HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY: WIN 1 OF 6 ACCOUNTS WITH MAXCDN

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GO TO THIS LINK TO GET A CHANCE TO WIN: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/12/10/holiday-giveaway-win-1-of-6-accounts-with-maxcdn/

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Apple iPad Mini Giveaway

6:46 AM in Giveaway

Win a new Apple iPad Mini Giveaway

Designrshub, a design blog is hosting a giveaway. Join their Halloween celebration by entering their giveaway to get a big chance of winning a brand new Apple iPad Mini! It worth $429. If you do not want the device, you can choose to claim the money worth the gadget. Or, you can add more money to upgrade the price to 64GB. It’s up to you pal.

This giveaway will be run through Rafflecopter. See below on how to grab your entries:

Like their fanpages
Follow their twitter accounts
Add them to Google Plus
Subscribe to their blog
Tweet the post about the giveaway
Share on Facebook about the giveaway
Leave a comment on their post
Leave an insightful comment on other post.
Place the banner code in your blog -worth 25 entries
Write an article about the giveaway -worth 25 entries

That's how easy to join the giveaway! More entries means more chances of winning.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL MECHANICS

This giveaway is brought to you by Designrshub, Web and Graphic Design Resources, Home Budget Tips, Places and Spaces and Online Tech Magazine.

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20 Visually Appealing Ribbons in Web Design

1:58 AM in Inspiration, Ribbons, Web Design

The use of ribbons in web design is now in an increasing trend since it began in 2011, it serves as a menu, emphasizing web elements such as logos, banners, contact us, taglines and even title tags that can make your visitors come back. Without further ado, here is a collection of hand picked creative use of ribbons in web design. Be inspired!

Pointless Corp

OrangeQC

kisielki

1000 WP Themes

Urustar

mikos

Aidan Cotter

Stylapps

Roxanne Cook

clean, simple, clear

ike Seehagel

Sanne Meijer

Valerie Letens

Mark Hobbs

vysagh

Anna Monroe

Ghost Horses

JMills Pays Bills

Andy Patrick

Oliver Lisher

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Create Web Elements on the Fly

8:39 PM in CSS, css3, Forms, HTML, Web Design, Web development

Today we must be fast in our work in designing, slicing, developing. Gladly, some bright persons created a builders for us. Here is a list of useful builders that you will need on your way working in sites.

Form Builder

UI Parade developed a tool to create form elements on the fly. This includes to customize the color, borders, border radius, highlights, shadows. For the button, you can change the button settings such as it's hover and pressed. You can change it's properties as well.

Link

Button Builder

Creating button very fast? Here is my suggestion, use this.

Link

Ribbon Builder

Can you imagine that? Ribbon builder, very impressive. try it. I recommend you to use it. No more tiring days of designing from Photoshop to coding in XHTML and CSS.

Link

Some other useful Generators

CSS3 Generator
Gradient Generator
If you know some useful Generators or builders, please do share and I will add that up in this post. Happy Coding!

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Hackers From Philippines and Malaysia Attacked Chinese Sites

7:16 PM in News

Hacktivist group Anonymous attacked several Chinese Sites. In what looks like hacking-spree retribution following the Spratly Islands and Scarborough Shoal Dispute. Many Filipino and Malaysian Hackers join forces to give impression and also a warning.

Here is a message from the group found from one of the hacked sites:

 We bow down to no enemy

Hold your line, stand your ground 

One by one we'll take you down 

You may continue bullying our country's waters but we will not tolerate you from

intimidating our own cyber shores. Those defacements are just a mere response to

what you have initially started. We are not trying to start anything. We are just

trying to tell you that we do not want to be bullied in our own cyberspace too. 

We are Anonymous, We are legion, We don't forgive,

We don't forget, United as one, Divided by NONE, Expect us.

The group also displayed ASCII encoded face of V from V is for Vendetta which is awesome.
name of the hacker is _~Angel~s0n~_.

