20 Amazing Tips To Choose The Right Web Design Company

 

A beautiful and eye-catchy website can help your business reach new heights. If you are looking for a new website design from scratch or want to revamp the existing website, you need to find the right web design company.

There are several web design companies having different skill sets and expertise. But you need to be selective in finding the right web design company that understands your requirements and is capable of delivering the best solutions within your budget.

Here are some tips on how to choose a web design company for your project:

 

1. Look at their website

While searching for the right web development company, start by evaluating the websites of the companies you are considering for hire. If the company website looks good, has modern elements, and loads faster, like in 8 seconds, they are good enough to shortlist.

Look for a call to action, check the navigation on the website, and how do you rank the website when competing with the other people in the competition.

Also, while reviewing the website, don’t forget about the website’s performance. It is necessary for the app to behave with more than 50 percent of the website is used or searched on mobile devices; it is essential for a website to be responsive. Check out the website experience on various browsers.

 

2. Clear about your Requirements

It is a good idea to send your project requirements to a few web design firms and request a proposal from them. This gives you a chance to compare the deliverable and skillsets. You’re an expert in your industry and you know what you’re selling. So, that does make sense that you will be much familiar with what actually and how you want. If a web design company doesn’t understand then probably you should not work with them.

 

3. Expertise

If you are building a website for the first time, you might want to know about some of the technologies and the development concepts. You can use this information while interviewing professionals. This useful information would also help you understand the ins and outs of what you are looking for. If you cannot hire somebody, then ask a friend who has the knowledge to assist you. You can also ask for referrals from the people that have done this drill.

Once you have the needed knowledge, you should start by choosing a specific technology or methodology. Like what programming language would be good for your website, how much proficiency you need, and what level of expertise you require, etc. The technical knowledge would empower you to ask the right questions.

 

4. They must have a Portfolio

Have a close look at their portfolio. You can ask for relevant samples of work. For example: If you are looking for an E-commerce website, you should ask them for E-commerce websites they have developed in the past. Evaluate the portfolio and make the right decision.

Bonus advice:

Don’t believe in the screenshot of home pages. Ask them to show you the website they’ve made in action. And actually, visit the site they’ve designed. If you don’t like anything from there, then they’re not going to be a good option.

 

5. They have Other Services

Try finding an all-in-one company. Look for a web design company that offers all the services ranging from graphics design to SEO. This will make you and the company get a more visible idea of your business and your requirements.

 

6. Experience

To evaluate the company, you must start by looking for the companies they have already worked with, the website they have built, and what type of work they have done. It would allow you to know the challenges found in the project and how they have overcome them.

Talk to them about their involvement in the different projects that are similar to your project. Ask questions such as if they designed and developed the website or did they just do one or the other thing. Also, know about their support and maintenance services.

If you were working with an experienced company, they would tell you about their workflow, development practices, methodologies, and processes.

 

7. The Design as Per CMS

For a website, you just need a Content Management System (CMS) for your website. Any web design company worth anything at all is one of the most familiar and best CMS. If your designer recommends you a static HTML website, tell him to find a time machine so that he can go back a decade.

It is very important to do your homework before choosing the right web design firm for your project. You can have a look at the reviews and recommendations. Read the testimonials from the clients so that you would get an idea about their expertise and services.

 

8. Read up on Case Studies

Companies that have the knowledge and experience would always go the extra mile to present the case studies of their work and potential clients. Because of their experience, they would take out examples of some of the complex projects they have worked on and how they have worked on them. It would demonstrate they have the required knowledge and expertise to work on the project.

The case study would have the details such as a brief mention of the challenges, technologies they used, why they used them, and how the project came out. Case studies would help you in evaluating a web development company at best.

 

9. Do your Homework: Check out the Reviews

It is essential to do your homework before finalizing the right web design company for your company or project. Check out the reviews and recommendations that are probably on their website, or directly ask them about any other recommendations. Also, you can have a gentle conversation with the company’s previous clients and ask for their feedback. How was their support? Have they delivered the project on time? Are they client-friendly? And other questions can lead you to the conclusion.

 

10. Compatibility

It is essential to find a company with a good web developer and all the necessary tools to develop a website. But it is important to find people that are compatible to work with. People must have the right attitude. This will make your long-term partnership with the web company fruitful. If you cannot get along easily, then your development work with them can easily go south.

A company’s attitude with you can tell a lot of things about how they would be reacting to the endless changes that are going to come in the process. The effectiveness of the company website will only be rendered if you have people who value the work and know its importance.

 

11. They are familiar with Design Trends

A web designer needs to keep up with the latest design trends everyone is using modern technology. Customers are much likely to trust a website or organization that looks modern. A web designer must be familiar with flat design, parallax, scrolling, and other various styles and elements. However, there should be a balance between the modern and the established. A website just to look unique and fresh in its own way.

