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60+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections For Designers To Discover The Best Of The Web In June
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+ Incredible Tutorials And Resources Collections 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 June 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 as well.
Design Tips, Tricks and Tutorial
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53 Crazy-good Digital Photography Tutorials
40 Top-Notch Print Based Tutorials
10 Most Wanted Vector Tutorials
13 Useful Techniques for Enhancing Web Design Photography
Design a premium wordpress blog with Photoshop
Create a Character Illustration Wallpaper
50 Excellent 3D Adobe Illustrator Tutorials
Simple Coffee Cup Icon Photoshop Tutorial
Photo Manipulate a Falling Angel
77 Ultimate Round-Up of Adobe After Effects Tutorials
25 Photoshop Tutorials for Creating 3D Text Effects
Useful Flash Cartoon Tutorials
It’s Time to Create a ‘Neo-Constructivist’ Poster with Photoshop
Create a Texture Based Vintage TV Poster in Photoshop
Artwork, Digital Photography and Inspiration
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50 Breathtaking CG Images
50+ Creative Masterpieces Of Logo Designs Using Gradient Effects
50 Inspiring Abstract Illustrations in Web Design
100 inspiring character designs
40 of the Best Websites of Non-Profit Organizations
Vector Backgrounds in Web Design: Examples And Best Practices
60+ Really awesome Typography Showcases
74 Fresh Examples Of Beautiful Single Page Website Designs
50 Beautiful Hand-Drawn Web Design
100 Creative Twitter Backgrounds Featuring Illustration
25+ Examples of Effective Glowing Effect in Web Design
13 Beautiful Graffiti and Street Art for you inspiration
43 Spectacular Examples of Fractal Art
20+ Excellent Free Character Illustration Wallpapers
Creating a tri-fold brochure plus 15 amazing examples
25+ Examples of Inspirational Text Art
40 Examples of Incredible Photo Manipulation
21 Stunning Examples Of Creatively Done Stop Motion Animations
Javascript and Ajax
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55 Jquery Tutorials, Resources, Tips And Tricks
Playing with jQuery Color Plugin and Color Animation
15 Best Techniques For Implementing Autosuggest With AJAX
10 Ways to Instantly Increase Your jQuery Performance
xHTML and CSS
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24 CSS (in some cases with jQuery) Navigation and Menu Tutorials
7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed
15 Effective Tips and Tricks from the Masters of CSS
Resources
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50+ New and Beautiful Free Wordpress Themes
30+ Useful Photoshop Custom Shapes Set
15 Most Useful & Free Collection Of Ready-To-Use Design Freebies
Ultimate List of 32 Font And Typography Tools
25+ Useful Wordpress Themes with Ads Ready
Hibiscus flowers - vector freebies
100 New and Beautiful Seamless Patterns
35 Excellent Websites for Downloading Free CSS Template
20+ Beautiful Free Serif Fonts
30+ High Quality Metallic Texture, Pattern, Brushes and Photoshop Tutorials
Miscellaneous Articles
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12 Essential Rules to Follow When Designing a Logo
Ten Rock Solid Free Platforms To Start Your Successful Website
40 Must Have Cheat Sheets for effective Web Designers
20 Tools to Make the Life of a Web Developer Easier
10 Ways To Make Your Site Accessible Using Web Standards
17 Creative Collection Of Inspirational Resources For Designers
As a designer, all of us are continuously searching for effective inspiration because getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don’t want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the time, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself with current design trends, we are today listing down 17 Creative Collection Of Inspirational Resources For Designers. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative design ideas professionally and motivate you for to design your project in such a way that people will never forget that you have made it!
You are welcome to share if you know more resources and collection to get inspired with current design trend that 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 as well.
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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!
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
25+ Most Creative and Stunning Photo Manipulations
100 (Really) Creative Business Cards
20 Beautiful Examples of Photoshopped Smoke Art and Technique Tutorials
25 Unique uses of WordPress as CMS
40 Useful and Creative Infographics
35 Examples Of Masterful Lighting Effects In Web Design
Totally Awesome Joker Collection
20 Stunning Panoramic Landscapes
21 Colorful Artwork Of Character Design To Grab Your Attention
42 Amazing Resources for Inspirational Typography
25 Great Examples of Using Gradient Effects in Web Designs
60 Beautiful Fractals Created with Apophysis:Part 1
25 of the Best Websites for Educational Institutions
50 Inspirational Web Design Blogs
Agility! An Approach to Fight Global Recession
Most of the countries all over the world are going through the phase of economic recession. Many old and big companies have already been brought down on their knees to bite the dust. Many companies as well as countries have become bankrupt or are on the verge of it. Millions and millions of people have lost their jobs. Many people have lost millions and billions of dollars. People in general are scared and fearsome. This is not the first time that the global economy is going through recession and this is also not the last time. There is a pattern involved in it. On an average it is happening after every 8-10 years.
