How to Create a Nifty Dynamic Shadow with jQuery

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First I want to welcome you to my very first article for 1stwebdesigner. Today I’ll show you how to create a very nifty looking dynamic shadow with a few teaspoons of jQuery, a pinch of CSS and some transparent PNG’s as Base. I’ll explain every line of used code, so you can easily follow along and create your own awesome looking dynamic shadow powered by jQuery.

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7 Very Useful Websites to Get Practical Fireworks Tutorials

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Fireworks is the best software around for editing vector and bitmap and vector graphic. It helps you to rapidly prototype websites and application interfaces. Compared to Photoshop, there aren’t any decent online alternatives for Fireworks. There are a lot of new features in fireworks like CSS export and style effects and you should must give it a try.

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Integrate SexyBookmarks into any HTML page with JavaScript

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SexyBookmarks is a handy plugin for sharing the useful & helpful links on the famous social bookmark services just like AddThis WordPress plugin. (if you still don’t know about it or you want to learn more, please go to its homepage).

This tutorial and article will teach you how to actually use this plugin in any website, not just WordPress – implement it wherever you want it! Portfolio page? – no problem! :)

The advantages of this plug-in are:

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40 Fundamental Illustrator Tutorials You Must Know

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Learning a new software application can be a difficult task, especially when there is an application that is as deep as Adobe Illustrator! Fortunately, Teresa illustrator colection veterans who are generous enough time to take the basic document, so that new users of the first activities to capture and gain knowledge of tools and basic techniques. This collection of tutorials covering various dialer tools and provides many useful tips and advice. Together, they constitute a very useful tool for all beginners who work with their heads, put up in Adobe Illustrator.

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Learn How To Create A Clean Layout In Photoshop [Very Detailed]

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In this Photoshop tutorial we’ll learn how to create a clean looking website layout, we’ll also be using 960s grid system to keep everything aligned. This is very detailed tutorial, so if you have basic knowledge about Photoshop you should be able to easily keep up and let me guide you through this layout creation process.  I am explaining all small steps and every step is shown by visuals as well, good luck!!

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30 AJAX Tutorials For Smart Web Developers

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Here is a complete package of AJAX Tutorials Web Developer, Ajax is a short form Synchronous JavaScript and XML is a set of methods that are used by many modern and popular web sites. Ajax providing web developers with verbosity options, the practice of searching to improve and expand the presentation of their Web sites in recent years there have been more immersed in the development of rich Internet applications.

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29 Avatar Movie Wallpapers And Navi Recreating Tutorials

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It seems like Avatar is becoming the most popular movie ever made, everybody is buzzing about it, creating fun clubs, tutorials, recreating navi persons and so on. Of course design community with their skillset can create something really beautiful, they can explain what’s needed to recreate such effects doing simple professional research.

This is most fun post – I think everybody will enjoy those beautiful Avatar wallpapers and maybe even get so excited, so they would like to recreate even Navi effects and turn his own photo into navi one! Enjoy as always -that’s why I deliver you daily inspiration and resources!

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30 Web-Design Related Photoshop Tips, Tutorial Screencasts

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Oh, this is a bit different collection I hope, because I couldn’t find really similar articles like this one. I did very big research through youtube, delicious, good-tutorials, vimeo, google and many more websites to find interesting Photoshop, little coding and tips video tutorials. What’s great with video tutorials? – you can see every mouse click and in the same time you hear author’s voice explaining things to you verbaly. In my opinion this is the fastest and the best way how to learn new techniques.

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41 Useful Adobe Illustrator Video Tutorials For Creative Designers

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I know that you love Adobe products and I’m sure that you love even more the things that you are able to create using the Adobe products. That’s why, I’ve collected some easy to understand and very useful Adobe Illustrator video tutorials created by top Illustrator designers from all around the web. Most people consider that Photoshop is everything and they don’t actually need another product for their design projects. I strongly recommend you to take a look at this great Adobe Illustrator tutorials and you will understand why I say that you also need to use AI for more professional and artistic creations.

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