Web Development, Design & Programming

All examples use simple, semantic HTML. No empty elements, no unnecessary extra elements, no JavaScript, no images (apart from that Twitter logo). Have a look at the source code.

"Open Web Design is a community of designers and site owners sharing free web design templates as well as web design information. Helping to make the internet a prettier place!"

One of the best designer-geared typography articles I've seen in a long time. Thanks!

Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways. In this article we'd like to present 7 Impressive techniques using some jQuery magic to grab the attention of your users with a simple, rich user experience that gets them excited about your website.

Create a transparent looking tft screen by combine smart photographing with some easy photoshop tricks. You will need a camera tripod and of course a digital camera to do this.

One of the easiest and cheapest ways to learn web design is via open courseware classes. You can get some top notch instruction from universities all for free just by using their open courseware classes. Some of the most respected universities like the University of California at Berkeley, The University of Washington and MIT offer classes on web design and development. These classes cover the same material that you would learn in one of these university classrooms; yet you pay no tuition and can study in your own home at your own pace. Take a look at these 20 classes on web design; all of them are free!

One of the easiest and cheapest ways to learn web design is via open courseware classes. You can get some top notch instruction from universities all for free just by using their open courseware classes. Some of the most respected universities like the University of California at Berkeley, The University of Washington and MIT offer classes on web design and development. These classes cover the same material that you would learn in one of these university classrooms; yet you pay no tuition and can study in your own home at your own pace. Take a look at these 20 classes on web design; all of them are free!

The HTML source for my (i.e., this) web site lives in a Git repository on my local workstation. This page describes how I set things up so that I can make changes live by running just "git push web".

Isotope: An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts Features Layout modes: Intelligent, dynamic layouts that can't be achieved with CSS alone. Filtering: Hide and reveal item elements easily with jQuery selectors. Sorting: Re-order item elements with sorting. Sorting data can be extracted from just about anything. Interoperability: features can be utilized together for a cohesive experience. Progressive enhancement: Isotope's animation engine takes advantage of the best browser features when available - CSS transitions and transforms, GPU acceleration - but will also fall back to JavaScript animation for lesser browsers.

Over the last months we released a variety of icon sets, tools and templates, but now we would like to release something a bit different for a change. In this post we are glad to release Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts, a PDF-file with a handy overview of most useful keyboard shortcuts available in Adobe Photoshop. The cheat sheet was created by Kenneth Setzer and released especially for Smashing Magazine and its readers.

Mind Mapping Applications working as powerful in this era for taking notes, capturing ideas, represent words, exploring concepts or other items linked to and arranged around a central key word or idea. Mind maps are used to generate, visualize, structure and as an aid in study, organization, problem solving, decision making, and writing. Mind Mapping Tools helps in many way of work in this growing and emerging industry, you can use it to study for a big exam, you can use it brainstorm new article ideas as bloggers work, or flesh out what needs to be covered in the business plan for a new venture, you can organize a big move of house, I've seen people use the mind map format for their daily to-do lists too.