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To be unique and original, you need to have a good source of inspiration. You can get inspiration from music, family and friends, even other people’s work, to get a great design idea. To help, we bring you this collection of light and clean websites, separated into different categories

You might have heard this metaphor before in some form: “Dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants.” It means that a person making something new can benefit from work that already exists, leveraging and understanding the labor of people who have done it before them. I found out that this saying is old, almost a thousand years old—Isaac Newton popularized it. So when I hear clients say they don’t want to use open platforms because of reasons such as: They’re inferior to paid software They’re insecure because they’re open There’s no good support for these products I often wonder why they can’t see the seemingly apparent reasons for using open platforms.

Mac app round-ups are a dime a dozen across the web. However, there’s one problem when you’re offered 100+ to choose from: you won’t use half of them

Chrome is the newest child added to the constantly feuding web browser family. Although Google Chrome is comparatively new, it has been producing some major buzz around web for its performance , minimalist interface, and usability. Another useful side of Chrome is the extensions that give the user added functionality for common web browsing tasks

Web hosting is a tricky business – there are a wide variety of options out there designed to fit a wide range of needs, but like with most things, there are trade-offs. Shared hosting is usually cheap and easy, but the resources are limited

When it comes to expanding per-project revenue, service businesses are at an immediate disadvantage. As our “product” is essentially our time, increasing income on a per-project basis almost always comes with extra work and an increased time commitment. Office hours increase, personal time slips away, and before we know it, the “extra” $300 weekly income has turned into little more than lost time.

Whichever type of Mac user you are, today’s post will certainly help you in completing your day-to-day tasks, develop & code projects and make your Mac as fast and clean as possible. For this post we tried to get you the best selection of New Mac Apps that will help you be a more efficient designer. Though, not many applications mentioned here are free, you do receive a good range of features for your money.

jQuery contains the fn.extend() method, which makes authoring jQuery plugins quite easy, allowing us to write code that is used in exactly the same way as other jQuery methods. jQuery UI also contains structures that make authoring custom jQuery UI plugins easy

Because of JavaScript’s dependence upon globals, it might be easy to forget that creating private variables can be accomplished quite simply, thanks to closures. In just a few minutes, I’ll demonstrate two common techniques which allow for private variables and methods in your projects. Watch on your iPhone The key to this particular method is to create a variable that is equal to the returned value of a function

As software developers, we spend a lot of time extracting and displaying data from many different data sources. Whether it’s a XML webservice of some sort, or a full featured relational database, we have been forced to learn different methods of data access. Wouldn’t it be great if the method of access was the same for all data sources?

I have written a book with Garrick Cheung about the MooTools JavaScript framework called ” MooTools 1.2 Beginner’s Guide ” published by Packt Publishing . It’s a book for beginning web developers looking to make interactive websites and web applications rapidly with the help of MooTools. The book is formatted in a way that teaches you by way of practical examples that you can apply to real-world situations.

There are many reasons why you might want to move your AutoCAD drawings into Adobe Photoshop. You may have realised by now that although AutoCAD is great for creating accurate, clear and intelligent drawings, it often is found wanting when it comes to presentation. Various add-on applications have been written to improve and extend the use of AutoCAD into the presentation arena.

As CSS3 rolls out around the web, it is bringing some interesting new presentational techniques along with it.

On the surface, saving images for the web can be a pretty straightforward process. However, if you dig deeper there’s a wealth of information and techniques you might be missing out on. This article will focus primarily on the diverse features of Photoshop’s “Save for Web & Devices” command along with some best practices related to saving images that are optimized for web use

Classic Luxury is a high quality, clean and simple CSS-based template with three custom pages created by CssTemplateHeaven exclusively for Six Revisions readers. It is clean and has a lot of whitespace and nice typography. The code is well-organized and uses standards-based HTML and CSS

In this post we are glad to release DesignPile WordPress Theme , a theme designed by Site 5 and released for Smashing Magazine and its readers. The theme comes with 3 color styles and a couple of jQuery-based goodies.

In lesson nine of our CodeIgniter series, we’ll build a small image gallery that allows you to upload files, and automatically create thumbnails. Catch Up Day 1: Getting Started With the Framework Day 2: Database Selecting Methods Day 3: Sending Emails Day 4: Newsletter Signup Day 5: CRUD Day 6: Login Day 7: Pagination Day 7: AJAX Day 9: File Uploading and Image Manipulation Day 9: File Uploading and Image Manipulation Other Viewing Options

“Coming soon” pages are a great way to tide over your visitors until you finish your new website. They can be used as a teaser for your future website, or places to simply put your information where people can get to it while you are under digital construction

So you can work with PHP, and have a basic understanding of jQuery, but you haven’t yet figured out how to combine the two into your projects? If so, we’ve got you covered today! In this Plus tutorial, you’ll learn how to take advantage of PHP’s MySQL improved and prepared statements to query a database, how to request that returned data with jQuery, and then how to filter through the returned items and display them on the page, adding a touch of animations.

We are always looking for inspiration, specially when it comes to web design. And If you’re looking for a way to break out of the box with a design, creating a unique layout is one way to accomplish this. Designers play around with different elements to create a memorized design, some of them use layouts, colors and typography to style a well organized design.