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Many e-commerce sites aren’t the most attractive websites. There’s often a lot of clutter with little to distinguish the design from any other site. Of course, selling products is more important to an e-commerce site than having a pretty design, but these 50 examples show that some e-commerce sites display [...]

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One of the great things about the WordPress platform is the excellent community surrounding it. Whether you are looking for help with a specific problem or if you’re just interested in finding some blogs to follow for occasional tutorials, there are plenty of resources available. Here is a look at [...]

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Comment design can either help to give a blog theme a creative look, or it can be an afterthought that doesn’t get much attention during theme design and development. Avatars are now being used by a lot of bloggers (partly due to easy integration with WordPress) to make [...]

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Last week ProgrammableWeb crossed one of its biggest milestones thus far when we added the 1,000th web service API to our API directory. This is a long way from the 32 APIs we started with back in the summer of 2005. Back then even the phrase “web mashup” was only a few months old.
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iKnow, a social learning site launched last month by Japanese company Cerego, has launched an API (our iKnow profile) to allow third parties to “add a little Learning and Linguistic magic to [their] applications, widgets and other mashups.” iKnow allows users to take virtual English and Japanese language lessons (other languages are promised for [...]

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Accommodating the Color Blind Online
Web sites with good balance and color schemes have the usability and appearance. Similarities in hues and brightness harmonize colors and create attractive color schemes. However, they’re not “user-friendly” for the visually impaired. Nearly one in 12 visitors to your site will have some form of color-blindness. Most commonly, [...]

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The open source model has, over the last 20 years, proven that collaborative development is one of the best ways to incorporate the newest ideas and latest concepts into design.
In fact, the open source model, which began with programmers, has been so successful that it is currently being applied in government, media, education and private [...]

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Online Image Editing

Project Draw
Project Draw is an online sketch tool from the makers of AutoCAD and Revit.
Resizr Resizr allows users to upload a picutre (currently .jpg format only) and have it resized for them. The site also has a Firefox plugin.
Splashup
Splashup is a Photoshop-esque Flash based online image editing tool. Very easy to use and [...]

A while back I wrote “Where to Go to Find Design Inspiration “, where I listed some of my favorite places to peruse when I’m looking for design inspiration. At the end, I posed the following question to the readers: “Where do you go for design inspiration?”, and asked that you contribute suggestions. This [...]

If you’re interested in expanding your understanding of Ajax techniques and practices, check out these 25 hand-picked Ajax articles and tutorials that outline various methods and concepts involved in the development of Ajax-based applications.
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