Bokeh Effect in Web Design: Examples and Tutorials

Bokeh Effect in Web Design: Examples and Tutorials

Bokeh effect is the blurred or out of focus part of the image. This effect has become very popular recently, and is normally seen in photography mostly around the light sources. Many designers have made use of this effect in…
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Email UI Faceoff – GMail vs Hotmail vs Yahoo – The results

Email UI Faceoff – GMail vs Hotmail vs Yahoo – The results

The results are in, and we’ve got some really fantastic information on different aspects of usability for Yahoo! Mail, Hotmail and Gmail. Read on to find out just who won in this usability faceoff.
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Web Design Checkmate: Using Chess For Success in Web Design

  The business of building websites is one of constant change, adaptation and strategy. The way designers and developers build websites is often informed by the methods of others and their own trial and error. In light of this, we can draw a number of parallels — some philosophical, to a certain extent — [...]

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Reddit Prospers From Digg v4 Debacle

Since the release of the newest version of Digg, v4, launched last week, the less-than-warm reception has caused a massive influx of traffic to their rival – Redditt. Launched less than a year after Digg, Redditt hasn’t been as popular, but they did have very loyal users. However, starting Sunday night, the four-person team has [...]

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Twitter Surpasses 145 Million Registered Users

Twitter Surpasses 145 Million Registered Users

Buried in last night’s update on skyrocketing mobile usage, Twitter CEO Evan Williams revealed that the company now has more than 145 million registered users.The last time Twitter went on the record with member registrations, it was…
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Psdtuts Presents a Free Wallpaper By Ee Venn Soh

Psdtuts Presents a Free Wallpaper By Ee Venn Soh

Another extremely talented designer by the name of Ee Venn Soh has volunteered to release a free wallpaper to the readers of PsdTuts+. This month’s exclusive wallpaper features an awesome combination of colorful and exotic images that form "The Beautiful Peephole". We also catch up with Ee Venn Soh and talk about his design career [...]

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HTTP Optimization the easy way: Part 1, how do I know?

Modern websites necessarily make a lot of requests for resources back to the server.  Through books like those by Steve Souders we’ve become increasingly aware that each of these requests causes a delay in whatever it is your user has requested being downloaded and displayed. If you don’t have both of Steve’s books, get them…and [...]

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Google’s Spinning Buckyball Logo

If you visit Google on Saturday, September 4th, or visit a Google property where it is already September 4th such as Google New Zealand, you will see a special Google logo. The logo is of a buckyball or fullerence, which is any molecule composed entirely of carbon, in the form of a hollow sphere, [...]

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A Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Insights

A Beginner’s Guide to Facebook Insights

Ekaterina Walter is a social media strategist at Intel. She is a part of Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence and is responsible for company-wide social media enablement and corporate social networking strategy.You have created a Facebook Fan…. [...]
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The Top 10 Most Watched Web Series, July 2010

The Top 10 Most Watched Web Series, July 2010

Each month, our partner Visible Measures compiles a list of the top 10 most popular web video series, and we share those results with you and provide analysis. Visible Measures tracks views, comments and other data on…
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Psdtuts Presents an Exclusive Wallpaper By Ee Venn Soh

Psdtuts Presents an Exclusive Wallpaper By Ee Venn Soh

Another extremely talented designer by the name of Ee Venn Soh has volunteered to create an exclusive wallpaper for the readers of PsdTuts+. This month’s exclusive wallpaper features an awesome combination of colorful and exotic images that form "The Beautiful Peephole". We also catch up with Ee Venn Soh and talk about his design career [...]

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Getting Started with Memcached Distributed Memory Caching

Cache is memory used to store the most frequently used resources, because accessing resources from a cache is faster than accessing them from a disk drive. So Memcached means “memorycached,” which simply is caching resources in the memory. These resources can be data retrieved from API calls, database operations or even HTML pages. The data [...]

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10 tips to follow to become a better web designer

One of the toughest challenges facing any designer is the web page. There are perhaps millions of pages in the World Wide Web all jostling for attention. The question that is foremost is how you as a designer can make a difference.
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