If you are building a web application or website, there's a big chance you want your visitors to register for certain features, and to login to visit user-only pages. Instead of writing your own code for this, you can also choose to use open source and free user management systems from the web.
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While developing websites and web based applications you always have to try to make a product that is easy to use, and at the same time has a slick, stylish look. Any user has to be able to work with it, whether it's an IT-professional or someone who only uses the computer at his office and doesn't have any more skills than text processing. I've written before that it would really help to use an interface similar to the desktop of Windows or Mac, as the user is already familiar with it.
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Instead of using just one plain color or a photo as a background on a website or blog, designers use patterns very often. You can see it on this weblog as well, a dark background with a light and calm pattern.
There are hundreds of free patterns available on the internet to use for your projects, but if you use these, there is a slight chance that they don't suffice your needs because you didn't design them yourself.
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I'm currently busy with building a website for a local culture event. In the past I've made other websites for this customer, and they are all running on Joomla. Because the customer now knows how to work with this software I decided to use it for this website as well. I'm using jQuery and Thickbox to show the pages within the website on a dynamic way, but there happened to be a problem with this.
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