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85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In January
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 85+ Excellent Resources And Tutorials 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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Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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40+ Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Gadget Designs
How to Create a Realistic Fountain Pen
How to Make a Professional Buddy Icon in Photoshop
Create a Stunning 3D Liquid Explosion Artwork
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35 Tutorials and Guides for Working With Wacom Tablets
Creating a Realistic Torn Photo Effect – Photoshop Tutorial
18 Outstanding Typography Photoshop Tutorials Of 2010
Design a Surreal Desert Scene in Photoshop
Mastering Photoshop: Unknown Tricks and Time-Savers
23 Professional Facial Photoshop Retouching Tutorials
35 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Web Design Layouts
Easy Digital Painting Illustration in Photoshop
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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40+ Examples of Typography Inspired in Web Design
The Colorful Showcase Of Beautiful Typography
40 Beautiful Corporate Websites
62 Gorgeously Designed CG Characters
70 Fairly Creative Fresh Logo Designs for Design Inspiration
Showcase Of Modern Navigation Design Trends
45 Superb Examples of Warrior and Battle Art
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50 Digital Fairy Tale Character Illustration Collections
Textures In Web Design: Examples And Best Practices
Beautiful Digital Art by Miriam Moshinsky
11 Most Popular Blog Design Styles (With Examples)
35+ Fantastic Robot Art Illustration
40 Inspiring Single Page Websites
50 Packaging Designs That Pack A Punch
20 Stunning Typographic Designs
25 Absolutely Magical Fantasy Traditional Art Drawings
Newsletter Design: 50+ Great Examples
30 Clever And Creative Packaging Designs for Inspiration
Super Cool Pictures of Insects
“The Page Can’t Be Found” Coolest Error 404 Pages In Web Design
60 Sites with Attractive Typographical Introductions
Javascript and Ajax
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20 Fresh JavaScript Data Visualization Libraries
45 jQuery Navigation Plugins and Tutorials
30 Stylish jQuery Tooltip Plugins For Catchy Designs
25 Tutorials and Resources for Learning jQuery UI
Sexy Animated Tabs Using MooTools
30 Useful Tutorial for JavaScript Framework Navigation
90+ Useful jQuery Plugins for Designers and Developers
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30 Cutting Edge Examples Of CSS Navigation
The New Hotness: Using CSS3 Visual Effects
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The Ultimate Collection Of Colorful And Inspiring Vector Art
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33 Absolutely Free E-Commerce Icon Sets
Massive Collection of Over 1,000 Floral Photoshop Brushes
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4800 Mini Icons You Ever Need for your Apps
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25 New High Quality Free Fonts
20 Abstract Effects Photoshop Brushes
10 Completely Free Wireframe and Mockup Applications
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35 Stunning Free Fonts To Enhance Your Designs
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70+ Promising Resources and Tutorials Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In December
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 70+ Promising Resources and Tutorials Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of December which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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45+ Truly Stunning Digital Painting Tutorials
Create a Watercolor-Themed Website Design with Photoshop
How To Create a Sleek Audio Player Interface in Photoshop
65 Mold-Breaking 3ds Max Tutorials
Creating a Modern, Glossy Mouse Icon in Photoshop
40+ Excellent Adobe Illustrator Cartoon Tutorials
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Designing Portfolio Sites
How to Create a Curious Owl in Illustrator CS4
30+ Useful Logo Design Tutorials for Photoshop and Illustrator
22 Tutorials To Create Shiny Effect Using Photoshop
The 50 Best Photoshop Tutorials of 2009
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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Visa Campaign does Amazing Arts on the Go
16 Popular Website Redesigns Of 2009
32 Superb Examples of Photo Manipulation
Stunning Mosaic Illustrations from Charis Tsevis
Data Tables In Modern Web Design
50 Beautiful Watercolor Paintings
25 Ultra-Creative Packaging Designs From DeviantArt
Changing Design Trends for Site Maps
Logo Design Inspiration: 70 Creative Fresh Designs
35 CSS-based Layouts that Look Awesome
25 Beautiful and Creative Artworks Featuring Year 2010
The Best of 2009 in Flash Web Design
Talented Landscapes and Scenery Artist Ksenia
50 Creative Examples of Illustrations in Web Design
Business Cards: Collection of Inspirational Designs
30+ Examples Of Tilt-Shift Photography And How To
Headers and Footers that Grab You Coming and Going
Go Bananas with 50+ Vector Illustrations that Monkey Around
30 Examples of Beautiful Portfolio Designs
28 Breathtaking Nature and Wildlife Photos
24 Typographic, Clean and Minimalist Motifs to Inspire
High Dynamic Range (HDR) Photography: Tutorials, Tips and Stunning Examples
Javascript and Ajax
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15 Incredible Apple Webdesign Style Coding Tutorials
Solutions to 5 Common Ajax Problems
18 Latest jQuery Plugins for Your Next Project
20 Professional jQuery Image Gallery Plugins
7 jQuery Cheatsheets For Every Designer & Developer to Have
xHTML and CSS
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33 Must Read CSS3 Tips, Tricks, Tutorial Sites and Articles
