June 2009

7 New Essential CSS 3 Techniques Revealed

by Lars on June 28, 2009

There are several new and exciting functions and features being thought up for CSS3: text-shadow, box-sizing, opacity, multiple backgrounds, border-radius, border-image, etc…

This article presents 7 New CSS3 techniques that every web designer and developer should be aware of. CSS3 for sure will leads to greater flexibility and make effects that was previously complex and difficult to create much easier. Unfortunately it is not currently all the leading browsers that support CSS3. In some cases other techniques are available making our life easier while waiting for CSS3 to break through and these will be briefly covered as well. [click to continue…]

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20+ CSS Data Visualization Techniques

June 25, 2009 CSS

In this article you will find more than 20 unique and worth knowing CSS Data Visualization Techniques. The techniques show in this article reallt takes CSS to a new level and even if you’re not going to visualize data you may get inspired from investigating them.

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40 Must Have Cheat Sheets for effective Web Designers

June 25, 2009 Design

As a follwoup on the article 40+ Essential Front End Web Developer Cheat Sheets it is now time to deliver a similar package to Web Designers. Creating Web Designs isn’t easy at all as it is first of all a creative process. To get the creative process started it may be a good idea to [...]

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Buy 1 Theme and get 4 @WooThemes if you buy between 17 and 24 June!

June 23, 2009 News

WooThemes just gone crazy! You can basically buy any Standard or Developer Package theme (from our collection), and get any 3 themes of your choice completely free. This offer is available from 17 – 24 June 2009 and they won’t either backdate it to previous purchases or extend it past the 24th. The is a [...]

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40+ Essential Front End Web Developer Cheat Sheets

June 23, 2009 Development

Today more or less everyone can put a simple web page together but implementation of professional Web based Application Front Ends is not as simple as some people may think. It is a complex task requiring deep knowledge of several technologies like html, css, javascript, php, etc. In this article you will find essential cheat [...]

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20 Free Tools and advice for Professional Monitoring of Your Site’s Availability

June 20, 2009 Tools

If you’re providing web pages or any kind of service online it simply needs to be available to be of any value to your users/customers. I would guess that every website owner is aware of this fact but high availability is unfortunately one of the most expensive non functional requirements to meet when constructing IT [...]

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Huge Essential Collection of Photoshop Actions to Speed up Your Work

June 17, 2009 Photoshop

In this article tripwire magazine presents a very large collection of Photoshop actions. A Photoshop action is a series of tasks that you play back on a single file or a batch of files. Actions can make nearly any change to an image and examples could be changing the image size, adding new layers, appling [...]

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45+ CSS Grid Layout Generators

June 14, 2009 CSS

Using a CSS Grid System is really worth considering if you’re planning to create a complex web design like e.g a magazine layout. For quite some time CSS Grid frameworks have been very popular and helped designers and web developers to create well structured and easy to maintain solutions. However there many options available and [...]

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35+ Logo Inspiration With Clever Use Of Symbols

June 13, 2009 Logos

Quality logos encompass companies branding identity into one tiny graphic and in some cases vision and strategy is contained as well. That is why Logos are so important and inspirational to investigate. Good designers put significant effort into creating logos and it is an iterative process where multiple design ideas are created and presented. Good [...]

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