Information Technology industry too takes the impact of global recession and a difference in the average IT investment can be monitored during the times of recession. Analysis of IT investment shows that Information Processing equipment and Software investment increased a modest 5% in 1990 recession before taking a major jump to 15% in 1992. However the 2001 recession, in contrast with the decline in 1990, was much harder on IT spending because there was a great deal of overspending on IT equipment and software in the latter part of 1990s. The need for extra hardware and software for Y2K remediation ended abruptly in 2000. The 2001 recession was somewhat unique in that this huge overhang of excess IT equipment needed to be burned off before investment levels could recover. This intensified the negative impact of the 2001 recession on IT spending. However the current recession bears remarkable similarities to the recession of 1990, which was led by the financial sector. It also bears some similarities in IT spending patterns during the 2001 recession. In either case, over the past 20 years the negative impact on IT spending has never lasted more than two years. Therefore, the analysis shows IT spending will remain weak through 2009, with a recovery in 2010.
IT Agility
A key goal of every IT department is to reduce the time and effort needed to deliver value to the business. To accomplish this, the best long-term trend we have in IT beyond Moore’s law and the power of the Internet is the improvement of IT agility. Increasing IT agility is important because it provides a value innovation and delivery method that harnesses these fundamental advances in infrastructure.
Agile practices enable teams to build less, but return the same value by focusing on early delivery of the features that have the highest business value and not wasting money on the features that don’t.
IT agility is driven by three major innovations: agile development, Software as a Service (SaaS), and Web 2.0 social networks. However, without agility in development and software releases, the innovations of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and Web 2.0 are elusive.
Agile Process Model
Agile development is an iterative and incremental (evolutionary) approach to software development which is performed in a highly collaborative manner by self-organizing teams within an effective governance framework with “just enough” ceremony that produces high quality software in a cost effective and timely manner which meets the changing needs of its stakeholders.
The following illustration depicts a typical agile development model.
Agile methods choose to do things in small increments with minimal planning, rather than long-term planning. Iterations are short time frames (known as ‘timeboxes’) which typically last from one to four weeks. Each iteration is worked on by a team through a full software development cycle, including planning, requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, and acceptance testing when a working product is demonstrated to stakeholders. This helps to minimize the overall risk, and allows the project to adapt to changes quickly. Documentation is produced as required by stakeholders. An iteration may not add enough functionality to warrant releasing the product to market, but the goal is to have an available release (with minimal bugs) at the end of each iteration. Multiple iterations may be required to release a product or new features.
Team composition in an agile project is usually cross-functional and self-organizing without consideration for any existing corporate hierarchy or the corporate roles of team members. Team members normally take responsibility for tasks that deliver the functionality of an iteration. They decide for themselves how they will execute during an iteration.
Agile methods emphasize face-to-face communication over written documents, when working in the same location, or in different locations but having video contact daily, communicating by videoconferencing, voice, e-mail etc.
Most agile teams are located in a single open office to facilitate such communication. Team size is typically small (5-9 people) to help make team communication and team collaboration easier. Larger development efforts may be delivered by multiple teams working toward a common goal or different parts of an effort. This may also require a coordination of priorities across teams.
No matter what development disciplines are required, each agile team will contain a customer representative. This person is appointed by stakeholders to act on their behalf and makes a personal commitment to being available for developers to answer mid-iteration problem-domain questions. At the end of each iteration, stakeholders and the customer representative review progress and re-evaluate priorities with a view to optimizing the return on investment and ensuring alignment with customer needs and company goals.
Agile methods emphasize working software as the primary measure of progress. Combined with the preference for face-to-face communication, agile methods usually produce less written documentation than other methods. In an agile project, documentation and other project artifacts all rank equally with working product. Stakeholders are encouraged to prioritize them with other iteration outcomes based exclusively on business value perceived at the beginning of the iteration.
Enterprise agile adoption roadmap
Like any mission-critical systems or initiative, you need a vision and roadmap to steer your adoption and rally the troops. The roadmap for an enterprise to adopt agility is described in the following illustration.
