A Simple Twitter App with Ruby on Rails - Messages With Ajax
Ruby on Rails is a web application framework that promotes rapid development. Clients’ demands are ever increasing yet they still expect the same quality of output.
Frameworks, like Rails, help to achieve this; why?… here are some of the reasons:
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How AJAX Works: 10 Practical Uses For AJAX
AJAX has gotten more and more popular over the years, and has allowed web applications to act more and more like desktop applications. AJAX can provide a lot of additional functionality that could not be accomplished any other way.
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10 AJAX-based & PHP WebMail Clients For a Great User Experience
Employees need to access their email from wherever they happen to be – on the road, at customer sites, remote offices, and at home. WebMail clients allows receiving and sending email messages using POP3 and SMTP protocols through both local and remote mail servers. Providing secure filtering of unsafe content while viewing HTML-formatted email messages. WebMail clients can operate under different popular web platforms (PHP, ASP.NET, ruby on rails, java).
Today i wanted to share with you 10 AJAX-based & PHP webmail client that delivers the look and feel, usability and performance of a desktop application. Some of the webmail clients listed below are open source code that can be easily modified to better suit user’s needs, while others are not. So You must check their license to know the rules.
10 Smart Javascript Techniques For Manipulating Content
Delivering informative structure is the primary task an interactive user interface should be able to cope with. The more intuitive layout structure is designed, the better users can understand the content.
Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways. In this article we’d like to present 10 11 smart javascript techniques you should always have handy when creating your next layout design.
“Page Sliders”, “Hiding Content”, “Image or Content Sliders”, “Animated Slideshows”, “Carousels”, “Tabbed content” as well as “resizable, draggable & slidable” & “lightboxes” modules that you can use for effective presentations of your content (text or images).
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Most Wanted Ajax Techniques: 50+ Examples and Tutorials
Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of javascript you can produce some pretty cool results. In an effort to help you take it up a notch, we’d like to share some methods for helping your site anticipate a user’s next move.
The list below is made up of the best 50 FREE scripts available, they are all of the highest quality and more or less easy to configure. Give them a try.
jQuery, Mootools, Prototype and script.aculo.us are used in these examples, so every taste has its demos served.
You might be interested to check other Ajax related posts.
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23+ Impressive Tools for Faster Javascript/Ajax Development
Javascript applications are still one of the most complex issues when it comes to web-development. Many tools and applications could make your developing life pretty fast and simple. Today we wanted to share with you a wide range of tools and applications that could really help you build, test and debug Javascript and Ajax applications. Let us know your experience with the tools listed here or others that are not.
You might be interested to check other related posts for more useful tools:
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Exceptional Ajax/javascript Techniques (Recently Created)
In this article we’d like to present a list of over 30 hand-picked Ajax and javascript techniques you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs. The best thing about this list is how fresh it is, you might have seen some of it but we guarantee not all.
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30+ Javascript/Ajax Techniques for Sliders, Scrollers and Scrollbars
Every once in a while we like to focus on different design elements and how to use javascript and ajax to make them more interactive and more flexible to the user. In this article we’d like to present a list of over 30 hand-picked Sliders, Scrollers and scrollbar techniques you can use to achieve some special visual effects in your designs.
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37 More Shocking jQuery Plugins
45+ Fresh Out of the oven jQuery Plugins
Two month ago we’ve presented the 50 favorite jQuery plugins many developers use and we promised that the second version will be coming soon. Today, we are going to introduce 45+ more jquery plugins that were recently created, Read the rest of this entry »
4th Jul | Sophia Lucero
Let’s throw the design rules out of the window and enjoy a little bit of chaos!
4th Jul | Akhtar Sheikha
The list of collection Thirty One coolest business cards to inspire you.
4th Jul | Akhtar Sheikha
Coolest list of inspirational packaging designs.
4th Jul | Thomas
Minimal Websites are interesting because it\’s a way to let visitors focus on the content. We just mixed the best of Minimalist design featured on CssLeak since 2007. There is 50 websites order by popularity.
4th Jul | Andrew Houle
A free set of 10 hi-res photoshop brushes of weathered maps.
4th Jul | Mike
This blog shows creative and inspiration photos from original weddings in the San Francisco Bay Area.
4th Jul | Dainis Graveris
There are millions of blogs around the world, so it\’s really a challenge to stand out with unique design. Get inspired, to help you create really unusual design!
4th Jul | Aaron Irizarry
In this weeks vidcast we talk about mediocrity in our approach to product launches, as well as using wisdom in our timing when pursing our passions.
4th Jul | Adi
In our daily web hunting raids we have spotted another interesting & good-looking trend - the fluid grid-based layout, mostly used by galleries and visual inspiration blogs.
