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Flexible Layouts: Challenge For The Future
The new generation of web browsers — Firefox 3, Opera 9.5 and Internet Explorer 7 — provides a feature which seems to save a lot of work for web-developers in the future, namely the Full... More... 113 Comments
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Golden Ratio Calculator
To comfort your visitors with a pleasing and intuitive composition use the Golden Ratio Calculator for your designs. More on this topic. More... Be the first to comment!
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Style Switchers Are Back: Ideas, Examples and a Contest
Design a style switcher and win an Apple Cinema 20 Flat Panel Display with 16.7 million colors, 400:1 contrast ratio, 0.258 mm dot pitch, 16 ms response time and 170-degree viewing angles. Yes, that's... More... 169 Comments
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25 Useful WYSIWYG Editors Reviewed
When it comes to coding editors, it's damn hard to a get a clear overview of all the benefits and functionalities different editors have to offer. However, in the end everybody needs one, so it's... More... 221 Comments
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Footers In Modern Web Design: Creative Examples and Ideas
According to classic principles of web design, everything at the bottom of the page isn't that important. Most users think like that. And most designers are convinced that this is true. Site elements at... More... 132 Comments
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39 Creative Flash Designs
Flash is powerful. Using it properly, you can create stunning visual experience and offer your visitors incredible user interaction. Although Flash is definitely not the favourite medium for usability... More... 83 Comments
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20 More Free First-Class Wordpress Themes
Free professional WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply... More... 175 Comments
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45 More Excellent Blog Designs
We, designers, are creative folks. And being creative, we permanently strive for inspiration — innovative approaches, crazy ideas, smashing concepts and, in general, unique designs which can help... More... 192 Comments
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65 Excellent Flash Designs
With Flash you can do more than just displaying videos. You can create stunning visual experience and offer your visitors incredible user interaction. Although Flash is definitely not the favourite... More... 124 Comments
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21 Fresh, Usable and Elegant Wordpress Themes
Sometimes it's just amazing to see, how developers use creative approaches to design amazing layouts, based upon a simple Wordpress template. Every now and again we take a look around, and select... More... 199 Comments
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11 Almost Perfect Business Layouts
Business companies tend to impress visitors with solid site structures, precise navigation and the credibility of presented content. Therefore business layouts are usually quite unspectacular, mostly... More... 98 Comments
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Web 2.0 Tutorials Round-Up
Web 2.0 is beautiful. In fact, many designers manage to create really amazing, particularly dark and fresh web-designs, which are visually appealing and make a great first impression. However, if you... More... 165 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... More... 166 Comments
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30 Dark Designs You Should’ve Seen
Dark designs can be really stunning. I mean, really. In Web 2.0 designers try to do their best to impress their visitors and in many cases they definitely succeed in doing so. As a second (out of... More... 169 Comments
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Methods such as load balancing, compression and caching can aid in efficient operation and taking steps to optimize your site are both beneficial and, in most cases, free.
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Showcase of beautiful and unusual web designs of restaurant sites.
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This tutorial shows how to make a nice-looking product bottle with the water effect that really makes you thirsty when you look at this kind of product pictures.
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Use relative paths in the configuration, use the {% url %} tag, use Django Unit Testing, utilize Memcache.


