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Startup Framework: An Impressive & Efficient Platform for Creating Your New Business Website

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Launching and managing a lean, mean startup requires innovation, time, patience and a proactive team that usually doesn’t have the privilege of steady and abundant cashflow. Therefore, the time taken to build an awesome product, develop stringent systems and attractive, convincing branding is divided and focus can often be spread thin across these crucial areas. […]

36 Open Source Twitter Bootstrap Code Snippets

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We all love to save time on frontend web development – especially when you’re coding something every week! Twitter Bootstrap has provided an enormous framework to jump start any new web project. You can find plenty of Bootstrap examples all over the Internet with brilliant designs. But how should you get started coding with Bootstrap? […]

30 Free Bootstrap Code Examples for Web Developers

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Twitter Bootstrap has become a powerful asset to frontend web developers. It comes with a library of JavaScript widgets and quintessential CSS resets to build identically-rendered layouts for any web browser. If you’re already familiar with HTML/CSS you can pick up general Bootstrap concepts within a day or two. This collection of open source code […]

30 Tutorials for Developing HTML5 Web Browser Games

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Modern HTML5 specifications allow for a wide breadth of creativity. Web developers have always been toying around with JavaScript games. But nowadays it is so much easier to jump into the process and create something truly magnificent. This gallery is devoted to 30 tutorials you might use to learn about in-browser game development. These techniques […]

28 Admin Panel User Interfaces from Dribbble Artists

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Websites are made up of many different views and pages. One of the most important views is your administration panel – these are often coupled with custom web applications. The backend system is almost vital to managing users and editing page content.

But you have to get just the right look & feel for things to work out well. In this gallery I have gone through Dribbble and collected the most pristine examples of web dashboards. These are all designed for varying functions and you’ll pinpoint many discrepancies. Feel free to peruse the collection of user interfaces, and let us know your thoughts in the post discussion area.

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Draw A Stickman Episode 2

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Looking for some creative inspiration? Hitcents.com just launched their sequel to the exciting Draw a Stickman adventure.

For those who haven’t seen the first stickman episode, you’re asked to draw a stickman. He then comes to life and sets out on an exciting adventuring involving a dragon and a shark attack.

This newest episode includes some creative twists with a tiger chase and a flying elevator. When you finish the adventure you can even send your stickman to friends! Here are some screen shots of the fun adventures.

31 Fantastic New jQuery Plugins for Web Developers

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jQuery has dramatically changed the way we view frontend scripting. JavaScript was always a popular language even during the 1990s. But in the new millennium web developers have been smart and observed the programming trend titled abstraction. This is a technique where you save time building features upon others’ code libraries – jQuery being one of the most advanced.

In just the past 2 years web developers have released dozens of free jQuery plugins to the Internet. If you’ve kept up with the community there’s no doubt you’ve run into a few helpful scripts. But if you’re just getting started you’re likely still interested in these topics! Check out my gallery of jQuery plug-ins and be sure to leave your thoughts/questions in the post discussion area.

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Silverlight vs. Flash

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Web-based animation has been dominated by Adobe’s Flash software for as long as most internet users can remember. However, this has changed in recent years with the advent of Microsoft’s Silverlight, a competing animation suite. While Flash is still as prevalent as ever, its younger rival has been able to one-up it in some respects.

Modernizing Scripts Every Web Designer and Developer Should Use

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Web development keeps getting better – there are more increasingly-standardized tools like HTML5 and CSS3, and their features let web designers and developers create advanced and good-looking websites more easily.

But some browsers – mainly Internet Explorer version 6, 7, and 8 – don’t support many of these features, like border-radius, gradients, text-shadow, transparency, CSS animations and transitions, and so forth…