Search is one of the most important part of any website. Here I will show a few practical techniques for designing search forms and a few tricks to make usable and good-looking search functionality.

Smashing Magazine did a piece on Search Boxes which inspired me to write this post. Instead of listing various types of designs, I will show you how to build them!Here, with the help of three examples, I will show how to code search boxes with HTML & CSS and how to spice things up with a bit of jQuery.

If you are looking for an unique way to brand your business card, then you’ve got to check this post. I’ve collected over 80 creative and unique business cards from different types of business. Some of them are visually appealling, some have fancy die cut, some are edible, and some are just crazy. The examples in this post proves that business cards don’t have to be printed on card stock in standard size. Business cards can be done on any material in any form.

PHP is a widely used, general-purpose scripting language that was originally designed for web development to produce dynamic web pages. For this purpose, PHP code is embedded into the HTML source document and interpreted by a web server with a PHP processor module, which generates the web page document. In this article I am going to create a list of Ten Best PHP Frameworks for our readers.

HTML5 offers a wide variety of advanced functionality over what HTML was originally capable of.  Perhaps the most powerful aspect of HTML5 is the HTML5 canvas.  The canvas element is a drawable region defined in HTML code with height and width attributes. JavaScript code can access the canvas through a full set of drawing functions allowing for dynamically generated graphics.

In this post, you’ll find 20 shockingly cool HTML5 canvas applications that show just a bit of the power of the canvas and demonstrates what you can accomplish with it.

A while ago an open source project I'm involved with, joind.in, moved to github. I had to quickly brush up my git skills after years of being happy and confident with Subversion; I learned a lot and so I thought I'd share my "cheat sheet" - the commands that I use on a day-to-day basis when working with git.

I will just discuss the command line tools, since those are the same on every platform. GUI tools and IDE plugins are available for git so it is worth taking a look at what is available for the development environment you use.

We have got new chrome experiments to showcase again! Always look forward for this post to show you what have been happening in HTML 5 and javascript development. Make sure you check out each of the experiment here, pretty sure they will blow you away!

The CSS3 text-shadow property has been around for some time now and is commonly used to recreate Photoshop’s Drop Shadow type shading to add subtle shadows which help add depth, dimension and to lift an element from the page. This isn’t all the text-shadow property is capable of though, by getting creative and playing around with the colours, offset and blurring we can create some clever and pretty cool text effects!

Following on from part 1 of my follow-up to “Object-oriented JavaScript”, part 2 provides a technical update to some of the theories and examples.

Without further a-do, let’s jump in with the technical stuff:

Did you know you can make triangles with pure CSS? It’s pretty easy. You just make a block level element with zero width and height, a colored border on one side, and transparent borders on the two adjacent sides. They are fun for all kinds of things, like little arrow sticking out from speech bubbles, navigation pointers, and more. Often times these are just visual flourishes, undeserving of dedicated markup. Fortunately, pseduo elements are often a perfect fit. That is, using :before, :after, or both to create these block level elements and place the triangle. One neat use that came to mind in this vein: breadcrumb navigation.

Magento is a stunningly powerful e-commerce platform. In this miniseries, we’ll learn how to get started with the platform, getting to know the terminologies, setting up a store and all related aspects of it and finally learn how to customize it to make it our very own.

In this final part, we’ll be tackling one of the biggest complaints people have with Magento: its performance. We’ll review a number of different methods you could apply to significantly boost the platform. Excited? Let’s get started!

There’s a lot involved in photography, and so many things to remember it can be overwhelming, especially for beginners. Cameras can seem complicated, and photo editing software is packed with features. Then there are concepts like lighting and composition that must be mastered in order to achieve those perfect shots. With so many things to learn, sometimes a little help is welcomed. So for this post, we’ve rounded up a collection of photography cheat sheets and quick references that should come in very handy.

Lets be honest, CSS would typically not be the first technology you would go to for building a visually effective interactive graph or chart, certainly not without at least a touch of Javascript. There are quite a few technologies you would think, Flash comes to mind first, followed by Javascript (thousands of jQuery plugins), you may even go for an SVG chart, or you may even like to use a graphic editor with interactive capabilities like Fireworks or Photoshop.

Having said all that, creating a pure CSS chart that is both visually beautiful and highly interactive, especially with CSS3, is very much possible, as this round-up proves.

Social Bookmark intergation become one from essential things forany new blog, through submissions to those popular networks your site can gain many benefits to start with from back-links, returning visitors and google love.

There are many social bookmark icon sets out there on the web but only few are beautiful and free so today I have made a small roundup of my favourite social bookmark icons for bloggers. We wish you enjoy this collection.

In infrared photography, the film or image sensor used is sensitive to infrared light. The part of the spectrum used is referred to as near-infrared to distinguish it from far-infrared, which is the domain of thermal imaging. Wavelengths used for photography range from about 700 nm to about 900 nm. This type of photography can produce really amazing and dream-like images.

Just for your inspiration, we have collected 35+ Stunning Examples of Infrared Photography

Most beginners in development and designing will not look deeply into accessibility, the purpose of this article is to educate beginners as early as possible of the possible pitfalls and how to avoid them. It is like a cookie jar is atop the shelf and a kid is trying to reach it but can’t. What happens next? Frustration enters! Not providing a way for your visitors to get a grab of that cookie jar is very not fine, especially when they really need it.

The role and purpose of icons is user interaction is very important these days. Icons can enhance the user experience and user friendly icons are really appreciative but they should be unique and easy to understand. There are so many icon websites available on the web but what we are presenting here is only high quality and web2.0 free icon packs collected from various websites, designers galleries and blogs.

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If you’re a designer or developer, you’ve probably heard about Git, and you might know that it has become immensely popular, especially among the open source community. Though it may seem cryptic at first, this version control system could change the way you work with text, whether you’re writing code, or a novel.

This article covers why version control is important, how to install the Git version control system, and how to get started with your first repository. Once you start using Git, you’ll want to throw everything into it, from full-blown apps to blog post drafts, because it’s so easy and versatile.