Tutorial Details Program: Fireworks CS4 Difficulty: Intermediate Estimated Completion Time: 1 hour Benefits of Wireframing There are numerous benefits to creating wireframes as a separate stage in your website design process. Here are some of them: Wireframes are excellent for creating layouts, planning functionality, and organizing the information of your website. Wireframes allow you to explore numerous positioning, functional options, and how elements will work together on the page (or between pages) rapidly. Wireframes help [...]

Creating a graphic calendar by hand is not an easy task. That is why it is best if you can find some way of automating the process. In today’s tutorial we will show you how to generate a full year, custom background calendar using JavaScript. If you’re a bit of a computer programmer, that is great, if not, don’t worry this will be pretty straightforward. Step 1 According to Adobe, a script is a series [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

For those of you that don’t know, jQuery is a rich JavaScript library that makes it possible for web developers to produce quite remarkable effects with just a few lines of code. It makes writing lengthy JavaScript code bearable, by turning long, repetitive tasks into shorter, more understandable ones. It’s simple to use, saving you time and effort. jQuery is massively popular, for obvious reasons, and everybody’s using it. To make sure you stand out, [...]

Just found that Adobe just launched a preview of Adobe Browser Lab  a tool for cross-browser testing of web pages and apps  as it would appear on different browsers and operating systems,and  it let’s you define browser sets for testing and set 1-up view 2-up view or onion-skin view,  check Adobe Labs for more info or visit Adobe BrowserLab BrowserLab provides web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems, on [...]