To ensure the website is available with the user or not, even if they are not connected is relatively very simple.

We have collected some of the very best 30+ professional website design tutorials mostly done in photoshop. It's no surprise to see there's a lot of photoshop tutorials out there about creating a professional business website design layout.

Joseph McCarthy from IBM Ireland has written a tutorial called "Using Comet for asynchronous user notification of autonomous server thread progression" about how to use polling and Comet (long polling) in Java with the ItsNat Java web framework to asynchronously notify end users by web about what is doing an autonomous thread (not a web thread) doing a long task in parallel. Note: to read this article use MSIE 6 or FireFox disabling styles (View/Page Style/No Style)

So, what is a sitemap? And how do you know if your website needs one?

This post introduces a great new jQuery plugin that allows you to easily transform your image lists into beautiful galleries with Flash-like zoom effects in them. It’s a simple but elegant way of giving your interfaces a nice little shine and at only 2KB in size, it’s both compact and surprisingly easy to use.

Tips & tricks for the modern day web designer, now redesigned!

Simpliar and easier than SqueezeBox. Click on an image and the image will enlarge. Simple, the way I like it.

The whole premise of Silverlight was that it should be .NET for the browser. That is, a well-educated .NET programmer should be able to simply start a Silverlight project and work on it without knowing anything radically new. It is arguable that Silverlight versions 1.0 through 3.0 haven’t really made this promise come true. Now we have Silverlight 4 and perhaps it is time to take the promise seriously.

This tutorial will explain how to fade a color in array of elements using jQuery.

Highly customizable Twitter trackbacks widget to integrate tweets that mention your post into your blog. Each tweet comes with reply & retweet links to get more readers engaged in your story conversation. After Topsy has released a Wordpress plugin to turn your post tweets into comments. I wanted to use their awesome API to create this Javascript widget that can be used for any blog especially for non-Wordpress ones.

This is the first article teaching advanced jQuery with a very simple method. I have chosen to begin with how jQuery makes Ajax cleaner and simple to follow.

The Open Web SSO project (OpenSSO) provides core identity services to simplify the implementation of transparent single sign-on (SSO) as a security component in a network infrastructure. OpenSSO provides the foundation for integrating diverse web applications that might typically operate against a disparate set of identity repositories and are hosted on a variety of platforms such as web and application servers. This project is based on the code base of Sun Java System Access Manager, a core identity infrastructure product offered by Sun Microsystems.

Sharing some of the great off-blog thoughts and advice from others who have been or may some day be converted to Gmail -- more than a few with whom I agree.

Do you want to use an API but you are too lazy to write your own code to handle the requests? If you code in PHP as I do, then you will definitely need these classes. By using the classes listed here you will be able of using a great number of web services with an easy and documented way.

When a new website is to be designed, designers often try to use the latest technology to create something spectacular. But sometimes its nice to go back to basics and this is exactly what these designers have done.

Depth of field is a creative technique in photography that brings out the focus of a particular matter in the image. Most commonly known as DOF, it is the total distance between the nearest and furthest object that appear reasonably sharp in photography. There are three factors pertaining to the effect of the depth of field – lens focal length, aperture and shooting distance.

This tutorial will demonstrate how to build tooltips that are powered by jQuery, with information pulled from a JSON array. Here’s a look at the final result that we’ll be looking to me:

I had the chance to take part of a multi people conversation on Google Wave.