 

12. Development methodology

There are various development methodologies used in the web development process. Here are the three most popular ones:

a. Agile
The agile development methodology is one of the most popularly used development practices. It allows a developer to adapt and evolve, and the development process goes on. The approach will help you to continuously improve the project at any stage of the development process. It is not very much compatible with large-scale projects with multiple parties as it is necessary to invest time and get full control of things. This approach is very good for small projects that are in the initial phase of development.

b. Waterfall
The method is traditional, and it is used by the developer that is working on big projects. The project moves forward in set steps, and modifying anything in between is going to be difficult. You will have to design a process, roadmap, and define project goals. Big organizations with large teams may choose to go with the waterfall development methodology.

c. Hybrid
The hybrid development methodology is a combination of agile and waterfall models. It has a feedback loop attached to it, and it helps the company and the team to constantly get involved in the development process and change the elements as required while keeping on proceeding on the fixed timeline built as per their mutual goals.

 

13. Determine your compatibility

When you are hiring a development company, hire the one that believes in long-term relationships. It is necessary for you to find people that would be happy to serve you anytime. Technology is changing at a fast pace, and you would not want to be left behind. You need people that can give you the first access to the features and technology anytime you find something useful for your business website. So, look for people with the zeal to work with you for a long time.

 

14. Analyze how they Communicate

Communication is the key to good website design. You should be able to explain your requirements and expectations to the web designers. And, do they understand your requirements or not. What is the response, How is the response? If they look a bit confusing about your project, try to explain the again, if still continues, shut the idea of giving the project.

 

15. Determine the level of support you need

Support is very important; a company that provides post-development support is the one you must go for. Anything can go wrong after the website is live, and you would need people with technical knowledge to maintain the product and avoid any downtimes.

A good development company would provide you the necessary tools and keys to add and update the content. They would make it easy for you to add content such as blogs, make new pages on the website, and do minor changes or updates. For any new features, you can go back to the same company as they are known with the project and the challenges that come along.

 

16. They know Responsive Design

A responsive website is not a trend, it is just the best way to design a website these days. If a web design company isn’t well knowledgeable in responsive design or suggests that a separate mobile website would be a better option, they are incorrect. Okay, separate mobile sites might have some advantages, but responsive design is usually a preferred solution.

 

17. Hosting

Most companies charge you for hosting a website. And the charges vary as per the kind of hosting you go with. Consult their tech experts about what type of hosting would be more beneficial for you. If you can work out things in shared hosting the charges would be less, but if not, you should talk to the development team to suggest some good offers. Also, hosting is not something where you see the money. Of course, you must find an affordable plan, but if it is not right for your business, we suggest you choose what’s best without looking much towards the money.

 

18. They have their Own Ideas

While it’s important for your designer to understand you, it is also important that he/she must not be a Yes-man. If a web design agency does nothing but nods their heads and claim Yes and Done, and produces the exact replica of your words, there is a big no to this kind of web design company.

 

19. On-going Support

There are some companies that include a certain level of support plan in their hosting plan, but some will charge on a time and material basis. It is necessary for you to understand what works best for the website and what it is going to cost you.

 

20. They’re not Cheap

Your website is going to be the most influential piece of your business. This is where you can not afford to save time and money. If a web design company is telling you that they will make your website for around 20-30,000 INR, they are only going to drag and drop your log and content into a $99 theme that is available online with 15K+ other online users. You need a website that works great for your business, you need to invest in it.

If you are a small company looking for the best web design company, you should look for a web design firm that can offer affordable web design solutions as per your business requirements. You may get better services from small web design companies at cheap rates. It is very important that you get the maximum value for the money you spend.

Whether you require a website design from scratch or want to redesign an existing one, you should look for expert professionals who understand your ideas and convert them into reality!

Is It Time To Change Our CSS Practices?

We’ve been using css as the presentation layer of web pages for quite some time. I’ve personally been using it for about 10 years and like many, much of my css practices were developed nearly as long ago. Is it time to change those practices?

Nicole Sullivan thinks so and I have to agree. She’s been giving presentations about our flawed css practices for at least the last year, and I think longer than that.
Last week I talked about how I’d like to organize css files around different aspects of design and mentioned a few css related topics I wanted to cover in the coming weeks. This is the first of those posts.

Our Flawed CSS Practices

Above are the slides for Nicole’s presentation on css flawed practices. I couldn’t get the video to embed here, but the previous link will take you to it. The video is 35 minutes long and worth a watch if you want the complete picture.
Though some of the specifics have varied from presentation to presentation, Nicole’s thoughts come down to a handful of different concepts. Below are practices the industry has held for years that perhaps need to change.

