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WordPress finally introduced a Post Thumbnail feature in version 2.9 which has made life quite a bit easier for WordPress theme developers that love to integrate thumbnails into their themes. There are many different ways to dress up post thumbnail images, but for this tutorial we are going focus on a simple 5 minute technique using CSS.

Surface: the perfect font for logos.

Fonts for Designers is a series of posts that proposes a selection of the best free fonts for web designers. Each new issue presents five interesting fonts you can use on your web projects. Here is a collection of five fresh and extreme useful fonts particularly adapted to design logos.

The sidebar is an important element of every blog. In a standard two-columns layout it’s placed to the right of the main section and includes information and links related to the content of blog posts. A well organized sidebar should include some important items, such as subscription options, advertisements, recent and popular posts, and help blog readers find contextual information related to the article they are reading or, in general, about the blog they are browsing…

Antonio Lupetti The Death of Tag Clouds

January 20, 2010 - Posted by Antonio Lupetti in Popular, Web Design

In 2004, the Web 2.0 philosophy introduced a new paradigm for the Web that also marked a huge change of direction in the approach to design websites than before. Tag Cloud was probably one of the most popular elements which characterized that period in web design. But are tag clouds really useful?

The Web is evolving fast: new features, formats, user needs, continuously change the way we interact with websites. In this post I want to suggest you some interesting emerging techniques every web developer should know in order to build modern web applications.

2010 will be the years of consolidation of internet usage via mobile devices. According to internetnews.com, which reports a Gartner analysis, mobile device sales will rise (9%) in 2010. This scenario will impose to internet companies, online newspapers, bloggers, to provide mobile versions of their websites to simplify the fruition of their contents and enlarge their audience. In this post I prepared a roundup of code snippets inspired to some mobile versions of popular websites (such as Facebook, Flickr, The New York Times, Digg, Google, …) that illustrate some HTML best practices to develop perfect websites for iPhone and mobile Devices.

In this post I want to illustrate how to use jQuery getJSON() method to load JSON data using an HTTP GET request. I prepared two interesting and easy to implement example of the getJSON() method. The first example is a simple Twitter search and the second one is a simple Flickr search.

In this post I want to propose to you a roundup with 15 of the best and most popular jQuery Lightbox Scripts.

In this tutorial I want to illustrate how to use oEmbed API to display embedded content (such as Flickr photos, YouTube or Vimeo videos) in your website. What’s oEmbed? oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites (YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Viddler, …).

When you start designing a new website it’s very useful to sketch out a first idea of page layout using paper and stencil. This approach help you define easily a working draft of the final version of your website. In this post I want to suggest you some interesting examples of beautiful sketches for website prototypes for your daily inspiration.

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