There are plenty of reasons to use a CSS Framework to build your websites. They can speed up development, make your sites more aesthetically pleasing, and they can help eliminate all those nasty cross-browser compatibility issues (though not all of them do this, or do it well). But it can also be a steep learning [...]
30 High Quality Grunge Fonts for Web Designers
Grunge is one of my most favorite font styles. Clean and beautiful designs became boring and distortion, old and worn out feel brought something new in. You may always distort fonts yourself, but it’s always nice if there are free fonts out there you may use right away. I put together a collection of my [...]
40 (NEW) & High Quality Icon Set For Elegant Designs
When working on design projects its always essential to have a good collection of icons. Designers use Icons to create breath-taking designs. Having the right icons can help to make a web design look much more professional and complete. Fortunately, there are some excellent free icon sets available that offer very high quality icons. In [...]
9 Tips For Working with MySQL Databases
MySQL is one of the most popular relational database management systems (RDBMS) around, with over 6 million installations. It’s a fantastic choice for any new developer, because of its open source nature, wide support and abundance of tutorials available on the subject. Here are some great tips and tools (beside phpMyAdmin) to improve your MySQL [...]
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jQuery Lint- Reports Incorrect Usage of jQuery
jQuery Lint is a simple script you can download and use with jQuery. It works over the top of jQuery and diligently reports errors and any incorrect usage of jQuery. It will also, to some extent, offer guidance on best practices and performance concerns. jQuery lint’s main objective is to notify you of incorrect usages [...]
10 NEW WordPress Wanted Hacks and Powerful Techniques
by Noura Yehia WordPress is becoming so powerful that you can use it to do whatever comes in your mind. User love it for its flexibility, you have plugins to enhance its power and you can hack your theme code to add unique functionality. In this article, we’ll show you 10 new powerful WordPress hacks, [...]
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TipTip- Sweet & Simple Custom tooltip jQuery Plugin
TipTip is a custom jQuery tooltip that behaved just like the browser tooltip. TipTip detects the edges of the browser window and will make sure the tooltip stays within the current window size. As a result the tooltip will adjust itself to be displayed above, below, to the left or to the right of the [...]
50 First-class & New Downloadable Fonts For Professional Designs
Over the last year (2009) we’ve been collecting high-quality fonts created by talented designers and type foundries. In this collection, we’d like to present an overview of 50 of the best Free, New and High-quality Modern, Handwritten, grunge, Cartoon style fonts for clean and professional designs in 2009. Note: Please read the license agreements carefully [...]
DevSnippets NEW “Design & Post Series” in 2010
After one year using that greyish layout the time for a change has come. With over 7,000 subscribers, it’s been a great year. We’re celebrating the new year -2010- with a new look and a new series of posts highlighting some of the best techniques and design related posts. Feel free to critique. Good or [...]
7 Free & Powerful File Managers using Ajax/PHP/JS
If you are looking for a powerful file manager ready to use in your web projects and simple to customize, take a look at this list with the best and free file manager currently in circulation. Some of these file managers support PHP only or javascript only or Ajax that will give you powerful tool [...]
Styling your Lists: 20+ Brilliant How to’s and Best Practices
When we think about CSS-Styled lists, different ideas come to mind but that rusty old image of bulleted items is not one of them anymore. There are lots of different methods to format nice HTML lists that is used in most web designs not only for navigation menu (vertical or horizontal) but for formatting many [...]
10 Transition Effects: The art of Showing/Hiding Content
Delivering informative structure is the primary task an interactive user interface should be able to cope with. The more intuitive layout structure is designed, the better users can understand the content. Whatever content you have to present, you can present them in a more interactive & more responsive ways. In this article we’d like to [...]