• Sites need to look the same in all browsers
• Pixel based sites are bad
• You should never add non-semantic markup
• You should use descendent selectors exclusively
• Classitis is bad and to be avoided at all costs

I hope we all agree that as an industry we’ve accepted that sites are never going to look the same in all browsers no matter how hard we may try and we should take a more progressive enhancement approach to development.
I disagree with Nicole’s idea about using pixels, though. She’s seeing this entirely in terms of page zoom and considers the move to ‘em’s and other relative measurements as no longer necessary.
The ideas behind responsive design and designing from the content out are right to call for more relative based measurements for most things.
Let’s look at the last 3 items on the list in a little more detail.

Descendent Selectors

We’ve been taught for years that best practice is to use descendent selectors to style our html. However this approach can become difficult to maintain and even lead to possible performance issues.
For example you might set styles on your generic h2. You then want the h2s in your sidebar to look a little different and further complicating matters you want a specific h2 in the sidebar to look different still

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h2 {font-family: "Helvetica"; font-size: 1.2em; color: red; margin: 0} #sidebar h2 {font-family: "Georgia"; font-size: 1em; color: #000; margin: 1em 0;} #sidebar .related h2 {font-family: "Helvetica"; font-size: 0.9em; color: red; margin: 0}

The above isn’t overly complicated, but it’s not too hard to imagine it becoming more and more complicated as you create ever more specific selectors that need to be overwritten. Later a change needs to be made and you have to write even more specific selectors or worse add an !important declaration, because you can’t figure out how to make something specific enough to take hold.
I’m sure you’re written the occasional

1	#sidebar .related h2.boxed ul ul a {styles here;}

or something like it before. I know I have. I try my best to start with the least amount of selector specificity as possible when writing general styles, but that only postpones the problem. Our way of doing things sometimes leads us into specificity conflicts.

Semantic Markup

The basic idea behind semantic markup is to reinforce the meaning of the content being marked up. For example if you want to include a quote, you’d use blockquote tags. You could use an ordinary paragraph and style the paragraph to look like a blockquote, but that carries less meaning. Similarly you wouldn’t wrap an ordinary paragraph in blockquote tags and then style the blockquote to look like a paragraph.
Semantic markup and classes are generally a good thing because:

• They’re cleaner and clearer to read
• They’re easier to maintain
• They’re more accessible to devices
• They’re more search engine friendly
• They communicate more information

Does this mean we can never stray from semantic code?
Consider grid frameworks with classes like grid_7 and container_12. They aren’t semantic because they don’t describe the content. Instead they describe the presentation of the content. Still they can be a great benefit to designers in developing, reading and maintaining the code.
While I do think semantics are good and important I also think it’s ok to add some non-semantic code We don’t need to be 100% semantic at all times. Better is to understand how and where semantic elements can help in order to decide when and where to use them. We should strive toward semantic use of html without being a slave to it.

Classitis

One way to avoid the specificity problem that comes with using descendent selectors is to use more classes, especially if you’re not against using markup that describes presentation.
For example you might create a generic frame class to serve as a frame around some images on your site. Those images get class=”frame” added and those meant to be seen sans frame won’t have the class. Right away this reduces specificity issues as we don’t have to write and overwrite css styles on different parts of the page.
Later you may decide that some frames will be more sleek and modern and others will be more decorative. The styes common to both can remain in the basic frame class while the styles differentiating each get their own modern and decorative classes.

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.frame {styles common to both;} .modern {styles for modern only;} .decorative {styles for decorative only;}

In Nicole’s experience using classes in this fashion greatly reduces the amount of css we end up writing. This naturally plays out more the larger your site and css. On Facebook they were able to realize a 19% reduction in css (after gzip) and a 44% reduction in html (before gzip). You and I might not see the same results, but we’d likely see results.
There’s something very logical to using classes like this. We can create presentational objects that can easily be reused across a design. Again think of the grid systems or my frame example. At the same time there might be a downside in that we’re now coupling our html and css more.
Part of the idealized beauty of using css for presentation is the thought that with a few changes to a css file we can completely redesign everything on a site. If we’re adding all these extra classes does that cause problems? It would be hard to change a 12 column grid into a 16 column grid without changing the classes that were added through the html for example.
In practice though this idealized version of css doesn’t hold up. Some things we can easily change site wide by making a few css tweaks, including some layout changes. More often a complete redesign calls for structural changes to the html. Your 12 column grid doesn’t become a 16 column grid through css changes alone. It’s going to require html changes.
This doesn’t mean we should all go class crazy and use them for everything, but it does mean we don’t need to run away from using classes entirely. Somewhere in between there’s a good balance of using classes as presentational objects.

