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If you’re a web designer or developer it is very likely that you already use Firebug for Firefox every day. If you have not even installed it yet it is about time you check it out. Firebug is packed with useful features that make the life for web developers much easier. Being able to inspect an element on a page and instantly get access to the html and css used to render it is my personal favorite and the fact that it is possible to edit the code and see the result instantly is an insanely useful feature. Although Firebug is packed with features there are several interesting extensions that enhance its capabilities. This post gives you an overview of the best Firebug extensions that may increase your productivity even further.

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Writing an article that lists the Best Open Source Software for Web Designers and Developers is really difficult but necessary. It is not because there to few products to choose from. There are web servers, CMS platforms, vector drawing applications etc. The supply of free open source products is impressive and this article will help you locate the few that really have made impact and will help you day after day. I’m pretty sure that many readers will agree that the right products where picked for the list while just as many will disagree and suggest their own favorites. All the suggestions from readers will be picked up and added to the list if they are relevant and fit in.

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This post is a collection of latest community news submitted on tripwire magazine by readers and other blog owners.  Most new posts in the web design and development community is included making this regular post a really fast and easy consumable overview of what is going on just now.  You can find more community news here

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Books are great for getting started with a new area because they typically cover it well and start gently introducing the basics. If you are just starting up trying to learn JavaScript this post is just what you’re looking for as it list 10 really good books that will get you started well. The JavaScript books are sorted by difficulty, easy to hard, to help you pick the right books at the right time. Reading books online or as a PDF have become very popular and while it may not be as convenient as having a paperback (unless you have a ebook reader like Kindle) it is quite easy to find stuff because you can simply search it. Some of the books are available as ebooks if that is what you prefer.

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20 Most Popular Open Source Software Ever These days, you can quite easily buy a brand-spanking-new computer and install all the software you need for free, using applications offered under the Open Software License. You can get a free image editor, a free sound editor, a free word processor, media player, file archiver, PDF creator… the list goes on and on and on. While some of these free apps do not offer quite the same level of polished functionality as their commercial rivals, others far exceed the capabilities of everything else on the market. Below, we take a close look at the cream of the crop: 20 invaluable and indispensable open source applications that you really should be using, if you’re not already. The vast majority of them are cross-platform and absolutely 100% free! You’re bound to find several that are perfectly suited to your needs.

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This post is a collection of latest community news submitted on tripwire magazine by readers and other blog owners.  Most new posts in the web design and development community is included making this regular post a really fast and easy consumable overview of what is going on just now.  You can find more community news here

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Having full control of elements on a page and the order they are presented in can be quite useful. jQuery as always is a safe choice to go for. There are several good quality plugins to pick from. This post provides an overview of plugins you can use to provide simple yet powerful functionality to reorder, filter, add drag and drop capabilities etc.

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This post is a collection of latest community news submitted on tripwire magazine by readers and other blog owners.  Most new posts in the web design and development community is included making this regular post a really fast and easy consumable overview of what is going on just now.  You can find more community news here

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Good Logos are not easy to design at all but they are essential for any successful business. This article is a logo designers toolbox to get you started creating logos. First of all logo design requires knowledge of the business and how to use this information in the logo design process. Logos should be relevant, timeless and aligned with the strategy and the products and or services offered. Once you have the concept in place and a solid idea you need to be able to create the image in tools like Illustrator. This article provides links to a lot of tutorials that will help you pick up the needed skills. Please share with us you ideas, favourite tools, comments and online resources we should add.

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IT seams like on of the trends in Web Designs currently is using Bokeh Effects for Background designs. I have to admit that I like it a lot if it is used right. So what is Bokeh? In photography, bokeh is the blur in out-of-focus areas of an image. Bokeh occurs for parts of the scene that lie outside the depth of field. In web design it is not any type of bokeh that is being used but in particular the kind of Bokeh you will get from drops of water reflecting light while not being in focus.  Some would also claim that Bokeh of this kind could look like blood cells under extreme magnification. What over it is being photographed or if the bokeh is simply synthetic and created in Photoshop it makes website backgrounds look really dynamic and appealing. This post showcase excellent examples of Bokeh inspired web design and then provide a large list of Bokeh textures that you can use yourself. Share your site or just one you know if it’s missing in this article.

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