I love the simplistic nature of their gallery-style photo boxes. It matches well with a community of designers excited to share their latest pixels with the world. In this tutorial I'll go over techniques for constructing a similar design in HTML5 and CSS3. You can build a very similar page structure with just bare-bones essential CSS. Yet when we can utilize new browser-supported properties like box shadows the process becomes much more captivating.

Web navigation is a vital piece to any layout. Designers have known this for decades, but not all menus are built equally. It's very important to distinguish between design and functionality. Some web designers understand this and attempt to better their own skills. Meanwhile the cream of the crop can incorporate both design and functionality with ease.

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Web designers are constantly looking for hot new trends to catch their visitor's attention. This list of exciting design trends has changed dramatically in the past 10 years, but dark-themed websites have always been in style. This color swatch combined with many different web elements is a surefire way to draw in attention. If you're a fan of these deep-rich color schemes please spend some time perusing my design gallery.

The process of connecting into API data via OAuth is tricky. Some of the more notable social networks which have adopted this technology include Foursquare, Twitter, and Facebook. But Instagram is a very popular mobile app which has grown tremendously fast. Their recent API v1.0 release has some really neat features where you can pull popular photos, recent users, follower lists, and a whole bunch more.

In just the past 2 years web developers have released dozens of free jQuery plugins to the Internet. If you've kept up with the community there's no doubt you've run into a few helpful scripts. But if you're just getting started you're likely still interested in these topics! Check out my gallery of jQuery plug-ins and be sure to leave your thoughts/questions in the post discussion area.

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I've put together 22 of my personal favorite audio streams which are all free downloads in iTunes. Subscribing to Podcasts is a great way of keeping up with new information circulating around the design community. You'll learn new topics such as frontend development, Photoshop works, building vector art, and a whole slew of categories! If you have suggestions for other Podcasts not listed here please share any links in the discussion area below.

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With so much hype surrounding the new iPhone 4S release we've seen a lot more iOS app development hitting the mainstream. As such their techniques in design and user interfaces are sure to trickle out among the mass of web designers. In this case I'd like to spend some time examining the iOS slider switches common since early iOS 4.