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ImageSwitch jQuery Plugin

A great simple jQuery plugin for image rotation.
It is a very straightforward install and can easily be customized to fit you needs.
Check out the original post:
http://www.hieu.co.uk/blog/index.php/imageswitch/

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Oracle gets go-ahead to buy Sun

The US Justice Department has given its approval for business software firm Oracle to take over computer hardware software maker Sun Microsystems.
The $7.4bn (£4.5bn) deal was agreed by the two in April this year, but still needs approval from the European Commission before it can be concluded.
The acquisition gives Oracle control over Java, a key [...]

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Google provides peek into new search engine Caffeine

The Associated Press
10:52 a.m. EDT, August 11, 2009
NEW YORK – Google has lifted the lid on a new version of its search engine, allowing users to look at the results it will generate.
The new engine, available at a separate address, looks the same as the current one but ranks results differently, which could affect businesses [...]

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250+ Resources to Help You Become a CSS Expert

Originally posted at  Web Designer Depot
CSS is the second-most-important thing you can master when it comes to web design, right after HTML.
And the capabilities of CSS can be staggering (especially with the new CSS3 standard already making appearances in some browsers).
If you can imagine it, it’s likely someone has already figured out how to do [...]

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XHTML 1.0 Strict and the Benefits for Creative Web Solutions

The days of the wild west coders are done. Antiquated HTML practices do not blend well with the current and future releases of CSS for the presentation of a web page. The need to separate structure from presentation is a logical and needed solution for the professional designer. XHTML 1.0 Strict does just that. It [...]

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The Importance of Keywords in your URL.

With the release of Bing, Microsoft has put a higher level of importance of your keywords being present in the URL of your page.
Google already puts a pretty high value for including keywords in the URL but Bing has made it a major factor in the results of its engine.
Using naming conventions to properly structure [...]

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Bauhaus: Ninety Years of Inspiration

This is a great article on the origins of what we all do today as artists. Bauhaus opened doors to creative elements that were previously undiscovered.
Original Article Here:

Bauhaus: Ninety Years of Inspiration
Bauhaus The School and The Style
Every generation seems to have extreme changes which influence life one way or another. Even though contemporary styles [...]

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Make beautiful Business Cards (without using images)

Latest by david lee king
As we’re always showing you beautiful packs of Business Cards made with artwork or photography, we thought for once we’d show you something different. It’s not always appropriate or possible to use images on your cards; maybe you’re a writer, marketer or software developer, or perhaps you’re promoting an application [...]

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Clixpy Usability Monitoring System

What is Clixpy and how it works ?
Clixpy is a web usability testing tool. It’s very easy to install, just by pasting a few lines of JavaScript code in your site’s HTML. When users browse your website Clixpy traces everything they do and then plays it for you, giving you the opportunity to extract any [...]

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jQuery (mb)ContainersPlus 2.0 (iconize where you want!)

Let your contents look great!
Now
Here it is! a DIV box model of the (mb)Containers!
This is a useful plug in to build full featured and fully skinnable containers. The container can be set to draggable, resizable, collapsable and minimizable.
demo page:
http://www.open-lab.com/mb.ideas/index.html#mbContainerPlus
download page:
http://mbideasproject.googlecode.com/files/jquery.mbContainerPlus.2.1.zip
In the downloadable files there’s an html file with a ‘lightbox’ like [...]