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15 Most Beautiful Icon Sets For Free Download

Icons sets can make any dull presentation to a vibrant one, web designers & graphic creators provide these icon sets for free. Making them free and available for any type of use gives the graphic designers exposure and reputation they usually hunt for.

Its never too late to get your website the best set of icons & carve it with some excellent layout techniques to make it beautiful.

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Best Open Source Web Content Management Systems (CMS) For .NET

CMS systems or web content management systems are used to organize and facilitate collaborative content creation. Best Open Source CMS is only appropriate according the needs of a web project. Some not so popular CMS can have tons of features but if it dosen’t attract web developers then, its a waste.

Choosing the right Open Source CMS in .NET is not very hard as you don’t have that tons of options, like in php. The most important aspects according to me is user interaction and security, which needs to be checked thoroughly before going ahead with your project. Continue reading

The Best Web Development Frameworks

Web Development Framework is a software framework that is designed to support the development of a Websites, Web applications and Web services. Many frameworks provide libraries for database access, templating frameworks and session management, and they often promote code reuse.

Web development can be little tough if there had been no frameworks to make our life easier. Any Web Framework is a boon to a web developer as it provides so many options, flexibility and its a big time saver. Continue reading

Best Web Design Tools For Creating a Complete Website

Web Design Tools are always handy to a web designer and coder, with tons of features, fantastic UI, these tools provide best results if used wisely. Every tool has its pros and cons, you have to choose which suits your needs, investment planning and the OS you are using.

Some of these are not cross platform and some are free, yes totally free design tools. But this list is not completed and can never be completed, without your input. With emerging trends of online apps some of the software are not needed to be installed on your computer. Continue reading

Best HTML5 And CSS3 Frameworks

HTML5 And CSS3 Frameworks is what can make your job easier with structuring and presenting content on the World Wide Web. Features like video playback and drag-and-drop that have been previously dependent on third-party browser plug-ins such as Adobe Flash, Microsoft Silverlight, and Google Gears are being incorporated in HTML5.

Although the full recommendation of HTML5 is very far away (2022), but browsers are being making there moves already. As a designer myself I really am watching closely on developments, articles on HTML5 and CSS3, and today I would like to present the frameworks for HTML5 and CSS3. Continue reading

Valuable Cheat Sheets for Web Designers and Developers

Cheat Sheets always play a valuable and handy resource for any designer or web developer, as they can be used as reference card and sheets to help in remember things quickly.

In this post, you can find cheat sheets of Browsers, Color, CSS, Dreamweaver, HTML, Illustrator, Javascripts ( jQuery and mootools ), Photoshop, SEO, Typography, WordPress. Continue reading

Making User Interface More Accessible by Hover Controls

For making a good website design there are many different ways to make it more accessible and beautiful with different User interface techniques. These techniques are usually applied in a period of time and its a long process to be in full effect.

Hover controls is one the most easiest way, we can make an web application or website to look simply elegant. Roles of hover controls can be many but the basic ways its being used now-a-days is very intuitive. Continue reading

Gmail Chat Box is Looking Cool with its New Design

Moments ago, I noticed the changed design of the Chat Box inside Gmail. Its looking Fab. I love the way the icons are being implemented and the cool blue color is pretty awesome.

The Video & more drop down before was too dull and it needed to be changed. The smiley icon is placed at the same spot before which I feels also needs to be on top. But overall its giving a nice clean look. Continue reading

Best and Free Programming Ebooks with Open Source Licenses

We all learn many things from reading the conventional books. But now the trend has changed, and with electronic media so powerful we have Ebooks that can be read on computers or mobile devices.

Today in BOS21 — no templates, no BS we are presenting very useful and recommended list of programming Ebooks with open source licenses, like Creative Commons, GPL, etc. The books can be about a particular programming language or about computers in general. Continue reading