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

What’s New For Web Designers & Developers In January 2012

It’s January and many of us are back at work no whether if it freelance or working for a agency etc. Finding what’s new for web designers and developers is always great as there are many great products such as new web apps, frameworks, jQuery plugins, colour tools, and great new fonts. Many of the resources featured in this post are free or cost are just a few dollars, and are sure to be useful to a lot of designers and developers out there.

ResponsiveSlides.js

ResponsiveSlides.js is a tiny jQuery plugin that creates a responsive slideshow using images inside a single container. It work with wide range of browsers including all IE versions from IE6 and up. It also adds css max-width support for IE6 and other browsers that don’t natively support it. Only dependency is jQuery and that all the images are same size.