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Ketchup is a slim jQuery Plugin that validates your forms. It aims to be very flexible and extendable for its appearance and functionality. - Ben Ho

Good looking CMS. Based on a monthly subscription. In my opinion, no CMS should use a monthly subscription model. I would buy it in a heartbeat if it were a one time fee kinda thing. - Ben Ho

Modernizr is a small and simple JavaScript library that helps you take advantage of emerging web technologies (CSS3, HTML 5) while still maintaining a fine level of control over older browsers that may not yet support these new technologies. - Ben Ho

Favicon generator. Supports transparency. - Ben Ho

If you’re confident with your CSS and HTML, it’s not hard at all to step up to the challenge of building a custom Wordpress theme. This overview shows the process of how my latest custom Wordpress theme was built from design concept through to completed theme. See how the static design is split up into the various Wordpress theme files, and discover how the simple PHP snippets can add that dynamic functionality of a blog. - Ben Ho

Some CMS solutions. - Ben Ho

Chris Wetherell (the chap who kicked off Google Reader in his apartment) has posted about Pegs a pattern for having one scrollbar but independent scrolling areas.It is more than display: fixed in that it can be smart. If you visit the demo you will see it in action. After the first time, click around on the other items such as flipping between sizes of areas. You will see that different areas scroll depending on the config.This is definitely something that people will be skeptical about. It feels weird. It isn’t what we are used too. The demo app also is jumpy and acts a little strange, but it is interesting to play with these ideas.This implementation uses jQuery, and you can enjoy some minified source. - Ben Ho

Although CSS is generally considered a simple and straightforward language, sometimes it requires creativity, skill and a bit of experimentation. The good news is that designers and developers worldwide often face similar problems and choose to share their insights and workarounds with the wider community.This is where we come in. We are always looking to collect such articles for our posts so that we can deliver the most useful and relevant content to our readers. In this post, we present an overview of useful CSS/jQuery coding tips, tricks and techniques for visual effects, layouts and web form design to help you find solutions to the problems you are dealing with or will have to deal with in future. - Ben Ho

More than 100,000 icons in one place. All the icons you'll ever need! - Ben Ho

In this post we’ll feature 17 of the most useful Chrome extensions for designers and developers. Hopefully in time the selection and quality of Chrome extensions will be able to rival those of Firefox. - Ben Ho

TinyEditor is a simple JavaScript WYSIWYG editor that is both lightweight (8KB) and standalone. It can easily be customized to integrate with any website through CSS and the multitude of parameters. It handles most of the basic formatting needs and has some functionality built in to help keep the rendered markup as clean as possible. The icons are courtesy of famfamfam and have been combined into a sprite so there are only a few HTTP requests for the editor. I plan on adding some updates in the future to support font color, a full-screen mode, and a paste from Word option. - Ben Ho

Create RSS feeds for Twitter lists. - Ben Ho

A common interface on modern-day websites is that of a title, summary and a “read more”-style link. Normally only the title and “read more” text is linked, however, the entire content would benefit from this behaviour. - Ben Ho

May come in handy. - Ben Ho

The Google Contacts Data API provides a powerful, client-neutral API to read and modify a user's private Gmail contact information. Learn to retrieve, add, delete, and modify contacts through a custom PHP application with this API in an application context. - Ben Ho

The Web Designer's Toolkit is designed to teach you everything you need to know about seven important subjects: CSS3, HTML5, jQuery, UX, iPhone app design, business and Google Analytics & A/B testing. We know you'll find the 28 hours of in-depth screencast tutorials tremendously valuable. These videos will actually walk you through the code so that by the end, you can actually design and build using these technologies and methods. - Ben Ho

JavaScript and HTML DOM Reference. - Ben Ho

Allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms, providing some unique features such as upload progress, image resizing and chunked uploads. - Ben Ho

The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email. - Ben Ho

Good article to show clients who are clueless about email campaigns. - Ben Ho

CSS3 is coming. Although the browser support of CSS 3 is still very limited, many designers across the globe experiment with new powerful features of the language, using graceful degradation for users with older browsers and using the new possibilites of CSS3 for users with modern browsers. That’s a reasonable solution — after all it doesn’t make sense to avoid learning CSS3 (that will be heavily used in the future) only because these features are not supported yet. The point of this article is to give you a glimpse of what will be possible soon and what you will be using soon and provide you with an opportunity to learn about new CSS3 techniques and features. - Ben Ho

Get Mac mousewheel working on flash. - Ben Ho

Good project management allows you to focus on the most logical direction you need to steer your project towards. This is why a helpful set of project management tools is becoming less of an option and more of a need. Whatever time is wasted on out-of-date management tools is time you'll never get back. - Ben Ho

Running a “one-man (or woman) design show” can become quite daunting, especially if you are the only one responsible for responding to emails, marketing, designing, phone conversations, invoicing, proposals, tracking expenses, collaborating with others involved with the project, tracking time… rinse, repeat. - Ben Ho

SUBERNOVA is in. :) - Ben Ho

FlashMoto is glad to present its revolutionary product – FlashMoto CMS that offers everything you might possibly need for controlling and maintaining a complete and powerful Flash website. We tried to simplify your work with the site as much as possible making editing more convenient and mostly intuitive. - Ben Ho

Converts any page to PDF, does it pretty well. - Ben Ho

Enable tab browsing in Finder.app. - Ben Ho

SUBERNOVA featured in this list. - Ben Ho

Send free fax. Singapore supported in the list of countries, gotta try this someday. - Ben Ho