HTML 5 Demos and Examples
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I found this web site while browsing for information about HTML 5
As ever microsoft is lagging behind.
50 Brilliant Corporate Web Designs
Web design is all about conveying information to the users in the most direct, clean and usable manner.
A corporate website also needs to capture the feel of the company and its purpose, while remaining professional in order to attain a solid and lasting impression to its customers.
Graphics, layouts and color palettes are all essential in how the customers perceive a company when visiting their website. Dark color designs, for example, can be interpreted as serious, while blue hues give a feeling of trust.
Here are 50 corporate website designs that you can use for inspiration in your own corporate designs.
http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/04/50-excellent-corporate-website-designs/
Using Xampp for developing
A great article and video on using Xampp as a development tool
When developing websites or wordpress themes i always use xampp as it makes life so much easier. Basically the program allows you to use your computer as a server, saving you time & bandwith uploading to servers online. Firstly your going to need xampp and a fresh copy of wordpress, you can get wordpress from wordpress.org and xampp from apachefriends.org. Once you’ve downloaded both, extract wordpress to a folder on your desktop and install xampp. After xampp has installed open up your hard drive and locate the xampp folder, inside the xampp folder there should be a folder called “htdocs”.
How to show a specific post in any location on your site
If you are looking for php code or a plugin for your WordPress that takes a post ID and returns the database record for that post then read on. This is very helpful when you want to show a specific post on your homepage or other pages to get more attention. It allows you to design your homepage or a page with the post(s) that you want to be shown on the page rather than the 10 recent posts that the WordPress automatically chooses for you.
10 Plug-ins to improve the WordPress Admin
For an open-source blogging CMS, WordPress’s admin interface is pretty dang good. With the release of version 2.5, the revamped administrator area has been re-organized and cleaned up to make it easier for users to write and edit posts, change settings, manage site content, and more. However, some sites require a bit more functionality than others. In this case, WordPress plugins come to the rescue. Here are ten plugins that expand the functionality of the admin area.
http://wpcandy.com/plugins/10-plugins-to-better-improve-the-wordpress-admin.html
40 Amazing WordPress Hacks
Have you ever came across a Wordpress blog, saw something you liked, and questions like ‘how they did that‘, ‘is that a plugin or hack?‘, ‘where can I get those cool mods‘ begin to pop? Well, it’s really pretty normal because most of us did the same thing. For this article we’ve spent time with some 14 Wordpress bloggers, finding out what kinda hacks and plugins they are really looking for to enhance their blog in any aspect. Here’s our outcome, 40+ most wanted Wordpress tips and hacks, including those you don’t even knew the keywords to search for.
Read more: 40+ Most Wanted WordPress Tricks and Hacks | WordPress http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/40-most-wanted-wordpress-tricks-and-hacks/#ixzz0ntvoKjS9
Use WordPress as a Membership Directory
Do you want to create a moderated membership directory that showcases your member’s information? Do you want it to be flexible, be very little work after initial setup, and use a world-class open source platform that you are already familiar with?
Your first thought might not be to use WordPress for such a project, but since it already has an extremely easy way to accept, moderate and update registrations it’s a perfect candidate.
In this tutorial I will show you how I built a successful membership directory using nothing more than a standard WordPress 2.3+ install and 2 very powerful plugins.
40 Great open source apps and games
This weekend I finished setting up a fresh triple-boot install on my MSI laptop. With my operating systems ready to go, the time had come to start reinstalling applications. While it wasn’t a conscious decision, I noticed that the majority of my apps were Open Source – so I decided to keep the ball rolling.
Even if you haven’t just gone through a reformat, these are great applications and well worth installing. If you have, then hopefully this list will provide you with a solid base of programs to get you started with your fresh, new Windows install!
The 20 Best Productivity and Personal Development Blogs
http://freelancefolder.com/the-20-best-productivity-and-personal-development-blogs/
Wikitude
Wikitude is a fantastic app for most smart phones, its perhaps the best example of augmented reality to date.
WIKITUDE World Browser presents the user with data about their surroundings, nearby landmarks, and other points of interest by overlaying information on the real-time camera view of a smart-phone. AVAILABLE for DOWNLOAD through your Androidphones in the Android Market Place.