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ConceptShare: Online Design Collaboration Made Easy
We've all been there: a typical task web-developers permanently have to deal with: how to communicate with clients in an effective and convenient way? How to make sure that the best compromise between designers' professional decisions and clients' personal... More... 16 Comments
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(X)HTML/CSS Coding-Services
You don't have to do everything by yourself. If you are running out of time or simply aren't that enthusiastic about the coding process, you might be willing to consider special "coding services" to get your job done in time. Particularly since there are dozens... More... 93 Comments
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Web Applications: Improve Your Workflow
by Mark Bloomfield In a world where applications are taking themselves online, there's a host of amazing web applications that perform all types of services and cater for just about any industry. Thanks to the joys of technologies like AJAX, Rails, PHP,... More... 52 Comments
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wpSEO: More SEO for Wordpress
Wordpress is simple, minimalistic and yet extremely powerful. However, being easy-to-use, the engine has also some huge disadvantages - e.g. "naked" Wordpress is very inefficient when it comes to SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Reason: there is simply too much... More... 70 Comments
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Mephisto: Elegant and Powerful Weblog-Engine
Depending on bloggers' needs and skills, the choice of a weblog-engine is usually the choice between flexibility, simplicity and functionality. In fact, most engines don't manage to find the right mix between all of them and consequently offer perfect solutions... More... 35 Comments
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10 Designer’s Checkpoints To Be Aware Of
Automatic tests, checks and analysis services can be extremely valuable if you're looking for bugs or try to avoid them. To make sure everything is just the way you think it should be, you need validators. To improve the value and quality of your content, you... More... 74 Comments
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Developer’s Alarm: 200+ Hotkeys To Boost Your Productivity
There is nothing more valuable than the time we need to get things done. Over a long period of time time-saving techniques and solutions can turn out to be real life-savers. The more you use them, the more essential they become. Besides, using them in your... More... 183 Comments
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Time-Savers: Code Beautifier And Formatter
Well-documented and readable source code is essential for every collaborative project. Logically structured, well organized and nicely formatted, the code can speed up the bug hunting and help to keep the code clean, minimal and still functional. These facts are... More... 89 Comments
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Wordpress Plugins & Tutorials: Your Pick
Depending on your needs and professional skills, the choice of an optimal weblog engine can be quite time-consuming. There are many options, and selecting the optimal engine, you should know exactly what you'd like to have and which level of flexibility you'd... More... 157 Comments
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Web Domains: Tools To Use, Articles To Read
A thought-out domain name can save you a lot of time and bring you a lot of traffic. Search engines love topic-related domain names and they seem to be an important aspect which is being used to evaluate web-pages. Besides, if you have a popular web-site with... More... 58 Comments
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80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding
Web-developers can create amazing web-applications with AJAX. Stikkit, Netvibes, GMail and dozens of further web-projects offer a new level of interactivity we've used to give up the idea of. Modern web-applications can be designed with enhanced user interfaces... More... 326 Comments
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40+ Tooltips Scripts With AJAX, JavaScript & CSS
Web users love informative clues. Whatever questions and misunderstandings might occur - delivering precise answers immediately is the primary task a responsive user interface should be able to cope with. To do that, developers have to consider subtle and... More... 162 Comments
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Data Grids with AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript
In order to be presented effectively, information needs structure. The more intuitive data structure is designed, the better users can understand the content. Consequently, the data can be scanned and extracted in a more meaningful and systematic way. Table is a... More... 72 Comments
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30 Scripts For Galleries, Slideshows and Lightboxes
Family photos, vacation snapshots or creative artistic works: whatever images you have to present, you can present them in a variety of ways. On a big screen, in slide shows or in a thumbnails gallery. However, to convey the message of presented data... More... 221 Comments
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14 Tab-Based Interface Techniques
The popularity of tabs, well-known from tabbed document interfaces (TDI), is rapidly growing, challenging the creativity of both developers and designers. The development of efficient and user-friendly interfaces is quite hard to deal with, and tabs can... More... 85 Comments
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Ross Johnson discusses 8 forgotten fonts you may use in CSS. Among them are Palatino Linotype, Century Gothic, Copperplate and Gill Sans — apparently, these fonts are installed on a variety of operating systems.
How creative can a table of contents be? Designobserver presents Thirty Tables of Contents. The collection includes excerpts from the books by Philip Larkin, Philip Roth, Paul Rand and Jan Tschichold.
A set of 18 splendid and colorful looking 3D RSS-Icons. They are done with 3d Studio Max. JPG.

In Font Clock 12 different fonts are printed within the mechanism of a clock, providing a random, mixed display of graphic language within a single time piece. Designed by Sebastian Wrong.
One pixel notched corners as used by Google Analytics. Instead of each option being boxed in a clickable rectangle, there is a 1px notch in each corner. It's not necessarily a curved corner, but it is a little softer than a normal box. Nice little trick.
Hartija is a CSS print framework which is an attempt to unite best CSS printing practices into one single CSS-file.
Rather than standard website templates, a free admin template is nearly impossible to find. This is an admin template which you can use for web applications like online-shops or CMS.

Fully Personal Interface research is a survey where people are questioned about their interface preferences. Results: labels and icons should be placed on the left, horizontal menus are more popular than vertical ones.