Summary

You may or may not agree with all or any of the above as flawed practices. Overall I tend to agree with what Nicole is suggesting and where her ideas lead, which is essentially to build sites with a reusable set of classes instead of sticking with descendent selectors.
I do have my reservations here and there. I don’t want to overdo the classes, but I do think a class-centric approach to html and css is generally a good one that allows for more design flexibility along with easier maintenance and a reduction in code.
I can see where it could lead to some difficulty if you’re looking to make wholesale changes as in a redesign, but more and more I think you’d encounter the same difficulty whether you’re using classes or descendent selectors and this probably isn’t a significant issue.
Mostly I think these ideas and questioning our practices makes a lot of sense, particularly now. The last year or two has seen so much new thinking in how we design and develop sites that now is the time to question much of what we hold as true and see if it still applies.
This rethinking leads us to some new concepts. As a reminder here are some topics I want to look at in the coming weeks.

• abstracting css
• oocss and smacss
• css preprocessors

What do you think? Is Nicole right? Is it time to change some of our long held practices? Is there a danger in doing so?

6 Methods For Vertical Centering With CSS

Centering elements vertically with css is something that often gives designers trouble. There are however a variety of methods for vertical centering and each is fairly easy to use. Today I want to present 6 of those methods.

I’ve usually skipped over the topic of vertical centering, since there are some good posts already out there that are easy enough to find, but recently someone requesting a tutorial on vertically centering so I thought why not.

Let’s start by first talking about something that doesn’t work as many expect. Understanding why vertical-align doesn’t always work will help us better understand vertical centering in general.

Vertical-Align

Horizontal centering with css is rather easy. When the element to be centered is an inline element we use text-align center on its parent. When the element is a block level element we give it a width and set the left and right margins to a value of auto.
With text-align: center in mind, most people look first to vertical-align in order to center things vertically. It seems logical and I know it was my first choice. If you’ve come from table based layout you likely used the valign attribute, which would also lead you to believe vertical-align is the way to go.
However valign only worked on table cells. Vertical-align is similar. It also applies to table cells and it works with some inline elements.
The values for vertical-align have meaning with respect to a parent inline element.

• With a line of text the values are relative to the line-height.
• With a table cell the values are relative to the table-height-algorithm, which usually means the height of the row.

Unfortunately vertical-align doesn’t apply to block-level elements like a paragraph inside a div, which is where most of us figure out it isn’t the be all solution to vertical centering.
All is not lost though, as we have other methods for centering block level elements and we can still use vertical-align where appropriate. Which method you choose will depend on what you’re trying to center relative to its container element.

Line-Height Method

This method will work when you want to vertically center a single line of text. All we need to do is set a line-height on the element containing the text larger than it’s font-size.
By default equal space will be given above and below the text and so the text will sit in the vertical center.
Most tutorials will also set the height on the element with the same value given to the line-height. I don’t think setting the height is necessary, but if line-height alone doesn’t work for you setting the height of the element will likely be the solution.

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<div id="parent"> <div id="child">Text here</div> </div>

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#child { line-height: 200px; }

The above works in all browsers, however it will only work for a single line of text. If your text could wrap to a 2nd line you need to use a different method. The value of 200px above is arbitrary. You can use any value you want as long as it’s larger than the font-size that’s been set.
Added: As Jeff pointed out in the comments below, there’s one small got’cha with this method in that you have to be careful when using the shortcut for the font property. This method relies on you setting the line-height as a value greater than the font-size. When you use the font shortcut any property you don’t specifically set gets set to its default value. With line-height that default is 1. If you use the font shortcut, just make sure to explicitly set the line-height inside.

Centering an Image with Line-Height

What if the content you want centered is an image? Will this method work? The answer is yes with one additional line of css.

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<div id="parent"> <img src="image.png" alt="" /> </div>

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#parent { line-height: 200px; } #parent img { vertical-align: middle; }

You set the line-height as we did above (It’ll need to be greater than the height of the image) and then set vertical-align: middle on the image.

CSS Table Method

Above I mentioned that vertical-align applies to table cells which leads us to this method. We’ll display our elements as table and table cell and then use the vertical-align property to center the content.
Note: CSS tables are not the same as html tables.

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<div id="parent"> <div id="child">Content here</div> </div>

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#parent {display: table;} #child { display: table-cell; vertical-align: middle; }

We set the parent div to display as a table and the child div to display as a table-cell. We can then use vertical-align on the child div and set it’s value to middle. Anything inside this child div will be vertically centered.
Unlike the method above the content can be dynamic as the div will grow with what’s placed inside. The downside of this method is it doesn’t work in older versions of IE, though there is a fix, which is to add display: inline-block to the child element.

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#child { display: inline-block; }

• Flexible height vertical centering with CSS, beyond IE7
• CSS Vertical Centering

Absolute Positioning and Negative Margin

This method works for block level elements and also works in all browsers. It does require that we set the height of the element we want to center.
In the code below I’m centering the child both vertically and horizontally using this method.

