Getting Started with jQuery
January 4th, 2010 by Louis Lazaris
The web development scene is moving forward at a lightning-fast pace, and it’s imperative that developers continue to keep their skills fresh. If you’ve been involved in front-end design or development in any form over the past five years or so, then it’s very likely that you’ve experimented at some point with one of the popular JavaScript libraries, many of which have become quite prominent and are now used on a number of large commercial websites.
Getting Started with jQuery
In this article, I’ll be introducing and laying the groundwork for advanced JavaScript development with one of the most popular JavaScript libraries available: jQuery.
Although there are many beginning tutorials online that can provide a great starting point for jQuery development, in this article I’m hoping to go beyond just quick-start syntax and instead provide a solid overview of jQuery and discuss the benefits of using such a library. Of course, much of this information–outside of the syntax and other jQuery-specific details–will be applicable to any JavaScript library.
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Getting Started with jQuery.
- jQuery Cookbook (oreilly.com)
- Learning JQuery 1.3 (books.slashdot.org)

Design a Minimal and Modern Portfolio Layout with
Photoshop
October 29th, 2009 by
Richard Carpenter
In this Photoshop
web design tutorial, we’re going to create a mock-up of a clean and modern-looking
website. This is Part 1 of a tutorial series that will show you how to create the design, and then convert it to an HTML/CSS template.
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Design a Minimal and Modern Portfolio Layout with Photoshop.
49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009
December 14, 2009



What a year it has been for Photoshop… so many new techniques, so many fresh ideas and so many new and creative web sites offering free tutorials. In this post we have collected the best of them, focusing on photo manipulation, design and drawing, poster design, caricature design and finally, illustration within Photoshop. We have purposely omitted icon design, text effects and GUI tutorials, these will be following in the coming weeks, keep an eye out for them.
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49 Most Creative Photoshop Tutorials of 2009 : Speckyboy Design Magazine.

12 Websites To Help You Learn Flash/ActionScript
July 10th, 2008 by Jacob Gube | 96 Comments | Stumble It! Delicious
Adobe Flash is an excellent technology that allows developers to add interactivity and smooth animations to web pages. Its popularity is so immense that you’ll find many websites dedicated to helping developers interested in Flash.
In this article, you’ll find 12 wonderful websites that’s worth a bookmark if you’re looking into sharpening your Flash development skills. For each entry, you’ll find three tutorials from the website so that you can see what’s in store for you.
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50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design
* By Paul Andrew
* June 7th, 2009
Beautiful and free icon sets always come in handy. Used properly and moderately, icons can be helpful to provide users with memorable metaphors and illustrations that would provide a visual support for otherwise unspectacular text blocks. For instance, in web-applications memorable icons can be very helpful as they can make it easier for users to memorize how to perform some specific task or where to find some specific functions.
This large collection of recently released icon sets is supposed to help designers improve their designs on their web-sites and in web-applications. All icon sets are free. Please read the license agreements carefully before using the icons — the license can change from time to time. The icons provided below may turn out to be useful and helpful in corporate designs, portfolios, blogs, magazines and in Web-applications. Please feel free to suggest more icon sets in the comments to this post.
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50 Fresh Useful Icon Sets For Your Next Design - Smashing Magazine.

We review 10 amazing CSS grid systems
Published: Dec 10, 2009
Though grid layouts may not be new to print design and certainly not design in general, CSS grid systems are still somewhat new to the field of web development. CSS grid systems allow the developer to easily and quickly markup and create structured, grid styled websites and layouts. Each grid systems has its pros and cons, and different ways of accomplishing goals. Today, we'll review 10 amazing CSS grid systems.
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Some screenshots of a website I am currently building for Victory Medical Center in Austin.
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