I'm designing my new portfolio, and lately I've been checking many sites to get somekind of reference for inspiration. One of the main style that I've check as a cool trend is the Grain Texture, that can be done really easily in Fireworks. So I've made a list of sites that use this simple, yet awesome texture!

There are a few websites I’ve seen lately that have a left hand navigation automatically updates it’s selection based on where you’ve scrolled to on the page. This tutorial will show you exactly how to achieve just that.

This tutorial will show you how to create a infinite carousel script with jQuery. It also have a simple autorotate script that will rotate items in the carousel.

Have you ever had to manually code something that is sequential? Didn’t you find it annonying? Well, here is a simple solution for you. This tutorial will show you how to use jQuery to add a sequent of CSS classes to create a graphical list. The second example will show you how to add a comment counter to a comment list using jQuery’s prepend feature.

I love how I can use jQuery to solve all of my problems. When I was working on a website for The Lighting of the National Christmas Tree, I had to create a page that displayed all of the ornaments. Thank god for the jQuery clone() method, which saved me loads of time and effort.

All Hallows’ Eve seems the perfect time for something a little spooky. Getting @font-face working in IE may just be spooky enough. As you probably know @font-face already works in Safari 3 via WebKit and is supported in the latest Firefox 3.1 beta. With IE, that means around 75% of the world audience could see custom typefaces today if their EULAs allowed it. Fortunately, there are good free faces available to us already, as well as some commercial faces that permit embedding. Fontin is one of them and I’ve built it into this example page:

Although jQuery has a nice set of slide methods — .slideDown(), .slideUp(), and .slideToggle() — sometimes we may want to slide an element in a different direction. Fortunately, it's pretty easy to do.

As all of us are talking about the new coming Windows Vista, I decided to dedicate my first post to guide you all on how to setup IIS 7 along with MySQL and PHP 5. Before entering the venture myself, I searched the internet for tutorials on how about to do that, however, the closest i got was to install IIS 7, PHP and MySQL, however, everywhere i looked the PHP didn't work with MySQL.

a hands-on tutorial

Dave Foster's Oblivion Tutorials.

This Page has had a footer tied to the bottom and it works in IE7, Firefox, Opera, Safari and also in IE6. The footer will stay below the lowest content in a window where the content exceeds the height and create a scrollbar.

When they’re navigating through a long document, users often are confused or disoriented when they click a link that jumps to another location in that same document.

Mirrored glass like reflection effect.

Adobe Fireworks Tutorials

Note the light weight XHTML. I have done away with all inline event handlers, no more onmouseover="over(1)" and similar trash in our beautiful XHTML!

How to do almost anything on your Ubuntu desktop, laptop or server. Daily tips on installing, configuring and making your Ubuntu system as effective as you need it to be!