Do you use Photoshop textures? I like to collect Photoshop textures as these textures can help me to add unique effects and speed up my design works.
We had shared about Watercolor Textures before, and now let’s look into some free floral and flower textures. Flower textures can always add splash of color and realism to your renderings.
Textures: 10 sets
Textures: 1 set
The Fanurio Time Tracking Giveaway was end. We will use Random.org to pick 3 lucky winners and will contact them individually by email.
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Event calendars and date pickers are really useful plugins for web applications. WordPress does have a date picker, which allow bloggers to schedule the article.
I am a big fan of jQuery, so i always use jQuery Calendar plugins to accomplish my tasks when the clients asked me to implement an event caldendar for them. In this article, i would like to share 9 really useful jQuery Event Calendar and Date Picker plugins that every web designers and developers should know.
FullCalendar is a famous jQuery calendar plugin which offers features like drag-and-drop, integration with Google Calendar and able to fetch events through JSON. Designers can easily customize the look and feel of the calendar, while developers can utilize the exposed hooks for user-triggered events.
This is a tutorial which uses both jQuery and CSS to build an iPhone styled calendar application. The author also implement the Coda-like effect for the popup event.
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Images are very important because they will make your web pages look nicer and more attractive. But, high quality and beautiful images always huge in file size. They make your pages load slower and consume more bandwidth. So we, the designers should optimize the images so that they are tiny in file size, but good in quality.
There are a lot of useful image optimization tools which can help us to optimize and reduce the file size of the images. These applications are available as both web-based and desktop-based applications.
Smush.it is a popular image optimization tool that able to reduce the image file size but retain the quality, which is what we called “lossless” image optimization! You can run Smush.it through the web site (5 images at the same time) or through Firefox’s YSlow extension.
The Online Image Optimizer lets you optimize different image file formats such as GIF, JPG and PNG. You can either upload the image from your local machine or paste the URL of an image. This tool able to optimize and convert your image to different file format. The limitations of the Online Image Optimizer are 200KB per file, and only single file allowed per conversion.
This is the second giveaway on Web Design Booth. This time, we will giveaway 3 licenses to Fanurio, which is a time tracking and billing software for freelancers.
With Fanurio, you can analyze your performance and track time with little effort. The reporting feature of Fanurio lets you analyze the time and how it impacts your income. Fanurio is a cross platform application, which means you can use Fanurio on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Dual monitors display become more and more popular among web designers, developers, as well as graphics designers. This may due to the price drop for LCD monitors, but I think the most important reason that we use dual monitors is it really increases our working efficiency.
With dual monitors, we can work on different projects simultaneously and also organize our works and tasks efficiently. But for those who like to change their desktop wallpaper frequently, finding dual screen wallpaper is not easy. That’s why we decided to collect and share these 80+ beautiful dual screen desktop wallpapers which related to nature, cosmos, spaces, fantasy, abstract and games.
There are thousands of spammers flood your blog everyday, and spam comments is a serious problem for all bloggers. Everyday, we need to go through the comments and read them to make sure these comments are not spam. These spam comments not only waste our time, but also the internet bandwidth.
Today, we are going to look into 12 great WordPress anti spam plugins, which will save your time by blocking spam bots to comment on your blog, prevent them from stealing email address from your articles, and help you fight against these spam bots.
Akismet is the most popular anti spam plugin for WordPress. In order to use Akismet, you have to register an account at WordPress.com and get the API key. When new comment come to your blog, Akismet will check the comment through the web service to determine if it is spam. Suspected comments will be marked as spam and users can go through them later.
This plugin has a different approach to check spam. When visitors come to your blog, this plugin will first check their IPs, to see whether these IPs exist in the database served by stopforumspam.com, the Project Honey Pot or a local blacklist. By this way, the spammer can be blocked before the content of your site is served.
Flickr is the largest online photo sharing and you can find a lot of useful images or stock photos for your project. Adobe AIR is a technology that let developers to build rich internet applications that run across different Operation Systems.
With the powerful features of Adobe AIR and Flickr’s API, there are a lot of great applications that built upon them. Today, we are going to see 10 awesome Adobe AIR applications that will help you in viewing, downloading and sharing photos on Flickr.
Flair stands for Flickr search for AIR. It will search Flickr database for matched photo tags. The return results will be displayed in thumbnail format. Once you click the thumbnail, you can view the large image, together with the uploader’s user information. Clicking the uploader’s avatar will bring you to his/her photostream.
Flickroom is an Adobe AIR based application that provides the rich browsing experience Flickr users have long deserved. The dark theme ensures that your photographs look better than ever before.
Table is the most difficult object to be styled, due to its browser compatibility and markup. Most of the designers and developers will use div to replace table because it is much more easier to style div than table.
But, we still need table in our daily applications, one of the best example is comparison table. This article will share 15 useful jQuery table plugins for you to display, sort, filter and manipulate your data in table.
DataTables is very powerful jQuery plugin which offer a lot of features. For example, you can have on-the-fly filtering, ajax auto-loading of data, pagination, sorting columns, highlight sorted columns, extensive plug-in support, themeable by CSS or jQuery UI ThemeRoller and also a complete documentation.
uiTableFilter is a jQuery plugin for filtering table rows. The author shows a detailed example on how to implement the filter function for your table together with the plugin.
Delicious is the most popular social bookmarking service. If you pay attention on WDB, then you may notice that most of WDB’s articles are being saved more than 100 times by Delicious users.
There are a lot of ways for you to display your Delicious saved counts. But today we are going to show you how to use Delicious API together with WordPress custom field to save and display the Delicious saved counts.
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