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Funny and Creative Animated Videos

The new year is just few days away; however, not all parties are planned, not all presents are packed and not all work is done. If you feel under the weather, bored or overwhelmed by the late shopping or working chaos, it's just the right time to take a short break and get into the right mood.

To help you to achieve just that we've collected some excellent, funny and touching animations and videos — for you, your colleagues, your friends and your family. You probably have seen some of them, but it doesn't make them less funnier. You can also click on the images — they lead to the sites from which the screenshots have been taken.

Enjoy the last days of the year 2007. Smashing 2008, folks!

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Extreme Colors

The beginning of the week is always tough. Coffee breaks are tedious. The aftermath of weekend is still evident. And conversations with your colleagues aren't that enlightening. Yet there is always a number of tasks you need to get done until the end of the day. To spark your imagination and help you to get through monday's creativity block we are going to provide you every monday with "Monday Inspiration"-posts — brief pointers to appealing design approaches, interesting ideas and unusual solutions.

Today's monday inspiration is all about some really colorful pages. Be prepared for some extreme colors.

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80+ AJAX-Solutions For Professional Coding

• To understand the idea behind AJAX, you should read Jesse James Garrett's article "Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications" and Wikipedia: Ajax;
• to learn the basics of AJAX, you should go through some AJAX tutorials we've presented previously;
• to learn more about professional CSS coding, you should visit 70 Expert Ideas For Better CSS Coding;
• and to get a powerful and handy CSS-Toolbox for your future projects, you can use 53 CSS-Techniques You Couldn't Live Without.

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