WordPress plugins are really great, because you even don’t need to know anything about coding to install and use some really great features. WP-Invoice and Web Invoice are free premium WordPress plugins for online invoicing and billing. These plugins are ideal for developers, designers, contractors, SEO consulting firms, freelancers and any small businesses owners that need to create, send and track the status...
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Wow... it’s Envato’s 5th birthday and they are ready to celebrate! Every year comes another Bundle, and this year’s Bundle is bigger and better than ever with over $500 ($507 in fact) worth of awesome files all for only $20! With the recent public launch of Envato’s stock photography marketplace PhotoDune, they have been able to include even more great files. The team has handpicked some super cool stuff from around the marketplaces and have worked tirelessly to cram them into their 5th Birthday Bundle. See the full list of files...
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jQuery is a JavaScript library that is CSS3 compliant and supports many cross-browser features. The jQuery framework is extensible and very nicely handles DOM manipulations, CSS, animations, communications to server requests, document transversal and event handling. I have compiled a collection of 15 useful jQuery plugins that should be useful for your next project. (more...)
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I thought I had better write this post earlier in the month so everyone has time to download the freebies from the Envato Marketplaces.

I always download their freebies, since you never know when they might come in handy. I'm starting to build up quite a collection of quality resources that I can use whenever I need to.

Once again, this month they have a great selection of items to download for free. You will need to register, but registration is also free. Read Full Article

Anybody who has done some serious (or even not so serious) web design work knows what a pain Internet Explorer 6 can be. Designs that render correctly in compliant browsers such as Firefox, Chrome and Safari just do not work in IE6 (or sometimes even in IE7 and IE8). Significant rework and workarounds are often required to make a website "compliant" for IE6. So now that we have rolled into a new year, it's time to make a decision. Should I still attempt to make my website designs IE6 compliant (even if a client asks for it)? Before making a rash decision, let's look at some statistics....
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There are only a few days left in December 2010 to download the freebies from the Envato Marketplaces.

I always download their freebies, since you never know when they might come in handy.

This month they have a great selection of items to download for free (registration is also free).

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There are only a few days left in November 2010 to download the freebies from the Envato Marketplaces. I always download their freebies, since you never know when they might come in handy.

This month they have a great selection of items to download for free (registration is also free). (more...)

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So you're looking for a web hosting company to host your website for the first time and you just don't know that much about it. Well, it can be a fairly daunting task due to the overwhelming number of people and companies out there claiming to be the best. Not to mention the endless options and vast array of pricing plans. Finding cheap, dedicated servers may be your best bet or maybe a big name hosting site is the way to go. It can be rather confusing at first, but read the following paragraphs and find out what to look for when choosing a hosting provider for the first time. Read Full Article

As a web designer / developer, reading reference material while developing is essential since there is just no way that anyone could keep all of the syntax for any API in memory.

Whilst all languages and frameworks have complete documentation accessible on the internet, recently I have noticed that a few iPhone apps have been created so that documentation is accessible offline. (more...)

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It's always worth having a look at ThemeForest, since every month they give away a different product for free.

This months free product (Nov 2010) is a handy Javascript Showcase which usually sells for US$8. That's not a lot of money, but if they are giving something away for free that will help me with my web design projects... I'll take it! (more...)

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