Newspaper is a free, lightweight, high-contrast, black&white theme for BlogEngine.NET. The name "Newspaper" comes from the fact that theme looks like real newspapers. You can see how does it looks like and download a free copy.
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It has become a standard to disable a user to start another postback while the current is still running. I believe that you already know about Ajax loading indicators and that you use them to notify users that the postback is in the progress. But there are a few more options you could use.
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How many times have you heard form a client that they want "outlook-like" web user interface for their application? Me, probably a hundred of times. In this article I'll explain how to create a web application user interface that looks like Outlook. You can see the live demo and download source code with images.
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CrazyEgg is a service that will help you visualize the usage of your website. How? Simple, by tracking visitor's activity on your pages. It shows you what's hot on your website, where users click and shows you very detailed information for each click by creating very detailed and graphically rich reports. What would be the benefit of using such a service? Instead of explaining, let's take a look at the sample tests I did.
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This article shows how to highlight a current context on a complex web forms using jQuery. You can see how to highlight current row or current group of rows, and how easily it could be done by uisng powerful jQuery selectors.
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One of the requests that I often had is to refactor the presentation layer of web applications. One of the things that purports is a form layout refactoring. In this article I'll show you how I tried to improve common form layouts by using underlined labels.
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Recently, my wife an I "skinned" our laptop. Or maybe I should say "dress it" :) Plain, silver surface was just too boring! See how it looks now and find an inspiration for your laptop.
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Exception handling plays an important part of application management and user experience. If implemented correctly it can make maintenance easier and bring the user experience to a higher level. If not, it can be a disaster. The goal of this article is to provide an overview of what exception handling is from the user perspective and the perspective of people who maintain the application, and to show the best practices of how to implement useful error handling in ASP.NET web applications.
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I had a problems with my mailserver during past two days and some of emails I received are lost. Since I can't access these emails, I have to ask all those who emailed me in this period to do it again so that I can answer their questions. Sorry for any trouble caused by this. - Janko
This article shows a reviews of 16 great articles and sites I found in May 2008. There are articles about web development with ASP.NET, Ajax and jQuery. There are also a great web design resources, tools, plugins, BlogEngine.NET extensions and one great usability article.
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