This article contains a roundup of 20 great tutorials written by various Web Designers and Web Developers in October 2010. After reading these stunning materials you will gain a big amount of fresh knowledge for you professional and/or personal interest. Enjoy!

Web Design

Web Designing Tips for Successful Businesses

“Many small businesses make the mistake of designing a very busy website with a great deal of content. The busier a website is, the more unprofessional it can seem. Do not overload your page with content. Keep pictures to a minimum…”
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The Science Behind Design Color Theory

“Color Theory has been a subject of interest for years in the art community. The rules and guidelines hold true when working on digital projects just as much as physical items…”
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10 Ways to Kick-Start a New Design Project

“Sometimes starting a new design project is a piece of cake. You have this amazing idea and the design just seems to flow together. Othertimes, you may end up procrasticating for a full week before you have the will power to start the sketch or create a new file…”
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Elements and Principles for Creating Minimalist Web Design

“Web Design comes in many flavors, but as you probably have noticed several times minimalist web design can be particularly beautiful and effective for achieving a specific goal…”
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5 Tips To Simplify Your Web Design

“Simplicity rules! It makes a websites look sleek, reduce nagivation confusion and it helps achieving desired goals and results (I.e., more signups, subscribers and sales). But too often it seems elusive to simplify your website design…”
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Important Tips To Consider Before Designing a Professional Website

“Website Design is one of the most creative and competitive fields now. If you also want to be a web designer, then you must be providing your best to the clients. Your designs should not only be fresh and new, but also they must have some qualities like cross browser compatibility, standard resolution and much more…”
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4 Concepts for Simplistic Web Design

“These are some powerful principles you might have never heard about. One of them is being used in the conversion rate optimization industry by world-class companies to skyrocket their conversion rates…”
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How to Teach Web Design Using Optimal Learning and Gestalt

“This article attempts to give you, the reader, a leg up on how to teach new hires, colleagues, or your nephews and great-aunties the basics of Web Design using optimal learning and gestalt principles…”
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How to Spot Quality When Choosing a Font for your Design Work

“We live in amazing times if you’re a typeface addict like I am. My current collection reaches into the five figures, and yet I still venture out on the web to look a new “fix” a couple of times a month…”
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14 Rules for Designing a best Logo (for beginners)

“Designing a best logo for a company is not easy as we think. We need to know some rules and some experience and of-course good color choice. As we all know that logo is the main identity of a company so it has to unique, simple and memorable…”
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Web Development

Awesome Tips and Tricks for PHP Beginners

“Ok, so now you have “learned” …. wait should that be a single quote …. PHP and you are ready to really be able to start using it for something more than you can do with HTML. I will get into the use of single quotes vs double quotes, short tags, inline if statements, a few other little tips and tricks…”
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How to Setup WordPress as a Video Portal

“Video Blogs are gaining popularity in the blogosphere recently. Video Blogs are termed as ‘Vlogs’ and the Video Blogger’s are called ‘Vloggers’. Setting up a Vlog on wordpress can be achieved with custom Video Blogging Templates, some of the most famous being evid, WooTheme, Press75 etc…”
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Practical Uses of Ruby Blocks

“Blocks are one of Ruby’s defining features, and though we use them all the time, a lot of developers are much more comfortable calling methods that take blocks than writing them…”
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Fun with HTML5 Forms

“Do you remember your first form? The first time you realised you could send emails through your site, thanks to a hosted service like Bravenet. Or perhaps you hacked together a cgi script or even some PHP. But when that first email arrived with the subject line ‘test’ you realised that your website had now become interactive. You could now not only interact with your users, but also tailor your site based on their input…”
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Using Unobtrusive JavaScript and AJAX with Rails 3

“To start off, what exactly is UJS? Simply, UJS is JavaScript that is separated from your HTML markup. The easiest way to describe UJS is with an example. Take an onclick event handler; we could add it obtrusively…”
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Simple jQuery Refactoring

“Since we have a front-end development (FED) team at Viget now, we decided that we should have a weekly team meeting. We decided that we didn’t want it to be just a typical meeting, so we have “FED Sacrifices”…”
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HTML5 Basics: Articles, Sections, and Asides

“The simplest way to learn web design and development featuring 100s of high quality video courses and online conferences to keep you at the cutting edge…”
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Multi-Line Buttons With Compass, Sass, and CSS3

“Believe it or not, I created the buttons in the demo without using a single image. Normally, this kind of button is so complex that designers create the finished buttons as images rather than spending the time to style them using pure CSS. CSS for this type of thing is error prone and typically requires the use of multiple background images…”
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Best practices for modern Javascript development

“Javascript is definitely a very popular language on the web, and every web developer has to deal with it someday. For this article I have compiled a non-exhaustive list of good practices that will help you to become a better javascript developer…”
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Ruby for Newbies: Variables, Datatypes, and Files

“Ruby is a one of the most popular languages used on the web. We’ve recently started a new screencast series here on Nettuts+ that will introduce you to Ruby, as well as the great frameworks and tools that go along with Ruby development…”
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