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Woorkup.com is a website about Web Design, Tech News and Digital Inspiration. Woork Up provides tutorials, code snippets, reviews of products and services for web designers and developers, and daily fresh news for web lovers. Topics focus on HTML, CSS and jQuery.

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Anatomy of The Perfect Sidebar

Anatomy of The Perfect Sidebar

The sidebar is an important element of every blog. In a standard two-columns layout it’s placed to the right of the main section and includes information and links related to the content of blog posts. A well organized sidebar should include some important items, such as subscription options, advertisements, recent ...

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Emerging Techniques Every Web Developer Should Know

Emerging Techniques Every Web Developer Should Know

The Web is evolving fast: new features, formats, user needs, continuously change the way we interact with websites. In this post I want to suggest you some interesting emerging techniques every web developer should know in order to build modern web applications. HTML 5 Offline Application The HTML 5 specification introduces a ...

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Best Practices To Develop Perfect Websites for iPhone and Mobile Devices

Best Practices To Develop Perfect Websites for iPhone and Mobile Devices

2010 will be the year of consolidation of internet usage via mobile devices. According to internetnews.com, which reports a Gartner analysis, mobile device sales will rise (9%) in 2010. This scenario will impose to internet companies, online newspapers, bloggers, to provide mobile versions of their websites to simplify the fruition ...

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The Beautiful Art of Japanese Web Design

The Beautiful Art of Japanese Web Design

If I had to looking for some attributes to describe the Japanese style in Web Design I’d choose: essential, minimalist, with an intensive use of Adobe Flash, animations and music in background (mainly solo piano, inspired by Ryuiki Sakamoto’s compositions), traditional and modern at the same time. Here is a ...

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10 Beautiful Sketches for Website Prototypes

10 Beautiful Sketches for Website Prototypes

When you start designing a new website it’s very useful to sketch out a first idea of page layout using paper and stencil. This approach help you define easily a working draft of the final version of your website. In general this is a top-down process: you can start sketching ...

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How To Play with Google Maps and Twitter API

How To Play with Google Maps and Twitter API

Nowadays Twitter is changing how the web is used. In fact under the pressure of the twitter’s FireHose even Google Search is starting to show transient informations, i.e. the tweets (cfr. Google Tweets and updates and search). As everybody knows a tweet is a short text message (less than 140 ...

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HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet (Reloaded)

HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet (Reloaded)

This new HTML5 Visual Cheat Sheet is an update of my HTML 5 Visual Cheat Sheet that I published for the first time some months ago on my old blog. This cheat sheet is essentially a simple visual grid that contains a list of all HTML tags and of their ...

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Exploring PHP Frameworks: CodeIgniter

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 without having to re-invent the wheel every time they ...

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Useful Tips Every Web Designer Should Know About SEO

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 only on search engine optimization, giving you ...

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How to build a Social Networking Website with Drupal

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. This writing was inspired by the reading ...

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jQuery Lessons Series: Manipulating CSS Classes

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 removeClass(). For a printable reference guide to the jQuery API I suggest ...

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WordPress Visual Cheat Sheet

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 descriptions and sample code. The simple visual style I used to ...

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