by peterbunny, May 17, 2012
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jQuery Verbose Calendar is a plugin for creating a calendar that displays the whole months and days of a year at the same time. Once loaded, it auto-scrolls to "today" and displays the day names when hovered to any date in a tooltip. The calendar can be inserted into any HTML element with a single [...]
by peterbunny, May 14, 2012
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Info: This is a little different post than you see everyday at WRD. It is a concern that popped up while working on "speeding up stuff" and think/hope it is worth discussing. Please share what you think. I'm usually a fan of hosting all the files used in websites myself, under the same location with [...]
by peterbunny, May 14, 2012
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Socialite.js is a JavaScript library for having more control over social sharing buttons. The library is lightweight (2kb minified-gzipped), standalone and helps the social widgets to load when you want them or only when needed/requested to speed up web pages. It has support for the major players: Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Spotify. There is [...]
by peterbunny, May 9, 2012
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Previously, a post at WRD had shared the 9 well-known and free forum softwares. Here is a fresh alternative named esoTalk, which focuses on removing the complexity of forum apps with a simple + modern interface and functionality. It is built with PHP-MySQL, includes the main features a forum would need and has a plugin system [...]
by peterbunny, May 7, 2012
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For each scripting language, there are various image manipulation libraries for actions like cropping, resizing or optimizing each item. The problem is that some libraries are lacking some features, they may not be available on "that" hosting account, etc. and you may be in need of a better solution. Cloudinary is a web service for [...]
by peterbunny, May 5, 2012
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Responsive GS is a fluid grid CSS framework for developing responsive websites quickly. It has 3 flavors: 12, 16 and 24 columns with media queries for all standard devices, an optional reset and clearfix. The styles for the grid, media queries, reset and IE-specific ones are smartly separated into different CSS files so we can [...]
by peterbunny, May 3, 2012
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dgrid is an open source, advanced and highly flexible datagrid component for Dojo. It makes use of modern web technologies, lightweight in size and runs pretty fast. The functionality can be extended with ready-to-use column plugins (editor, tree, etc.) and extensions (drag 'n' drop, pagination..). Any new ones can be created as well. The look/feel [...]
by peterbunny, May 2, 2012
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CreateJS is a collection of multiple JavaScript libraries which can work independently or together for creating HTML5-powered, interactive experiences. Currently, it consists of 4 libraries: EaselJS – for working with HTML5 canvas TweenJS – a tweening and animation library AudioJS – a cross-browser and consistent audio API PreloadJS – to manage the loading of assets [...]
by peterbunny, May 1, 2012
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Codrops, a creative web design and development blog, has created a detailed tutorial on creating a beautiful slider powered only by HTML and CSS3. The slider not only uses the transition property but also changes the background-position of the given background images accordingly to create a parallax effect. Slides can be browsed either with the [...]
by peterbunny, April 29, 2012
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Parallax scrolling, creating an illusion of depth by moving web elements in different speeds while scrolling, can help offering an attractive browsing experience. Skrollr is a lightweight (7kb minified – 3k gzipped) and standalone JavaScript scrolling animation library that simplifies bringing such parallax effects to life. It allows us to animate the CSS properties of [...]