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Read on Saturday, July 4, 2009
- Django Design Patterns
  A great collection of patterns which are occuring commonly with Django.
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Read on Wednesday, June 17, 2009
- 40+ Helpful Resources On User Interface Design Patterns
  Looks great.
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Read on Saturday, June 13, 2009
- Dust-Me Selectors
  Looks great: A Firefox extension that finds unused CSS selectors.
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Read on Friday, June 5, 2009
- jQuery TOOLS
  A collection of the most important user-interface components for today's websites.
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Read on Monday, May 4, 2009
- The Do’s & Don’ts of Modern Web Design
  Just great.
  & Don’ts of Modern Web Design">Visit css, design, howto, tips, webdesign
Read on Saturday, May 2, 2009
- Styling Buttons and Toolbars with the jQuery UI CSS Framework
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Read on Friday, May 1, 2009
- django-piston
  Piston is a relatively small Django application that lets you create APIs for your sites.
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Read on Tuesday, April 28, 2009
- 20 More Excellent AJAX Effects You Should Know
  Not all of them are AJAX but plain JavaScript, still a very nice list!
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- BarCampCologne3
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Read on Tuesday, April 21, 2009
- Tricks To Bring Light and Shadow Into Your Designs
  So, as we try to make our designs on the Web more natural, moving and intuitive, a good understanding of light and shadow is pretty important. Here are 5 ways to better use light and shadow to polish your page designs and make them stand out on the screen.
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Read on Monday, April 20, 2009
- 40+ Stylish and Trendy Icon Sets
  When you want to customize your desktop, one of the first things that’s got to go are your operating system’s default icons. There are quite a lot of free and very impressive icon sets out there for you to use, licensed for personal and/or commercial use.
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Read on Sunday, April 19, 2009
- SysML - Open Source Specification Project
  SysML is a general purpose modeling language for systems engineering applications. It is a dialect of UML™, the industry standard for modeling software-intensive systems. It supports the specification, analysis, design, verification and validation of a broad range of systems and systems-of-systems. These systems may include hardware, software, information, processes, personnel, and facilities.
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Read on Wednesday, March 18, 2009
- jQuery lightbox clone
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Read on Tuesday, February 17, 2009
- Talend Open Source Data Integration
  Talend ist der erste Anbieter einer Open Source Datenintegrationssoftware welche durch das Open Source Modell eine Lösung für jegliche Form der Datenintegration darstellt. Dabei spielen Unternehmensgröße und Unternehmensart genauso wenig eine Rolle wie Budgetbeschränkungen oder der vorhandene technische Kenntnisstand. Talend's Lösungen verbinden alle Quell- und Zielsysteme und kann kostenlos heruntergeladen werden. Talend bietet ebenfalls Datenqualitätslösungen an, um seine Datenintegrationslösungen zu ergänzen.
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Read on Friday, December 19, 2008
- Web 2 Icons
  Great icon set of web 2.0 services. Just flickr looks a little weird.
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Read on Thursday, November 27, 2008
- Tim Van Damme
  Very great layout.
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Read on Thursday, August 28, 2008
- 10 WWW-Ergonomie-Leitlinien
  Beim Aufbau von WWW-Systemen gibt es eine Reihe von Aspekten, die man beachten sollte, um eine gute Benutzbarkeit zu gewährleisten. Hier wurden die nach den Erfahrungen des Autors 10 wichtigsten Gesichtspunkte zusammengefasst, die für die Ergonomie eines WWW-Informationssystems von entscheidender Bedeutung sind.
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Read on Tuesday, August 26, 2008
- Typeface != Font
  Great esplanation on the difference between typeface and font.
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Read on Saturday, August 2, 2008
- The Inspiration Gallery - Wallpaper Patterns
  Amazing collection of textures for websites. My emmaempire.net used one of these for the winter layout 2007/2008.
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- Texture Library
  Great collection of wallpapers for webpages.
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Read on Tuesday, July 8, 2008
- Cheat Sheets for Front-end Web Developers
  In this article, you’ll find 23 excellent, print-ready cheat sheets for HTML/HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (including MooTools and jQuery).
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Read on Wednesday, June 4, 2008
- Phototype: image manipulation with Javascript
  Javascript wrapper to manipulate images rendered on the server-side. Eventually resulted in phototype, a client/server-side library, based on prototype.
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Read on Saturday, May 24, 2008
- ColorSchemer - Online Color Scheme Generator
  Enter an RGB or HEX value to get similar colors.
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Read on Friday, May 23, 2008
- CSS Design: Taming Lists
  Great tutorial how to format UL-Lists via CSS, for example inline as navigation.
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- Simple Round CSS Links ( Wii Buttons )
  Great CSS formatted buttons (also available for links and dels).
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