50+ New Handpicked Goodies For Web Developers & Designers For April 2013

As web developers, web designers and graphic designers, we constantly looking at the sheer amount of new resources, tools and applications that we can tap into increases exponentially with time.

And here is just a quick look at some recently created resources that deserve your attention — everything from some great JavaScript & jQuery Plugins that give you a flexible & customisable tooltip, a plugin that check your content against accessibility guidelines, or a plugin that use HTML5 canvas to create some pretty awesome charts to name a few jQuery plugins that you will find below.

I’ve also included some apps for your apple devices and some apps for the web, to some awesome CSS resources, responsive frameworks, a site that check if your website is responsive. And to those lovers of WordPress I’ve included some themes and plugins both free and premium and finally I’ve also included some great design files that you can use.

JavaScript & jQuery

PowerTip

PowerTip features a very flexible design that is easy to customize, gives you a number of different ways to use the tooltips, has APIs for developers, and supports adding complex data to tooltips. It is being actively developed and maintained, and provides a very fluid user experience.

Freebie Thursday – 28th of February – BisLite Business Website PSD Template

Today’s freebie is a modern business website PSD template in Photoshop format. Named as BisLite, the website template comes in three pages — home, portfolio and contact us.  This means there are three PSD files in the zip file. This is a four column template, and you can code it into a WordPress or HTML5 fully responsive website for your business, personal or portfolio need.

The download comes in 3 PSD files each of which is created using full shape layers wherever necessary for easy editing. So, go ahead and grab the files at the end of this post and let me know what you think of the design in the comment box. As always, you can use this PSD freebie for both personal and commercial use such as for your clients.

Download from GraphicsFuel

Freebie Tuesday 11th of December – Madison Website PSD Template

This vintage wood style web site template perfect for showcase, featuring a retro-friendly website layout that you can use it preferably for showcasing and offering your services as a freelancer creative or to featured some product.

Download from Luis Zuno

 

14 New Tools & Resources For Web Developers

If you’re a web developer, you’re almost certainly constantly looking for ways to improve your skills, expand your technology arsenal, and keep on top of the latest trends in development and design. Today’s post is mostly based on some nice and very well developed jQuery plugins and JavaScript , web applications, frameworks and wireframes.

JavaScript & jQuery

1. stickyMojo

stickyMojo is a contained sticky sidebar plugin for jQuery. It is lightweight, fast, flexible and compatible with Firefox, Chrome, Safari, and IE8+. It will degrade gracefully in older versions of IE.

2. sketch.js

sketch.js is a tiny (~5k) boilerplate for creating JavaScript based creative coding experiments. The demo shows what can be done with just a few lines of code.  It handles all that tedious but necessary stuff that would normally slow you down – setting up an animation loop, creating and managing a graphics context for Canvas or WebGL, cross browser and device event binding and normalisation for mouse, touch and keyboard events, handling window resizes

WordPress Wednesday – 10 Newest Plugins From The WordPress.org Plugins Directory

One of the best things about WordPress is its seemingly the endless list of plugins that all providing some sort of enhanced functionality over the other to improve the overall wordpress experience.

Dozens of new WordPress Plugins are released every single month, which means that anyone that has a wordpress powered website should constantly be on the lookout for these to ensure that their site is completely optimised and up-to-date. Today’s WordPress Wednesday post featured 10 of the newest wordpress plugins that you can find within the wordpress.org plugin directory

1.  Theme-Check

The theme check plugin is an easy way to test your theme and make sure it’s up to spec with the latest theme review standards. With it, you can run all the same automated testing tools on your theme that WordPress.org uses for theme submissions.

The tests are run through a simple admin menu and all results are displayed at once. This is very handy for theme developers, or anybody looking to make sure that their theme supports the latest WordPress theme standards and practices.

22 + New Resources, Tools, Fonts & Apps For Kick-Ass Web Developers

As web developers, we constantly looking at the sheer amount of new resources, tools and applications that we can tap into increases exponentially with time. Here is just a quick look at some recently created resources that deserve your attention — everything from new tool that will check your JavaScript or validate your freshly made CSS, or give you a creative advantage with the newest jquery plugins and some great free fonts.

JavaScript & jQuery

Complexify.js – jQuery Plugin

Complexify aims to provide a good measure of password complexity for websites to use both for giving hints to users in the form of strength bars, and for casually enforcing a minimum complexity for security reasons.

Freebie Thursday 5th of July – Halftone Home PSD

Retro style page layout great for product and showcase and in the nearest future you can find the HTML version of the awesome psd file.
Download from Luis Zuno Blog

30+ New Resources, Tools & Apps For Kick-Ass Web Developers

If you are looking for a tool that will check your Javascript or validate your freshly made CSS, or give you an creative advantage with the newest jquery plugins, or do you need the help to create an image sprite, or a new HTML5 Canvas library, or even learning a new CSS framework.

Well today’s post is just for you as we look into what the newest tools, resources and apps that been released in the web development industry.

Javascript & jQuery Plugins

TimelineJS

TimelineJS can pull in media from different sources. It has built in support for:Twitter, Flickr, Google Maps, YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Wikipedia, SoundCloud and more media types in the future. Creating one is as easy as filling in a Google spreadsheet or as detailed as JSON.

Freebie Thursday 1st of March – Free Web UI Elements Kit

The beginning of a new month always brings new changes. In our case the beginning of a new month brings to our dearest users another freebie. This time it’s about a cool Web User Interface Kit (Set) PSD, HTML + CSS + jQuery, that was specially made for DesignModo by DesignModo friends at Pixeden.

Download from DesignModo

Why You Should Validate Your HTML

Validation of your code is often overlook in the benefits that provides developers and designers. It’s possible to code HTML and have websites to initially work properly. But all coding languages have rules for properly syntax, grammar and vocabulary and browsers problems could arise in times when the browser receives new updates to keep with the online advances.

Those who don’t take their time to validate their HTML websites may find that their newly website may work well initially but problems will arise later to the design code being 100% right plus validating your code will make you a better coder in the later in your career. Today we will be going through the reason why you should always validate.