Top Ten Must Have Qualities of a Freelance Web Developer

If you are a freelancer then you are a lucky guy because you have no boss  Freelancing is a best thing for a web developer and its the second stage for any web developer. I said second because obviously the first would be to learn programming and convert yourself from a non skilled into a skilled programmer. On one side, freelancing gives you a state of satisfaction but on the other hand you need much care to handle this satisfaction and keep your position maintain.

In this post, I tried to discuss few very important qualities of a web developer which he/she must adopt if they want to be successful freelancer.  Please not that these qualities are not about technical experience of web development but these

CSS and JavaScript Performance Tips

Have you ever thought about how many customers you lose by having a slow site? And I’m not talking about file size only, as we rely on browser capacities to understand our code, we need to consider the processing time also.

That’s why sometimes adding a few bites in your code is much better because it save you precious seconds when real browsers or IE try to process your code.

Let’s see a few nice tips on how to improve this:

Helpful Free Online Web Generators For Designers #1

You know how a coding language can be a lot of pain and learning it is an even bigger one. The good thing is that every now and then there are people who come up with resources that help you along the way of development. Few of these resources are such that you do not have to learn the entire coding of CSS or CSS3 or other equivalents. Moreover, they make your work very easy which is a given because if you are not learning all of it, the job definitely is getting easier. This particular list talks about forty five free online generators for designers. We hope this list proves to be helpful and you enjoy reading the list.

Helpful Free Online Web Generators For Designers #2

COPASO

If you are confused about colors and want to create the perfect one, use COPASO to help you along the way. and the next is

Useful CSS Tutorials to Boost Your Skills

CSS is common application is to style web pages written in HTML and XHTML, but the language can also be applied to any kind of XML document. Using CSS you can create beautiful designs with great efficiency and ease. CSS3 is really powerful and capable of creating effects and features without need any external plug-in such as Flash Player. Today, i came up with great list of 25 useful CSS tutorials, techniques and resources that you will boost your Skills.

Top 10 Free WordPress Themes

The WordPress community is big. Really big. We're talking thousands of designers and developers, tens of thousands of writers, and millions of users, all contributing to pushing WordPress forward. And one very popular way to do this is designing and developing free themes.

Free themes are a great way to get a blog or website off the ground. You might want to start writing about a topic but don't want to invest the money in a custom site design on top of hosting and a domain. And once your site is up and running, there's nothing to stop you dissecting them, building on top of them and learning from them. In this article we've selected 10 of the very best WordPress themes for you to use in your projects. Each is not only free to use and open to the public but also offers something special and unique.

The 10 Colorful Web Design

I often showcase websites here that have a minimalistic design style – where the color palette usually doesn’t extend beyond white, black and shades of gray. But sometimes, it’s okay to use a little color, or even a lot. So for today, we gathered a collection of websites that incorporate plenty of color in their designs. In these examples, you’ll see that color can instantly bring life to a design.

Tools and Tips on how to Optimize Images for the Web

The time a page takes to load is something every designer worries about, or at least is something that every designer should worry about. It doesn’t matter if the layout is nice and beautiful if it doesn’t function properly. Since images can be pretty heavy, this is certainly an issue to keep an eye on. And this is why today we gathered a few links here to show you some tools and articles that will help you with this issue. Even if you are a pro at “saving as better quality jpg” it is always nice to check out some tools (old or new) to have you covered when it is time to optimize images.

Useful Tools

TinyPNG

TinyPNG uses smart lossy compression techniques to reduce the file size of your PNG files.

Smush.it

Smush.it uses optimization techniques specific to image format to remove unnecessary bytes from image files.

OptiPNG

OptiPNG is a PNG optimizer that recompresses image files to a smaller size, without losing any information.

ImageOptim

ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations.

CodeKit

CodeKit helps you build websites faster and better. And it also helps you optimizing images.

imgo

Image optimization tool.

jQuery Lazyload

jQuery plugin for lazy loading images.

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Anatomy of the Toolbox

 The toolbox in Photoshop is split up into 4 unique categories so that finding the right tool is never a hassle.

HTML5 Demos to Make You Forget About Flash

You’ve probably been hearing a lot lately about how Flash is a dying technology and how it’ll soon be replaced by HTML5. Personally, I think that it will slowly replace Flash for some things, but Flash will always have a place, especially for developing complex games and rich internet applications. If you’ve yet to see what HTML5 can do, I’ve rounded up 10 demos that show off some of its capabilities.

So what do you think – will HTML5 replace Flash?

Useful Resources to Help You Learn HTML5

Even though HTML5 is relatively new and it’s not supported yet by all major browsers, it is being used now by a lot of web designers and developers. Without a doubt, HTML5 is going to play a big part in the way we develop on the web, for many years to come. As I just mentioned, many people are using it now, but there are also many of you out there that hasn’t touched it yet. Now is a good time to start learning it. So, in order to give you a helping hand with that task, we’ve rounded up 7 Useful Resources to Help you Learn HTML5.