Tokyo is a wonderful city with wide wild range of fashion styles from street hippies to the gothic rock style. On the streets especially Shibuya or Harajuku, you can see many stylish youngsters dressing up with their unique sense and taste. Well, today I will introduce you several fashion websites to check out the cool snaps of Japanese with awesome fashion even at outside Tokyo!

Perhaps only in Tokyo you can see such a diversity of styles, and the people there are really dedicated and daring to wear according to what they think that is the best reflecting their personality. A famous street stylist in Japan once said that: Because we only live once, so must dress up to what we like! Awesome. And if the person dress up nice and unique, he or she will have higher chance of getting featured in fashion magazines or the following websites below. Read on to check them out!

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Today is such a hot day in Malaysia! I just hope that ice creams would fall from the sky. Well, why not browsing some cool Flickr galleries to chill out a little bit? As usual, I will show you another five lovely galleries, created by five creative individuals. If you want to check out the previous series, here are the link to first and second of this series. Read on to check them out.

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I like hien1234′s 365 project photos. It’s heart warming and reminds us about the beautiful daily objects. Link to hien1234′s photo slideshow.

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There are tonnes of websites and blogs that dedicated to topics related to web design and development, ranging from design best practices, tutorials to design inspiration. I bet as a Web Designer, everyone has their favorite web design blogs. Recently, I discovered 9 web design blogs that worth a visit.

These websites that I’m going to introduce might not be as popular as the mainstream blogs, but definitely they have something that are useful for you as well. I really enjoy visiting them. Please continue reading and check those websites out!

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Woot, it’s another new year for Chinese calendar and here I wish all the reader a very Happy and Prosperous Chinese New Year! Well actually the New Year was celebrated two days ago, really sorry about the late wish, for readers who celebrating, hope you enjoy your New Year! This year is the Year of Rabbit according to Chinese Zodiac, so I created a chubby rabbit character to celebrate this festive season.

And I also found a cool video talking about the Year of Rabbit on Vimeo, which was done by Frater. I absolutely love this short clip. Here I embed the video to share with you all.

Recently I found another interesting style in Web Design as the boring scrolling experience become really unique and fresh. Scrolling in either horizontally or vertically, it brings the whole new perspective towards creative presentation on the web. We can see how the designers telling a story through scrolling down a page, and the creative placement of the graphic elements that react according to the browser screen.

Personally I found this is really interesting and definitely worth checking out how it actually be done. If you know any resources or tutorials that talks about this cool effect please do let me know by commenting at comment form below. Without further talking, below are the 7 websites that I would like to share with you guys.

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With the introduction of CSS3 in recent years and begin to widely supported by modern browsers in the market, a lot of simple effects can be done via CSS without using any images at all, for example: rounded borders, multiple drop shadows and even round shapes. Many adventurous designers start to experiment with CSS3 to see what’s the possibilities. And here, I’m going to show you a dotted world map that created by using CSS3 with no image.

To make the dotted map in CSS, first I used a dingbat font call “Geobats” to help me illustrate out the map, then I use a dot pattern to create the map into dotted style. Then I only start to code the map in Dreamweaver, the editor I frequently used. In HTML, the dots are formed by using List Item, and then by using multiple box shadow properties to create the map.

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Cascading Style Sheets or more commonly known as CSS, is the language that describes the look and feel of a website. With CSS, web designers able to style a website creatively and it is the vital component in the front-end web development. It is the must learn language for web designers or people who wants to make websites. But CSS is not easy.

Fortunately there are a lot of free online resources that are accessible to everyone to read and learn. So in this article, I will share with you all 7 resources to learn understand the function and tricks of CSS. I think all the links introduced in this article will benefit not just beginners but also web professionals as well!

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When comes to choosing the best fonts for the logo designs, it is always time consuming and sometimes frustrating. Perhaps you can look for the fonts on the online font stores like FontShop or free font websites like dafont.com, perhaps the most suitable font is already installed in your system. But there are hundreds of fonts and how are we going to pick one smartly? Enter Wordmark.it.

Wordmark.it is a online tool to help you to choose the best font out of many fonts installed in your system. Some useful functions in this service is you can enter your desired text, set the text size bigger or smaller, and even make it positive or negative space. And you can also select the fonts and view them under the “filter selected” tab.

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In many websites with lengthy content, one very common features is by providing a “Go to top” button at the end section of an article for users to quick access to the top of the page, without using the scroll bar. This can be achieve easily by using a very simple anchor link that targets the top area of the web page. Cool and straight forward.

Well, actually I saw some really cool “Go To Top” approach which makes the experience a lot better. All you need to do is by adding some Javascript goodness into it. I will show you some real world examples and plugins to achieve the effect. Now, going to top has never been this good!

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Few more days to go which marks the end of the brilliant year of 2010. It’s been an exciting year for the world of Web Design and the social web, a lot of new ideas, great designs, resources and tutorials that we all can collect and learn. There are a lot of “best of” roundups from various blogs and here I put up all together in a post for easy reference.

I categorize the best of roundups into 8 big categories which consist of best free fonts, best jQuery plugins, best tutorials and more. Well continue reading to check them out!

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