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Useful plugin for responsive web designs
While we were searching for applications/tools on the internet, we found really interesting tool called Breakpoints. This tool/application is really handy while working with responsive design techniques. Take a look, and let us know what you think about it.
Review: jQuery and WordPress plugin for shopping carts
In the past days, EasyBasket contact us and told us to take a view of their website/application, and asked if we could spread the word about it in our blog. Well, we made a research, and we found it pretty much a great and useful tool.
jQuery Tooltip, 100 fresh resources!
As a Web designer you’ll always be on the lookout for the freshest resources to incorporate in your site, to keep it up to date in the latest trends in web design and make the web surfing progression a trouble-free route for your visitors, especially considering, that site users’ needs nowadays point to a site that brings them rich information with best visual presentation, and that above all grants it in a easy access fashion.
Amazing jQuery photo slider
What’s up guys?, to continue with our experiment series, our designing and programming team joined forces to create an amazing carousel vintage photo slider with PHP and jQuery. This is definitely a nice photo slider to be applied in different websites so you can showcase your work in a more original way. This tutorial is going to cover the programming part of the carousel (stay close to find out the release time of the design part) so you can learn how we did this fancy photo slider and you can adapt it to your own projects. You can also take a look at the demo to see how it works and download all the source files.
Web design software: 250 fresh and useful tools
A part of every web designer’s functions is to find new methods for improving the way things are made, this includes finding ways of reducing file sizes, cleaning messy code, optimizing images and testing the site’s performance
As web designers, we’re always looking for new tools and gadgets to make our lives easier and be able to work faster and more effectively. These tools can be helpful in many different ways, including image editors, code formatters, SEO analyzers and more; we have gathered more than 250 web design tools that will help you save time and concentrate in the most relevant aspects in web design instead of figuring out how to optimize a CSS, boost your site’s traffic or reduce a JPEG size.
Formly, the form glamorizer for jQuery
Formly is a tool that allow you to give a better look to your website forms. Easily adds style and useful features to replace the default form template. The web designer who developed this jQuery plugin also states that this might not be exactly what you need, but he offers to keep improving it by the users feedback, now that’s an opportunity you can’t miss!. This tool is specifically for forms modification, it makes so much easier to customize the form template for going from this to this. Read more
Awesome tooltips with JavaScript and HTML5
Tooltips are GUI elements that are displayed on a website after a mouse event, usually a hover or click action. These objects are used to provide additional information regarding different subjects and give the user more insights regarding different topics. Today we like to share with you a nice tool that’s going to help you make lovely tooltips while using your favorite JavaScript framework.
Tipped takes advantage of the powerful HTML5 to give you complete control over the look and feel of the tooltips you create. The tool offers support by default to jQuery and Prototype, though you can implement different adapters to incorporate other frameworks.
CSS extended through dynamic behaviors
As most of you know, we’re always looking for new tools and hacks to help web designers / developers with their work. Today we’ve found a neat tool that will help you enhance the power of CSS. LESS is a nice JavaScript library developed by Alexis Sellier that extends CSS by adding dynamic behaviors on the way of variables, mixings, operations and functions. The library offers support for IE6+ browsers and webkit and from the server-side is powered through the file Node.js.
jQuery slider tools, 200 best!
This is a selection with 200 of the best jQuery sliders plugins and tutorials with a lot of differents features, we’re pretty sure you’ll find exactly what you need or been looking for a while now, so please, go ahead and enjoy.
Vintage photo effect
Mastering the vintage technique is something that photographers dedicate lots of time in order to find their own style. Exploring with different programs, using different cameras and trying every Photoshop filter, but what happens when you’re not a Photoshop expert and you want to give a vintage look to a picture?,with VintageJS you will now be able to do this through a simple and yet fantastic tool.
Dialog box / alert message in jQuery with Apprise
When you’re working on a page that has a permanent interaction with its visitors, it’s important to create different communication channels that let people know where they’re standing and what are their possibilities inside the page, and one of these methods is using dialog / alert boxes.
jQuery slideshow plugin, lots of free examples
We all have used slideshows at some point, whether it’s for showing our work, designing a portfolio for a client or something else, the truth is that these elements are an effective way of showcasing several times in a limited area. While browsing on the internet we found Skitter, a nice collection of jQuery slideshows packaged into a single plugin and ready for download, so you can use anytime in your web projects.
Best jQuery blogs to keep in your RSS
For those who are not very much into web development, jQuery is a popular cross-browser JavaScript library designed specifically to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. jQuery was released in January 2006 by John Resig and is currently being utilized by over 31% of the 10 K most visited websites, thus jQuery has become the most popular JavaScript library nowadays.
One of the best things about jQuery is its OpenSource condition and the fact that is dual-licensed under the MIT License and the GNU General Public License V2, thanks to these two aspects, every developer can generate their own jQuery plugins and send them directly to the JavaScript library. Now that we have exposed blatantly our love towards jQuery, we like to offer you a grand compilation of blogs and websites where you can find a lot of information about jQuery, including new plugins, good practices and reviews, let’s see what you think about these places.
Live preview a website with JavaScript
From the same creators of the popular extension Firebug, better known as Backfire, now we have a new script that will save us a lot of work to both developers and web designers. The script is named Live.js, an useful resource that will help you obtain a live preview of the site your working on, definitely a great script that everyone should have since now to help them out with their projects.
jQuery effects: rumble, shake and rotate
Would you like to get rid of those boring static elements that only change their color when you rollover them?, maybe shaking them and little bit or make them sway will be nice, the problem is how. We’ve stumbled upon an amusing jQuery plugin that does precisely that, it puts elements to rumble.
jRumble grants you control over X, Y, rotation range, speed and event trigger for the rumble. The plugin works amazingly in all browsers but IE, where some issues show up when triggering the shaking event. The plugin was developed by Jack Rugile, a web and graphic designer from Colorado.