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As designers, we are used to having quite a bit of control over how things are displayed in a browser. Sure, differing rendering engines don’t always agree on everything, but for the most part we can at least find ways to mitigate variance through workarounds, or by writing for the lowest common denominator. By far, one of the most frustrating parts of dealing with browser inconsistencies has got to be forms. There are two distinctively differing schools of thought regarding (not) styling form elements. For the longest time, we’ve had people on both sides of the proverbial fence, neither group..

Did you know that Adobe Photoshop is 20 years old and Illustrator has been around over 24 years? I’ve been using Photoshop since version 5 and Illustrator since version 8. It is amazing to see how they are progressively improving and adding more features. Now with vector features and 3D tools, Photoshop is no longer just an image editing tool. The same goes with Illustrator, Bristle Brushes were added to simulate bitmap drawing. I’ve been using CS5 for several months so in this post, I’m going to share my thoughts on CS5.

This article shows you how to improve your jQuery code in order to get a better performance, 11 tips that will help you to make your web application faster. Includes code and Examples

The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) is back with another marketing rap. This time he describes how web standards and proper design can affect the ranking and conversion of pages on your site. lyrics:Your site design is the first thing people see it should be reflective of you and the industry easy to look at with a nice navigation when you can't find what you want it causes frustration a clear Call to action to increase the temptation use appealing graphics they create motivation if you have animation use with moderation cause search engines can't index the information display..

Git is a version control system used by development and programming teams, popular open source projects, and other team collaboration projects. In this Git guide, we will discuss the value of version control systems, an overview of Git, advantages and disadvantages of using Git, how to install Git, basic commands, tools and essential Git resources. (For designers, also check out The Ultimate Guide to Version Control for Designers.)

You can never have too much of a good thing–and two good things we rely on in our work are tips and tricks. Nuggets of information, presented clearly and succinctly, help us build solutions and learn best practices. In a previous article, we shared a jam-packed list of 250 quick web design tips. It seems only right to continue the trend by showcasing 100 fresh–and hopefully useful–CSS tips and tricks.

Internet technologists have long known that HTTP is insecure, causing many risks to users. The release of Firesheep made one of these risks concrete and obvious to even non-technical folks. While HTTPS has long existed as a reasonable way to improve web security, web operators have been slow to host their applications with it. In part, this is because correctly and completely hosting an application with HTTPS takes some care. This article is designed to help web operators get a conceptual handle on how to protect their users with HTTPS. Taking a little bit of care to protect your users is..

Ever got stuck with the annoying problem of aligning an image next to some text? We all did. There were times when align="absmiddle" would solve this immediately, but how would you accomplish this with CSS?

this video is just amazing! used very good configuration of the Gource open source project (http://code.google.com/p/gource/). 5 first second don't show good, but to awesome after that! april 2008, the month rails moved to github, you can see what's going on on that month! huge surge in commits and commiters.

Captchas are used to protect your site by showing something that a computer can't recognize but a human can. They are usually placed on your registration page but they can be placed anywhere you want to make reasonably sure you are dealing with a person and not a bot. Kohana's Captcha library can currently generates basic, alpha, word, math, riddle captchas. Captcha configuration is defined in groups which allows you to easily switch between different Captcha settings for different forms on your website.

Kohana uses git for version control and github for collaboration. This tutorial will show you how to use git and github to build a simple application.

This release can complete regular task, such commit, show log, diff two version, create branch and tag, Create patch and so on. See ReleaseNotes for detail. Welcome to contribute this project.

The Date object is useful when you want to display a date or use a timestamp in some sort of calculation. In Java, you can either make a Date object by supplying the date of your choice, or you can let JavaScript create a Date object based on your visitor's system clock. It is usually best to let JavaScript simply use the system clock.

In this ultimate collection, we bring you a massive selection of great Web design tutorials from all over the design community. All of the tutorials use Photoshop for the main application. By the end, you should have a pretty good idea of where and how to start designing for the Web. If you’re already an experienced Web designer, don’t ignore this post. Even the most talented and professional designers can pick up tips and tricks from others. After all, design is a field in which no one knows it all.

With the number of publicly offered Web service APIs, it's now much easier to get content from different Web sources and to build mashups—if you have access to the right APIs and tools. Discover how you can combine an obscure cross-domain call technique (JSONP) and a flexible JavaScript library (jQuery) to build powerful mashups surprisingly quickly.

Very slick "area select" on-top of images plugin for jQuery. You can use it in your projects to create image "tags" or "tooltips" like Facebook does, or Flickr does even better. As usual for jQuery awesomeness, this is pretty easy to integrate. http://odyniec.net/projects/imgareaselect/ And here's somebody that shows a validation processor in PHP that can crop the select area and save as an image. http://www.webmotionuk.co.uk/php-jquery-image-upload-and-crop/

This tutorial will show you how to get your own custom icon to appear when someone bookmarks your website on their iPhone home screen. Whether or not you own an iPhone, it takes under five minutes to do and makes your site look that much more professional, so let’s get rolling.

If you have a design that you just feel isn’t anything special it is time to start doing something. Some quick tutorials will teach you how to make your design Pop

In creating texts for your images- whether it be for logos or headlines- we are given the option to make it more lively or to make it plain and simple… However, nowadays, ‘too simple’ is not quite the standard in designs. Of course, as designers, we know people tend to expect too much. Following several guidelines and tips, we can create out-of-this-world images and unique designs right from our fingertips.