Many sites that require login credentials enforce a security setting often referred to as password complexity requirements. These requirements ensure that user passwords are sufficiently strong and cannot be easily broken. What constitutes a strong password? Well, that depends on who you ask. However, traditional factors that contribute to a password’s strength include it’s length, complexity, and unpredictability. To ensure password strength, many sites require user passwords to be alphanumeric in addition to being a certain length. In this tutorial, we’ll construct a form that gives the user live feedback as to whether their password has sufficiently met the complexity requirements we will establish. Before we begin, let’s get take a sneak … Read the rest of the article on : Webdesigner Depot

Following the release of Windows 8 Developer Preview, many sites have done reviews on what the next Windows system will be like. The reviews are mostly positive, with some hailing Windows 8 as the next revolution in the technology of computer operating systems (OS). Such may well be the ambition of Microsoft, and it shouldn’t surprise time it comes at a time when Apple’s share of the OS market is rising and pitting fiercely against them. If there’s one thing great about competition, it is that it brings out the best product betwee … Read the rest of the article on : hongkiat.com

Advertise here with BSA In this tutorial, I’ll teach you how to adapt a simple HTML blog layout into a WordPress theme. We’ll be using this static page as starting point. Grab the code from Github The Brilliante Layout project source code for this theme is available on Github, including the dummy content for posts, pages and such. We won’t start from scratch, we’re building it using our static version base. I suggest you to follow along snippet by snippet, but, if you happen to be as lazy as me, the data folder will help you getting up and running with the content data, it also includes instructions in case you don’t know how to import … Read the rest of the article on : Speckyboy Design Magazine

Social media and web app integration is becoming a vital part of any successful website. You need to interact with your visitors on a variety of platforms is you want to create loyal, return visitors and fans. The Wibiya toolbar lets you integrate a variety of social plugins, free apps, games, video and image galleries, and more into your website to increase page views, increase visitor engagement, and better promote your content. toWibiya is giving away two Pro Wibiya Plans, each for a full year! A value of 9.40 each! All you have to do to enter is comment on this post! The free Wibiya social web bar has plenty of great features for website owners. There are a variety of free apps that can be included in the toolbar to expand the exposure opportunities for your content. The toolbar also gives you … Read the rest of the article on : Webdesigner Depot

Advertise here with BSA Colors is a standalone JavaScript library that comes with features to manipulate colors in multiple ways. The library can handle multiple types of unit conversions including RGB to a Hexadecimal and Hexadecimal to RGB or HSV. It can get the complimentary color of any Hexadecimal or RGB value and can generate random color values. P.S. [...] Read the rest of the article on : WebResourcesDepot

Whenever we open a webpage or a website, the first thing, which hits our mind, is the format and the appearance of that website. Color schemes and combination plays an important role in that. Balanced color scheme attracts everyone as it helps in enhancing the beauty of the website. Color used should be eye soothing, they shouldn’t be much brighter or dull. It should be in such a manner that all the written contents become visible to the viewer. Therefore, here are the best examples of websites with beautiful and amazing color scheme. OdopodSoh Tanaka Read the rest of the article on : SaveDelete

Advertise here with BSA There are many beautiful content sliders out there which can be easily integrated into web pages where most of them come with a default design and functionality. If you want to create a completely custom one, Revolver.js,a boilerplate for customizable sliders is a good fit. Revolver.js is a jQuery and MooTools plugin with an API [...] Read the rest of the article on : WebResourcesDepot

Advertise here with BSA Grid Builder is a web application handy for anyone looking to create a base HTML-CSS grid quickly. On a canvas with a 3*4 grid, you simply drag 'n' drop the given grid units to create the desired template (like a 3 column design with a header and footer). After that, just click the "Show me [...] Read the rest of the article on : WebResourcesDepot

Advertise here with BSA This is our weekly selection of our favorite web designs from the past week, thanks to everybody for their recommendations. Feel free to comment and let us know what you think. Have you tried StylesInspiration yet? It is our web design showcase that aims to not only showcase the best and most innovative web design styles currently available, it also aims to give you a visual overview of current web design trends and highlight the latest in innovative web technologies. You’ll love it Read the rest of the article on : Speckyboy Design Magazine

Every week we tweet a lot of interesting stuff highlighting great content that we find on the web that can be of interest to web designers. The best way to keep track of our tweets is simply to follow us on Twitter, however, in case you missed some here’s a quick and useful compilation of the best tweets that we sent out this past week. Note that this is only a very small selection of the links that we tweeted about, so don’t miss out. To keep up to date with all the cool links, simply follow us @DesignerDepot Five killer ways to style lists – http://ow.ly/8fmIq The Myth Of The Sophisticated User – http://ow.ly/8fmI … Read the rest of the article on : Webdesigner Depot