Round-up: Good reads from the last few day you might have missed

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Things have seemed a little quiet in the webdev and design the the last while, but I still have a backlog of articles and resources that caught my eye. Here are some great reads that you might have missed ...

5 Simple But Useful CSS Properties (Web Designer Wall)
10 Fantastic and Creative Web Design Styles (Inspect Element)
26 Must Have Resources for the Web Developers Toolbox (Fuel Your Creativity)
What Beautiful HTML Code Looks Like (CSS Tricks)
CSS Resources, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets, Conversion Tables and Short Codes (Specky Boy)
55 Striking Website Headers That You Must See (Smashing Buzz)
Latest High Quality Free Fonts for Your Designs (Instant Shift)
Color and CSS Tools for Web Designers (InDeziner)
Ways to Avoid Common Web Design Mistakes (Five Finger Coding)


November 10, 2009 in End of the Day Digests

A Guide to Creating Email Newsletters

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Adding an email newsletter to a site is a great extension of site brand and a great way to engage new readers/customers. Web Designer Depot has a great guide to creating an email newsletter, worth a read if this is something you've thought about.

A Guide to Creating Email Newsletters »


November 10, 2009 in Everything Else

20 Useful and Nicely Designed Web Applications

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From WebAppers, a collection of sites that are not only useful for web designers/developers, but are great examples of web design, as well. A nice article, worth browsing.

20 Useful and Nicely Designed Web Applications »


November 2, 2009 in Web Development

Rest of the Best: for November 2 2009

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If you've had a busy day and didn't have time to keep up with the best web design and development articles, here are the ones that caught my eye today ...

40 Fresh and Free Icon Sets for Web Designers and Bloggers » (Specky Boy)
31 Creative Uses of Typography in Web Design » (Designm.ag)
Rounded Corners in Internet Explorer » (Dave Woods)
55 Extremely Useful Online Generators for Designers » (Balkhis.com)
Best Creative Bookmarks of October » (Tutorial 9)
Impressive WordPress Themes Released in October 2009 » (WPMash)
Selling Ad Space Tips from Top Design Blog Owners » ( Line 25)
50 Outstanding Free Design Textures » (Design Shack)
Designing Above the Fold » (Five Finger Coding)
15 jQuery Slideshow and Plugins » (Web and Designers)
Logo Design Tutorial » (Just Creative Design)


November 2, 2009 in End of the Day Digests

40 New Useful Web Development Tools and Resources

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Noupe has "a useful collection of new web development tools to save developers and designers time, energy, and headaches". A big list of resources worth browsing.

40 New Useful Web Development Tools and Resources »


November 2, 2009 in

A Beautiful Apple style Slideshow Gallery With CSS and jQuery

applestyle.jpg From Tutorialzine, a detailed how-to create a good looking, apple style slideshow gallery. Worth a look for a nice gallery script.

A Beautiful Apple style Slideshow Gallery With CSS and jQuery »


November 2, 2009 in Scripts and Software

10 Awesome Techniques and Examples of Animation with jQuery

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Six Revisions takes a look at how to introduce animation into designs with the help of jQuery.

In this article, we share with you some innovative uses of jQuery in animating web design elements. You’ll read about some interesting techniques, tutorials, and examples that will show you how to create similar effects on your own websites and web apps.

10 Awesome Techniques and Examples of Animation with jQuery »


November 2, 2009 in Scripts and Software

Breadcrumb Navigation Examined: Best Practices

breadcrumbexam.jpg Hongkiat takes a look at the sometimes overlooked area of breadcrumb navigation and provides some examples of breadcrumb done well and best practices.

Breadcrumb navigation is often overlooked in the design and development process. Some people may see it as unnecessary while others may feel it is too big of a hassle for what its worth. Fact of the matter is, breadcrumb navigation will greatly increase the usability of a website. Breadcrumbs give users an alternative method of navigation, allow them to see where they stand in the hierarchy of a website, and will reduce the number of steps needed to navigate to a higher-level within a website.

Breadcrumb Navigation Examined: Best Practices and Examples


November 2, 2009 in CSS Navigation

12 Essental Plugins to Extend WordPress as a CMS

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From Web Design Ledger, a look at 12 plugins that can take WordPress beyond blogging and into a CMS.

Using WordPress more as a standard CMS often requires some creative thinking when building themes and setting up the structure of categories and content. In this article we present to you 12 very useful plugins that will give your WordPress install extended CMS functionality.

12 Essential Plugins to Extend WordPress as a CMS


October 29, 2009 in Blogging

Two Nice Scripts for Rotating Image or Content Display

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Two nice script today, for displaying rotating images or content:

Create a Simple jQuery Carousel (Quesness)
Create a Horizontal Accordian with Ajax (Dynamic Drive)


October 29, 2009 in Scripts and Software