There are three keys to effectively managing this process:
- Work incrementally, in an agile fashion, through the steps and gain proficiency before widespread scaling.
- Develop a vision/roadmap and change backlog with key executives before you attempt to move up to step 3 and beyond.
- Share the vision and roadmap with the entire organization and manage the rollout in a collaborative fashion with complete transparency.
Many of these rollouts have started with a grassroots effort to get to Step 1 and Step 2. With the help of external coaching and parallel tool rollouts, many companies have taken more aggressive, “flash-cut” moves with top-down leadership and investment to jump to step 3 in the roadmap within months.
Flash-cut approaches
Given the pressure and opportunity of this crisis, as well as the increasing number of public proof points showing how large organizations can quickly transition to agile, you might be thinking about your ability to do accelerate your adoption and capture savings in 2009 from your efforts. There are three things to heed while considering this:
- Adopting agile needs complete management buy-in and a true sense of urgency. What is it going to take for your management team to get buy-in to adopt Agile on a major portion of your organization?
- You are going to need a strategic partner to help you manage this organization change effort. I do not know a company that followed the flash-cut approach without an outside coaching or consulting firm. As a result, you will have to budget for this investment and the time to choose and schedule them. These partners will help you build the organization capacity for agile while also supporting the professional development of your middle managers as the organization becomes flatter and leaner.
- This is a whole system change from a world of plan-driven to value-driven ideas. As a result, you will see immediate changes in your process, organization, and technology. This transition will set up a culture of continuous improvement and even drive changes in your overall development and business strategies. To make this transition go well, you are going to need to implement a collaborative project management solution to provide visibility across your development teams.
Conclusion
We don’t know how long or how deep this recession will be. Belt-tightening and staffing cuts almost seem inevitable. You can either reduce costs by just cutting your budget, or you can use this opportunity to make systemic changes in your business. Enterprise IT agility is proven to do that — more so than investments in technology point solutions that only have a point in time savings. Most important, this approach will help ensure the savings from today’s cuts do not create worse problems in the long run.
Guest post by Muhammad Usama Alam, who is a software engineer and web developer with over 8 years of experience in designing and developing business solutions for enterprise. You can follow him on twitter.
22 Motivational And Excellent Photography Dedicated To The Labor Day
Labor Day is an annual holiday celebrated all over the world that resulted from the labor union movement, to celebrate the economic and social achievements of workers. The majority of countries celebrate Labor Day on May 1, and it is popularly known as May Day and International Workers’ Day. But why we are talking this? Because today, Labor Day is celebrating all over the world, and we are trying to take part by giving labors a warm tribute. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing 22 Motivational And Excellent Photography Dedicated To The Labor Day. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about Labor Day and motivate you to appreciate them. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
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HARDWORKED HAND by Cristian Naidin
Traditional farming by Janusz Wanczyk
The Sweets-Maker by Mitchell Kanashkevich
Sand Collector by Mitchell Kanashkevich
Hard at Work by Mitchell Kanashkevich
Tea Maker by Mitchell Kanashkevich
Working at the Ijen Crater by Mitchell Kanashkevich
Pulling out the morning catch by Mitchell Kanashkevich
A Fisher of Fish by Robert Larson
The Chilly Bearers by Prateek Dubey
The Long March by Richard Ford
Men in the Farm by Christian Aslund
Horsemen. Calcutta by Claude Renault
28 Beautiful And Inspiring Photographs Dedicated To Earth Day
Yes, we know that SmashingApps is dedicated to designers and developer but I think it would be good if we can be able to give some awareness and knowledge to our readers for some environmental issues. Today, Earth Day Network is celebrating a Earth Day all over the world, this is a day when they try to create awareness and educate people about keeping their environment clean and motivate them to Go Green for their sorroundings. Today, we are posting another post that probably will make you look twice. In this post we are listing 28 Beautiful And Inspiring Photographs Dedicated To Earth Day. I appreciate to all those talented photographers who taken these excellent photos with their efforts, imaginations and creativity to give us a chance to see these photographic wonders from their creative eyes. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will surely refresh you and force you to know more about Earth Day and motivate you to save your planet. These are the wonder creations of photographers who use their creativity with a different angle and approach to get the result that makes a difference.