Stronger, Better, Faster Design with CSS3
Fundamental CSS3 Resources for Designers
CSS Techniques I Wish I Knew When I Started Designing Websites
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40 High Resolution Photoshop Brushes
25 Beautiful Free PSD Files to Download
50 Free Resources Of Hand Drawing Style Icons, Brushes, Textures and Fonts
Beautiful Fresh Free Fonts for Designers
30+ Free Online Multimedia (Photo, Audio, Video) Editors
50 Beautiful Free Icon Sets For Your Next Design
25 High Quality Abstract Photoshop Brush Sets to Touch Up Your Design
The Top 50 Web Development Icon Sets from 2009
10 Free Apps for Managing Your Fonts
Ultimate Resource List for Vector Graphics
30+ Free Adobe Illustrator Pattern Sets
30 Excellent Fresh Free Fonts For Your Designs
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30 Powerhouse and Prospective Design Blogs
The 6 Most Common Posts on Design Blogs
7 Tools To Optimize The Speed of Your Website
30+ Portable Window apps for your USB drive
35 Adobe AIR Tutorials for Web Developers
How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery
22 Latest Exceptional WordPress Hacks
How to Find Anything Online: Become an Internet Research Expert
20 Excellent Facebook Scripts and Resources
The Role of College for Web Designers Comments Feed
Useful Suggestions To Secure And Speed Up Your WordPress Blog
25 Graph and Chart Solutions for Web Developers
How Many Ideas Do You Show Your Clients?
60+ Ultimate Resources Especially For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In November
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 60+ Ultimate Resources Especially For Designers. We obviously cannot cover all the best from the web, but we have tried to cover as much as possible.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of November which our readers/viewers may like. Do you want to be the first one to know the latest happenings at SmashingApps.com just subscribe to our rss feed and you can follow us on twitter and do not forget to become our fan on facebook as well.
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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!
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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
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Create a Leather-Textured, Realistic Briefcase Icon
Make a Sketchy Wallpaper for this Christmas
Ultimate Round-Up Of 60 Excellent Gimp Tutorials
Create a Photorealistic Car Render using 3DS Max and Vray
35+ Photo Editing Tutorials for Photoshop
99 Brain Blasting Cinema 4D Tutorials
30+ Photoshop Tutorials for Creating Space and Planets
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30 Photo Effect Photoshop Tutorials Every Designer Will Love
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How to Make Beautiful Gradient Typography with Photoshop
GIMP Quick Tips: Abstract Background Effect
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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3D Portraits That Make You Say ‘Wow’
40 Inspiring Panoramic Photographs
Beautiful Photoshop Illustrations By Artists Around The World
95 Fresh Examples Of Single Page Website Designs
32 Beautiful Text Art Creations
Lovely Cartoon Illustrations by Anne Patzke
The Mesmerizing Art of Jordan S. Dill
60 Bizarre Examples of Grunge Photography
50 Impressive Magazine and Newspaper Styled Web Designs
50+ Creative Sneakers Made with Quality Vector Craftsmanship
Street Fighter Characters: Beautiful Illustrations and Wallpapers
Inspirational Showcase Of Music-Related Logos
Excellent HTML Newsletter Templates – Best Of
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Showcase of Excerpts in Blog Design
Google Doodles from Different Countries You Haven’t Seen
45 Inspiring Navigation Menus That You Must See
69 Sexy Portfolio Designs To Inspire You
Vector Artwork: 50+ Inspirational Creations
Javascript and Ajax
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The Basics of Object-Oriented JavaScript
10 Awesome Techniques and Examples of Animation with jQuery
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Designing CSS Buttons: Techniques and Resources
Making an Interactive Picture with jQuery
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xHTML and CSS
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11 Free High Quality Dirty Wall Textures
Three Easiest Tools To Help You Create Stunning Slideshows
Top 20 Essential Firefox Add-ons for Web Designers
250 Christmas Icons to Decorate Your Blog
Free Fonts: Excellent List of Resources
The Big Collection Of Free Design Textures
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21 Free Web Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier
This is one of the useful list of its kind where you can find the must have online web apps that may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work. I hope web designers and developers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 21 Free Web Apps That Can Make Your Lives Easier. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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CodeRun Studio is a cross-platform Integrated Development Environment (IDE), designed for the cloud. It enables you to easily develop, debug and deploy web applications using your browser.
The easiest way to have a fancy and useful live search on your blog. Just grab the code and place it anywhere on your site and you are good to go. The search works just like Google suggest and you have all the power to customize it the way you want.
websnapr lets you capture screenshots of any web page. Allow your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. Increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.
HTML and CSS Rounded Corner Button Generator
HTML and CSS rounded corner button generator generates rounded button images with different color, different hover color and different radius.