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<div id="parent"> <div id="child">Content here</div> </div>

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#parent {position: relative;} #child { position: absolute; top: 50%; left: 50%; height: 30%; width: 50%; margin: -15% 0 0 -25%; }

We begin by positioning both parent and child divs. Next we set the top and left values of the child to be 50% each, which would be the center of the parent. However this sets the top left corner to be in the center so we’re not done.
We need to move the child up (by half its height) and to the left (by half its width) so it’s center is what sits in the center of the parent element. This is why we need to know the height (and here the width) of the child element.
To do that we give the element a negative top and left margin equal to half its height and width.
Unlike the first 2 methods this one is meant for block level elements. It does work in all browsers, however the content can outgrow its container in which case it will disappear visually. It’ll work best when you know the heights and widths of the elements.

• A demo using this method to center a block of text in the browser

Absolute Positioning and Stretching

As with the method above this one begins by setting positioning on the parent and child elements as relative and absolute respectively. From there things differ.
In the code below I’ve once again used this method to center the child both horizontally and vertically, though you can use the method for vertical centering only.

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<div id="parent"> <div id="child">Content here</div> </div>

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#parent {position: relative;} #child { position: absolute; top: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; right: 0; width: 50%; height: 30%; margin: auto; }

The idea with this method is to try to get the child element to stretch to all 4 edges by setting the top, bottom, right, and left vales to 0. Because our child element is smaller than our parent elements it can’t reach all 4 edges.
Setting auto as the margin on all 4 sides however causes opposite margins to be equal and displays our child div in the center of the parent div.
Unfortunately the above won’t work in IE7 and below and like the previous method the content inside the child div can grow too large causing it to be hidden.

Equal Top and Bottom Padding

In the method above we allowed the browser to automatically set the margins of the child element so they would be equal. In this method we’ll do something similar and explicitly set the top and bottom padding of the parent to be equal.

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<div id="parent"> <div id="child">Content here</div> </div>

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#parent { padding: 5% 0; } #child { padding: 10% 0; }

In the css above I’ve set top and bottom paddings on both elements. Setting it on the child will make sure the contents in the child will be vertically centered and setting it on the parent ensures the entire child is centered within the parent.
I’m using relative measurements to allow each div to grow dynamically. If one of the elements or it’s content needs to be set with an absolute measurement then you’ll need to do some math to make sure things add up.
For example if the parent was 400px in height and the child 100px in height we’d need 150px of padding on both the top and bottom.
150 + 150 + 100 = 400
Using % could throw things off in this case unless our % values corresponded to exactly 150px.
This method works anywhere. The downside is that depending on the specifics of your project you may need to do a little math. However if you’re falling in line with the idea of developing flexible layouts where your measurements are all relative you can avoid the math.
Note: This method works by setting paddings on the outer elements. You can flip things and instead set equal margins on the inner elements. I tend to use padding, but I’ve also used margins with success. Which you choose would depend on the specifics of your project.

Floater Div

This last method requires an empty div which is floated and used to control where our child element sits in the document flow. Notice the floater div comes before our child div in the html below.

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<div id="parent"> <div id="floater"></div> <div id="child">Content here</div> </div>

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#parent {height: 250px;} #floater { float: left; height: 50%; width: 100%; margin-bottom: -50px; } #child { clear: both; height: 100px; }

We float the empty div to the left (or right) and give it a height of 50% of the parent div. That causes it to fill up the entire upper half of the parent element.
Because this div is floated it’s removed from the normal document flow so we need to clear the child element. Here I’ve used clear: both, but you just need to clear in the same direction you floated the empty floater div.
The top edge of the child div should now be immediately below the bottom edge of the floater div. We need to bring the child element up by an amount equal to half it’s height and to do so we set a negative margin-bottom on the floater div.
This method also works across browsers. The downside is that it requires an empty div and that you know the height of the child element.

• How To Center Content Vertically Using CSS

Additional Resources

In the sections above I linked to articles specific to each method. Below are some resources that cover more than a single method for centering.

• Vertical Centering With CSS — covers all the methods above except for the padding method
• Vertical centering using CSS — Covers all methods except the floater div method and adds a few more.
• CSS tests and experiments — Contains a variety of css experiments. Search the page for the word vertical and you’ll find several vertical centering experiments, including the 2 links below.
• Centering (horizontally and vertically) an image in a box
• Shrink-wrap and Center

Summary

None of the methods above is complicated and I’m sure if you use each once or twice it’ll be easy to use again.
The difficultly if there is one is that none of the methods above is perfect for all occasions. The trick is to understand several of the above and use each appropriately.
Some of the methods work better for inline elements and others work better for block level elements. Some might work better with your preference for developing a layout and some don’t work in older versions of a certain browser we all know well.
Rarely do I vertically center elements in a design. When I do the methods I tend to use are the line-height method and the equal padding method. One or the other has always worked for my needs.
If neither worked I would reach for either the positioning or floater methods and save the table cell method as a last resort. In time we’ll be able to use the css3 flexible box layout module and forget about the methods above, but for now browser support isn’t quite there.
Do you use any of the above methods or do you use a different method I didn’t mention? Is there a vertical centering issue that none of the methods here address?

