February was a busy month, we have been watching great news, articles, tutorials, scripts, tips and lot of inspiration for web designers popping up everyday so we thought it would be a great idea to wrap all those resources in one package where you can check to fuel your creativity.
Over the last few years web-developers have developed many AJAX and CSS Tab-based interfaces which became one of the most interesting techniques giving us an easy way to get information without the need to open and close multiple windows at the same time.
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In this article we’d like to present our first series for an extensive developer’s suite that should give you a useful and powerful toolbox you can use every day while developing AJAX-based web-applications. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tag clouds When, used properly, they can provide visitors with an instant illustration of the main topics of the site’s content. And although we don’t have that much choice in designing them, we can still find our way to come up with new design approaches and solutions.
Here is a new approach: Using jQuery to reduce the size of the tag cloud that you have on your sites, so our demo will introduce "Hover Sub Tags" under each main Tag, for example if you have Ajax as a tag, you can have jquery, mootools, etc… as sub-tags. A Sub Tag Cloud will appear when hovering over the main Tag links.
Check out the link below to see it in action.
[LIVE EXAMPLE]
The hover code is by Dave Cohen’s Hovertips.
Forms needs a solid visual structure, a profound hierarchy of form elements (Fields and Labels), powerful techniques and Functionality (AJAX) to make the form look and work creatively. There is a great bunch of creative, outstanding and individually designed from scratch forms.
Thanks to AJAX, we can provide real-time feedback to our users using server-side validation scripts and eliminate the need for redundant validation functions and processing data.
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Not many web designers have fun when it comes to styling tabular data. We have taken a close look at today’s best functioning and styled tables to showcase over 15 modern css and Ajax tables teaching you some useful techniques for displaying information in a tabular mode using sorting or filtering functions.
You might be interested to take a look at the links below:
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The article argues that the user interface (UI) is not only an important element of product design — it’s your product’s most important feature.
Info on using WordPress as a CMS (not just as a blog) with “How to” resource links
The way that you talk with your clients can heavily influence their attitude and respect towards you. If you use the right language, and avoid talking yourself into a trap, it’s not too difficult to rid yourself of bad clients forever.
As web designers and internet enthusiasts we tend to use web applications to safely work without the worry of loosing data due to hardware failure. I would like to recommend a few web applications i use as a web designer. Let me know of your favorite web services in the comments.
Learn how to create an amazing, and degradable style switcher using jQuery.
This article has helpful beginner web designer tips from an experienced web designer. Starting out? Learn ways to find new clients, what to avoid, and how to save time and money.
Free Dally design studio css template. Valid xhtml/css, easy to customize.
Here a collection of 10 newest free 3-column joomla templates is presented. These joomla templates are very varied and you will definitely find the one if you want to start a joomla-based web site.
I will not ridicule those who just made their graduation site on frontpage with comic-sans and a yellow background, Instead I will show you the 10 crappiest sites of corporations that should have the best designs possible !
Templates.com, a web designers’ marketplace,presents its new creation - Free Icon Set designed for Bloggers. It consists of 10 unique bottle-shaped icons for: StumbleUpon.com, Ma.gnolia.com, Technorati.com, del.icio.us, DesignFloat.com, Digg.com, RSS, Twitter.com, Facebook.com, and Reddit.com. Each icon is available in three dimensions: 80 ? 80 px, 64 ? 64 px and 32 ? 32 px.
Use these graphic satellites instead of tedious and trite icons to prettify and professionalize your website!
CSS grid systems have been creating a bit of a stir recently, so in this tutorial I’ll show you how simple and easy it is to utilise the Blueprint grid system when coding up your web pages.
A really interesting Interview with Graphic Art Director Bob Sakoui who is also the owner of “original linkage”.
Learn how to create a URL shortening and redirection service in wordpress. Perfect for those “Asides” posts and link pages!
Want an unobtrusive solution to a slide toggle div using jQuery? Look no further!
Web comics added daily, along with local and national news, music, and a huge back log of artwork!
Smoke can be very diverse. Explore the abilities of smoke brushes with the 15 free sets of Photoshop Smoke brushes.
Learn some new ways to enhance your Photoshop skills while creating posters for all kinds of purposes.
Links to thousands of free photoshop brushes that are free for you to use in both your commercial and non-commercial design
Several PHP tricks you can use easily on your websites.
QVectors.com - a site where free quality vectors are showcased.
I just launched the 2nd list for Web Design trends on CssLeak. The Websites Using Wood Elements : There is already 31 Design ordered by popularity and the list will be automatically updated with the new entries in the gallery.
Viral marketing (also called word-of-mouth marketing) refer to adverts or to a story that are so good that people choose to watch them. Learn from others how to succeed in your next viral ad campaign.
These are just some of the items on the lengthy features list of Ian Stewart’s Thematic theme. But what exactly do these all do? Let’s get down on a more basic level and learn what Ian is doing, and then you’ll see why his latest work has been so influential.
A collection of beautiful sketchy/doogle-y photoshop brushes.
6 more interviews from Rock Sound magazine showing what makes these designers tick within the music industry, what influences them and how they got in to the music design industry.
