Microsoft has revealed the preview-only/test version of its all new Internet Explorer 9 far better than any of its earlier versions and especially because the standards IE used to follow are way back than any modern browser.  At MIX 10, a interactive gathering event of Microsoft and  innovative web professionals, Dean Hachamovitch presented the insight depth of "early look" phase of IE9. This preview of IE9 is more targeted towards web developers/ designers to let them know and take advantage of new things they can do while developing web apps or websites. ...

Sitepoint a leading web and online media website is giving a Free 278 page book (PDF version) titled "The Photoshop Anthology" which would usually cost $29.95. The book comprises the examples, hints and inspirations for web designers right from designing a glassy button to background images or classy templates. The book is available for Free, at no extra conditions at Sitepoint and, this free giveaway is only for time constraint of 22 days from time of this post. So, just grab the valuable book for all you designers there, as it does ...

One of the visible traits in web 2.0 rich websites are either their logo, domain name or images i.e. they have some reflection better understood as mirror reflections or shadows at bottom (most of them having written 'Beta' alongside or superscript). This something like I did with IndianWeb2.com logo and image of a flower below; This is better known as "Web 2.0 Style" Images and Fonts and to make a normal images or a text into this web2-style images/ text, tutorials are available as how to add reflections/ make mirror ...

In IndianWeb2.com's previous post of Visualize Your Web, Bookmarks, Tags and Blogosphere, I have posted about two very good example of web 2.0/ mashups of del.icio.us tags and blogosphere by Sixpli and Twingly.com respectively. Now here are some more and bunch of resources, tools and websites dealing with mashing up with visual web 2.0, visual web semantics mashups sites, apps and tools etc. So here is the list - Walk2Web - Walk2Web is a visualization tool that shows graphical link structure of URL entered and sites linked to it and let you ...

A lot of online as well as desktop tools has been developed in Visual Web arena. Manipulate and discovering your own tags in bookmarked or tagged items might look awful thus making this complexity more simple in form of visualized enviornment to find, relate or even play with these visual output. Sixpli Alfa lets visualize bookmarked tags in a del.icio.us account and let explore them with their relations to each other, it also creates output for more than one account by finding common tags with. With this flash based tool users ...

Microformats - as pronounced this isn't any Biotechnological word nor its a new language but one among simple web standards that already being adopted by many web organization/ sites. If some of you has done few things on XML, XHTML, RSS or even CSS it's easiest thing you can learn in a day (or even less). Microformats are set of simple open data formats built upon existing standards that is being adopted widely these days. Its a design principles of formats which is - designed for humans first and machines second, ...