Smashing Magazine - we smash you with the information that will make your life easier. really.

Posts Tagged ‘tools’

Check out all of the posts tagged with ‘tools’ below. If you still can't find what you are looking for, try searching using the form at the top of the page.

99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications

99 Essential Twitter Tools And Applications

If you haven’t heard of Twitter by now, you must be living under a rock! It is everywhere, and everyone is using it. To say that the rise of Twitter has been explosive would be an understatement. As a result of this growth, the number of Twitter apps and tools ...

Read more... | 138 Comments
50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and Developers

50 Twitter Tools and Tutorials For Designers and Developers

Twitter appears on innumerable personal and professional websites nowadays, whether it is a simple “Follow me” badge in the header or a display of the author’s latest tweets in the sidebar. No longer a fad, Twitter is now a necessity for every website, not just for sharing your thoughts and ...

Read more... | 83 Comments
10 Useful Tips For Ruby On Rails Developers

10 Useful Tips For Ruby On Rails Developers

Rails is an model-view-controller Web framework written in the Ruby programming language. One of its great appeals is being able to quickly crank out CRUD-based Web applications. A big advantage of Rails over other frameworks is that it values convention over configuration. If you follow the correct conventions, you can ...

Read more... | 75 Comments
50 Useful JavaScript Tools

50 Useful JavaScript Tools

JavaScript is a powerful client-side scripting language used in many modern websites and Web applications. In the hands of a skilled Web developer, JavaScript can enhance the user’s experience of the website and provide rich interactive components and features. But even though syntactically simple in nature, JavaScript is ...

Read more... | 87 Comments
50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography

50 Useful Design Tools For Beautiful Web Typography

Typography is elegant when it is attractive and communicates the designer’s ideas. When chosen wisely and used carefully, it can be very effective in supporting the overall design. Designers are always exploring different techniques with type: some use images or sIFR to produce very beautiful typography, while others prefer CSS ...

Read more... | 177 Comments
50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools

50 Extremely Useful PHP Tools

PHP is one of the most widely used open-source server-side scripting languages that exist today. With over 20 million indexed domains using PHP, including major websites like Facebook, Digg and WordPress, there are good reasons why many Web developers prefer it to other server-side scripting languages, such as Python and Ruby. PHP ...

Read more... | 174 Comments
45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience

45+ New jQuery Techniques For Good User Experience

JavaScipt libraries have made huge leaps and bounds in helping developers write code and develop products more quickly. jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks, with powerful tools that improve the user’s interaction with Web applications. jQuery has an additional advantage in that it allows developers to select ...

Read more... | 112 Comments
50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools

50 Extremely Useful And Powerful CSS Tools

We love useful stuff. For months, we have been bookmarking interesting, useful and creative CSS tools and related resources. We have been contacting developers, encouraging them to improve their tools and release their handy little apps to the public. Last year we prepared and published some of them in a ...

Read more... | 144 Comments
20 Vector Graphics Editors Reviewed

20 Vector Graphics Editors Reviewed

In computer graphics images can be represented in two ways — using raster graphics (or bitmap) or vector graphics. The former is the representation of images as an array of pixlels, and the latter uses paths, points, lines, curves and shapes or polygons (which are all based upon mathematical equations) ...

Read more... | 99 Comments
15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools

15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools

There are many useful Web development tools that integrate in your browser. These in-browser tools are commonly known as add-ons or extensions. Though add-ons and extensions aren’t just for Web development, many of them out there are designed specifically for Web developers. In-browser tools vary greatly in the ...

Read more... | 188 Comments
15 Useful Project Management Tools

15 Useful Project Management Tools

There is a huge variety of project management applications out there. Most are general purpose apps, not aimed at any one industry. But there are a growing number of project management apps aimed specifically at one industry or another. Applications geared toward creative types are becoming more readily available, and ...

Read more... | 241 Comments
Textpattern Developer’s Toolbox

Textpattern Developer’s Toolbox

Textpattern is a PHP-based open-source content management system that is popular with both bloggers and website owners. The system is flexible and can be used for a very wide variety of purposes. Like other open-source CMS options, such as WordPress and Drupal, Textpattern has a strong online community with plenty ...

Read more... | 38 Comments
Advertisement Advertise with us!
Join in Smashing Forum
  • Re: High Education!

    I did it years ago, we learned stuff like Java applets, MIDI background music and animated gifs so I don't know what the course would be like now.

  • Re: High Education!

    I will definitely check that out. Were you satisfied by the quality of teaching?

  • Free Online Feed Reader and Podcast Player

    FeedPixel.comhttp://feedpixel.com Is an online feed reader and podcast…

  • Re: Best Solution for IE6 png Transparency?

    thegator wrote:EDIT: Actually having said all that, I'm not sure why I'd need more than 256 colours for any of my images as they are. I…

  • Re: High Education!

    I did web design & development at university of abertay in Scotland. You can find other UK courses from the UCAS site - http://search.ucas.com/cgi-bin/hsrun/se…

Post your job