The State of web development 2010 survey results

April 27th, 2010 - Design, News - No Comments

The results from “The state of web development 2010″ survery conducted by webdirections.org are now available. I can’t really find any surprises in there. Firefox is by far the browser of choice for many web professionals although Google Chrome climbs up to 3rd position behind Safari. jQuery seems to be an industry standard with an 78% of the people who participated using it as their primary javascript framework. HTML5, CSS3 and web fonts are the new kids around and transitional doctypes are still popular. Apache, PHP and mySQL are the most popular Server-side technologies as well.

Demo: http://www.webdirections.org/sotw10/

CSS and jQuery tutorial: Inline Modal Window

April 26th, 2010 - CSS, Frontend, jQuery - No Comments

As the author of this tutorial says, and i totally agree with him, there are times that out of the box solutions for modal windows are not working as they should. Especially when you have to combine scripts things can get really messy. So over at sohtanaka.com you can find a really good tutorial on how to create your own inline modal windows with css and jquery.

Demo: http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/examples/modal-window/

Micro Image Gallery: A jQuery Plugin

April 25th, 2010 - Frontend, jQuery - No Comments

Micro image gallery is a jQuery plugin that will transform a set of images on your website into a miniature gallery. There’s an option to  have previous / next buttons, a grid view and  the size of the gallery can be adjusted (102, 162, 202 px).

Demo: http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/MicroGallery/

Download: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2010/04/19/micro-image-gallery-a-jquery-plugin-2/

Sweet Justice jQuery plugin – Create beautiful justified text

April 23rd, 2010 - Frontend, jQuery - No Comments

Sweet Justice is a jQuery plugin that will take a piece of text and turn it into justified text. It will also insert a soft hyphen if needed. It works with both jQuery and YUI3. If you take a look at the code of this really small plugin (almost 5k) you will see that the author have some conditionals in place. It won’t touch text inside code, pre and abbr tags. There’s also a minimum characters check set on 6 characters. Great little thingy.

Demo: http://carlos.bueno.org/2010/04/sweet-justice.html

Download: http://github.com/aristus/sweet-justice

Mono Columnist: A free wordpress theme by webtoolkit4.me

April 22nd, 2010 - Backend, Free stuff, Wordpress - 10 Comments

Mono Columnist is my first free wordpress theme featured here, in webtoolkit4.me. This theme is very simple, only one column and a footer. No widgets, no troubles, no weird setup. Upload it and start writing. Mono Columnist is free and available in 4 different color schemes. In order to change to the color scheme just open up style.css and uncomment the style that you want. That’s it. Free for both personal and commercial projects but not available for redistribution of any kind. Enjoy!

Demo: http://wordpress.xhtmlme.com/

Download: http://webtoolkit4.me/download/monocolumnist.zip

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