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It seems MSFT is cooking the next release of IE8, beta version being available here! For all the developers out there this is not more but another headache. It means we will all need to test our websites on:

• IE6
• IE7
• IE8
• FF
• Safari
• Opera

The first three of the above browsers are the worst to make them render correctly a standard compliant code… Yet, MSFT is about to release more headache for us…

This is the worst part on being a client-side developer… You have to make all the browsers render the same way the same HTML/CSS code. But… how can you make a deaf hear or a blind see?

33,000 web design industry developers answered ALA’s Web Design Survey 2007, between April 24th and May 22nd, 2007. This one is the first survey ever conducted in this business field and therefor has a great meaning for all the developers who try to identify their position in this business.

The findings, which are absolutely stoning, were published October 16, 2007 and a PDF file is available right on their website at http://www.alistapart.com/d/2007surveyresults/2007surveyresults.pdf

This is a must read for all of you web developers and web design industry members out there in case you’re interested about where this business is heading and how it is developing.

Thanks ALA for another great article!

2007 is very close to us and it is time to predict what this year will bring to design, as far as I can see:

• round corners will dominate the borders of modern websites. The good part is that we are able to create these round corners using no images, but CSS and Javascript
• decorative dingbats will give the spice to all modern website designs around. A good resource for this is Nature section in Dingbat category at Dafont.com
• page footers / bottoms will continue to be embraced by many designers in the way Powazek stated at the end of 2005
• the colors are keeping to go light but violent, with less and less gray, the contrast being the effect the designers will try to catch in order to make their designs having more impact
• Web 2.0 buttons will conquer the websites by asking for more and more attention of the visitor’s
• background pages will tend to be more abstract than patterned
• those small icons at the left/right of the links will continue to stay there and spice up the links

Do you have any design predictions for 2007? if ( answer == ‘yes’ ) { action = ‘add your predictions below’ }

“jQuery is a new type of Javascript library. It is not a huge, bloated framework promising the best in AJAX - nor is it just a set of needlessly complex enhancements - jQuery is designed to change the way that you write Javascript.”

Eversince I have discovered jQuery, I have been impressed by its ease of use, its power and by the horizont it opened. And because jQuery gave me a lot, I would like to come up with my contribution to jQuery community. Thus, I present you jQuery Accordion Plugin, the horizontal way.

This plugin is based on jQuery Accordion Plugin developed by Klaus Hartl. The differences between these two plugins are:

• Klaus’ plugin works vertical way, mine works horizontal
• Klaus’ plugin uses DL, while mine uses UL

Download the plugin and demo!