Laptopical: Finding the best laptops for developers

Posted By Fox on October 05, 2008 No Comments

Nowadays, there are a lot of laptop models on the market and you may get mixed up through hundreds of notebook models from different companies. If you’re going to purchase a new laptop, or looking to find news, reviews and opinions on notebook computers, I strongly suggest visiting our friends at Laptopical.com. They aim to be your first stop for news and reviews about mobile technology, with primary focus on laptop computers. So don’t forget to take a look to Laptopcial to learn more about the latest gadgets and become an informed buyer with popular guides and unbiased reviews of laptops from all brands.
Also I suggest visiting HP laptops for the humble graphic designer or developer and their best laptops page.

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13 hand-picked Vertical and horizontal CSS Menus

Posted By Fox on August 20, 2008 10 Comments

This is a  list of vertical and horizontal CSS menus, it includes 13 various styles of navigation menus, vertical menus, and tab menus. Navigation menus is one of the most important elements for web design.
This post has two parts:
1- In the part one I’ve put some tutorials and snippets for making vertical and horizontal CSS menus.
2- And the second part introduces you some web-sites for download beautiful CSS menus.
I hope you to enjoy them.

CSS Menus

Vertical Menu with Hover Effect using CSS

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Creating a three-level rollover vertical menu with CSS

Using CSS and HTML to create menus is simple and efficient, as it allows you to build and expand the menu by adding new levels and items easily. In this tutorial, we’ll build a three-level rollover menu that expands vertically when the user moves their mouse over the items.

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CSS Drive vertical menu links

Vertical menu links with an image rollover, achived by changing its background image. The height of each link here is deliberately set to be shorter than that of its background image, which can create an interesting clipping effect depending on the image used.

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New cloth for DeveloperFox

Posted By Fox on August 17, 2008 No Comments

Finally it finished, Developer Fox new theme is ready. I worked for 3 weeks and added some new sections to it.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I.
Let me know what is your idea about the new design is.

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Ultimate smiley package - Tutorials and Downloads

Posted By Fox on August 12, 2008 3 Comments

Firstly I want to say that I’m changing my theme. Recently I designed a new template for DeveloperFox and finally finished.
Now, I’m coding my new theme and I’ll publish it soon.
Anyway, this post contains two parts:
In the first part I’ve selected 18 top tutorials related to making beautiful smiles, so you can learn everything about making smiles.
Also in the second part, I’ve collected some ready to use smiley packs for you to download.

Smiley Tutorials

Create a smiley icon
Learn how to design a stylish smiley icon.

3D Smiley Tutorial
This walkthrough will guide you to create a nice 3D Smiley from scratch. This tutorial is intended for people who are familiar with photoshop and have experience using the pen tool.

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Create A Sun Smiley
In this tutorial learn how to create a smiley that looks like the Sun.

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Create Web 2.0 Progress Bars: jQuery, DHTML, JS, CSS, Photoshop

Posted By Fox on July 30, 2008 5 Comments

Progress Bars is one of the most interesting components that web designers like to use in their projects.

They can be used in various places such as: page loading, redirecting, uploading files, sending information using Ajax and so forth.

In this post I’ve made a wonderful package of progress bars.

By reading this post you’ll be able to make some beautiful progress bars for your own use.

I’ve grouped them into four parts:

1. jQuery progress bars

2. JavaScript and DHTML progress bars

3. Create progress bars using CSS

4. Create progress bars using Photoshop

I hope you to enjoy them.

jQuery Progress Bars

jQuery.UI ProgressBar Widget

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HOWTO: PHP and jQuery upload progress bar

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Over thousand mini pixel icons! All Free!

Posted By Fox on July 27, 2008 27 Comments

Oh, yeah. In this post I’ve collected over thousand free pixel and mini icons. You can use them in your project or your web-site.
These are in 14×14px , 12×12px , 16×16px and other sizes.

Fugue Icons
collection of 788 icons with PNG format (16×16 pixel).

The icons can be used free for any personal or commercial projects.

The icons are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.

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Create vector and cartoonish characters: Top 25 Photoshop tutorials

Posted By Fox on July 21, 2008 16 Comments

Creating a vector image of yourself or drawing a cartoonish character isn’t very easy.
In this post I focused on collecting some of best tutorials on creating and drawing vector images including human faces, animals and cartoonish characters.
In the first part there are 13 tutorials on vectorizing photos and the other part is related to character drawing tutorials. If you would like to create a vector image from your photo, you’ll need to read these tutorials carefully.

Real people vector tutorials

Advance Vectoring

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Vectorise People

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Top 15 Fire effect Photoshop tutorials

Posted By Fox on July 17, 2008 5 Comments

In this post I’ve selected 15 fire effect tutorials.
You can learn a lot about making wonderful fire effects.
I’ve featured some of my favorite tutorials and I hope you like.

Dramatic Text on Fire Effect

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Adding Flames and Effects to Make an Image with Impact

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15 million ideas for getting inspired

Posted By Fox on July 14, 2008 4 Comments

In the name of merciful Allah

Sometimes finding new ideas for designing a website or a blog is very difficult.
In this post I’ve listed some of my favorite galleries for getting inspired.
I’ve selected some of better CSS or design galleries.
There are lots of inspirational designs in them waiting for you!
I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed while I was finding them.
These are 25 websites here that I’ve sorted them by their PageRank.

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http://redhotcss.com/

http://www.cssflavor.com/


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