Removing Unused Files With System Ninja

There are a lot of unused files that are created automatically during the installation of some programs and making some changes in settings. These files take a lot of space and make computer memory full of junk. You have to permanently delete files that are using a lot of PC memory for no reason. But there are a lot of  disk cleaner softwares that you can’t judge the best one that suits you can do a disk clean up for free. You have to permanently delete files, because this will increase the speed of your computer by removing clutter files and doing a disk cleanup for free.

                                                                         To remove these type of files a lot of software’s are available but the best one is system ninja which removes every and each useless file and clears the PC memory for free. This app is free of cost and portable version is also available.

Permanently Delete Files and Disk Clean Up with junk File Scanner

The main part of System Ninja is junk scanner that is very useful to permanently delete files that are useless. It will scan the whole system for junk files and useless files so that you can do a disk clean up. If are are using it for the first time and never used any other app like this one, then you will amaze to see the results, because it will show a large list of files. You can see in the below files which are going to be removed from your PC. All these files are useless, which consumes the PC memory for no reason. You can read a small post about junk Files Here.

For scanning junk files and disk clean up to permanently delete files in System Ninja you have to choose the Disk Drives for which you will do a Disk Clean up. After selecting the drives and clicking the Scan button you to wait for 5-10 minutes because it will scan the whole drive and it depends on the Drives and File size. After complete scan you will see the results as shown below.

As you can see it will show a large list of useless files and you can also see the Memory used by these files in the Bottom Right. Now you to click on Delete Everything button to permanently delete files from your PC. Doing this will delete all the files and this process will take some time. You have done the best part to speed up your PC and did a disk clean up by using System Ninja. You will see a little different in the speed, because these files use PC memory for no use.

Startup and Process Manager

Including the feature of Junk File scanner for permanently delete files and disk clean up. System Ninja also has a feature which will let you manage Start Up Files in Your Computer. You can also manage processes with this. You can remove any process from start up, but be carefull while removing files from Start Up menu, because removing any important file can harm your PC.

File Analyzer

You can also get any info about any file on your computer with System Ninja. For this you can use File Analyzer feature. It will show all details about a file. It helps you alot to understand the file formats, because sometimes you can’t open files and you can see the info about that file with this tool

PC Analysis

System Ninja also offer this feature which will let you know all the info about your PC. You can check all the info about your computer by using this tools. It will let you know all about your Motherboard, Processor, Hard Drives, Logical Hard Drives and BIOS info on your computer.
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Final words

After using all of the features of System Ninja I found it very useful due to its small size and big features according to size. You can also download the portable Version of System Ninja to keep it on your portable device, so that you can use this on other computer to permanently delete files and disk clean up.

Best Of 2011: Best Useful jQuery Plugins And Tutorials

jQuery is one of the most accepted JavaScript library that possesses an enormous collection of plugins which makes it even more powerful. On the other hand, there is a good deal of additional codes or modules, from simple alert functions to multifaceted galleries or form validation methods, that are hard-coded inside websites & not convinced to plugins.
Of course, not each code must become a plugin that would be worthless. However converting the ones to be re-utilized will save loads of improvement time & if shared with the community, will make the code itself better.
In this post, you will unearth some of the most excellent, interesting fresh and useful jQuery plugins and tutorials that were created in 2011.
File Uploads with jQuery
( Demo | Download )
This plugin will allow people to upload photos from their computers by dragging and dropping them onto the browser window, possible with the new HTML5 APIs exposed by modern browsers.

ComboGrid
( Demo | Download )
Combogrid, like autocomplete, when added to an input field, enables users to quickly find and select from a pre-populated list of values as they type, but in a tabular and paginated manner. Combogrid provides keyboard navigation support for selecting an item.

MotionCAPTCHA
( Demo | Download )
MotionCAPTCHA is a jQuery CAPTCHA plugin, based on the HTML5 Canvas Harmony procedural drawing tool by Mr Doob and the Unistroke Gesture Regonizer algorithm (and the more recent Protractor algorithm improvement), requiring users to sketch the shape they see in the canvas in order to submit a form.

Elastislide
( Demo | Download )
With the responsive awakening in web design it becomes important to not only take care of the visual part of a website but also of the functionality. Elastislide is a responsive jQuery carousel that will adapt its size and its behavior in order to work on any screen size. Inserting the carousel’s structure into a container with a fluid width will also make the carousel fluid.

Spin.js
( Demo | Download )
The spin method creates the necessary HTML elements and starts the animation. If a target element is passed as argument, the spinner is added as first child and horizontally and vertically centered.

