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The world cup fever is here! The long anticipated world events has come back! It’s time to cheers for your team and stick with the television, if you are a soccer fans. But before that, you have to change your wallpapers, take a look at following beautiful wallpaper and pick one for your desktop, feel the heat, feel the wave and the excitement. Hurray. Its time to raise your flag!

World Cup 2010

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Categories: wallpapers

WordPress nowadays is the most popular open source blog system, it is almost de facto of blog industry standard, due to it ease of use and extensibility with their plugin management module, developer are freely to build their own custom plugin to add features to the system, examples by turning blog system into content management system(CMS), page specific SEO features, photo gallery, spam combating and more. The possibilities of building wordpress plugins is endless. I am sure you guys would be interest to build your plugins, perhaps for your own usage or for commercial purpose. While I developing my first wordpress plugin, I have documented some interesting tutorial and hope to be useful for you guys! Happy coding and build your first plugin today!

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Categories: Wordpress

Modal dialog, windows or a popular term lightbox is an unobtrusive ajax solution for displaying the content inside the page itself, it overcome the constraint of pop up windows which blocked by most of the modern browser. However, the usages of lightbox is more widely apply to preview of images, image gallery and form model. Since it only loads the relevant content in a box, it increase the loading time and whole user browsing experience. Below shown the details and demonstrate the default outlook of the lightbox.

1. Lightbox2

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A popular lightbox solutions that written by Lokesh Dhakar, it is built on prototype and scriptaculous framework. It only supports images and slideshow.


Categories: Ajax, Web 2.0

With the wild popularity of Twitter, it introduced a lot of add on service like twitter client, search page, analytics. But, one of the most remarkable tools that Twitter really promote is URL shortening service. So, what the heck is URL Shortening service?Well, it is a services to squeeze the long and boring URL into a really compact and mini sized url, this is important as Twitter has text limit of 160 characters. Starting from there, the service is becoming more popular and use widely for email, URL forwarding and more. So, I am gonna share the different flavor of URL Shortener for your reference.

1. Is.Gd

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Categories: Web 2.0, Wordpress

60 Awesome Sites for Free Fonts

dottony On June - 8 - 2009

Font is an all time important ingredients for design, as it is especially powerful in conveying the messages. This is even more essential for logo design, as the logo’s font give direct impressions for what’s the product about. Not surprisingly of successful web 2.0 logo has taken extra effort and consideration for their font picking. So, I am gonna share a list of sites with free fonts for your usages.

1. DaFont

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Categories: Design

Often run out of ideas during web design? Need more web design galleries to inspire you further?

No problem. Here, I compiled a list of 120 CSS Galleries for web design inspirations to pump up creative brain juice once more.

Now is your turn post your favorite CSS Galleries site and also list down any of your favorites site that I missed out.

1. SiteInspire

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Categories: Design

10 Great Places For Free Twitter Background

dottony On May - 25 - 2009

As Twitter fast becoming the hottest piece of cake for social messaging, more and more celebrities, companies and individual harnessing the power of twitter to reach their audience.

So, if you one of the starter, here’s the list of free twitter background resource which you can use to improves your user experience.Happy Twittering~

MyTweetSpace

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Categories: Design

15 Essential Sites For Free Stock Images

dottony On May - 18 - 2009

Here’s the compilation of 15 essential sites for sourcing free stock images. Check out whether you miss out any.

stock.xchng

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Categories: Design

How To Print Screen For Mac

dottony On May - 16 - 2009

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In case you are new to Mac or just forgot the holy key for screen printing.


Categories: HowTo