Archive For December, 2010

36 articles

Breathtaking Twitter Resources: Creative Profiles, Monitoring Tools and Directories

Twitter is a social networking and micro-blogging service that allows you to keep your followers and friends update by sending short text messages, called tweets. Creative Twitter Profiles For those who may prefer a more personal look and feel when browsing the site, twitter has given you the option to customize your profile. When you design your profile page, everything you see…

Open Source IDE for Ruby and Rails Applications: Aptana RadRails 2

Aptana RadRails 2 is a free, open source and professional integrated development environment (IDE) for Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications. It includes extensive capabilities to build Ruby and Rails applications in addition to support for HTML, CSS and JavaScript editing. It comes with many features including support for project navigation, smart code assistance, visual debugging and structure outlining. It comes as…

JavaScript Framework for Mobile and Touch Devices: DHTMLX Touch

DHTMLX Touch is an HTML5-based JavaScript framework for building mobile web applications. It’s not just a set of UI widgets, but a complete framework that allows you to create eye-catching, cross-platform web applications for mobile and touch-screen devices. The framework is compatible with the major web browsers for mobile platforms. Applications built with DHTMLX Touch will run smoothly on iPad, iPhone,…

Design Interview: Ryan Scherf

Today we bring you, a transcript of our rendezvous with a design mogul from Minneapolis, with a decade's worth of experience, Ryan Scherf. Ryan Scherf is a designer, developer, entrepreneur and husband from Minneapolis, MN, USA. He has been a freelance designer for over 10 years under his personal brand: http://ryanscherf.net. When he is not slaving away at night to…

jQuery Social Media Plugin: SMover

SMover (Social Media hover, pronounced smother) is a jQuery social media plugin that hides away social media icons and only displays them when the user hovers on a call to action. It’s also really small, just 4kb compressed! [rss]Special Downloads[/rss] [rss]Feedback Collection and Polling Widget[/rss] [rss]Free Creative Resume Template[/rss] [rss]Open Source Icons[/rss] [rss]Free Minimal Wordpress Theme[/rss]

Shortest PHP Web Framework: ShortPHP

ShortPHP is a small, ultra-light weight and open source PHP web framework. The code is less than 4KB in size and currently is just under 100 lines. In some ways you could say that it follows the MVC (Model-view-Controller) paradigm, but since it has no database-related code (it is 100% file-based) it's more of a VC (View-Controller) - It's up…

Photoshop-like Guide Lines In FireFox: FoxGuide

Guides are useful for laying out elements symmetrically, structure a design and improving the overall layout. foxGuide is a firefox extension that displays horizontal and vertical guides in your firefox browser. Guides will appear as thin lines that float over the webpage. You can move or remove them just the way you do it Photoshop. [rss]Special Downloads[/rss] [rss]Feedback Collection and Polling…

Cursor Following Floating Navigation Menu Plugin

A floating navigation menu jQuery plugin that follows the moving cursor, built with the jQuery framework and CSS. The floating menu is minimal with discreet float animation to avoid obtrusiveness and help usability. The end result features simple markup, two levels navigation and easy styling via CSS. This floating navigation menu plugin comes with a built-in feature that animates the…

High Quality Free PSD Vector Icons: IconSweets2

Yummygum has previously shared a set of 60 free PSD vector icons, IconSweets. IconSweets2 is another collection of 1000+ high quality free PSD vector icons, perfectly suitable for iPhone & iPad apps or for your new web project. It contains 400+ icons both in 64x64 and 32x32 and 292 icons in 16x16, all created as vector Photoshop shapes. You may…

Free Minimal WordPress Theme: Ginimalistic

Usually, a lot of colors and design elements can make a design jump off the screen but sometimes, good typography and balanced use of space is better than the design which is overloaded with colors, images and too much CSS. Ginimalistic is a Free Minimal WordPress Theme crafted specially for designers, developers and writers. It comes with a simple and…