Facelift Image Replacement (or FLIR, pronounced fleer) is an image replacement script that dynamically generates image representations of text on your web page in fonts that otherwise might not be visible to your visitors.
Wordoff is simple and useful web tool that lets you remove unnecessary tags and styles from HTML code. Most of us have to cleanup the HTML code manually in our working life. This web tool defintely help all of us in that situation and you also find this worth bookmarking.
LOOP PDF is a free web-based service that allows you to convert and combine files to PDF. You do not need to install software or be working from your desktop computer. LOOP PDF allows you to convert, organize, and combine files to PDF. Your customer will appreciate an email with one organized, professional, and visually consistent secure PDF rather than a series of attached files that are confusing, out of order, and time consuming for the recipient to review.
Pixenate is the photo editor of choice for photo printing and photo sharing businesses.
CSSFly is a web 2.0 tool for easy editing websites direct and in real-time in your browser. Simply edit the (X)HTML-code and the external Style-Sheet files : what you code is what you get! This tool is designed for developers. Use it for developing, testing or checking your web-project or take a look behind the scenerys of your favourite websites.
Posterous lets you post things online fast using email. If you can use email, you can have your own website to share thoughts and media with friends, family and the world. You can attach any type of file and they’ll post it along with the text of your email.
NeedASig is one of the best free signature generator. You can create beautiful and stylish email signatures and icons using NeedASig. It has more then 1500 different styles to choose from.
FreshGenerator is a webdesign tool which can create interesting graphic elements used in many web 2.0 sites.
Edicy is so easy to use you can build a site for your business or organization and have it live on the internet in a matter of minutes. All the tools are available online with no additional software required, just pick one of our beautifully made designs, enter your text, add your images and then publish your site to your own custom web address, it’s that simple.
Krunchd makes it easier for you to share multiple URLs of any category in an easy and short URL. It’s especially great for putting the finished URL on your Facebook status, Twitter updates, Ping.fm notifications, websites, forums, emails and more.
Stripemania is a simple and free web 2.0 tool to create seamless diagonal stripes for your designs. You are able to choose the size of the stripes and the spacing between those. You can even add color gradient effect for all of your stripes.
Are My Sites Up is a very simple service to help you keep an eye on your sites and warn you if they go down.
This is one of the simplest large file sending service that even does not need you to register. You will just need to upload and send you files and nothing else.
This free service will help you to re-size your images with basic and advanced options.
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With Google’s free online calendar, it’s easy to keep track of life’s important events all in one place. With Google Calender, you can let your family and friends see your calendar, and view schedules that others have shared with you. You can get event reminders via email or have text messages sent right to your mobile phone.
doTemplate is a web template builder. It offers a range of website themes you can personalize online before downloading. You can use this easy template creator for free.
80+ High Quality And Useful Resources For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In October
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 80+ High Quality And Useful Resources 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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Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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11 Of The Handy Free Tools To Increase Designer’s Productivity
This is one of the very best (Fresh) list of its kind where you can find the simplest online web designer’s tools that are developed for designers and may be very helpful for you as well when you want to get your work done or just for fun. I hope web designers will like this list, but you can also use them and will love them whether you are an office worker, a manager, a supervisor, a student, a home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known, but they are really amazing in respect to their features. This is the list of 11 Of The Handy Free Tools To Increase Designer’s Productivity. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.
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Pictaculous is free color palette generator. It would be really helpful if you are wondering what colors to use with an image. You will just need to upload your image and it will give you the suggested color palette.
This is a brand new site that allows you to check out how your website looks in the most popular resolution formats. It’s all powered by Ajax & PHP so no need to download anything. Using ViewLike.Us is perfectly free.
This is an online calculator that can help you easily covert pixels, to EM, to percent or to points.
This is the fastest way to resize your pictures and images. You will just need to choose an image file, select some resize options, and hit Resize it. Your image will be uploaded to the server, resized and then your resized image(s) will be provided in a single convenient view. The power comes from the simultaneous generation of different sizes and the ability to enlarge your images too.
SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation. It’s suitable for most web sites “accommodating up to three levels of page navigation and additional utility links” and can easily be customized to meet your own individual needs, branding, or style preferences.
A way to explore the popular typefaces you have on your computer.
A collection of free icons that can be colored and reduced in size to your taste. If you are a happy site or blog owner, you will be able to pick icons that will fit right into your design.
Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service. A number of distributed computers will open your website in their browser. Then they will make screenshots and upload them to the central server.
Text Utilities is really useful multipurpose tool that can customize and manipulate your text as per your need. It can quickly help you to encode, decode, case convert, javascript and regexp any text submitted by you.
Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image’s primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image. Extremely useful when creating any type of designs around an image. The more colorful the image, the better the results.
Font Burner is the easiest way to add great fonts to your website. Just pick one of over 1000 quality fonts, add a chunk of code to your site, then sit back and admire your beautiful typography.
21 Stylish CSS/jQuery Solutions To Beautify Your Web Designs
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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
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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.
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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.
