The simplicity, advanced features and strong support are common arguments for developers preferring jQuery against other JavaScript-frameworks. In fact, jQuery is one of the most popular JavaScript frameworks, with powerful tools that can significantly improve the user’s interaction with Web applications. jQuery has an additional advantage in that it allows developers to select elements on a page using CSS-like syntax.
Archive for August, 2009
50 Useful New jQuery Techniques and Tutorials
Saturday, August 29th, 2009Free icons by deviantart users
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Here is a collection of free icons from deaviantart users. Some of icons are free only for personal use, other for both, personal and commercial. Enjoy 
Developpers Icons
Free web development icons
Knob Buttons Toolbar icons
Extended set of social icons
Free icons 3
Social media icons
Web Application Icons Set
Web social icons
Aquaticus.Social
Basic set
2 Cute Twitter Icons – Free
30 Clean and Bright Website Designs
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009Clean and Bright Web Design
In this age of increasingly artistic and grungy website design, it can be very refreshing to see designers who keep things simple, yet bold. I’m personally a huge fan of the clean and bright look, as it really captures attention, and evokes positive moods in your viewers.
I’ve hand selected 30 great examples of clean and bright web designs, all of which are relatively new, so hopefully you haven’t seen many of them before!
I would love to hear your thoughts on clean and bright website design and recommend that you check out all of these fantastic websites!
Taming Advanced CSS Selectors
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009CSS is one of the most powerful tools that is available to web designers (if not the most powerful). With it we can completely transform the look of a website in just a couple of minutes, and without even having to touch the markup. But despite the fact that we are all well aware of its usefulness, CSS selectors are still not used to their full potential and we sometimes have the tendency to litter our HTML with excessive and unnecessary classes and ids, divs and spans.
The best way to avoid these plagues spreading in your markup and keep it clean and semantic, is by using more complex CSS selectors, ones that can target specific elements without the need of a class or an id, and by doing that keep our code and our stylesheets flexible.
70 Must-Have CSS3 and HTML5 Tutorials and Resources
Saturday, August 15th, 2009CSS3 and HTML 5 are capable of revolutionizing the way we design websites. Both include so many new features and functions that it can be hard to wrap your head around them at times. The inclusion of native support for things like rounded corners and multi-column layouts are just the tip of the ice berg.
Below are seventy resources, tutorials, and articles to get you started with CSS3 and HTML 5. Many of the techniques discussed are already supported to some extent in some some modern web browsers (Safari and Firefox have the most extensive support), so you can get started right away.
Building Faster Websites with CSS Sprites
Saturday, August 15th, 2009Using CSS sprites allows you to greatly increase your websites speed by using single image files that contain multiple graphics. In other words, when you have many images to be used, instead of having them as different individual files, we combine them into one. Therefore, the client computer only downloads one image for all the different graphics to be displayed.
Case Study: How Much Do Rankings Matter?
Saturday, August 15th, 2009We’ve heard a lot of speculation lately about the future of rankings – the SERPs are clearly evolving, and what was once a simple list of 10 results has gradually become personalized, localized, and wikified. It begs the question: As the SERPs diversify, do rankings matter as much as they used to? Recently, I had an opportunity to collect some data on this question. Earlier this year, a client suffered a ranking drop for their primary keyword (likely connected to Google’s alleged brand-related changes), which has recently recovered. So, I decided to run some numbers to see how that ranking drop and subsequent recovery affected search traffic.
5 CSS3 Design Enhancements That You Can Use Today
Tuesday, August 11th, 2009Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) is the language of Web design, and the next generation of CSS design properties are just chomping at the bit to be released.
Are you eager to start using them, but don’t know where to start?
Although many of the new properties are not yet “official”, some browsers have already implemented many of the features of the coming CSS Level 3 specifications.
The problem is that many browsers—most notably Internet Explorer—have not.
The trick to using these new CSS3 features is to treat them as design enhancements.