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While we feature many different files from the marketplaces here on Tuts+, one of the least showcased categories is admin themes, even though there are some awesome examples. Of the 140 different admin themes available on ThemeForest, we’re going to look at seven of some of the bestselling, most highly rated and well designed files that you can download today. Thumbnail: Secretary available on Photodune Simpla Admin Simpla Admin is the highest selling admin theme on ThemeForest, having a total of 3182 purchases at the time of writing. In addition to that figure, Simpla Admin has a full five star buyer rating and has been featured on ThemeForest, making it a fantastic choice for your hard earned cash.

Advertise here via BSA Many of us start every HTML project with the same set of HTML and CSS files. We’ve been using these files for a long time. Now that modern browsers are starting to support some of the really useful parts of HTML5 and CSS3, it’s time for our best practices to catch up.

Advertise here via BSA jquery.mentionsInput is a small, but awesome UI component that allows you to “@mention” someone in a text message, just like you are used to on Facebook or Twitter. This project is written by Kenneth Auchenberg, and started as an internal project at Podio, but has then been open sourced to give it a life in the community. jquery.mentionsInput has been tested in Firefox 6+, Chrome 15+, and Internet Explorer 8+. jquery.mentionsInput is written as a jQuery extension, so it naturally requires jQuery.

? ? The Web is just starting to use animation well. For years, animated GIFs and Flash ruled. Text moved and flashed, but it was never seamless. Animations had boxes around them like YouTube videos. HTML5 canvas changes everything about Web animation.

? ? Much of the excitement we’ve seen so far about HTML5 has been for the new APIs: local storage, application cache, Web workers, 2-D drawing and the like. But let’s not overlook that HTML5 brings us 30 new elements to mark up documents and applications, boosting the total number of elements available to us to over 100. Sexy yet hollow demos aside, even the most JavaScript-astic Web 2.0-alicious application will likely have textual content that needs to be marked up sensibly, so let’s look at some of the new elements to make sure that your next project is as semantic as it is interactive. To keep this article from turning into a book, we won’t look at each in depth. Instead, this is a taster menu: you can see what’s available, and there are links that I’ve vetted for when you want to learn more.