Web developers, you guys are really lucky. The tools available for you as a group are very powerful and they come in all shapes and sizes. With the introduction of Google Chrome, the community has made some amazing extensions which are very easy to use for every day work. Below you have the ones I consider most useful (starting with the best, of course 
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Though issues of layout, typography, and various other page elements are bound to take up plenty of time for web designers, many take a special delight in the creation of headers. Whether for corporate web pages or personal blogs, forum indexes or e-commerce sites, a good-looking header can make a lasting impression on visitors, and is likely to be one of the most important concerns for design clients. Using vector graphics for header design has been gaining momentum as a design practice for several years, resulting in clean and attractive visual schemes that leave out the potential pixelation and fuzz of raster graphics.
When you’re reading around the web about what to focus on when creating a web page, and you’re sure to find a host of opinions which, in total, insist that every single page element holds the secret to attracting traffic, pleasing visitors, or simply “doing it right.” Though some page elements are necessarily more crucial in terms of their uniformity than others, designers and developers can count on the essential nature of the HTML meta tag on any given web page.
Meta tags are capable of telling search engines and other interested parties key information about the contents of the page, the meta tag is arguably as important as the page’s actual title–yet it leaves greater room for taking advantage of keyword use and relaxing the rules of style.
The beauty of the Google Chrome Extension gallery is that it is virtually uninhibited by any sort of approval process. This allows tons of extensions to be uploaded into the wild in real time. Every couple weeks, I go through and find the best and/or the most promising extensions that have recently been added.
The following extensions are no more than a few weeks old, and thus, it’s highly unlikely that you’ve seen them yet (unless you have no life, like me). Keep in mind that since these are brand new, some of them may have bugs here and there. The good thing, though, is that extensions from the gallery automatically update in the background without the need to restart the browser, and extension developers are usually more receptive to adding/removing/fixing features when their extension is newly released!
There are twenty-three extensions and two themes to try out. Feel free to give any of these a quick try! If you decide you don’t like it, simply right-click the extension and select “Uninstall” — Simple as that! No restarts or anything!
Ready? Here goes!
You may have your own blog or working for someone else. What ever may be the content of the blog, the theme of the blog gives the first impression about the blog to the reader. If your theme is very interactive and user friendly, then reader will probably enjoy it. If you are serious about your blog, you should have a serious theme. If you have a design or technical related blog, you probably don’t want to miss this showcase.
In the showcase below, I tried to include some of the highest rated magazine/business WordPress themes voted on by bloggers and designers. Once you have a licence for the theme, you are (of course) free to edit it to fit for your requirements. Here are some premium themes that will get you noticed, for sure.
If you are stuck with your next portfolio design, you should consider to take a look at these portfolio interfaces that published recently. In this post, we have a collection of fresh and great portfolio design interfaces. All of them were hand-picked in DeviantArt where you can get inspiration everyday. Also check out others works of these authors for more interesting stuff.
This is an old topic that has been covered by many other blogs and magazines–to the extreme, but it needs updating. I’m talking about how to highlight comments posted by the author of the article. The tutorials out there only work for one user ID for the whole site. That is a big mistake, as it didn’t allow for scalability — it only works when you are blogging on your own (and with only one account). We have given it an overhaul, and updated the code.
In 1996, Macromedia released their product called Macromedia Flash which is a vector-based animation platform. With Flash, web designers were now able to create animations using a timeline and vector design tools as a video. Furthermore, Flash was and still is a great solution for web designers to provide visitors smooth view in such small file size. The only thing that web surfers need to enjoy the sites using flash is to install Macromedia Flash Player.
However, with the arrival of JavaScript in 1997, there has been a war between Flash and JavaScript because Flash was afraid JavaScript would one day replace them with all the animation it supports. Why? Because a ton of JavaScript frameworks are becoming increasingly popular as a result of their high scalability, performance and usability. Some include jQuery, MooTools, script.aculo.us, Prototype, among others but especially jQuery, as of late.
jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and AJAX interactions for rapid web development. Although you may have enough Javascript skills to build your own Javascript code, using jQuery instead of can simplify the process (think hundreds of lines vs. a few lines of jQuery). Furthermore, there are thousands of plugins for jQuery published and large community support for this project. jQuery deserves being the heaviest competitor with Flash.
Update: The icons used in this tutorial can be found free here.
There are many posts available detailing how to write your own jQuery plugin. It won’t take long before you realize that building in jQuery is very simple. Continuing in our jQuery Learning Series, here we’re going to build your first jQuery plugin. It’ll generate a bubble effect for your menu list and we’re going to call it BubbleUP.
What is BubbleUP? BubbleUP is a fun and easy plugin to get you started in jQuery. The effect is a nice starting point for learning the basics and many of the steps involved in creating other more intricate plugins you will make in the future. With this plugin, images in a list will enlarge with a smooth animation when you move your mouse over it. Then, if you move the mouse out, it will reset to the original size with the same smooth animation.
This collection is hand-picked from our feed subscription, from Whofreelance, and from other feeds. This tutorials collection focuses on web design, development and digital art from around the web that were published within the past week. Hope you enjoy this collection!