Web development is about getting stuff done, not figuring out how to get it done. Frameworks and libraries help you, the web developer, focus on creating rather than figuring stuff out. Rather than reinventing the wheel, you can use a framework or library to delegate brunt, non-creative and repetitive work, freeing up your time and energy to create the actual website or application. This article highlights 20 New Frameworks and Libraries that will help speed up and make your web [...]

If there is a sense of community and vibrant life surrounding a blog it tends to be successful and ultimately popular – that is a fact. So, if you own a WordPress blog and you are looking for an effective way to create a real sense of user interactivity on your blog, in this post, I highlight some fantastic plug-ins and resources, that you may not know about, that can be of great help in creating a sense of involvement [...]

This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think.

When creating art you will often need a various selection of textures to give your resulting design some much needed oomph. It could be that you need them for that extra grungy feel, maybe you are trying to design a logo with a denim background, or want to give a poster a glassy gloss. You may even need to add a little bit of dirt, rust, mold, stains… The point is that every designer should have a good selection of [...]

For the countless graphical user interfaces developed over the past 10 years we’ve seen numerous collections of icon sets. Icons are essential behaving as the life-blood and driving force behind any well constructed interface system. Stemming back into the days of Windows 2000/XP we have seen icons become more prevalent in our digital nature. Not only have we seen an explosion in software but also with Internet applications. Graphic designers are now able to access hundreds of tutorials on graphics [...]

We are so used to online reality that we even manage to transfer it into our real life. On a subconscious level people utilize Internet symbols in decor and interior elements, use them in design, ornamental furniture with Web signs and will even create outstanding accessories dedicated to online themes. In this post, we want to bring to your attention a really stunning roundup of astonishing things with Internet signs that surround us everyday. Below you’ll find creative uses of [...]

You may have noticed that there is a new admin bar add to WordPress 3.1 that shows up when you are logged in as a subscriber or above. While I can see that this might be useful on some sites, for most this is just an annoyance and makes the site look too generically ‘WordPress’ or detracts from existing functionality that you may have added, such as search adaptations. For example if you have a site that requires people to [...]

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