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jQuery, being one of the most popular & powerful JavaScript frameworks around, is offering a slick experience to users at every level.

Its website is a huge resource of documentation, examples & tutorials for anyone who is into it.

Besides the documentation jQuery offers, following other jQuery users is a great way to learn more & get inspired to discover new ways for taking advantage of this library.

Here are 15+ blogs to follow for jQuery fans that frequently create jQuery-oriented content:

John Resig

Besides being the creator of jQuery, he has other creative JavaScript-related projects like:

• Processing.js
• Sizzle.js
• FireUnit & more

Not only for jQuery users but for anyone into JavaScript, his blog is a great source of information & inspiration.

Official jQuery Blog

The blog covers any type of updates related to jQuery from new versions to jQuery-related posts in the blogosphere, events & more.

Official jQuery UI Blog

jQuery UI is a resource which is preferred by many jQuery users. Its blog regularly shares updates about the library and also list the websites that are powered by jQuery UI (which is a nice source of inspiration).

Filament Group Lab

Filament Group, the team who built the ThemeRoller, various jQuery plugins & jQuery UI widgets is sharing their experiences under their Lab blog.

There are both ready to use & experimental jQuery codes shared which are described & discussed in detail.

Learning jQuery

This is a multi-author blog (mostly authored by Karl Swedberg of jQuery Evangelism Team) with lots of tips & tutorials on jQuery for beginners to advanced users.

jQuery For Designers

The website shares very detailed & easy to implement tutorials on interfaces that are improved by jQuery.

Brandon Aaron

He is in the development team of jQuery and, not frequently, shares great info & tips on jQuery usage.

Jörn Zaefferer (bassistance.de)

He is also in the jQuery development team & has created many popular jQuery plugins.

Paul Bakaus

He is the creator of jQuery UI & some popular plugins like "dimensions". It is possible to find information on jQuery & jQuery UI in his blog.

James Padolsey

He is a freelance web developer who writes about JavaScript & has various ideas/codes shared on jQuery. One of them which you may like: jQuery plugin detector.

Soh Tanaka Blog

Web designer & front-end developer Soh Tanaka has beautiful tutorials that are tailored around jQuery.

JankoAtWarpSpeed

Janko Jovanovic is writing very nice tutorials that uses jQuery and also posts other web design-related articles.

nettuts

One of the most popular web design tutorials website has a bunch of tutorials that heavily uses jQuery. And, the website is also a treasure with all the other articles published.

Marcofolio.net

Marco Kuiper, a freelance web designer & developer, is frequently posting web development tutorials that are based on jQuery.

Build Internet!

Build Internet! has a collection of jQuery tutorials that are presented in detail. The website is not totally jQuery-oriented & publishes other development & web-business-related post

David Walsh

He is in the MooTools development team. However, he mostly shares the jQuery versions of the snippets he creates which is also a nice way to compare jQuery with another great framework.

jQuery How To

The website is totally focused on jQuery content. It shares code snippets, "how-to"s that can be handy for and jQuery user.

WebResourcesDepot (shameless self-promotion)

WRD, time-by-time, shares tutorials on jQuery, like:

• Ajaxed Sliding Shopping Cart With jQuery
• Fly-To-Basket Effect With jQuery
• Sliding Top Menu With jQuery
• Load Content While Scrolling With jQuery
• & more..

Also, it is possible to find lots of jQuery plugins & information (like this post) regularly.

Any others you know that are missing? Please share them in the comments.

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Markup Factory is an impressive web publishing platform for web designers & developers.

It is a hosted-platform where you can create simple to complex websites easily with features including:

• content management system
• blog
• calendar
• event registration
• online store
• podcasting
• newsletter management
• & much more.

And, you or your customers can manage all the features with a powerful content management & administration interface.

I have been playing with Markup Factory for a while & the best part is, it does not limit or force you to a new way of development.

It presents you all the logics of a website, blog, online store etc., you continue developing how you used to, creating the template, css, even add JS functions if you want but don’t deal with the time-consuming programming part and take advantage of the ready-to-use modules.

Markup Factory is built with web standards in mind. It has a powerful template engine that supports native XHTML – CSS and system modules have valid XHTML outputs from end to end.

There are also 2 "in-beta" features that are about to make the system much powerful:

• built-In customizable online database
• form builder

The application is very well-documented & not complicated. This makes the adaption period shorter.

Markup Factory is offering different packages for different requirements.

For an example Markup Factory built website, check Marshill.cc.

For an overview/tour of the system, click here.

Conclusion:

Markup Factory is complete website creation platform for web designers/developers. It will enable you to create a  complicated website with a blog, e-commerce features, event registration, calendar, etc in a very short time.

On the other hand, the website manager will be able to manage the whole content & system easily (when needed, there is a ready-to-use documentation).

P.S. This post is a review.

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Pixelpost is an open source photoblog application with powerful image gallery features.

It can be used only as an image gallery or a website of a designer, photographer and so.. easily.

Pixelpost lets the users browse the image archive, view images in detail and comment to them.

Having an active community, you can find 200+ plugins & templates for the application.

This photoblog application has also RSS & multilanguage support.

Click to see a nice photoblog created with Pixelpost.

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photoDiary, is a flash web application which lets users to create photo blogs.

Blog owners can upload new photos through an administrator interface easily. Maybe, the most attractive feature of photoDiary is the commenting system. Visitors can leave their comments with a post-it like virtual-papers on any part of the photo.

Visitors can navigate through the photos with the back & forward feature, remove all comments with 1 click or send an e-mail to the blog owner.

P.S. There is an English version besides the original Italian version in the product website.

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