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  • Frameworks Round-Up: When To Use, How To Choose?

    Frameworks Round-Up: When To Use, How To Choose?

    by Chris Poteet Software frameworks provide developers with powerful tools to develop more flexible and less error-prone applications in a more effective way. Software frameworks often help expedite the development process by providing necessary... More... 111 Comments

  • Mephisto: Elegant and Powerful Weblog-Engine

    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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  • Data Grids with AJAX, DHTML and JavaScript

    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

  • Cheat Sheet Round-Up: Ajax, CSS, LaTeX, Ruby...

    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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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.

Palatino

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.

Table of Contents

A set of 18 splendid and colorful looking 3D RSS-Icons. They are done with 3d Studio Max. JPG.

Screenshot

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.

Font Clock

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.

Screenshot

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.

Screenshot

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.

Fully Personal Interface Research

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