Craftyslide
( Demo | Download )
Craftyslide is a tiny (just 2kb) slideshow built on jQuery. Craftyslide aims to be different, by providing a simple, no-frills method of displaying images; packaged into a small, clean and efficient plugin.

Arbor.js
( Demo | Download )
Arbor is a graph visualization library built with web workers and jQuery. Rather than trying to be an all-encompassing framework, arbor provides an efficient, force-directed layout algorithm plus abstractions for graph organization and screen refresh handling.

Recurly.js
( Demo | Download )
Recurly.js allows you to easily embed a PCI compliant order form within your website. Recurly.js is a Javascript library designed to be easily embedded and customized to match your website.


How to Block Adblock
( Demo | Download )
With this friendly jQuery plugin you can easily blog Block Adblock.

Power PWChecker
( Demo | Download )
Power PWChecker jQueryPlugin observes passwords as users type and provide instant password strength check (Weak, Medium, or Strong). This encourages users to review their password selection and ensure that the password is strong and secure. Power PWChecker also allows you to enforce password length policy by specifying minimum and maximum password length. It also matches password entries and provides visual alert in case of inconsistent passwords.

Sisyphus
( Demo | Download )
Imagine you’re filling a complex form on site, or typing effervescent and extensive comment. And when you’re almost done with that browser is crashed, or you closed tab mistakenly, or electricity is turned off, or something else break your efforts. Disgusting, huh? With Sisyphus on site you just reopen page in your modern (with HTML5 support) browser and see all your changes at that forms. It’s lightweight (3.5 KB) jQuery plugin uses Local Storage to prevent your work being lost.

Response Javascript
( Demo | Download )
Response JS is a lightweight jQuery plugin that gives web designers tools for building performance-optimized, mobile-first responsive websites. It provides semantic ways to dynamically swap code blocks based on breakpoints and serve media progressively via HTML5 data attributes. Its object methods give developers hooks for triggering responsive actions and booleans for testing responsive properties.

Responsly.js
( Demo | Download )
Responsive designs are cool! Not only do they allow you to reach mobile and tablet users with minimal effort, they also make your context scale up for desktop users with larger screens.

Fitvids.js
( Demo | Download )
A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.

Isotope
( Demo | Download )
Isotope: An exquisite jQuery plugin for magical layouts

Slidorion
( Demo | Download )
Slidorion is a combination of an image slider and an accordion; displaying beautiful content through various effects.

Diapo
( Demo | Download )
With Diapo plugin you can creat a beautiufl slideshow.

Minimit
( Demo | Download )
Minimit Gallery is a highly customizable Jquery plugin that does galleries, slideshows, carousels, slides… pratically everything that has multiple states.

Circular Content Carousel
( Demo | Download )
The idea is to have some content boxes that we can slide infinitely (circular). When clicking on the “more” link, the respective item moves to the left and a content area will slide out. Now we can navigate through the carousel where each step will reveal the next or previous content box with its expanded content. Clicking on the closing cross will slide the expanded content area back in and animate the item to its original position.

HTML5 Music Player
( Demo | Download )
With this plugin you can create HTML5 Music Player.

jQuery Mobile
( Demo | Download )
A unified, HTML5-based user interface system for all popular mobile device platforms, built on the rock-solid jQuery and jQuery UI foundation. Its lightweight code is built with progressive enhancement, and has a flexible, easily themeable design.

Lettering.js
( Demo | Download )
A jQuery plugin for radical web typography.

Multi Node Range Data Slider jQ Slider
( Demo | Download )
JQ Slider is a multi-node range and data slider that allows to provide easy-to-use user data selection and filter tool. It can be used in many ways.

Xml Driven Vertical News Scroller Script Using jQuery vScroller
( Demo | Download )
Adding scrolling content to your website or blog makes much sense – it allows you display latest news, promotions, product updates, announcements, upcoming events, calendar items and much more in a limited space. It also allows you to add dynamic content to otherwise static web pages.

jQuery Sliding Content Bar Plugin
( Demo | Download )
It is a smart and quick content bar that you can integrate easily in any website or web application. It is integrated seamlessly in your website and can be popped up whenever required. PushUp Content Bar is easy to customize and strong enough to rely upon. You can add your contact details, location map via Google Maps, and a simple contact form that visitors can use to make contact with you.

Gmap3
( Demo | Download )
gmap3 is a jquery plugin which allows many manipulation of the google map API version 3.

Skitter

With this plugin you can generate outstanding slideshows for your website.

jFontSize
( Demo | Download )
The jFontSize plugin was developed to facilitate the process of creating the famous buttons A+ and A-, which alter the font size on sites with very large texts, such as blogs, journals, tutorials, etc. This tool is also used to increase the accessibility of sites, helping people who have visual problems to see better content

Wave Display Effect with jQuery
( Demo | Download )
How cool is it to sometimes just display content a little bit differently? This plugin let’s you show images and content in a unique form – a wave. The idea is to initially have some smaller thumbnails rotated and placed in the shape of a sine curve. When clicking on a thumbnail, we’ll “zoom” in to see a medium sized version. Clicking again will make the large content area appear; here we will show some more content.

