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35 CSS-based Layouts that Look Awesome
1. Magnifico
30+ Colorful Wallpapers to Spice Up Your Midweek Blues
We all know how dreadful it is when we switch on our computers to see tons of folders and icons flooding our default single colored desktop. As designers and developers, we tend to get so absorbed in our projects that we forget the little things that we can do to spice up our work day. With just a few clicks, changing your desktop wallpaper is one of the easiest way to get our creative juices flowing or even to allow our eyes to feast.
31 Essential Web 2.0 Tutorials and Freebies
Web 2.0 is still an extremely popular trend that has been going strong for a while now. It is generally defined by clean, crisp lines, rounded corners and smooth gradients. For those who do not want to develop dark and edgy designs, this is the way to go. It places a focus on usability, interface, and readability.
These tutorials and resources are essential elements of every Web 2.0 design. Be sure to check out all the items; including the Badges, Gradients, Mirrored and Glassy buttons. Learn to design them yourself from scratch with these great tutorials or just download the already-made free resources.
Web 2.0 Tutorials
30 Awesome jQuery Photo Plugins
Pikachoose is a lightweight Jquery plugin that allows easy presentation of photos with options for slideshows, navigation buttons, and auto play. Pikachoose is designed to be easily installed, easy to setup, and well all around easy. Creating an image gallery shouldn’t be a complex thing. I’ve created a new plugin that I’m packaging with PikaChoose called SliderJS.
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How to Create A Better Online Portfolio
Since last few years it’s very essential for a designer to look again at how he presents himself to existing and potential clients. It doesn’t matters which one is your creative discipline as your website is the only foundation of how you are perceived. Even if you are very good at what you do and your work is predominantly in print or broadcast in interactive media, your online portfolio is usually the first stop of call for people looking to commission or hire you as clients are always be nervous or hesitant about purchasing freelance services.
Here in this article, we discusses some key points to consider when designing or redesigning your online portfolio because creating a appropriate portfolio is easier than you think.
It’s very necessary that your site accurately represents what you’re offering and sells you to your client base because most of the time, you won’t have a tangible product to sell, so it’s very hard to show clients what they’re paying for up front. If your clients are not impressed by your online presence, they won’t bother to het in contact to request your print portfolio or showcase.
How to Create A better Online Portfolio
50+ Amazing Jquery Examples
Many of us have been using a good deal of jQuery plugins lately. Below I have provided a list of the 50 favorite plugins many developers use. Some of these you may have already seen, others might be new to you. This is just the first series , the second version will be coming soon, stay tuned and Enjoy!
Sliding Panels
1) Sliding Panels For jQuery – Element can start open or closed and will be toggled from their own original position.
35 Fresh and Useful jQuery Plugins
Quick and powerful, jQuery can help designers and developers create awesome interactive websites that are appealing and accessible to the widest range of browsers. For your audience, the visit to your site will be both exciting and entertaining. Navigation, galleries and slideshows, are hot points for a site to shine.
Here are 35 useful fresh jQuery plugins focusing on navigation, gallery and slideshows, calendars, tab browsing and further resources to reduce time and effort while increasing your audience.
Navigation jQuery Plugins
Leopard Desktop with jQuery using jqDock
jQuery adds a whole lot of cool functionality to your websites. It can do a range of things, from animation to AJAX. This jQuery using jqDock can help you create a completely coded Dashboard like Leopard. It’s handy in hiding a whole lot of gadgets or widgets for which you don’t have space.
Online SEO Tools – the Ultimate Collection
All tools listed below fall under the following criteria:
- they are all useful for SEOs;
- they are all web-based (no desk-top ones or FireFox extensions so far);
- they are all free.
If you know of any online SEO tools that were not mentioned here, please comment and I will update the post. I will do my best to continuously update the article to delete the tools that are no more available and add new ones. Table of Contents:
- Backlink Analyzing Online SEO Tools;
- Keyword Research and Brainstorming Tools:
- Domain Name Online Tools;
- On-Site Analysis Online SEO Tools:
- Search Related Online Tools:
- Website Traffic and Demographics Report.
35 (New) WordPress Plugins for an Effective Blogging Experience
Today i wanted to highlight some of the latest WordPress Plugins that you might find very interesting. Some of these Plugins are for managing posts, some are comment related and some are just to enhance the way admin can manage his blog. In any case, you will hopefully find some useful for your WordPress blog.
Comment Related Plugins
1) Comment Info Tip Plugin- This WordPress plugin provides you and your commenter’s a bit of information on their posting stats. . When you mouseover a commenter’s name you will see a tip appear displaying some information about that given commenter. 
- Live Demo View it Here | Download
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Free Slideshow, Gallery and Lightboxes Scripts
For Web design projects, you may find yourself sometimes scrounging around for a simple yet useful image gallery and slideshow. But imagine having a huge collection of AJAX, JavaScript, Lightbox, CSS and Flash-based image galleries at your fingertips. Hopefully, this post will do the trick and provide all the resources you might need.
Polaroid Gallery v.1.01
Polaroid Gallery is a free open-source Flash gallery developed by Christopher Einarsrud.
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