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Spritepad Drag & Drop CSS Sprites Generator

Spritepad Drag & Drop CSS Sprites Generator

Posted 12 April 2012 | By | Categories: CSS, Tools | No Comments

CSS sprites are great for minimizing the number of requests our websites perform by embedding multiple images in a single image and displaying the appropriate ones using background-position. However, once the images are placed on a canvas, finding the positions of each item is a time-consuming process, here comes in SpritePad as an impressive web app.

Building native cross platform applications with JavaScript and jPath

Building native cross platform applications with JavaScript and jPath

Posted 18 August 2011 | By | Categories: Tools | No Comments

jPath is a platform for developing cross – platform native applications using JavaScript and HTML. Project is in “pre-alpha” state, so don’t expect to see very descriptive information on this page. You can download this demo here: Demo 12-07-2011 (jPath + Ace editor)    

20 Free Online CSS3 Generator Tools

20 Free Online CSS3 Generator Tools

Posted 18 July 2011 | By | Categories: CSS, Tools | No Comments

CSS3 has taken web designing to a new platform. With features like css3 rounded corners and text-shadow, designers are no longer required to rely on bulky CSS hacks or graphics. However, with different browsers having their specific implementation of CSS3 it’s a load on designers to remember the syntax for each and every browser. To make [...]

15+ Web developer Tools a Front-end Developer can’t life without

15+ Web developer Tools a Front-end Developer can’t life without

Posted 22 March 2011 | By | Categories: CSS, Tools | No Comments

IE WebDeveloper Toolbar Is a free plugin The Microsoft Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar provides a variety of tools for quickly creating, understanding, and troubleshooting Web pages. Features: Explore and modify the document object model (DOM) of a Web page. Locate and select specific elements on a Web page through a variety of techniques. Selectively disable Internet [...]

Great tips for Making Websites Run Faster

Great tips for Making Websites Run Faster

Posted 24 June 2009 | By | Categories: Tools | No Comments

Installing a fast browser is not always enough to have a good experience when you browse the web: many web pages aren’t optimized for performance. To help webmasters improve their sites, Google launched a new section as part of Google Code: “Let’s make the web faster“, which includes useful articles, videos and downloadable tools.

WPtouch: Automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application

WPtouch: Automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application

Posted 22 June 2009 | By | Categories: Mobile Dev, Tools | No Comments

More than just a plugin, WPtouch is an entire theme package for your WordPress website. Modeled after Apple’s app store design specs, WPtouch makes your WordPress website load lightning fast on touch mobile devices, show your content beautifully, all while not interfering with your regular theme. WPtouch automatically transforms your WordPress blog into a web-application [...]

Aviary launches Falcon image markup editor and Talon for screen capture (Firefox)

Aviary launches Falcon image markup editor and Talon for screen capture (Firefox)

Posted 20 June 2009 | By | Categories: Tools | No Comments

Falcon is a blazing fast visual markup tool that was designed to work with Aviary’s new Firefox Extension (Talon) for screen capture, as well as for stand-alone image preparation.

Playboy looking for Senior Front end Developer

Playboy looking for Senior Front end Developer

Posted 18 June 2009 | By | Categories: Tools | No Comments

Location: Greater Chicago Area URL: http://www.playboyenterprises.com Type: Full-time Experience: Mid-Senior level Functions:Information Technology Industries:Online Media, Internet, Entertainment Posted: June 5, 2009 Pay Description:commensurate with Experience

Styling form controls

Posted 09 April 2008 | By | Categories: Tools | No Comments

Roger Johansson has an in depth, 2 part look at styling form controls across the different operating systems and browsers. A worthy read if you have ever tried to wrangle submit buttons and input boxes into some form of consistency across browsers while trying to tweak their looks. Visit site

Enhancing forms – Unobtrusive Javascript

Posted 09 April 2008 | By | Categories: Javascript, Tools | No Comments

An excellent example of how to use unobtrusive JavaScript for error checking a form prior to submission. The work is available for download, and at the end of the article is provided a sample form and some exercises to help with your understanding with implementing unobtrusive JavaScript on forms. Visit site

Dynamic Help in Web Forms

Posted 09 April 2008 | By | Categories: Tools | No Comments

Luke Wroblewski provides an excellent roundup of different methods being used around the web to provide help with forms. Definitely worth reading as it is a nice collection of patterns to solve the form help issue. Using some images to capture the different strategies, he provides the good and bad of each method, concluding that [...]

Web Usability – Accessible Forms

Posted 08 April 2008 | By | Categories: Tools | No Comments

A nice overview of forms from the accessibility perspective, with examples of how to layout and markup a form, the appearance and how the layout appears when using a screen reader. If you have never experienced the web from a screen reader, be sure to check out these examples. The article touches on form grouping [...]

markItUp! jquery markup editor

Posted 08 April 2008 | By | Categories: Tools | No Comments

We’ve been using jquery for our projects here but are still looking for a decent wysiwyg editor to build into our CSS. This editor is a bit different, in that its not wysiwyg but simply a markup editor, that is it will simply insert tags into your code in a fashion similar to your favorite [...]

Web developer toolbar for Mozilla Firefox

Posted 08 April 2008 | By | Categories: Tools | No Comments

Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. It offers quite a wide array of tools for web developers, such as ruler, css validation, DOM explorer, etc. It has a nice feature when exploring DOM – it displays all the parrent elements – so you can see how any element is nested. [...]

Script.aculo.us Javascript Framework

Posted 06 March 2008 | By | Categories: Tools | No Comments

script.aculo.us is a JavaScript library built on the Prototype JavaScript Framework, providing dynamic visual effects and user interface elements via the Document Object Model. It is most notably included with Ruby on Rails, but also provided separately to work with other web application frameworks and scripting languages. Features script.aculo.us extends the Prototype Javascript Framework by [...]

Mootools the compact javascript framework

Posted 06 March 2008 | By | Categories: Tools | No Comments

MooTools is an open source, compact, and modular object-oriented programming JavaScript web application framework that is made by developers for developers. MooTools makes the process of writing extensible and cross-browser compatible code more efficient, concise and fun. Benefits With MooTools, the developer has the advantage of using: An extensible and modular framework that helps give [...]