Past Top Choices

Funeral Held for IE6 Thursday

Mar 5, 2010Comments

Finally, a funeral has happened for that wonderful browser we developers all love… IE6. Hosted by Aten Design Group, a design firm in Denver, the memorial service was supposed to have a coffin holding a “body” with an IE6 logo for a head. Great stuff! Now if we could just get the rest of the world to move on.

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2010 Brings New Ideas and New Inspiration

Jan 6, 2010Comments

So what is it? Two-thousand-ten? Twenty-ten? Personally, I’m a Two-thousand-ten guy myself. Regardless, 2010 looks to bring about new ideas and new inspiration in the world of web design and development. We’ve slowly seen websites go from on the screen reading to interactive pieces of art. Yes, I’m one who thinks websites (some) can be considered art. Sorry we’ve missed you these past few weeks, but the holidays are a time for rest, recuperation and refocusing. Here’s to an amazing 2010!

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Happy Thanksgiving

Nov 26, 2009Comments

To those in the U.S.A. celebrating, Happy Thanksgiving! We’ll be taking the next couple days off around here to spend with family, eat, and watch some football. We’ll be back making the daily choices again next week. Until then, take a look at some of our past top choices and popular ones.

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Four Key Components of a Great Web Design

Nov 25, 2009Comments

There’s a lot that goes into creating a web design, but I believe it can be broken down into four main components. All aspects of a great design must compliment each other while helping achieve the end goals of the website. In this article, I’ve broken down the four key components of a great web design with examples and resources.

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Awesome CSS3 Lightbox Gallery With jQuery

Nov 24, 2009Comments

In this tutorial we are going to create an awesome image gallery which leverages the latest CSS3 and jQuery techniques. The script will be able to scan a folder of images on your web server and build a complete drag and drop lighbox gallery around it.

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15 Useful Resources to Get Clued Up on HTML5

Nov 23, 2009Comments

Check out this collection of some of the best HTML5 resources from various blogs and websites in the industry. Each one gives an interesting insight into what’s in store with detailed write-ups, tutorials and handy cheat sheets to help you along your way.

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ColorJive Paints Your Home Without a Brush

Nov 22, 2009Comments

Paint your home without paint! You don’t even have to pick up a brush. Paint virtually with Colorjive. We’ve got thousands of colors to choose from. If you’re wondering whether it’s a good idea to paint your kitchen red, you can test it with Colorjive. It just takes a few clicks.

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How to Implement Your First jQuery Plugin

Nov 21, 2009Comments

Building a jQuery plugin is relatively easy if you know the basics. In this article we are going to build a simple plugin which highlights (actually blinks) the link, paragraph, span or any text element on the page.

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Mind Blowing Hyperrealistic Sculptures

Nov 20, 2009Comments

Artists that produce photorealistic sculptures, for the most part, aim to show us our bodies and life as it really is. Every detail is slavishly recreated as close to the real life model as possible, even if the sculpture is larger than the original scale. Today’s Top Choice displays a compilation of amazing hyperrealistic sculptures.

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Understanding Your Brain for Better Design

Nov 19, 2009Comments

This article will cover a basic understanding of what the left and right brains are, and each of their traits. We’ll also go into how we, as creative people, can harness this understanding of the left and right brain to be more creative, as well as succeed in other work-related tasks.

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