Posts from August, 2009
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Aug0Five Popular Design Portfolio Website Styles
Having a web-based portfolio is crucial for displaying your online and/or offline work. The key to an effective portfolio design is how you to set up the content. In this article, we are going to cover various ways designers and artists set up their portfolio site
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Aug020 Vital Techniques & Best Practices For Effective Web Design
Creating beautiful, unique websites seems to get harder every day. There are so many amazing website designs out there that coming up with something fresh and different is getting close to impossible. And even if you’re not looking for something entirely unique, creating beautiful designs that don’t look dated is a constant challenge. Below are twenty [...]
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Aug010 WordPress ‘HOW-TO’ to Give Your Blog the Quality it Deserves
As a web developer, you can broaden your potential client base and add value for existing clients by listing ‘WordPress’ as an area of expertise. WordPress is incredibly versatile, it can be tweaked to add many non traditional features to run a more effective blog. Throughout this article, we’ll be focus on 10 WordPress Theme ideas, [...]
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Aug0Build an Elastic Textarea with Ext JS
Since it was first featured on Facebook, elastic textareas - elements that automatically expand or shrink depending on how much text the user inputs - has become one of the coolest functional UI effects on the web. In this article, I will guide you through the re-creation of this astonishing effect using Ext JS , and I bet you that you will be surprised to see how easy it is to do it.
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Aug0Build an Elastic Textarea with Ext JS
Since it was first featured on Facebook, elastic textareas - elements that automatically expand or shrink depending on how much text the user inputs - has become one of the coolest functional UI effects on the web. In this article, I will guide you through the re-creation of this astonishing effect using Ext JS , and I bet you that you will be surprised to see how easy it is to do it
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Aug0Adobe Flash Accessibility: Best Practices for Design
Norman Nielsen once said that " About 99% of the time, the presence of Flash on a website constitutes a usability disease. " [ 1 ] However, this statement was made in 2000 when Flash lacked many of the accessibility functions that are available today.
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Aug0How to Design the Web in a High-Def World
One of the first design considerations a web designer has to make is the resolution that the project is going to be built in. Will the site be optimized for 800×600 systems? 1024
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Aug0Getting Started with PHP Regular Expressions
1. What are Regular Expressions The main purpose of regular expressions, also called regex or regexp, is to efficiently search for patterns in a given text. These search patterns are written using a special format which a regular expression parser understands. Regular expressions are originating from Unix systems, where a program was designed, called grep, to help [...]
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Aug010 Excellent Feedback Tools for Web Designers
It’s easy to get caught up doing your own thing and even easier to stick to what you know already know. However, whether you’re a developer or a designer, seeking out constructive, third-party feedback can bring your projects to a new level. You may also know that finding objective, qualified sources of feedback can be near impossible (your relatives and roommates only cut it for so long)
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Aug020 Stunning & Surreal Illustrations of Male Characters
Character illustrations and digital paintings can inspire you greatly in your own works. Working with digital art means that you have a greater creative license to great stunning pieces of artwork.
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