It's always interesting to dig into others's pages. Not for stealing, but for learning. It's good to interact with other developers/designers, because you can always learn from anyone, regardless if they are a newbie or an expert. Now if you have Firefox, you can simply stick to the web developer toolbar, that contains lots of useful features. But what would you do if you had the ill famed Internet Explorer or any browser which does not have the features like Firefox? XRAY rescues you from such situations.

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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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