December 2009

15 jQuery Plugins You will find useful in 2010

by Lars on December 31, 2009

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2009 was the year I started tripwire magazine. It has been fun, hard work and I have learned a lot. During the year tripwire magazine have had more than 2 million page views and received great feedback and support from readers and sponsors (please check them out in the right sidebar). Thanks to everyone for visiting, commenting and contributing and for making tripwire magaszine a great place for web designers and developers.

In this last post in 2009 you will find a collection of excellent jQuery plugins that will help you out in in you web projects far into 2010. [click to continue…]

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155+ Fresh Community Links for Designers and Developers

by Lars on December 29, 2009

Community Posts for Designers and Developers

This post is a collection of community news submitted on tripwire magazine over the last few days. Everyone seams to be busy writing posts even though it has just been Christmas and New Year is only a few day away. Taking a look at the titles makes me wonder if the most popular trend at the moment is to write “…of 2009″ articles. You can find more community news here. [click to continue…]

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Most Essential Best Practices to Improve and Optimize Your Markup and CSS

December 28, 2009

Great looking websites that are easy to maintain and develop require high quality markup and styling. The most fundamental principle to remember is separation of presentation and content / markup and style. While separation is key you will need to have great markup to produce good CSS. This post aims at highlighting general purpose best [...]

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45+ Incredible jQuery Plugins Making Images more Dynamic and Elegant

December 27, 2009

This article will introduce you to more than 45 jQuery plugins providing enhancements to how you can display images on your web pages. This is essential for creating dynamic state of the art web solutions and jQuery makes it simple and elegant. If you know other great jQuery plugins or would just like to share [...]

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60+ Very Useful Cheat Sheets for Web Developers

December 24, 2009

A Cheat Sheet is one pager (or in some cases a few pages) brining together the most important and often used information about a specific technology, tool etc. Cheat Sheets are useful because Web Developers today need to remember more things to be effective doing their job than most people can manage. Having the right [...]

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90+ New Community Posts for Designers and Developers

December 22, 2009

Bloggers covering in particular the design niche is growing rapidly in numbers and they are all very busy producing high quality posts. This post is a collection of community news submitted on tripwire magazine over the last few days. You can find more community news here.

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Most Important Enhancements and New Features In WordPress 2.9

December 22, 2009

A few days ago WordPress 2.9 was made available for download. If you have been using your WordPress administration area you may have noticed the notice at the top: “WordPress 2.9 is available! Please update now”. Being a major release 2.9 could be hiding several new features that will be interesting to investigate and in [...]

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25+ Highly Useful jQuery Plugins Bringing Life back to HTML Tables

December 19, 2009

Most people have turned their back to tables for implementing web page layouts. This is because tables compared to table-less layout beased on CSS Positioning has several disadvantages. But tables are not useless they should just be used to render tabular data as they fundamentally are designed for. By adding a bit of jQuery you will be able to create very useful solutions that your users will find easy and intuitive to use.