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How To Improve Communication Skills To Get A Better Job

Employers receive thousands of applications for each advertised post every day. How can you make sure that your job application secures a position on the top of the pile? The answer, no doubt, is a well written CV. This is your introduction and first communication with the employer. Despite of your professional experience, may it [...]

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Find Images by Exact Dimensions, Make Wallpaper Search a Breeze

Everyone knows that Google Image Search sports a drop-down menu for filtering results by small, medium, large, and extra large sizes. You can eliminate this image size drop down. You can now search for images using exact dimension you want to have. Just use the imagesize operator followed by the Width x Height in pixels, [...]

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The Significance of Color

I wonder if you knew that visitors to your website form an instant opinion? And they form it about you and your offer. This instant opinion is created subconsciously. It happens automatically within the visitors mind. It happens automatically. Your site visitors can’t help themselves. It matters not a jot how clever the text is [...]

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Simple jQuery Spy Effect with Tutorial

jQuery Spy Effect scrolls the list in a beautiful way, very attractive style and effect. In a follow up tutorial It’ll show you how to hook this in to an Ajax hit that doesn’t hammer your server and keeps the effect nice and smooth. View Tutorial View Demo

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Check it, Don’t Select it – Scrollable Checklists

Usability and accessibility are all the rage right now and that’s great because it’s slowly making the web a better place. Unfortunately, some of the goodies in our bags of tricks aren’t quite up to snuff when it comes to these two areas. One such goody is the good old select element—specifically with the multiple [...]

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Gmail Loading Bar using JavaScript

“How to create a stylish loading bar as Gmail in javascript“. As you can suppose it will be about how to create the famous loading bar from gmail. But the magic on this tutorial isn’t the loading bar, it’s the way to load all resources like javascript, css, and other static files that our web [...]

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Facebook Connect – Powerful Facebook Platform Integration into Your Own Site

Facebook Connect is the next evolution of Facebook Platform – enabling you to integrate the power of Facebook Platform into your own site. Enable your users to seamlessly “connect” their Facebook account and information with your site. Find their friends who also use your site. And also, share information and actions on your site with [...]

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Web Typography Cheat Sheet

Let’s be honest. Typography and the web do not go hand-in-hand. You’re limited to a choice of about 5 fonts, most of which are cheap knockoffs of ‘proper’ typefaces. You’ve got practically no fine control over kerning or line spacing, and – worst of all – there’s a very good chance that no matter what [...]

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Color – The Silent Language

When designing a website, logo or other business document, so much attention is placed on the content or message you want to convey, Could you be missing one other important factor? COLOR… Color is a powerful form of non-verbal communication. Color can motivate, create emotion, show personality, set a mood and even create negativity. What [...]

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10 CSS Tricks You Must Know – Useful for Designers and Developers

1- CSS font shorthand rule When styling fonts with CSS you may be doing this: font-size: 1em; line-height: 1.5em; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-variant: small-caps; font-family: verdana,serif; There’s no need though as you can use this CSS shorthand property: font: 1em/1.5em bold italic small-caps verdana,serif Much better! Just a couple of words of warning: This [...]

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