Apple users keep growing by the hour with the unprecedented success of the iPhone and the iPad. The euphoria is for real and it is almost as if an individual’s brand is determined by the Apple products they use! The only issue which iPhone users may face is the inability to use service providers other [...]

“Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance.” That’s GEICO’s famous tag line that every household in the United States is familiar with. Companies like GEICO and Progressive Auto Insurance have already established a brand name and have leveraged a huge market share. Does that necessarily mean that all of their [...]

With HTML5, music is making a comeback on the Web. Create amazing music site experiences where adding an audio file is as simple as inserting an image and users have more pause and play music outside a browser. The introduction of the tag eliminates the need for external music players, allowing for true integration [...]

IE6 shipped more than 10 years ago, but its non-standard implementation of the shifting standards of 2001 still haunts today’s developers. As the Web shifts to HTML5, and new versions of IE, Firefox and Chrome debut, have we learned the lessons of IE6?
Original post: Internet Explorer 6: What Have We Learned?

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New HTML5 technologies like WebSockets offer some amazing new opportunities for Web developers. But they also show how implementing unstable standards may cause more harm to a site than the benefits of the technology. What is the role of browsers and how should developers plan for when developing with HTML5?
See the original post: The [...]

We recently partnered with our friends in UK to bring to you some wed design options that are outside of our skill set and expertise. Web Creation UK is able to meet your needs for a fraction of the cost you would with an independent design or developer in the US. This web design firm [...]

Emulating background image crop, background image opacity, background transforms, and improved background positioning. A few hacks relying on CSS pseudo-elements to emulate features unavailable or not yet widely supported by modern browsers.

Read the original post: CSS background image hacks

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Learn how to build a user rating system that enables users to rate products on a website.
The rest is here: Building a User Rating Application for Your Website

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cssHooks allow you to “hook” in to how jQuery gets and sets css properties. This means that you could create a cssHook to help normalize differences between browsers, or to add some missing functionality from the stock jQuery.fn.css().

Go here to see the original: cssHooks in jQuery 1.4.3

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As the new features introduced in CSS3 allows developers to create stunning visual effects, create easily a fancy progress bar using CSS3 and jQuery, but no Flash or even images.

Source:Pure CSS 3 Progress Bar

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Pretty use of jQuery and CSS3 rotations, along with the jQuery rotate plugin, to create a beautiful slideshow. You can use it to spice up your web sites, product pages and other projects with some CSS3 magic.

See the original post: Coding a Rotating Image Slideshow: CSS3 and jQuery

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A powerful desktop application to create awesome CSS3 animations for WebKit browsers and touchscreen mobile devices. Sencha Animator allows you to create amazing CSS3 animations with ease. Desktop application for Windows, Mac and Linux.
Source:Create Amazing CSS3 Animations : Sencha Animator

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Learn how to combine Ajax and JSON to override the browser’s default locale and perform retrievals of complex data.
Read more: Combine Ajax and JSON to Transmit Complex Presentation Data

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I don’t think much happened this week, but last week, I forgot to mention that WordPress Community Podcast had Matt Cutts as a guest on their show. For the few people that don’t know, Matt Cutts is a software engineer at Google who heads the web spam team, which is part of search quality. In [...]

PIE makes Internet Explorer 6-8 capable of rendering several of the most useful CSS3 decoration features.
The rest is here: CSS3 Pie

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