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Beautiful Japan Stock Photos at Depositphotos.com

. Downloads, Japan

Beautiful Japan Stock Photos at Depositphotos.com

In the previous post, I once mentioned about you can download Japan photos for free at Sozaing. However, if you are looking for quality and beautiful Japan photos, why not go to Depositphotos.com, a royalty free stock photos sites that has huge collections of Japan related stock resources.

Depositphotos not only provides photos, but also vector art and illustrations. Please continue reading to view some samples of the stock images that you can purchase at really affordable price! Why not head to the homepage, check out the most popular stock photos, then sign up yourself a free trial account and start downloading?

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mini-wakuwaku – a free cute Japanese font

. Downloads, Resources, Typography

mini-wakuwaku - a cute free Japanese font

It’s been a while since I posted Japanese related font. But with the help of the social network, I stumbled upon this really cute Japanese font called “mini-wakuwaku”. The font style is rounded and cheerful, it’s perfect match for cute and wacky designs!

This cute font contains two styles: normal and a rounded one, but the difference are just slightly. It supports Japanese character like hiragana and katakana as well as romaji characters, numerals, punctuations and more! Below is the sample sentence I typed with the font. Looks cute right? Unfortunately this font doesn’t support kanji, but in my opinion that’s not a problem. Continue reading to find out the download link!

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Test yourself with Web Development quizzes!

. jQuery, Resources, Web Design

Test yourself with Web Development quizzes!

As a Web Designer or Front-end Developer, it is essential to keep up with latest web technologies as well as strengthen the foundation knowledge of several web languages like HTML, CSS, and Javascript/jQuery. In the previous posts, I talked about where you can learn these online, perhaps you can also do some challenging quizzes?

Here I found several useful sites that provide sets of questions to test your web development knowledge that you can participate. From these quizzes, you can learn from mistakes and become a better coder! Read on to check out the quiz sites!

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Flickr Gallery Showcase #6

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Flickr Gallery Showcase #6

It’s Flickr gallery showcase again! Welcome to the sixth edition of this series. As usual, five awesome photo galleries will be showcased in this post. Continue read on to check out the inspirational galleries! If you want to check out the previous series, here are the link to first, second, third, forth and fifth episode of this series.

Alessandro Guerani

Argh, another food photography scientist. Under Guerani’s lens, the food become so delicious. Combining the food with similar items, textures and settings, it’s just perfect! Click here to view the slideshow.

Alessandro Guerani

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Use HTML5 and CSS3 with confidence!

. Resources, Web Design

Use HTML5 and CSS3 with confidence!

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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11 Great Sites to learn Web Development Online

. Resources, Web 2.0

11 great places to learn web development online

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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Web Design Trends in 2011

. Web Design

Web Design Trends in 2011

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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Best of 2011

. Web Design

Best of 2011

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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Optimized WordPress Hosting server for WordPress websites

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Optimized WordPress Hosting server for WordPress websites

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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10 Japan related Youtube Channels that worth subscribe to

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10 Japan related Youtube Channels that worth subscribe to

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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