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How to Design Accessible Websites and Web Applications

Done with your latest and the greatest web design? Do you know that a large number of people in your audience would not be able to view your design as you intended. Imagine how a person with vision deficiency (like color blindness) would experience your website. According to an estimate, among adult computer users of the USA alone, 1 user…

QR Codes: Creative Marketing Tool for Solo Designers & Developers

How do you advertise yourself as solo designer, small business or a freelance developer? If you are relying on traditional methods like word of mouth, social networking, emails etc., simple mathematics will tell you that you are converting only a fraction of your audience into your customers. (Just compare your facebook fans or Twitter followers with the number of new…

5 Web Design Trends to Watch & Follow in 2011

Recently, we have seen the entire landscape of web design transforming from traditional design and layouts to creative experiments in all directions. Most recent tends included rich imagery, table less layouts, interactive interfaces and extensive use of jQuery, CSS 3 and HTML 5 to minimize Photoshop and Flash. For the rest of 2011, we can expect a number of new trends as…

Awesome JavaScript Documentation: JavaScript Garden

JavaScript Garden is an awesome and growing collection of JavaScript documentation about the most quirky parts of the JavaScript programming language. It gives advice to avoid common mistakes, subtle bugs, as well as performance issues and bad practices that non-expert JavaScript programmers may encounter on their endeavours into the depths of the language. Former knowledge of the language is strongly recommended…

Most Effective Link Building Strategies For Blogs

For any site, Search Engine ranking is an important aspect to get traffic. As a blogger, I can understand the worth of getting listed in first 10 results against a Google search. There exists many strategies to improve website Search Engine Ranking (Create and join groups, join social sites like Facebook and Twitter, join forums, etc... ) but some are…

Essential JavaScript And jQuery Design Patterns: A Free Ebook

AddyOsmani has recently released a Free Ebook for JavaScript developers, titled Essential JavaScript & jQuery Design Patterns For Beginners. Design patterns are reusable solutions to commonly occurring problems in software development and are a very useful tool to have at your disposal. This Free Ebook is very helpful for those JavaScript developers who may not have had a chance to explore…

How To Create jQuery CSS3 Content Slider With Thumbnails

You may have seen the flash content slider over at MLB, Louis Lazaris shared a very nice tutorial on recreating this content slider using jQuery and CSS3. This CSS3 content slider supports: Auto-hide thumbnails Navigation controls to view specific slide along-with next / previous button controls Website: http://www.impressivewebs.com/mlb-switcher/ Demo: http://www.impressivewebs.com/demo-files/mlb-switcher/ License: Free
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Must have Firefox Add-Ons / Plugins

ScribeFire Blog Editor 3.1.6 ScribeFire is a full-featured blog editor that integrates with your browser and lets you easily post to your blog. You can drag and drop formatted text from pages you are browsing, take notes, upload images, and post to multiple blogs. Download Rank Checker Want to know where your website ranks in the search results? This Firefox…
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Why it’s good to work on your own side projects

Whether you’re freelance, employed or a business owner, we each have our own daily routine, which usually involves doing work to please someone else, whether that someone else be a client, end user, reader etc. But every once and a while I think it’s important to work on your own projects. Why bother with side projects? 1. Take a break…