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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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  Online Converters

  Online converters always come in handy. Once you need to perform some operation with your files, they can save your time achieving the same results online, without installing some specific software. In fact, there are many online tools, which convert formats,... More... 95 Comments

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  42 Design/Tech Magazines To Read

  Regardless of what it is that you're selling, in order to remain competitive, you have to know exactly, what's going on in the field you're working in. More than that - actually, you have to know what happens next, which trends are coming up and which... More... 111 Comments

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  IT/Tech Job Boards

  If you are a freelancer, you know exactly, how hard it can be to build up your reputation and find a good job in a good company with good financial perspectives. If you are a company seeking for IT-professionals, particularly developers and designers, you know... More... 38 Comments

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  Google Gadgets, Widgets and Moduls

  If you’ve never used it before, you’ll want to give it a try: Google Desktop is a handy tool, which enables you to search within your personal data in seconds. Fresh Google Gadget Plugins can make your search even more efficient, particularly if... More... 13 Comments

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  Free Design Templates

  Free design templates don't have to be unattractive, inaccurate and boring. Some web-sites offer high quality templates for the best price you would ever get - for free. You can download Flash-based templates as well as CSS-based layouts absolutely free;... More... 155 Comments

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  Bookmarklets, Favelets and Snippets

  If you’ve used them once you’ll never be able to work without them. Bookmarklets (or Favelets) are tiny Javascript-Snippets, which are stored within a bookmark and add particular functionalities to the browser you’re using. It doesn’t... More... 23 Comments

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  Web 2.0: Buzz-Monitoring and Tracking

  You’d like to improve the link popularity of your site. Or maybe to keep track on the latest web buzz. It would be nice to inform your readers about it the minute the news occured. Or maybe you just want to monitor the activities of your users and be... More... 23 Comments

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  AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript Libraries

  Ajax, DHTML and JavaScript components are important in the era of Web 2.0. Recent Web-applications tend to use them to provide more interactivity and guarantee better functionality. But what Javascript libraries can be used for a new web-project? What... More... 56 Comments

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  Online Generators

  One can discuss whether web-generators are useful or not. On the one hand, they don't challenge our creativity, but on the other hand they make our life easier and save our precious time. However, it doesn't matter really. What matters is that we use them if we... More... 160 Comments

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  Cheat Sheet Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, LaTeX, Ruby…

  Whether you’ve forgotten the name of a function or the property of a cascading style sheet - handy cheat sheets deliver the information you are looking for - immediately. Most cheat sheets are available as .pdf or .png-files, so you can print them and use them... More... 142 Comments

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  Wikipedia: Services, Tools, Engines, Tutorials

  Wikipedia. Everyone knows it. Everyone uses it. But how to use it effectively? if you thought of Wikipedia as just a free online-encyclopedia, built by enthusiasts from all around the world, you've seriously underestimated its influence. In the era of... More... 2 Comments

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  (X)HTML template systems in PHP

  Web developers find themselves sooner or later in a dire situation: their scripts become an entangled mess of code. Program logic, presentation logic and in a worst case scenario even layout and design are so interconnected with each other that the further... More... 17 Comments

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  Complete List of Best SEO-Tools

  What are the best ways to boost your position in search engines? What keywords should you use on your web-pages? And which tools should you use to improve the quality of backlinks, link popularity and Google Pagerank? We deliver answers. Here is the list of... More... 46 Comments

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  Tasty snack for web-heads: The List Of Lists

  A list of the most useful web-development-related lists you will ever find out there. Ajax, Social Bookmarking, Cheat Shees, CSS, Google, RSS, Web-Tools, Web 2.0, Wiki, Wordpress. On one single page. A tasty snack for web-developers. In the era of Web 2.0... More... 8 Comments