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jQuery Lesson Series: How to Implement Your First Plugin
Building a jQuery plugin is relatively easy if you know the basics. In this article we are going to build a simple plugin which highlights (actually blinks) the link, paragraph, span or any text element on the page. For a printable reference gui...
Four reasons why new websites flop
Websites are bringing in more and more businesses to companies which are feeling the pinch of the global recession. And new companies are realising that a website is as important, if not more so, than every other aspect of their business. But it pa...
Exploring PHP Frameworks: CodeIgniter
I thought I would share with you my experience of PHP frameworks, and in particular a framework called CodeIgniter which I have been using a lot recently. A PHP framework is a platform which enables developers to quickly build web applications wit...
Useful Tips Every Web Designer Should Know About SEO
In the process of developing a web site, there are many professional profile that work on it, one of this is the SEO profile (Search Engine Optimization). If you are working in a web agency, usually there’s a professional profile that works ...
How to Design Call-to-Action Buttons with Photoshop
This post illustrates how to design simple call-to-action buttons (inspired to Woork Up buttons you can find on the home page) using Photoshop. I prepared a Photoshop file you can download and reuse on your design projects. I hope you’ll find...
Benefits of Increasing Communication in the Development Process
One of the biggest complaints I hear from prospects as they make their initial call to our offices is that their previous web development firm didn’t move quickly enough or that the process simply took too long and was too expensive. I am alw...
HTML5 and Beyond
On the 6th November 2009 in Prague, here at the Google Developer Day 2009 (Prague GDD 2009) during the Keynote a few google’s experts pointed out some of the new features of HTML5: Canvas, Video, Geolocation, Gears and WebWorkers. Let me ...
How to build a Social Networking Website with Drupal
With this article I want to explain how you can plan and build a Social Networking Website using Drupal. The intent of the post is to provide useful tips and informations to understand the issues behind the building of a working on-line community....
jQuery Lessons Series: Manipulating CSS Classes
In this lesson I want to illustrate you how to use some useful jQuery methods that allow you to manipulate easily CSS classes. In particular I prepared some examples to explain the following methods: toggleClass(), hasClass(), addClass() and remov...
The Web Designer Wheel
The Web Designer Wheel is simple process model that describes in five steps how to manage a small web project and relations with client. This approach allows you to work better, set and respect milestones and establish profitable and long-term relat...
What’s Your Own Personal ‘Coding Horror’?
Most of us can remember building our first website or application and the excitement that came with learning new techniques and languages. However, years (or even months) later when we look back at our first tentative steps in web development, we re...
WordPress Visual Cheat Sheet
WordPress Visual Cheat Sheet is the new document, of the Visual Cheat Sheet family, that contains a practical reference guide to WordPress 2.8. This cheat sheet (5 pages) contains the full reference guide to WP Template Tags with detailed descript...
Arial, Verdana, Trebuched, Lucida. Which is your favorite font for the web?
Arial, Verdana, Trebuched, Georgia, Lucida are a part of some popular and frequently used typefaces for webpages. In the past years web designers had a their disposition only a restricted set of fonts for web sites. With the introduction of CSS 3 @...
Fonts for Designers Series Issue no. 2
Fonts for Designers is a series of posts that proposes every week a selection of the best free fonts for web designers. Each new issue will present five interesting fonts you can use on your web projects. Audimat Ogirema Alte Haas Grotesk Greys...
5 Must Read Presentations about CSS Coding
If you are looking for documentation to improve your CSS skills I suggest you to take a look at the following 5 must read presentations about CSS coding. The following presentations help you learn how to write efficient and maintainable CSS code, u...
How to Improve your Wordpress Theme with 9 Useful Plugins
This post presents a roundup of 9 essential and really useful plugins that help you improve your WordPress theme making just some simple changes to the PHP code. For each plugin I’ve provided a description you can follow to quickly implement ...
Listening Habits of Highly Effective Web Designers
Via http://www.helikopterdesign.com – We here at Helikopter Design love music. Maybe more than web design.(Blasphemy!) It’s an essential part of the design process for us. Setting the right tone for inspiration, helping re-energize when attentio...
jQuery, Scriptaculous or MooTools: Which JS Framework Do You Prefer?
There are many JavaScript frameworks that a web developer can chose to implement a website or a Rich Internet Application. The most famous are without doubt jQuery, Scriptaculous and MooTools. I’ve started programming some years ago using Scr...
jQuery Lessons Series: How To Implement Animations of CSS Properties
In the past days I received several requests from my readers that asked me to dedicate the new issue of my jQuery Lesson Series to how to implement custom animations of CSS properties of HTML elements. So this post illustrates a basic way to use...
Inspiring Music Playlist for Web Designers n. 03
This week our weekly inspiring playlist for web designers contains eight new beautiful track. Any suggestion for the next issue? Please leave a comment or subscribe to our RSS feeds to stay update on our news! Goldfrapp – Pilots [on a star] R...
Site of The Day: Smokey Bones
At Smokey Bones we specialized in three things: good food, food drinks and good time. We are a bar and fire grill but not necessarily in that order. We are grill masters who respect the power of the flame. We like simple, yet flavorful recipes and...
PageLime: Flat File Hosted CMS for Designers and Developers
If you are looking for a free and easy to use solution for you or your clients to manage a web site, I suggest you to try PageLime. PageLime is a remote Content Management System that allows you to manage web sites update the content, images, and...
Fonts for Designers Series Issue no. 1
Fonts for Designers is a new series of posts that proposes every week a selection of the best free fonts for web designers. Each new issue will present five interesting fonts you can use on your web projects. In the last weeks, before the launch o...
Cross Browser Testing: Which Tool Do You Use?
Cross browser testing is a crucial part of the design process of a website. Releasing a website not suitable for certain browsers is always a risk because you could lose a consistent percentage of users that visit your pages. There are many intere...
5 Rules To Write More Readable CSS Files
PSD to HTML We’ll convert your design to xHTML/CSS Complex CSS files can often be difficult to manage especially if you don’t use a structured way to write and organize their code. In a previous post I already illustrated a methodic ap...
Site of The Day: Wonderwall
Wonderwall is an interior design firm established by Masamichi Katayama. Its portfolio includes commercial spaces such as retails spaces, restaurants and bars, as well as office showrooms and building complexes that are distinctly unique in design...
Most Used HTML Tags in 50 Popular Web Sites
Which are the most used HTML tags in web design? I received this curious question form a friend of mine some days ago and I tried to find an answer analyzing the HTML structure of a selection of 50 popular web sites that includes CNN, Time, New Yo...
HTML Editors War: What are you using?
What's your favorite HTML editor you use to design and develop websites?...
Inspiring Music Playlist for Web Designers n. 02
The issue number 2 of our weekly playlist....
jQuery Lessons Series: How to Interact with HTML Forms
A roundup of five step-by-step examples to start using jQuery with HTML forms....