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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
Earth from above by Yann Arthus-Bertrand
Goðafoss by Ragnheidur Arngrimsdottir
Morning impression by Przemyslaw Wielicki
Flowing Water & Ice Formations by Doug Roane
A Reflective Morning by John Parminter
Morning line by Janusz Wanczyk
Mountain Waves by Alan Czekierda
Dream about a green valley by Janusz Wanczyk
Autumn curve by Janusz Wanczyk
Morning valley by Janusz Wanczyk
Elf’s Land by Alexander Maslarski
In the mist’s sea by Janusz Wanczyk
The Sky Goes All the Way Home by Mark Broughton
Strolling on the Dolomites by Robert Strahinjic
Glacier Formation by Axel Gimenez
The Other Side by Stefan Bingham
Seljalandsfoss by Henrik Spranz
Let’s Find Out, What’s Being Copied From Your Site?
Each time a user highlights or copies text or images from your site Tracer records the user action, and automatically adds a link back to the original content when it is pasted. Now, you can see what is being copied from your site and benefit from the additional traffic generated by each copy.
Tracer is a brand new way to generate more visits and page views. You can get credit when content is copied from your site. It will help you to measure and understand user engagement and Improve your search engine ranking.
Tracer allows you to identify the most popular content on your site so you can
- Provide high quality data to your advertisers, over and above page view stats.
- Track Virality. Learn which stories users forward most using our copy/paste technology.
- Produce content more closely aligned with what your users are interested in.
- Optimize your search terms or keywordss.
Tracer automatically adds a link back to your site when content is copied and pasted. When your content is pasted onto a blog, Twitter, or another web site it has a direct impact on your search ranking. By seeing what words and phrases users are copying from your site you can better understand how you might select your keywords, meta-tags,tags, and even ad-words.
Also, Tynt.com is an increasingly popular place for people to find interesting web sites and content and generates visits to your site when content is copied.
12 Excellent And Useful Design Process Tutorials
Designers love all of those tutorials and design processes that can help them to learn more and more everyday and give them direction to design more beautiful and attractive artworks. We know this very well and SmashingApps is all about to feature all those smashing stuffs that are free and useful for designers. Today, we are going to list down 12 Excellent And Useful Design Process Tutorials. We hope you all will like this collection.
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This is very useful and detailed process of designing a website from concieving to HTML conversion.
This case study (written by David himself) provides full creative brief and progress images from start to final. Read on to find out how David got inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s art (one of the most famous 20th-century abstract artists) to create this fantastic logo.Logo Design Process Tutorial
This is a comprehensive overview of logo design process and methods for all those people who are interested to learn the process of designing and developing a logo.
This step by step exercise includes little about the typical ramp up of preliminary discussions, research, and so on.
The Logo Design Process for Ultimate Potential
This article offers insights into, not only the thought process behind creating the logo, but also the creation of the logo itself.
Design Process Of The Artwork Of WDD
In this article, you will find how Radim crafted the memorable design of Webdesigner Depot,
Logo Design Process and Walkthrough for Vivid Ways
This is a design process and a walkthrough of how the final logo is created in Adobe Illustrator by Chris Spooner.
Design a Print-ready Ad in Adobe InDesign
This tutorial is perfect for you if you’re familiar with Adobe Illustrator and want to get started with a layout program suited toward publication design.
This post will show you the design process of the Abstract Chinese Phoenix, one of the beautiful illustration which was presented at the FOWD 2008 conference.
In this post, You will know about the ideas and the design process for the logo creation.
Label Package Design Creation Process
This is a beautiful label package design creation process from Start to Finish by Expert Graphic Designer, Lauren Peone of laurendesigns.
This article will show you how Web Designer Wall is done, from start to finish.
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.
You are welcome to share if you know more best of the web in the month of March 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 as well.
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17 Mind-Blowing Digital Painting Tutorials Of Beautiful Girls
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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 Beginners
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11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends
Getting an idea and inspiration is sometimes really hard and when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration so you don’t want to spend too much time and want to get start something as soon as you can. But most of the time, your mouse is not moving around as you want or your hand is not in your creative control or maybe when you are just tired and do not have creative mood to work. So if you want to get fresh your creative man or come up with some creative web design ideas or just need to motivate and inspire yourself with current design trends, we are today listing down 11 Great Resources And Inspirations Of Current Design Trends. This list is not long in numbers but I promise you that when you start browsing them in details it will must boost your creative design ideas professionally and motivate you for to design your project in such a way that people will never forget that you have made it!
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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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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.