4th Jul | Zach Dunn
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that creativity exists in all designers, and they are endowed by Common Sense and the W3C certain rights, that among those are Web Standards, Sanity, and Creative Commons.
4th Jul | Bariski
A roundup post for June 2009 for TutZone
4th Jul | Bariski
A contact form provides an easy way for your visitors and your readers to get in touch with you from your blog itself.
4th Jul | Grafpedia
If you want to create your own custom blog design follow this easy tutorial to learn how to design a wordpress theme in Photoshop
4th Jul | Grafpedia
If you want to create your own custom blog design follow this easy tutorial to learn how to design a wordpress theme in Photoshop
4th Jul | piervix
In this selection I am glad to present you some of the best fonts to realize nice retro design. The fonts (20+) of this list are absolutely free and you can freely use these resources for your designs, click on the images below to download them.
4th Jul | DerekKimball
Walkthrough showing you how to easily paint a stunning portrait using Photoshop.
4th Jul | DerekKimball
Free high quality image downloads to use for personal or commercial projects. Updated weekly.
4th Jul | webaddicty
Want to do some creativity with your web design? Want to do something innovative and inspiring? Looking for something that helps you to boost your creativity with an amazing idea?
4th Jul | shravan
These are some digital artworks created using Typography in the art. The designs have been collected from Flickr and I can bet they these are some designs which any designer would like to include in his work once.
3rd Jul | Brian Hoff
20 questions to ask your clients prior to beginning their new logo design.
3rd Jul | DannyOutlaw
While I was researching vintage ads for this Photoshop tutorial, I came across a few Coppertne Sunscreen ads that were the perfect combination of pinup and vintage ad.
3rd Jul | Mike P.
It\’s no secret that we can see fountains in every city we travel to, and the bigger, more colorful it is, the bigger the hype. In this presentation, you will see some of the most famous, beautiful and creative fountains around the world.
3rd Jul | sickdesigner
Guitars are an awesome source of inspiration to me, both musically and visually. So with this post I set out to share some of the most inspiring guitars I know of with you guys, the great community (yeah, both of you) of sickdesigner.com
3rd Jul | Karthik Viswanathan
Infrared photography is a type of photo-capturing where the camera recognizes infrared light. It puts a whole new meaning to what we know as regular pictures. Though infrared photos may not seem appealing, they can easily present a new perspective.
3rd Jul | Webdesigner Depot
Coffee or Latte art consists of the pouring of steamed milk into a shot of espresso generating a pattern or design on the surface.
3rd Jul | QBrushes
Here is a top 30 list of Gimp tutorials hand selected by Gimper and SGlider12 that will help you to add many new Gimp design techniques to your arsenal.
3rd Jul | WebAir
Today we show you 44 Creative and Smart Advertisements that we have found in recent times.
3rd Jul | Divya
Inspirations, resources, examples, articles, tips, tricks, tutorial and more only for our readers. All this inspirations will help you designers and developers in you daily activities.
3rd Jul | nanodon
I have always seen that a collection of Business Cards on internet sells like hot cakes. Countless people regularly browse net in search of fresh, catchy, professional, vibrant Business Cards.
3rd Jul | Michael Wilson
A showcase of work from the hugely talented designer, Emil Kozak
3rd Jul | gizelle
Another set of texture freebies that you can use for free in your designs, both personal and commercial. This set contains pictures of grass and leaves in high resolution format.
3rd Jul | Charlotte-OXP
If content is the heart of every website publication, navigation is its brain and a fundamental pillar of information architecture design. When dealing with large quantities of content, the critical importance of navigation cannot be overestimated.
3rd Jul | Dainis
We collect top 50 best art works. In this set are great design elements, that you can use in you photoshop works. I hope these works will inspire you. Here you will find many fantasy scenes.
3rd Jul | piervix
The Best of Web selected by PV.M Garage. Every month I take a look around and select some of the most interesting readings and resources published on great and useful websites.
I hope you’ll find useful these bookmarks. June was a…
3rd Jul | Losi
If you only get to go to one of these locations it’s an experience that you will never forget and all are photography destination that we all crave for!
3rd Jul | John Lloyd
Here’s a quick little tip on how to build a map with hoverable regions with a few little CSS tricks.
3rd Jul | Thomson
Sequential logos is a new trend among logo designers. A sequential logos is a concept of demonstrating movement and mark harmonious progress of a company.
3rd Jul | Michael Wilson
A round up of the best web design content from the day
3rd Jul | Dainis Graveris
Official Twitter badges are boring, let\’s put something fresh in your design! This list showcases all the best Twitter related icons available on Internet!
3rd Jul | Sam Thomas
Google.com and its competitors are great tools for keyword based searches and they also provide great advanced search tools. These advanced search tools are what led me to look into several unique search engines that aren’t Google.



