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Japan Be Strong

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Japan was struck by one of the worst earthquake ever recorded, followed by disastrous tsunami and nuclear reactor crisis. The condition is really bad and I’m really sad for it, for people who lost their home and love ones. But I believe, Japanese people are strong and they will regain their foot step very soon. As part of the world, we can do our part too. Please check this article by Mashable on how you can help, or go to Google Crisis Response to contribute. Ganbare Nihon and be strong!

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10 Websites To Look For Business Cards Design Inspiration

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10 Websites To Look For Business Cards Design Inspiration

Business cards are cards bearing business information about a company or individual. It’s a very important form of tool for business situation and self promotion. A clean, well designed card printed on quality paper shows the person’s profession and chances getting greater impression by the receiver are higher.

There are many cool business cards designs and today I’m going to introduce 10 awesome websites that you can look for business cards design inspiration. With these sites, you can find all sorts of well designed cards and out of the box designs. Read on to check them out!

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What jQuery Plugins They Are Using?

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What jQuery Plugins They Are Using?

jQuery is one of the most popular Javascript frameworks available on the Internet, and many jQuery plugins available out there for example sliders, lightboxes and many more that are free to use. With these plugins, we are able to use them to enhance our websites usability without scratching our head.

Many websites out there use jQuery, and actually what plugins they are using? In this article I will show you 7 examples of jQuery in real world examples as well as the links to the plugin. Note that the examples might not using the exact plugin introduced below but they have the similar function. Read on to find out!

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Tokyo Fashion Street Snap!

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Tokyo Fashion Street Snap!

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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Flickr Gallery Showcase #3

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Flickr Gallery Showcase #2

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.

hien1234

hien1234

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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9 Web Design Blogs That I Enjoy Visiting Recently

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9 Web Design Blogs That I Enjoy Visiting Recently

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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Happy Chinese New Year!

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Happy Chinese New Year!

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.

7+ Websites with Unique Scrolling Experience

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7 Websites with Unique Scrolling Experience

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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CSS3 Dotted World Map

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CSS3 Dotted World Map

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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8 resources to learn and understand CSS

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8 resources to learn and understand CSS

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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