Simple jQuery Fluid Thumbnail menu Bar
( Demo | Download )
The idea of a fluid thumbnail bar is simple: Create a list of thumbnails within a space where the overflow can be flipped through page by page.

Useful image hover slide effect with jQuery
( Demo | Download )

jQuery plugin: Easy Image Zoom
( Demo | Download )
This is a simple technique to animate an image when hovering using jQuery’s animate() effect. We will use this effect to manipulate our CSS, creating a seamless transition between two areas of an image.

ImageLens
( Demo | Download )
Use this jQuery plug-in to add lens style zooming effect to an image

Slides
( Demo | Download )
Slides is a slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows.

jShowOff
( Demo | Download )
Slides is a slideshow plugin for jQuery that is built with simplicity in mind. Packed with a useful set of features to help novice and advanced developers alike create elegant and user-friendly slideshows.

Easy Paginate
( Demo | Download )
This plugin allows you to browse easily through the list of items with pagination controls. It is very easy to implement and very lightweight so it might come in handy to use in your own projects. It’s main purpose is to view certain number of list items at once, but it can also be set up to view one item by one.

Responsive Image Gallery with Thumbnail Carousel
( Demo | Download )
Today we want to show you how to create a responsive image gallery with a thumbnail carousel using Elastislide. Inspired by Twitter’s “user gallery” and upon a request to show an integration of Elastislide, we want to implement a responsive gallery that adapts to the view-port width. The gallery will have a view switch that allows to view it with the thumbnail carousel or without. We’ll also add the possibility to navigate with the keyboard.

PhotoSwipe
( Demo | Download )
Today we want to show you how to create a responsive image gallery with a thumbnail carousel using Elastislide. Inspired by Twitter’s “user gallery” and upon a request to show an integration of Elastislide, we want to implement a responsive gallery that adapts to the view-port width. The gallery will have a view switch that allows to view it with the thumbnail carousel or without. We’ll also add the possibility to navigate with the keyboard.

Elycharts
( Demo | Download )
Elycharts is a pure javascript charting library, easy to use and completely customizable.

Blueberry
( Demo | Download )
Blueberry is an experimental opensource jQuery image slider plugin which has been written specifically to work with fluid/responsive web layouts.

GALLERIA
( Demo | Download )
Galleria is a JavaScript image gallery framework built on top of the jQuery library. The aim is to simplify the process of creating professional image galleries for the web and mobile devices.

jQuery Image Gallery
( Demo | Download )
With this plugin you can create a beautiful jQuery Image Gallery.

Shuffle Letters Effect
( Demo | Download )
This jQuery plugin that will shuffle the text content of any DOM element – an interesting effect that can be used in headings, logos and slideshows.

SmartGallery
( Demo | Download )
SmartGallery is an interactive image gallery that is specifically designed to support huge data. It is lightweight, lightening fast and fully customizable. Powered by jQuery, SmartGallery comes with twelve transition effects including some unique transition effect and thumbnail navigation.

BxSlider
( Demo | Download )
BxSlider will allow you to create a beautiful Content Slider for your website.

FitText
( Demo | Download )
FitText makes font-sizes flexible. Use this plugin on your fluid or responsive layout to achieve scalable headlines that fill the width of a parent element.

jQuery Pagination revised
( Demo | Download )
The pagination plugin combines a varity of features. It can be used to divide long lists or areas of content into multiple seperate pages, load paged content with pre-calculated database offset-parameters via Ajax and anything with full control to adapt the style properly to your site-layout. Of course, creating simple links with no event triggering is possible as well. The plugin also offers the facility to “overlap” pages, which means you can show elements of previous pages on the subsequent sites in order to allow a straightforward flow of reading.

E24TabMenu
( Demo | Download )
e24TabMenu is a plugin written for scriptaculous. It is a tab menu that expands collapse smoothly.

Snippet
( Demo | Download )
Snippet provides a quick and easy way of highlighting source code passages in HTML documents.

AJAX PAYPAL CART
( Demo | Download )
AJAX PayPal Cart is a easy to use JQuery plugin for web developer to add a full function shopping cart in their website. The AJAX cart can included a cart widget which allow display of cart information easily. Support PayPal Website Payment Standard.

jQuery is one of the most accepted JavaScript library that possesses an enormous collection of plugins which makes it even more powerful. On the other hand, there is a good deal of additional codes or modules, from simple alert functions to multifaceted galleries or form validation methods, that are hard-coded inside websites & not convinced to plugins.
Of course, not each code must become a plugin that would be worthless. However converting the ones to be re-utilized will save loads of improvement time & if shared with the community, will make the code itself better.