Vacation time for me, free stuff for you: Win a copy of Stylizer for windows and Pixelmator for Mac OS X

August 16th, 2009 - Free stuff - 37 Comments

Hi everyone, it’s this time of the year again where i have to take a break and recharge my batteries. So before leaving my RSS feed alone for about 15 days i decided to give away 2 small but powerful apps to 2 lucky readers. So here they are then:

Stylizer for Windows users

For our windows friends it’s Stylizer. If you don’t know what this is, well you should give it a try. It’s a CSS editor but not like every other editor. It approaches things in a visual way but with 100% control over your stylesheet. If you manage to spend the first 15 “uncomfortable” minutes and manage (which is really easy) to find your way around, well you don’t go back. It just rocks.

Pixelmator photo editor for Mac users

Yes i do know Photoshop is the industry standard but for Pixelmator’s price, well, i don’t think you will find anything similar to this. Here’s you chance to win a copy of this little gem.

All you have to do is leave a comment (and choose the product that you would like to win) . Yeap that’s it, nothing else. I will pick up the winners on September 1st when i get back to the office. Good luck everyone and see you in 2 weeks!

Inspiration: web design trends in 2009 (and probably 2010): Where are we heading?

August 15th, 2009 - Design, Inspiration - 56 Comments

Big photography, huge typography, sketches, nature and sliders. There are other “trends” as well but i believe these are the elements used mostly in today’s web design world and will be used next year as well. In this post I’ve got 4  sites for each of  the 5 categories i mentioned earlier.

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Riding carousels with jQuery, Mootools, YUI and Prototype

August 14th, 2009 - Frontend, Javascript - No Comments

Carousels are everywhere. We can see them in many blogs and portals. It’s actually a good way to group content like images, new articles etc and get more attention for these items. With the explosion of javascript frameworks, it’s impossible not to find a carousel script for the framework of your choice. Here’s a list of 4 carousel scripts for jQuery, MooTools, YUI and Prototype: Read the rest of this post »

6 jQuery growl-like notification systems

August 13th, 2009 - Frontend, jQuery - 22 Comments

Growl-like notifications seems to be a usable way to inform users about the status of their actions. There are many jQuery plugins that provide this kind of functionality and here’s a list of 6 growl-like notification scripts.

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8 fonts for developers you’ve probably never heard before

August 12th, 2009 - Design, Typography - 15 Comments

When you are in front of the screen for more than 10 hours a day writing code, it’s crucial to select a proper font for your editor. In my opinion it should always be monospaced and clear enough to avoid headaches. It should also be supported by best hosting.

In this post you will find 8 not so famous fonts that you could use and most of them are available only for Windows. Mac users enjoy by default really nice fonts (Monaco, Inconsolata, Panic Sans etc) so there’s no need to bother anyway :)

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