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Most browsers today support CSS3, this means that we can create and use cool looking buttons for our projects without the use of any images. But why use CSS3 buttons instead of an images? Well, you dont have to have any design skills(a lot of us dont know how to use a graphic program like photoshop), you dont have to buy graphic software(like photoshop, which isn’t cheap) and for websites with lots of buttons and high traffic it can reduce your server load(every image that you use is an HTTP request) but most of all it’s the future.

I created a v-card template a couple of weeks back, which had a simple but cool logo animation by using just 2 images and a small piece of jQuery code. Afther a lot of emails asking me how to create this simple but cool animation i decided to share this in a simple and basic tutorial.

A couple of years back you would use an animated gif or Flash for an animation like this one, but with some little help of jQuery this can be done very easy and quick.

I came across some nice and useful tutorials on the web about php in combination with the fast growing JavaScript library jQuery(te most of you know what php and jQuery is, if not go and click on the links that are blue). These tutorial include, twitter API, form validation, directory tree, slideshow, login and more nice stuff.

According to my web designer experience, one of the most common requests from clients when it comes to Wordpress personalization, is to add a basic event calendar to their website.

Creating tabbed interfaces suddenly becomes a piece-of-cake when using the Tabs function in the jQuery UI library. It can be utilized to create completely unique interfaces without having to be a coding God – using only one line of code!

Part two of jQuery for Absolute Beginners Video Series from the blog of Themeforest.

This tutorial will teach you how to design a cool grungy website layout. As well as walking you through the various Photoshop techniques it outlines general design principles and provides pointers for your own grunge designs.

In this tutorial I will be showing you how to create a style switcher using jQuery and PHP. The end result will be an unobtrusive & entirely degradable dynamic style switcher which will be quick and easy to implement.

Podcasting is an engaging medium that is available in both audio and video formats. Podcasts often refer to audiocasts, but now with iPods and other media players being able to play video, videocasts are just as popular. A handful of web design podcasters deliver both audio and video formats.

Want to learn jQuery? Go and check these useful video’s from Themeforest!