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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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jQuery is a great framework for creating interactive and dynamic user interfaces. The availability of plugins targeting nearly any area of web front end development is amazing and really speeds up developers work. This post focus on plugins that provide tool tip functionality and as you will see in a minute there are plenty of good looking and flexible options.

A tooltip is a small box that appears near an object in a graphical user interface (GUI) when a pointer or other cursor controlled by a mouse passes over or rests on that object and which contains a brief text message identifying or explaining the object. This a very useful technique for making your web pages (or really any type of GUI) more intuitive and easier to use, particularly where the purpose of some GUI objects may not be immediately apparent. If used right tool tips can significantly improve usability and reduce the frustration of inexperienced users fx. when providing to them a complex form.

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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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jQuery makes it easier and simpler to provide your users with high quality, dynamic, good looking and intuitive input forms. This post lists some of the best available in different categories; “Form Element Visual Enhancements”, “Form Element Data Validation and Manipulation”, “Form Tool tips”, “Calendars and date pickers”, “jQuery hot key plugins” etc. Drop a comment if you know a good plugin that should be added to the list! Please remember to support tripwire magazine and share the article if you like it!

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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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Abobe Air may not get a lot of attention but maybe it should. The amount of good free applications available is rather surprising. Generally the applications are light weight, are easy to use and have good and intuitive user interfaces. This article list a very broad selection of useful tools based in Abobe Air. You will find anything from image editors, mind mappers, html editors, sql admin, snippet management, snapshot creaters etc. Please comment if you know a good Air tool that is not on the list!

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jQuery 1.4 was just released! First of all a great thanks to the team working hard to make this happen! jQuery was great already and making it better must have been quite an effort. There are several good news for the many jQuery fans as 1.4 is not just a minor maintenance release. You will find that several interesting news and enhancements have been included and that 207 bugs where closed. This article will cover some of the changes you need to be aware of and provide useful information and tools to help you get started with jQuery 1.4. I have created simple demo scripts showing how it works but I have to admit that I’m not a jQuery Guru (just like jQuery a lot) and I had problems creating workable examples for a few features.

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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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Typography is defined as the art and technique of arranging type, type design, and modifying type glyph. With Photoshop and the right skills and techniques at your disposal you can push the limits of Typography to the edge. This article is one of the largest categorized collections of Text Effect Tutorials will be able to find. All tutorials have large preview images and all links have been verified today. Don’t forget to bookmark, share and come back because I assure you this “elephant post” must be cut up and consumed in smaller slices! I you do so I bet your Photoshop skills will soon be hard to compete with…

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An increasing number of writers are being dragged (kicking and screaming in some cases) into the 21st century. They’re abandoning the use of pen and paper and starting to embrace the wealth of excellent writing apps currently available, all of which have been designed to make their working lives easier, more efficient and ultimately more enjoyable. As all writers know, penning any text from a short story to a novel, research paper or script is a fragmented process, which involves weaving together various characters, plotlines, ideas, and most probably hundreds of notes scribbled in notebooks scattered around the house or office, into one unified passage of text. Every writer will benefit from an app which will make this task any less arduous than it has to be. The 17 excellent apps explored in detail below guide writers of all types through every stage in the writing process, from initial idea formulation to the final draft and beyond. They perform a wide variety of tasks, including character, plot and story building; story structuring; note making and organising; spelling, grammar and readability checking; and so much more. Take a look and find the apps that are right for you.

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