Open source applications and tools are a great alternative for web designers on a budget. Many open source tools have comparable features to the expensive applications, and are also free. This makes it possible possible for a web designer to have all the tools and applications needed to complete everyday tasks without even spending a cent. In this article you will find 13 of the best open source tools for web designers. Text Editors Aptana [...]

Original Source – http://www.sixrevisions.com In this article, I’ve pieced together 30 excellent CSS techniques and examples that showcases the capabilities and robustness of CSS. You’ll see a variety of techniques such as image galleries, drop shadows, scalable buttons, menus, and more – all using only CSS and HTML. Clicking on the title will direct you to the documentation/tutorial, while clicking on the accompanying image will direct you to the demo page if it’s separate from [...]

1. Title Tag Near the very top of a web site’s source code you’ll find various meta tags — the standard ones being the Title, Description and Keyword tags. The title tag is technically not a meta tag, though it is commonly associated with them. The title tag plays such a large role in the indexing of your web site, that it is considered the most important of the three. A page title is the [...]

Original Source : http://csscreme.com/tutorials/photoshop-tutorials/avatar_photoshop_tutorial With this tutorial you can easily transform yourself into a Na’vi. I used Photoshop CS3 to transform to Jake. I hope you will like this Avatar movie tutorial. Step 1 – Creating Na’vi’s nose Import a photograph of your choice, just make sure that size is relatively large. Also, make sure that the person on the photograph is well lit (but not over lit) perhaps taken with flash, so that enough [...]

Designers often have a lot of code snippets that is used most of the time. There are loads of handy scripts, bits of html and widgets that you can incorporate into your websites and blogs Here i’ve listed the best 15 site to download Ready to use Javascript code snippets that will help you a lot and reduce your time and effort in you web development process I bet most of the developers know these [...]

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 [...]