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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.
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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
Miscellaneous Articles
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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?
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.
Free And Professional Admin Template For Your Web Applications
Rather than standard website templates, a free admin template is nearly impossible to find.This post is about a free admin template released by WebResourcesDepot which you can use for web applications like:
- E-commerce projects
- Content management systems
- And more..
It is a 3 column design with a tabbed menu. The idea is having the standard categories in the tab menu for an easy reach and have all the detailed ones in the left menu. And there is an info box at the right to inform users what’s going on at that page.
You can customize it however you want to fit your project. It has a listing and a new entry sample which covers %99 of an admin screen.
It is totally free to use the template, no backlinks or anything required.
LightForm – Free Stylish Ajax/PHP Contact Form
LightForm is a free Ajax/PHP contact form. It also uses FormCheck2 for fields validation and NiceForms to style text fields and textareas. Features of the form are listed below:
Use of this contact form is free of charge but the copyright notes in the footer must remain intact.
Free Live Form Validation As You Type with LiveValidation!
LiveValidation is a small open source javascript library built for giving users real-time validation information as they fill out forms. Not only that, but it serves as a sophisticated validation library for any validations you need to make elsewhere in your javascript, it is not just limited to form fields.
The naming conventions and parameters of the validations are similar to those found in the Ruby on Rails framework, and as such is the perfect client-side companion. Don’t worry if you dont use Ruby on Rails though, LiveValidation can be used anywhere you like, is simple to learn, and a joy to use.
Don’t just take my word for it though…take a look around, download it, and make some forms (for) fun! See LiveValidation in action here.
LiveValidation is licensed under the terms of the MIT License
Create Your Own Free Online Survey in 10 Minutes And See What Others Say About You!
Now you can create absolutely free custom surveys to get feedbacks from your customers, employees, friends, colleges/universities etc.
Premier Survey offers you a free custom online survey software. For using this free subscription you will need not install any software, easily manage your recipients and surveys, create e-mail or website surveys, keep your data 100% secure and confidential and get live survey results anywhere in the world with any standard browser you like.
Just signup now and see what others say about you!
They offer 3 plans deluxe, professional and enterprise. Deluxe is a free plan while other 2 plans are paid. You can read the feature list and comparison of these plans.
Web Form Factory – Open Source Web Form Generator
Web Form Factory is an open source web form generator which automatically generates the necessary backend code to tie your form to a database. By generating the backend code for you, Web Form Factory saves you time… time you could spend doing more interesting stuff.
Webforms can be generated from HTML files. A database form stores form data into your database. An email form sends the form data to an email address. Choose the PHP version running on your server. Click the “Go” button on the site to send them your file and start the manufacturing of your form. The necessary backend code will be added and the file returned to you within seconds. I must say this form generator is really helpful for designers or those non-technical guys who are not developers and always get form generation service with developers.
Click here for Web Form Factory’s website
