In recent years, the hype of the web design world has been involving around the popular HTML5 and CSS3. Many showcase galleries, articles, and tutorials on the Internet out there just to showcase the wonderful things that these two front-end dynamic duo can achieve.

But perhaps at the same time admiring the latest CSS3 effects and the cutting edge HTML5 specifications, web designers might wonder how well it is supported by the popular web browsers and the compatibility issues with them, especially the Internet Explorer. Well no worries, here are two awesome resources that will guide you so that you would use HTML5 and CSS3 with confidence!

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Perhaps you had been to design school, learning web design skills that are actually quite outdated and not practical anymore, and been wondering where is the best place to learn the best practices of web development. Well, in this post I will show you some really useful sites that teach you real web development skills.

Personally, I think that the best place to learn about web design or development is going to be on the net. Those dedicated sites, blogs and tutorials are very useful which one might hardly get to learn this in school. Without further explaining, here are the 11 great sites to learn about web development online.

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This year is a fantastic year for Web Design. Designers from around the world crack creative juice, break boundaries and presenting web content in a unique, out of the box way. Not only the websites were done creatively, it also challenge the new possibilities of web as medium.

In this post, we will take a look into some design trends that are popular and taking shape in year 2011. Well I did some research and reading, and found out 9 significant trends and would like to share with you all. Continue reading to check them out.

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Yup, it is time again. Time is running really fast and we will have a brand new year of 2012 in very near future. As usual, there are a lot of annual roundup design related posts that show the best quality of design or resources written by dedicated publishers in 2011.

Just like what I did last year, I collected some “Best of 2011” article links and list it in this post for easy reference for everyone. Well, what I can say is 2011 is really a good year of quality stuff! Continue read to find out the list. Besides, I will add more links if I found more, so please be sure to check back in future time.

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WordPress was originated back in 2003 and now every single internet user is well aware of WordPress, the reason it get so popular in short time is its user-friendly environment. Initially people started to use it for blogging purpose but as its features are getting rich people adopt customize it in a content management system (CMS).

These days many blogging websites are using WordPress as a CMS but people willing to get more out of WordPress prefer to have their own WordPress CMS so that they can include WordPress functionality.

Why WordPress?

WordPress is an open source CMS based on PHP and MySQL, all you have to do is to download and install it. WordPress provide wide range of useful features than can be used to develop a website, it provide millions of built-in themes so that one can pick the most suitable one but people having knowledge about PHP can easily create customize themes. Beside this it provide various plug-INS to support various website aspects such as SEO tools, Social media apps and much more.

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Youtube is one of the most visited video website worldwide and with Youtube, users able to upload and share their thoughts and awesomeness with people around the world. In this post, I will introduce 10 awesome Japan related Youtube Channels that worth subscribe to.

These 10 channels talks about a variety of things, ranging from Japan tech news videos, Japan culture to super cute cat videos. Please continue reading to check out these Channels!

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It’s been a while since I posted tutorial article. In this post, I will show you how to create a smart sticky navigation bar easily with just few lines of Javascript codes, powered by the mighty jQuery.

Smart sticky navigation bar is a bar that sits at its original place above the fold, but when you start scrolling down the long page, it will sticks at the top of the browser window and follows, similar to IGN’s corporate website’s navigation bar. Continue reading out the demo and the codes after the break.

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Web designers love playing with CSS. With the introduction of new CSS3 features few years back, it enables designers to save more time and resources while creating wonderful effects without using either images or Javascript. Now as the modern browsers are commonly support CSS3 properties, it’s common to see effects like rounded-corner boxes, text with shadow in action in many websites today.

Besides that, web designers also able to create much more things and effects that normally we can’t think of. Here I found 9 great websites that tell you the possibilities of CSS3. From these links, we can know how far we can achieve with CSS3, as well as become a good resource for learning too. Read on to check them out.

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Tumblr is a popular microblogging service that allows people to share thoughts quickly and easily online to the world via text, photos, video and more. Personally I really like Tumblr not just because of the user-friendliness and beautiful presentation, it has users that shares Japan related stuff.

I stumbled-upon a cool tumblog called Japan Love, the owner often upload random photos of Japan that he found on the Internet and gives a lot of different perspective of Japan. Well, there are many other Japan related Tumblr blogs, here I found a total of 10 (updated from 9!) that you should check them out!

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[Updated] We all knew that there are a lot of websites showcasing the great usage of fonts and type treatment on various mediums like web or on the print, but sometimes you just want to know what font they are using. Well you can use font identification service to check the similar fonts, but is there any resources that tells you the font name?

Well there are, I found 3+ websites that not only showcase good examples of typography but also the fonts behind the design. Continue read on to check them out.

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