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.

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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.

I'm a huge jQuery fan; there's no hiding that. For me, a designer, there is no easier JavaScript library to use and learn. I've been leaning on jQuery to do my heavy lifting for a while now, and it continues to blow me away almost every time. With each passing release, the library just gets better.

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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.

These details give the designer total control, allowing them to create beautiful and consistent typography in their designs. While these details can be applied across different types of media, in this articles we’re going to focus on how to apply them to web design using CSS. Here are 8 simple ways you can use CSS to improve your typography and hence the overall usability of your designs.

Whenever one builds a website, one issue is always guaranteed time consuming: highlighting the current page or section in the website with a different style.

Still, the world of web design is not only for the artistically talented. There are in fact quite a lot of programmer-like rules for web design. Rules that are structured, scientific, much like coding conventions. Rules that you as a programmer can apply universally, rules that make your design look good.In this article, I will point out a few of these rules. Welcome to the scientific approach of web design.

Ruby on Rails was created by David Heinemeier Hansson as a kind of byproduct of Basecamp’s development at 37signals in 2004. Basecamp was built in Ruby because Hansson found PHP and Java not powerful or flexible enough. It was quite an obscure language back then, without the large eco-system available today. To make development easier, Hansson rolled his own Web development framework, based on simple ideas that had proven successful elsewhere. Rails is founded on pragmatism and established paradigms instead of exotic new ideas. And that’s what made it so successful.

Adobe Fireworks is getting popular than ever, many web designers find a lot of fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of Adobe Fireworks to spice up boring pictures and make them into works of arts. So, if you’re interested in learning some new skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, these Adobe Fireworks tutorials are for you.

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Distribute widths with CSS

PNG-24 is what most web developer’s use for transparency on the web. It tends to have large file sizes but provides excellent transparency. Using PNG-8 or GIF for transparency doesn’t work near as well… at least normally! There is actually a way to use PNG-8 transparency that is better than PNG-24.

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When using custom animations in jQuery you need to understand the animate() function and how it works.

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