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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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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 particular if you’re a Theme Developer you need to how this release will affect your work. It is likely that some of the new feature will make your life easier so why not take a closer look right away?

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Knowing what is going on, the trends, the breaking news etc. is important in most industries but for designers and web developers it is key for professional survival. Everything is happening at light speed and getting behind not knowing what is hot, what makes you save precious time and impress clients may be your destiny if you don’t spend a few minutes every day keeping track of what is happening. This posts gives you a list of social news and bookmarking sites that one way or the other is relevant for designers and developers. Check them out and see if you can find a few favourites. Remember to contribute yourself as – getting access other peoples opinion is what makes these sites valuable.

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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 at all! They should just be used to render tabular data as they originally was designed for. By adding a bit of jQuery you will be able to create very useful solutions with html tables that your users will find easy and intuitive to use.

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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 four days. I have to admit that the number of contributions probably will be overwhelming to most readers but on the other hand I would not filter out anything (leaving that up to you). You can find more community news here.

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It’s amazing how many great free tools one can find on-line. If you’re a freelancer with a limited budget some of the free on-line tools listed below may be just what you’re looking for. Please share with us in a comment if you know on-line tools that belongs to the category “brilliant anyone should know about!”.

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Web developers are often guilty of devoting too much time to their core work, at the expense of effective project management and admin. It’s all very well building an amazing website, but if it’s not delivered on schedule and within budget, you’re going to end up losing money and repeat business. Project management apps are key to streamlining your operations and improving productivity.

The invaluable apps explored below detail below are all of great use to web developers specifically, although many were not designed with web developers in mind. Some are ideal for freelancers who tend to work alone, others are great for those who work in small groups, and others still are suitable for bigger web development companies with a large, decentralized, often project-specific workforce.

Keeping close tabs on your projects can be very difficult and time-consuming, especially if you’re working on several simultaneously. These 16 apps will save you hassle, heartache and numerous wasted hours by performing a range of useful functions, from planning to document sharing, time and expense tracking, communication and reporting.

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jQuery is known for making things that where hard or almost impossible for most people with regular Javascript simple and elegant. While the jQuery community is growing so is the number of plugins available for anyone to address nearly any client side need. Problem is that using jQuery this way is so simple that getting to know the framework well isn’t really needed. I believe jQuery is worth investigating further and web every front end developer and designer would benefit from knowing a bit more of what is going on under the shiny surface. This post will show you jQuery techniques and give you some insight and inspiration that you may use going forward.

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Blog designs certainly can by complex, colourful and overwhelming and many free themes for Wordpress belongs to that category. Some bloggers on the other hand prefer simple and clean layouts for their blog leaving more space for the text itself to be in focus. If you should go for a minimalistic theme is really up to you to decide but if you’re considering this post will give you the inspiration needed and may help you find the theme you are looking for.

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Readers at tripwire magazine daily submit links and short descriptions to highly relevant and worth investigating articles. User links are normally JUST PUBLISHED articles and have gone through a check to be relevant for designers and developers. This is a round-up providing latest Community Links submitted on tripwire magazine. Get more user submitted links here

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