Sitepoint is giving away a free PDF of their book, The Art & Science Of CSS by Cameron Adams, Jina Bolton, David Johnson, Steve Smith and Jonathan Snook.
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Just a quick site announcement - Added a new “Community News Section”.
We are starting to post community news section where readers can submit a link to one of their own posts or to someone else’s post that they appreciate.
Anyone can submit links with a short description that will then appear in the sidebar and in the main Submit News / Community Links page.
We generally want Design and Web Development Related:
Everyone can submit design and web development related news without registration. All community news will be moderated and are not included in our main feed.
Thank You.
The open-source Photoshop alternative GIMP version 2.6 has been updated. Check out the release notes.
YUI 2.6 has been released. It includes the brand new Caousel Control, makes the Paginator Control available for general use, contains more than 450 total fixes, enhancements and optimizations, and now ships with more than 290 functional examples.
A while ago, we have introduced Emastic – CSS Framework. A new version Emastic Beta 2 is out.
Emastic Beta 2 comes with new feature’s: gadgets.css (Plugin), Vertical Spacing, Improved Typography (baseline grid).
With new demos:Blog Template, Center Fluid Column,Business card, Div inside DIV, Vertical Spacing, support forum and tutorials.
Flip is a plugin for jquery that will flip your HTML elements in four directions, top-bottom, bottom-top, left-right and right-left.
Tested in Firefox 2+ (win and linux), Internet Explorer 6+ (IE8 beta2 included), Safari 3.1 (for win) and Google Chrome.
Options:
direction: the direction where to flip. Possible values: ‘tb’, ‘bt’, ‘lr’, ‘rl’ (default:’tb’)
bgColor: Flip element starting background color
color: Flip element ending background color
speed: Speed of the two animations (default: 500)
addSizes.js – a little script that automatically adds file size after the link, like ‘pdf link (pdf 2.8 MB) and an ‘mp3 file link (mp3 4.9 MB)’. To use this script in your site, simply include jQuery and then the addSizes script itself will do the rest of the magic.
WordPress 2.6 is available, you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5
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WordPress 2.6 overview:
Here are some of the smaller features and improvements in 2.6:
2.6 is pretty much identical to 2.5 from a plugin and theme compatibility point of view, so upgrades from 2.5 should be pretty painless.
CSS Sprite Generator version 2 released with completely restructured code and heavily commented to make it easier to understand. It now uses Image Magick to generate sprite images instead of GD. This produces much higher quality images and fixes all of the related bugs filed.
Full details at Ed Eliot website.
Related reading: A List Apart article CSS Sprites: Image Slicing’s Kiss of Death which explains the concepts behind CSS sprites.
After a year of development and six months in beta, Mootools 1.2 Released.
Mootools 1.2 has a completely updated API and is not compatible with 1.11 code. You can, however, utilize the compatibility layer that has been built to make the transition to 1.2 easier.
jQuery team has worked hard to bring huge performance improvements in this release. All data and test cases can be found in the the following jQuery 1.2.3 v. 1.2.6 Google Spreadsheet
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