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40 jQuery and CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques
by Lubov Cholakova (July 13, 2010)

40 jQuery and CSS3 Tutorials and Techniques

In this article you will find a comprehensive selection of tutorials and techniques that make use of some exciting and fresh CSS3 properties and injected this with some innovative jQuery.

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250 Quick Web Design Tips (Part 2)
by Lubov Cholakova (July 13, 2010)

250 Quick Web Design Tips (Part 2)

As web professionals, we’re always looking for ways to improve our knowledge and skills. Continuing on with our list of quick web design tips, these tips will cover the website development process as well as positive marketing and promotional tips for web designers.

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CSS Media Queries & Using Available Space
by Lubov Cholakova (July 7, 2010)

CSS Media Queries & Using Available Space

In that example, Chris Coyier changed the layout of the entire page based on the space available. It isn’t required that we make such drastic changes with this technique though, so in this tutorial we’ll go over a design tweak with a smaller scope. We’ll also cover the syntax for using media queries within a single stylesheet and more examples of that.

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Practicing Photoshop CS5's New Features
by Lubov Cholakova (July 7, 2010)

Practicing Photoshop CS5's New Features

Since the earliest days of Adobe Photoshop, designers and photographers have depended on it to edit images. Photoshop is perhaps Adobe’s most popular application. Professionals in our industry react with excitement and concern for every new version. They want to know about new features and how Photoshop can improve their editing and marketing (again!). The interest in Photoshop doesn’t come as a surprise, given its reputation among both the community of experts and general computer users.

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10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks
by Lubov Cholakova (July 7, 2010)

10 Useful WordPress Security Tweaks

Security has always been a hot topic. Offline, people buy wired homes, car alarms and gadgets to bring their security to the max. Online, security is important, too, especially for people who make a living from websites and blogs. In this article, we’ll show you some useful tweaks to protect your WordPress-powered blog.

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250 Quick Web Design Tips (Part 1)
by Lubov Cholakova (June 30, 2010)

250 Quick Web Design Tips (Part 1)

As web professionals, we’re always looking for ways to improve our knowledge and skills. Tips, tricks and checklists are often one of the most underused yet potentially useful models of providing great, quick and easy to follow pieces of useful information.

You may or may not know some of the tips below — and you may or may not agree with everything listed — but hopefully it will give you some ideas for your own sites or motivate you to create a checklist to help cover your bases.

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Sexy Tooltips with Just CSS
by Lubov Cholakova (June 23, 2010)

Sexy Tooltips with Just CSS

Providing supplementary information about potentially complex elements of a user interface is a central part of any website designer or developer’s workflow in creating usable and accessible websites.

One of the most common mechanisms for providing extra details beyond what you can see on the page is the tooltip (a design pattern for showing tips about a particular element on a screen).

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Start Using CSS3 Today: Techniques and Tutorials
by Lubov Cholakova (June 23, 2010)

Start Using CSS3 Today: Techniques and Tutorials

In this post Smashing Magazine presents an extensive round-up of CSS3 techniques, tools and resources that will help you learn how to use CSS3 in your designs right away. They have grouped most useful articles by the corresponding properties, described what browsers support what properties, presented alternative JavaScript-based approaches and workarounds for Internet Explorer and added a couple of links to useful CSS3 generators and tools in the end of the post.

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The Principles Of Cross-Browser CSS Coding
by Lubov Cholakova (June 9, 2010)

The Principles Of Cross-Browser CSS Coding

It is arguable that there is no goal in web design more satisfying than getting a beautiful and intuitive design to look exactly the same in every currently-used browser. Unfortunately, that goal is generally agreed to be almost impossible to attain. Some have even gone on record as stating that perfect, cross-browser compatibility is not necessary.

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The CSS white-space Property Explained
by Lubov Cholakova (June 9, 2010)

The CSS white-space Property Explained

CSS has a pretty useful property called white-space that I’m guessing goes unnoticed among CSS beginners. You can probably live without this property for quite some time, but once you learn how to use it, it will come in very handy and you’ll find yourself going back to it over and over again.

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