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Free Dynamic Price Scrollbar (jQuery, HTML, CSS)

Submitted on 27th of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Community News

Dynamic Price Scrollbar are being developed, which even give the user the liberty to see the various types of products available at a particular price by simply taking the mouse on a certain position on the bar.

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Perfect Blog Articles: from the Idea to the Post

Submitted on 25th of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Just a damn good read!

Writing blog articles requires patient and writing abilities that can be trained. Either if you already run your successful blog, or, otherwise, you are at the very start of the play, you surely have thought once in your writing life “How can I fill in this blank page in a way that is clear and interesting at the same time?”.

If ever you had experienced the panic that a blank page can give with the approaching deadline, or even if your block note is stuffed with brilliant ideas for new blog articles, this reading is for you.

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How to Create See-Through Ghost Photos with Photoshop

Submitted on 24th of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Photoshop Resources

Create an eerie see-through ghost photo using just a single image. This Photoshop tutorial is great for beginners and will show you how to quickly create a ghost photo using just one image.

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12 Awesome Tools to Test Mobile Compatibility of Your Website

Submitted on 24th of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Community News

Mobile technology is improving really fast so the popularity of smart phones and tablets are sky rocketing.Due to many mobile technology experts there are 5.3 billion mobile subscribers,half a billion people accessed mobile Internet and 8 trillion text messages will be sent in 2011.What do these statistics mean?Answer is simple

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Creating a PHP User Survey: Writing to Database Tables

Submitted on 24th of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Graphic Design Inspiration

In the first two parts of this series, we created the data layer that will hold the polling data and established methods for setting the variable values and reading from the database tables. In this part, we will build the methods that will write new polls and answers to the tables. The addPoll method adds a new record to the devdrive_polls table and returns a Boolean value that signals if the record was added successfully.

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Getting To Know HTML5 Placeholder

Submitted on 23rd of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, General Web Design

Using HTML5 Placeholder attribute on forms and how to get this new feature to work on older browsers IE9 and lower.

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Learn How To Create A Modern Login Form

Submitted on 23rd of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Photoshop Resources

I think we can all agree that collecting or sending information seems to be a huge corner-stone of importance amongst many websites. In this tutorial I’ll be showing you how easy it is to create a modern stylish looking login form.

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An Introduction to HTML5′s Video API Part 2

Submitted on 23rd of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Web Design Inspiration

This is the second part in our introduction to HTML5′s video API. In part 1 of this series, I introduced you to the basic markup we’ll be using to play the video, then I helped set up a simple script with which we were able to make the controls visible, while ensuring that the native controls will still be visible when JavaScript is disabled.

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Yahoo Site Explorer Gone – What’s Next Alternative?

Submitted on 23rd of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Community News

Yahoo Site Explorer will not be available from 21 November 2011. I have found 2 sources as Yahoo Site Explorer Alternative and so far they …

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Create this Cyborg’s Hand of Doom

Submitted on 23rd of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Photoshop Resources

This fantastic photo manipulation tutorial shows us how to create a cyborg’s awesome hand of Doom using an assortment of images and some Photoshop magic. In this tutorial, we walk you through transforming this human arm into a cyborg’s hand!

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Futurico – Free User Interface Elements Pack

Submitted on 21st of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Photoshop Resources

It’s time for a new free giveaway and we are happy to present a wonderfully creative collection of Futurico – Free User Interface Components.

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26 Development (And Design) Books You Might Enjoy

Submitted on 21st of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, General Web Design

Here are 26 development and design books I’ve read and learned from. The post includes quick reviews of each and the books mainly fall under categories html and css, php and mysql, security and seo.

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Websites that Take Design to New Heights

Submitted on 21st of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Graphic Design Inspiration

We have the web to thank for this truly golden age of design. With the advent of graphic-centered social media platforms like Tumblr, designers can share inspiring images with ease and expose non-designers to breathtaking visual content.

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Twitter Seamless Photoshop And Illustrator Pattern

Submitted on 21st of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Illustrator Resources

This post is a collection of 50 of the best free icon sets which you can download for free of charge each icon set has been created through out some point within 2011, therefore making this post a great recap of the best collection fresh new icons. I hope you enjoy and would love to hear which your favourite icon set from the post.

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What Clients Look for in a Design Portfolio

Submitted on 20th of November 2011Categories → Browser Tools, Just a damn good read!

When I look at design portfolio, many of them are not designed to appeal to the client. If you are looking for a job at a agency that is one thing, but if you want client work, you better make a portfolio that appeals to clients. It isn’t hard, it just takes a different approach and you need to step out of your designer shoes and into those of your potential clients.

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