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15 Really Awesome and Totally New jQuery Plugins

by Lars on February 11, 2010

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There are plenty of plugins for jQuery addressing nearly any front end need you can think of. The apparent abundance of plugins available on the other hand does not stop creative and skilled developers from creating even more goodies for the jQuery community, Thanks You all for contributing! In this post I have hand-picked a set of very interesting and brand new plugins that have been released within the last few weeks. Take a look I’m sure you will find something useful! [click to continue…]

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25+ Free Editors and IDEs for Freelance Developers on a Tough Budget

January 28, 2010 Tools

Spending hundreds of dollars on a text editor or IDE may give you a great tool with loads of nice features, regular updates, great documentation etc…. It’s an option but actually there are very useful and completely free alternatives. In this article tripwire magazine provides a list of more than 25 free Editors and IDEs [...]

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15 jQuery Plugins Giving Web Interfaces Drag ‘N Drop Capabilities

January 24, 2010 Development

Like most others with a great interest in web front end development jQuery have a special place in my heart. jQuery manages to brings the real goodies to us with only a few lines of code and every day it gets better. This is because the huge jQuery community keeps shipping awesome plugins; great thanks [...]

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15 jQuery Plugins You will find useful in 2010

December 31, 2009 Development

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 [...]

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45+ Incredible jQuery Plugins Making Images more Dynamic and Elegant

December 27, 2009 Development

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

December 19, 2009 Javascript

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.

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10+ Brilliant On-line Tools for Freelancers

December 17, 2009 Tools

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 [...]

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16 Project Management Apps That Help Make Web Development More Efficient

December 16, 2009 Business

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 [...]

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10 Useful jQuery Techniques to Improve Your Code

December 16, 2009 Javascript

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 [...]

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40+ jQuery Plugins Improving Your Website Look and Feel

December 3, 2009 Development

Making more and more appealing and interactive user interfaces have been one of the never ending competitions between web designers since html and browsers where in the mid nineties. The competition is there for a reason. The number of website on-line has experienced a nearly exponential growth and you need to stand out to be [...]

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