The goal of any great website is to provide quality content for its readers and clients, though no website can be truly successful if it cannot provide the content in a timely manner. How much time is acceptable isn’t always up to you though. It’s in the eyes of the beholder, hence the readers.

If you have a flash based website that is media heavy, and your users knows is, they will probably be ok waiting a minute or two while your page loads. Though, if on the other hand you have a mostly text based website and it takes two minutes to load, there is 99.99% chance the person will not wait. These days, people want information and websites to be practically instantaneous.

HTML5 is one of the most fashionable topics in today’s web programming world. HTML5 contains lots of new features that allege to change the web face, big players like Google and Apple are pushing for it and browsers competes to implement more and more html5 features. In this conditions there is no surprise that everyone is talking about it.

In this post we are going to analyse exhaustively an HTML5 simple feature which is already implemented in all the modern browsers: local storage. Local Storage is just a part of the Web Storage api. It is already defined in the HTML5 specifications and it’s implemented in all the modern browsers

You’ve probably heard a lot about the new HTML5 canvas element. As the name implies, this is a special element that allows us to create and modify graphics. In addition, we can also use it like any other element on the page – apply jQuery animations on it, listen for events and integrate it deeply into our layouts.

All uses of canvas you’ve come so far are probably limited to games and other proof of concept demos. Today, however, we are doing something practical – we are making a progressively enhanced slideshow with a fancy transitioning effect, which is perfectly functional in older browsers as well.

Traffic on your blog represents everything from your popularity in the marketplace to your income and lifestyle, making it very important to track. The better you know what attracts visitors and what topics and titles are popular, the better you can serve your visitors and the more success you will have. Monitoring traffic to your blog can be confusing, especially when dealing with all those mysterious log files that come from your hosting provider. Here are 10 WordPress plugins to monitor your blog’s traffic that makes checking your traffic as easy as pushing a button or clicking a link.

Zenoss Core is an enterprise network and systems management application written in Python/Zope. Zenoss provides an integrated product for monitoring availability, performance, events and configuration across layers and across platforms. Zenoss can monito

The Pencil Project's unique mission is to build a free and opensource tool for making diagrams and GUI prototyping that everyone can use.

Top features:

* Built-in stencils for diagraming and prototyping
* Multi-page document with background page
* Inter-page linkings!
* On-screen text editing with rich-text supports
* Exporting to HTML, PNG, Openoffice.org document, Word document and PDF.
* Undo/redo supports
* Installing user-defined stencils and templates
* Standard drawing operations: aligning, z-ordering, scaling, rotating...
* Cross-platforms
* Adding external objects
* Personal Collection
* Clipart Browser
* Object snapping
* Sketchy Stencil
* And much more...

Najpopularniejszym serwisem dostarczającym mapy w Internecie jest Google Maps. Nie oznacza to, że konkurencja pogodziła się z porażką na tym polu. Jedną z ciekawszych alternatyw dla Google Maps jest Bing Maps. Oprócz API dostępnego w języku Javascript programiści mogą korzystać z Silverlighta oraz usług sieciowych. Co więcej, programiści PHP również mają możliwość korzystania z map Bing. Gdyby nie jeden drobny szkopuł, Google mogłoby poważnie obawiać się konkurencji ze strony Bing Maps. Niestety mapy w wydaniu Bing nie są zlokalizowane na polski rynek i wyszukanie adresu lub trasy dojazdu graniczy z cudem.

HTML5 Elements

The table below shows the 104 elements currently in the HTML5 working draft and two proposed elements (marked with an asterisk).

The CSS2.1 spec introduced a new technique allowing developers to combine three CSS properties and a pseudo-element to create auto-incrementing counters — similar to what is displayed in an ordered list.

While counters for lists are limited to <ol> or <ul> elements and only with simple incrementation, the new counter method introduced in CSS2.1 allows for integers to be prepended to any set of elements, and is quite flexible.

This technique is a bit confusing because it uses multiple CSS properties, and looks different than most CSS code. I hope to clarify how it’s used and I’ll run down some possible ways it can be implemented, along with some benefits and drawbacks.

The HTML5 <video> element is already supported by most modern browsers, and even IE has support announced for version 9. There are many advantages of having video embedded natively in the browser (covered in the article Introduction to HTML5 video by Bruce Lawson), so many developers are trying to use it as soon as possible. There are a couple of barriers to this that remain, most notably the problem of which codecs are supported in each browser, with a disagreement between Opera/Firefox and IE/Safari. That might not be a problem for much longer though, with Google recently releasing the VP8 codec, and the WebM project coming into existence. Opera, Firefox, Chrome and IE9 all have support in final builds, developer builds, or at least support announced for this format, and Flash will be able to play VP8. This means that we will soon be able to create a single version of the video that will play in the <video> element in most browsers, and the Flash Player in those that don't support WebM natively.

Not so long ago we released another huge pack of vector flowers and now we are back with another major release with these beautiful designs that are so common in vector art, websites, etc.

We will be featuring over 500 stock flowers vectors and flower related designs (180 mb download)

Scroll down and see all the 500+ previews of what you will get in this pack.

Female artworks are a very common subject for digital artists, whether they are done in 3D using computer graphics software or drawn by hand using a mouse or tablet. Whether an artist is depicting someone they know or have met, or an imagined character, the artistic interpretation is often brilliant.

In this post, we’ve gathered up 47 amazing and beautiful female artworks, from digital artists around the globe, using a variety of formats and techniques. The one common feature is that they are all amazingly detailed and depict beautiful women.

Photography is one of the best sources of encouragement of my past work. Here we conversation about photography of a range of forms like drops, nature, aerial, wildlife, underwater, portrait, nature, travel etc. which I find usually amaze me more than anything.

There are many ways to express photography. Here in this showcase, we presenting a Some Beautiful Photos to Refresh Your Day taken by various artists in which all pictures are linked to the author’s pages.

Joomla!? Nah. WordPress? Been there, done that. Yes, we all know about LightCMS and Business Catalyst, but what else is out there? While there are dozens and dozens of content management systems on the market that range in quality from excellent to crappy and range in price from free to expensive, we’ve narrowed things down to 15 of the best CMS solutions you may not have heard of before. So, if you’re a savvy designer, developer or publisher who is on the hunt for a new content management system then you’re definitely in the right place. If it’s here it’s still new enough that it may have escaped your detection so far. Any opinions on which one looks the best?

To assist you in your CMS window-shopping efforts we’ve listed the prices, some keywords and a short description for each CMS.

More sexy babes surfing and enjoying the waves.

The web is full with texture images, and let’s face it, it’s hard to find high quality textures for free.

WDB wants to help you out and today releases for all its readers a mega lists with so many textures that you can’t handle (at least this is what we hope :p )

Because of the high resolution of the textures and the huge size on every image we have grouped the textures by category and will offer separated downloads for every texture pack.

Direct download links, with no wait time can be found at the bottom at the post.

You can search on Google for Human Silhouettes Vector, free of course, but I can tell you personally that all the sites you’ll find don’t offer you this much!

This is an amazing pack, with over 500 human shapes, doing different things, scaleable EPS and AI format

Supercars are incredibly expensive, and the chances are the majority of us reading this will never have the luxury of owning one ourselves. That doesn’t however mean we can’t enjoy the beautiful design aspects of these cars, and of course the inspirational photographs!

This post features a selection lovely, sleek and stylish Lamborghini photographs that serve as not only photography inspiration but design inspiration too.

This is part one of our new supercar series, so check back soon for various other parts featuring different car brands.