by peterbunny, January 28, 2012
in JavaScript
TextExt is a feature-rich jQuery plugin for improving the functionality of text input fields. The plugin is modular, can be extended easily and has features like tag inputs, filtering, auto-complete, placeholder text and Ajax (which are all plugins of TextExt). It can also display a custom arrow besides select fields, show the items in them [...]
Tags: Fields, Input, jQuery, Smarter, Text, TextExt, With
by peterbunny, January 27, 2012
in JavaScript
Rickshaw is a JavaScript toolkit, created by the developers of the stock photo service Shutterstock, for generating interactive and real-time graphs. It is built on top of the D3.js visualization library and can render stack or line graphs. The graphs are interactive, respond to hovering them or their legends, items in the stack can be [...]
Tags: Graphs, Interactive, JavaScript, Real-Time, Rickshaw, Toolkit
by peterbunny, January 27, 2012
in Scripts
You'll remember the 2 previously shared and popular resources for quickly developing websites: Twitter Bootstrap and Foundation. Here is a powerful alternative named HTML KickStart which is a HTML5, CSS and jQuery-powered toolkit for easily creating any type of layouts with web elements in-rhythm. It has styles for grids, typography, forms, buttons, tables or lists [...]
Tags: Creating, Faster, Frontend, HTML, KickStart, Skeleton, Websites
by peterbunny, January 27, 2012
in Utilities
In order to save space and display the content only when requested, expanding/collapsing panels are used widely. Using jQuery, such a functionality is very easy to implement with methods like toggle, show, hide and several others. jQuery-Collapse is an ultra-lightweight (<1kb minified) plugin built specifically for this case with added features. It allows us to [...]
Tags: Collapsing, content, Expanding, JavaScript, jQuery-Collapse, With
by peterbunny, January 27, 2012
in Utilities
HTML5 Please is an interactive compatibility chart of HTML5/CSS3 features to find out "in which browsers they are supported (or not)". Using a smart search bar, it is possible to filter the results with browser or device support, type (HTML5 or CSS3 elements/properties) and more. Every item is described shortly and an opinion on whether [...]
Tags: Chart, Compatibility, Features, HTML5, HTMLCSS, Info, Please
by peterbunny, January 26, 2012
in Scripts
WordPress offers a huge space for creativity and flexibility when designing and developing new websites. Any type of website can be built on top of it: from blogs to newspapers, corporate websites to landing pages and even social networks. All you need is a theme coded to handle that functionality. Yes, WordPress theme development. That [...]
Tags: Chart, Comparison, Frameworks, Free, Starter, Theme, Themes, With, WordPress
by peterbunny, January 26, 2012
in Utilities
When we need to clip an irregular shape from an image and use it on the web, PNG is the most common answer as it is the only image format used by all web browsers that support alpha channels. However, PNG images come with a penalty of size (if the source is a photograph) compared [...]
Tags: Clipping, Freely, JavaScript, JPEGs, polyClip.js, With
by peterbunny, January 12, 2012
in Ajax
Colors is a standalone JavaScript library that comes with features to manipulate colors in multiple ways. The library can handle multiple types of unit conversions including RGB to a Hexadecimal and Hexadecimal to RGB or HSV. It can get the complimentary color of any Hexadecimal or RGB value and can generate random color values. P.S. [...]
Tags: Colors, JavaScript, Library, Manipulate
by peterbunny, January 12, 2012
in Utilities
You might not now but recently the world's biggest logo marketplace Brandstack.com was acquired by DesignCrowd. It's since been relaunched as BrandCrowd, a marketplace for designers looking to sell any unused logos and for anyone hunting for a logo design. The marketplace is offering a quality experience for both parties; only high-quality designs are accepted [...]
Tags: BrandCrowd, Logos, Sell, Unused
by peterbunny, January 10, 2012
in Ajax
There is always a new challenge for web designers and developers. One of the latest is definitely responsive web design; the art of serving the same web page to multiple devices which look good on all of them. It is a getting-popular approach. As always, there are questioned parts (like the increasing number of screen [...]
Tags: Building, High-Quality, jQuery, Plugins, Responsive, Websites
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