Another site is different, It displayed GIFs, animated title saying:

• U mad bro?
• I am very sorry! 
• Trollolo
• Chinese lamer 

This hackers has some sense of humor.

They also displayed:

"it's more in the philippines, Menyatukan Pilippines dan Malaysia"

 "Scarborough is Ours!"

One thing is cool about this, is that you cannot view the page source! you cannot use right click. At the bottom, hackers name are displayed.

List of hacked sites:

http://chglu.com/
http://l23.cn/
http://www.jianfei7788.com/
http://www.iworgen.com/
www.ixinqi.net/supra/
http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/17522930
http://oa.qsgtj.gov.cn/
http://oa.qsgtj.gov.cn/
http://sys.qsgtj.gov.cn/
http://yt.qsgtj.gov.cn/index.html
http://wh.qsgtj.gov.cn/index.html
http://yj.qsgtj.gov.cn/index.html
http://tzs.qsgtj.gov.cn/index.html
http://sh.qsgtj.gov.cn/index.html
http://mc.qsgtj.gov.cn/index.html
http://ly.qsgtj.gov.cn/index.html
http://kfq.qsgtj.gov.cn/index.html
http://hp.qsgtj.gov.cn/ndex.html
http://hb.qsgtj.gov.cn/index.html
http://gz.qsgtj.gov.cn/index.html
http://cs.qsgtj.gov.cn/index.html

What do you think will be their next big target?

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23 Super Hilarious T-Shirt Designs

2:14 AM in

What will you see is a round up of funny T-shirts by Glenn Jones. What a very talented man, he's a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. He started designing T-shirts on threadless.com and create his own website of T-shirts.

Enough of talking, behold now his designs. Enjoy! :D

Anger Management

Bananas

Chameleon

Cocktail

Cooler

Direct Line

False Alarm

Full Body Cast

Gumball Machinegun

Less Formal

Office Chat

Paper Prey

Pet Feeder

Pet Store

Plastic Surgery

Purrfect Plan

Simple Ex-plan

Smile

Snake

Spun dry

Stuck

Wild Gummi

Worm Magic

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Learn How to Use Jquery AJAX from Scratch

2:48 AM in AJAX, Jquery, PHP, Tutorial, Web development

In this tutorial I will teach you how jQuery AJAX from scratch.
What is AJAX anyway?
AJAX - Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.

What is it's use?
We can send data without refreshing the page, it means that your site will faster and responsive that is because the page load is decreased.

We will use AJAX with the help of Jquery, because using only the native javascript is too long.

First you have to do is to download the jquery library from http://jquery.com/, then include it your page file. In my case I used the online library.

Here is the scenario, The client wants you to create a form where it doesn't change or refresh or reload the page then it will give a notification that the saving is a success. We will now create the form. We will not use the form tag.

firstname
email
comment

You can name this whatever you want, whether this is a php or html file. I prefer you must use firebug, it's a mozilla ff's extension. It is mostly used by web developers. Next we will add the jquery

Here's the explanation: We set our jquery script inside the document ready function, it means the code will execute the page is finished rendering. On the third line, it says when the id #save is clicked the following events will be triggered that consists of giving a variable to each value that will be used in passing the data to another page. Now, the Jquery AJAX, inside it we have what the type of action we will be using in passing the value. we used here is POST. Then we have data, we have to put the variable inside the variable, as you can see firstname is the variable used for the AJAX then the first_name that is value from the form. Then the third parameter is the url, it where we want to pass the data. Fourth parameter is the success which is the result from the given url. Let's say we have echoed it that page a success, then that will be returned from that page to this page. It will be clearer in the next panel. Then create a seperate php page, include the database connection. You put all the posted data in variable if you want to for a cleaner look of script. You will also put here your sql script to save the data.

Conclusion: Easy isn't it? That is how powerful and efficient to use the Jquery AJAX. On our next tutorial, we will using forms. Sounds interesting?Yeah, I know.. Now your mind is now open to more possibilities.

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