Getting sites built and running in very short delays is a daily constrain every webdesigner has to deal with. In order to save time and money, why not rely on existing templates that can be adapted to suit the client's needs ? Furthermore, reusing free CSS templates also ensures (most of the time) that the reused code will be 100% XHTML/CSS compliant.

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When you start a new business with a consumer focus, you more than often found that the available budget for software is minimal. With this in mind, when the guys behind Jitsu (who like free and open-source technologies like Apache, Linux, MySql) couldn’t find any open source Ajax frameworks that supported compiled XML and data binding, they decided to build their own, and they released their work under an open source license for the good of the community.

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If you're a purist, you're most probably coding everything by hand. HTML, templates, CSS, javascript... Everything. But wheter you rely on your own libraries or on existing frameworks or templates, there always comes a time when you'll be doing things that eat your time.

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Whether you’ve forgotten the name of a function or the property of a cascading style sheet, these quick reference maps deliver the information you are looking for - immediately. Most of those are provided as .pdf or .png-files, so you can print them and use them every day for whatever projects you’re currently working on.

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Web design is a complex discipline that involves a wide range of skills. Often, some of the most basic skills are lacking in many web site designs. Those basic skills are quite simple, but can be hard to gain because of a lack of teaching material.

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Smart Lists is light-weight (8KB) javascript applet, created by Benjamin Keen, that lets you convert "flat" HTML lists of information into categorized, paginated lists. In essence, it's a presentation layer for improving the readability of related information, without requiring a database or server-side script.

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If you have a digital still camera, you may take lots and lots of photos, but when it's two months since you took them, you'll have forgotten where you took them or who were with you.

Now and thanks to PhotoME, you will be able to view all the information which is automatically created by your camera, and in addition you'll be able to edit it, so you can add comments and other kind of data.

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The folks at Smashing Magazine are a perpetual source of inspiration for the webdesign community, as they continuously provide quality references on design, coding techniques, resources, and much more.

Always searching for the best tutorials out there, we found in their columns a very interesting article on the CSS Float Theory. It might not be the latest one, but it's extremely well documented and very informative.

» CSS Float Theory: Things You Should Know

Maintaining graphic-intensive websites can be a pain, every webmaster knows that. Having to go through the painstaking process of manually creating thumbnails is a boring and time-consuming duty we'd all like to get rid of (even if we have spent countless hours developing state-of-the-art photoshop actions sets for that purpose). Well, guess what? The time of pain is over!

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When it comes to dropdown menus, there are a lot of different coding techniques. Some rely on pure javascript, most on a mixed javascript+CSS approach. To our knowledge, very few utilize the pure CSS methodology, which primarely consist of leveraging original CSS attributes of standard HTML elements.

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When it comes to blogging, you can rapidly drown yourself in the ocean of available solutions. Dotclear, Wordpress, Blogger, Skyblog, Kelblogs, Squarespace... You name it! However, all those heavy contenders may lack a bit of simplicity. That's where Chyrp comes to play.

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CSS Typeset is a hands-on typography tool allowing designers and developers to interactively test and learn how to style their web content. You can set the font family, size, color, letter-spacing, word-spacing, line-height and etc… It will automatically generate the CSS file for you. You can see the changes instantly. It is a really great tool for experimenting a suitable font type for your site.

The site also features a blog that highlights news, development progress, new features, etc...

» CSS Typeset

Lets face it, forms are boring, validation is a pain. It’s time to inject some life into them, make them fun again!

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Today, we're discussing photos -- free stock photos, to be precise. Another "holy grail" for webdesigners out there, when you consider the price you pay "respectable" stock merchants like Corbis, Photodisc or iStockPhoto.

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Recently, we wrote an article on icons repositories, and we just realized that we forgot to mention a major one: Iconfinder. It's time to fill the gap.

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Prototype is one of the coolest javascript frameworks available to developers. And since it's been massively adopted by the community, multiple plugins and snippets were created by enthusiast contributors.

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JSLoader is a dead-simple, non-intrusive "Javascript-on-demand" packaging convention which helps developers and the internet community rapidly develop and prototype applications without the headache of figuring out the witches' brew of files that need to be copied, included, etc. You do not need to download anything to use all the Javascript frameworks. it is because multiple sites will share this code the browser and proxy caches will help make things more efficient.

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