blog to learn about advanced database structure techniques and how to use data more efficiently by utilizing objects in PHP.
37 Ways to Design the Comments Form
There really is no right or wrong way to design a comments form as long as you pay attention to basic usability guidelines. These are the 37 ways other blog designers have designed their comments form
30+ (More) Most Wanted Wordpress Tips, Tricks and HacksÂÂ
There are lots of impressive Wordpress tricks, hacks and plugins out there that we thought are really great that is why we compiled a list for you.
20 jQuery Plugins for Unforgettable User Experience
In this article you will find a list of over 20 Useful and New jQuery plugins you should always have ready to create more interactive, more responsive and more flexible web-solutions.
7 Version Control Systems Reviewed
This article reviews some of the top open-source version control systems and tools that make setting up a version control system easy.
Top 10 Tutorials for Developing WordPress Themes
The fun thing with WordPress is that there’s always something new that you can learn to make the platform work better for you and your clients. These 10 tutorials will teach basic WordPress theming as well as some more advanced skills.
10 Helpful Resources for Cross Browser Testing
Finding and fixing problems can be difficult if you’re not equipped with the right tools. In this post you will see a brief look at 10 of the leading resources for making your browser testing less time consuming and more productive.
30+ Animated Tab-Based Interface and Accordion Scripts
This is the useful collection of 30+ Tab-Based and Accordion scripts vary from CSS only tabs ,Ajax based, mootools and jQuery with cool Animation which you can easily incorporate into your future designs.
Discover The Best Of The Web In August 2008
We are always in the search of great free resources, tips and tricks, etc for our readers. Every day, we work hard to find new resources and show them here for you. Today, we are starting another great section Discover The Best Of The Web on SmashingApps.com. In this, we will find and make a list for the best of the web for the whole month. Maybe, we cannot cover all of the best from around the web but we will try our best to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of august which our readers/viewers may like.
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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40 Dark and Futuristic Photoshop Effects
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Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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The Showcase of Brilliant Pattern Designs
50+ High-impact Illustrated Vector Posters
20 Stunningly Colorful Commercial Designers
30 Impressive Colour Spectrum and Rainbow Wallpapers
31 Websites Using Wood Elements
Javascript and Ajax
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A study in Ajax Web trends. What are the best Free Ajax Resources?
5 Useful Coding Solutions For Designers and Developers
xHTML and CSS
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19 CSS Menu Tutorials to Spice Up Your Web Designs
40+ CSS/JS Styling and Functionality Techniques
12 Great CSS Resources: From Inspiration to Implementation
Resources
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13 Sources for Background Patterns and Textures
Adobe AIR Apps for Web Designers
30 Free High Quality Wordpress Themes
Retro Photoshop Brushes And Vector Images – Giant Design Pack
Retro Photoshop Brushes And Vector Images – Giant Design Pack
200+ Photoshop Brushes for Light, Sparkles
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14 of the Most Useful Web Design Blogs
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