10 of the Best Color Resources and Tools (1)
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Color plays an important role in the way we communicate with each other. Color not only helps give a design visual beauty, but it can also make a person react or feel a certain way. This feeling may be on a subconscious level, but it could affect the way that person thinks about a product or service. That’s why it is so important to choose the right palette when creating a new design. Here are ...
10 of the Best Color Resources and Tools (25)
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Color plays an important role in the way we communicate with each other. Color not only helps give a design visual beauty, but it can also make a person react or feel a certain way. This feeling may be on a subconscious level, but it could affect the way that person thinks about a product or service. That’s why it is so important to choose the right palette when creating a new design. Here are ...
NETTUTS - Creating a Dynamic Poll with jQuery and PHP (10)
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When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty cool results. In this tutorial we’ll create a poll using PHP and XHTML, then make use of some jQuery Ajax effects to eliminate the need for a page refresh, and to give it a nice little bit of animation. HTML PHP Introduction poll_default() poll_submit() poll_return_results() poll_ajax() CSS Javascript Introduction formProcess() loadResults() animateResults() HTML Let’s get our ...
NETTUTS - Solving 5 Common CSS Headaches (34)
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CSS is a relatively simple language to learn. Mastering it, on the other, can prove a little more difficult. Compensating for various browser inconsistencies alone can produce a migraine. In this article, we’ll demystify five of the most head thumping issues that you’ll encounter when building web applications. Why Are My Styles Not Effective? We’ve all done this. You think to yourself, “Wow, this text would like great if it were bright red.” (really??) Unfortunately, ...
400+ High Quality Patterns (1)
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Patterns can be found every where. Most commonly we can see them in fabric and wallpaper, but they also make great visual elements for web design. Here is a collection of patterns of all shapes, sizes, and color. Some are images, and some are pattern files for Photoshop and Illustrator. Damask Patterns Volume 2 15 patterns ision 9 patterns Micro Patterns 54 patterns Vector Patterns 12 patterns Black - White Patterns 13 patterns Patterns 29 ...
Designing an Accessible Site Without Losing Your Mind (10)
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In this guest article Chad Swaney* walks us through some techniques and guidelines on how to make your website more accessible. It is a good change to see something more technical here on Just Creative Design so enjoy. One of the biggest mistakes I see from web designers is making accessibility more complicated than it actually is. Most designers think of creating accessible content as something that will take weeks of exaggerated tagging, designing tab-browsing ...
dBug - PHP Version of ColdFusion’s cfdump (5)
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One of our lovely WebAppers readers, James Wright has found an interesting tool and submitted to us. This is called dBug, which is a PHP version of ColdFusion’s cfdump. Basically, it outputs colored and structured tabular variable information. Variable types supported are: Arrays, Classes/Objects, Database and XML Resources. Stylesheet can be easily edited. Table cells can be expanded and collapsed as well. dBug is free for download, and it has been downloaded over 20,000 times ...
DIY Night Stand Charging Station [How To] (18)
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DIY web site Instructables steps through how to turn an aging IKEA night stand into a multi-purpose charging station and lamp. The project requires a good amount of elbow grease and some skill with a router, but the results are impressive. If you don't go for the whole glowing night stand look, you could still drill some holes and take the charging station route—not that we haven't already seen our share of DIY charging stations ...
Download Free Transdmin Light Admin Template (5)
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Perspectived has released free Transdmin light admin template. It has Clean panel which can be easily modified. Overall interface is very sophisticated and userfriendly. With download of this admin template, you will also get psd files. Isn’t this great?
CSS Hackz Series: Targeting and Filtering Internet Explorer (6)
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Continuing the CSS Hackz Series, I present a small army of hacks for targeting and filtering Internet Explorer 7! Here, “targeting” IE 7 means to deliver CSS and/or (X)HTML to IE 7 only, while “filtering” means to deliver CSS and/or (X)HTML to every browser that is not IE 7. In other words, targeting is to include (apply), filtering is to exclude (hide). Let’s dive right in.. Conditional Comments Conditional comments are a proprietary Microsoft technique ...
Luhn algorithm for validating credit cards (1)
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The Luhn algorithm also known as the “modulus 10″ or “mod 10″ algorithm, is a checksum formula which can be used to validate credit card numbers. Developed in the 1950’s by IBM scientist Hans Peter Luhn and described in U.S. Patent 2,950,048. A PHP implementation is shown below. <?php function LuhnCheck($strDigits) { $sum = 0; $alt = false; for($i = strlen($strDigits) - 1; $i >= 0; $i--) { if($alt) { $temp = $strDigits[$i]; $temp *= ...
The Golden Money List: Hundreds of Tips for Turning Your Financial Life Around (9)
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Ever since I got out of debt, I haven’t written much about personal finances, simply because it’s not one of the main focuses in my life. Still, I’ve written a lot about finances in the past — frugality, debt reduction, budgeting, and more — and I think there are a lot of useful articles that newer readers might have missed. I’ve learned a lot about personal finances in recent years, and I hope my lessons ...
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Elsie said:
This is such a great post! So much info within it. Excellent
Introducing Opera Web Standards Curriculum (1)
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. Opera launch the Web Standards Curriculum; a set of tutorials and articles promoting web standards. At Opera, we've heard lots of anecdotes about the poor quality of education out there, with web design being stuck in the late 90s (mal-)practice. The fact that graduates are hitting the job market without any idea of web standards, accessibility or user-centric design is bad for our industry, bad for all industry because every organisation needs a webs ...
Pictomio Makes Browsing Photos Fun [Featured Windows Download] (6)
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Windows only: Freeware application Pictomio is an advanced photo and video viewer with an emphasis on supplementing your image viewing experience with a strong dose of eye candy. When you first run Pictomio you'll notice a couple of things: First, it's a beautiful image viewer, packed with several ways to view, organize, browse, and edit your metadata (it's not, however, an image editor). The slideshows are attractive and the application focuses on bringing a good ...
5 useful Google search tips you might now know (1)
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I never knew that Google search can be used as calculator, currency converter or height and weight unit converter. Today I’ve discovered few Google search technique and I would like to share those technique with you. Look at the few useful search technique and you’ll get the answer “Why Google is the superior search engine?”. Google search tips to find time of a city or country You can use “time” keyword followed by name of ...
jGrowl - Unobtrusive Notification System for jQuery (10)
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We have mentioned Growl-like notification system for web a while ago, they are Send Notifications Instantly with Growl Mootools and Roar - Another Notification Widget with MooTools. Here is another Growl-like script for web which is written in jQuery called jGrowl. jGrowl is a jQuery plugin that raises unobtrusive messages within the browser, similar to the way that OS X’s Growl Framework works. It has the ability to create multiple container instances, allowing a developer ...
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DaveK said:
This will work nicely when we start re-developing our Ackura app interfaces