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23 Colorful And Inspiring Web Designs Where Textures Are In Full Action
Where do you go normally when you are planning to start your new web design project and you are curiously finding for a mind blowing web design inspiration or just want yourself to bring up with some amazing creative ideas which can help you to create your web design project like it will make a trend or inspiration for others. But sometimes, 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. Today, We are listing down 23 Colorful And Inspiring Web Designs Where Textures Are In Full Action. 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 web design ideas professionally and motivate you for design your web design something which people will never forget that you have made it!
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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.
How to implement a news ticker with jQuery and ten lines of code
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13 Simply Useful WordPress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier
This is another post about useful wordpress plugins. There are hundreds of wordpress plugins available on the internet. Some of them are very useful and some of them are only for sake of existence. But it’s totally up to you that how you can make your wordpress blog more strong and powerful using different plugins to give your blog readers an amazing and wonderful experience.
In this post, I tried to list down 13 Simply Useful WordPress Plugins That Can Make Lives Easier. This list has few of the unlimited wordpress plugins introduction. I hope you will enjoy this.
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Download Monitor 3 is upon us. Download Monitor is a plugin for uploading and managing downloads, tracking download hits, and displaying links.
Plugin Manager lets you to view, download and install plugins from wordpress.org from an AJAX’ed interface, instead of manually downloading, extracting and uploading each plugin.
Google Analytics for WordPress
The Google Analytics for WordPress plugin automatically tracks and segments all outbound links from within posts, comment author links, links within comments, blogroll links and downloads. It also allows you to track AdSense clicks, add extra search engines, track image search queries and it will even work together with Urchin.
Search Everything increases the ability of the default WordPress Search, options included Search Every Page, Search Every Tag, Search Every Category, Search non-password protected pages only, Search Every Comment and much more…
This plugin will manage and rotate your Google Adsense and other ads on your WordPress blog. It automatically recognises many ad networks including Google Adsense, AdBrite, Adify, AdGridWork, Adpinion, Adroll, Chitika, Commission Junction, CrispAds, OpenX, ShoppingAds, Yahoo!PN, and WidgetBucks. Unsupported ad networks can be used as well.
Featured Content Gallery creates an automated, fully customizable rotating image gallery anywhere within your WordPress site. Choose your images and display categories, pages or posts with custom overlay text and a thumbnail carousel. Custom options include gallery size, color, style and more.
Subscribe2 provides a comprehensive subscription management and email notification system for WordPress blogs that sends email notifications to a list of subscribers when you publish new content to your blog.
WordPress Automatic Upgrade allows a user to automatically upgrade the wordpress installation to the latest one provided by wordpress.org using the 5 steps provided in the wordpress upgrade instructions.
The TweetMeme button easily allows your blog to be retweeted. The button also provides a current count of how many times your story has been retweeted throughout twitter.
This simple plugin helps you easily integrate your BuySellAds zones and includes anti-AdBlock meaures to prevent AdBlock (and similar software) from blocking the advertisement.
Social Bookmarking for WordPress
Sociable is a plugin which adds social media buttons to your posts, and does so easily, and beautifully. It will automatically add links to your favorite social bookmarking sites on your posts, pages and in your RSS feed. You can choose from 99 different social bookmarking sites.
A plugin to build user communities all around WordPress, mainly it’s around having a well integrated profiles system. This plugin will provide all needed functions and widgets to make it easy and flexible the ways to show all information about a user. Also, there is some user privacy settings to permit which information to show in the profile page.
You can shrink, track and share any URL on the Internet from your WordPress website. Unlike other link shrinking services like tinyurl, budurl, and bit.ly, this plugin allows you to create shortlinks coming from your own domain! Pretty Link tracks each hit on your URL and provides a full, detailed report of where the hit came from, the browser, os and host.
Now Its Much Easier To Embed Fonts On Web Pages With FontJazz
FontJazz is a tiny typographic engine written in JavaScript, enabling webdesigners and developers to use any typeface on a website. You can select here any TrueType or OpenType typeface from your local computer, and upload it for processing.
FontJazz does not take the usual road, where an image is generated on the server-side, for every headline – an approach that is rather ineffective. Instead, FontJazz implements a simple type-rendering engine in JavaScript, which means that any headlines are rendered 100% client-side, without any kind of server-side dependencies or bandwidth overhead.

Unlike traditional web-font solutions, FontJazz requires the user’s browser to fetch only a single image and a tiny JavaScript file, and only once for any number of headlines.
The JavaScript uses DOM and works with IE5+, Firefox 2+, Opera 9+, Google Chrome and most likely any other standards-compliant browser. You can click here to read license information or visit here to download.
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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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Create a shoutbox using PHP and AJAX (with jQuery)
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Vista-like Ajax Calendar version 2
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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