When we are talking about fonts, we should not miss this one. Typetester is an online application for comparison of the fonts for the screen. Its’ primary role is to make web designer’s life easier. As the new fonts are bundled into operating systems, the list of the common fonts will be updated. Typetester’s code structure is XHTML, styled with the finest CSS and driven by the JavaScript for manipulating DOM structures. Typetester will not work without JavaScript enabled.
Requirements: Modern Browsers with Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://typetester.maratz.com/
License: License Free
You can create screenshots and screencasts easily for your web application easily now. Jing sits nicely on your desktop, ready to capture and share your stuff at a moment’s notice. Simply select an area of your screen, capture it as an image or record it as a video, and then click Share. Jing conveniently places a URL to your content on your clipboard ready for you to paste the URL into any of your conversations. Your content is hosted on Screencast.com, for which they are providing a complimentary account to all participants during this project. Users have 200MB of space for storing screenshots and screencasts and 1 GB of bandwidth that renews monthly. The Screencast.com account will remain available to you for the duration of the project.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.jingproject.com/
License: License Free
If you ever intend to develop a web application, I believe you have already had the idea what and how the application is. If this is not the case, I do not think meditations at home will help you to get amazing ideas. A web application will be constructive and productive only if they are innovative or tailor-made to demands. I prefer looking around to feel the trend and sense people’s need. There is also plenty of information at the internet. Digg, StumbleUpon and Delicious is such a web site of revealing the trend of needs that I shall not miss.
Inspiration and Design
When the type of application you decided to develop has been finalized, the user interface and the homepage, i.e. the very first thing that users perceive, is the determinant factor whether your application will be successful or not. A good design of the homepage/user interface may attract and so retains users while a bad one shall repulse users forever. Inspiration may flash through your mind. Yet, a look at the high standard CSS Galleries, e.g. CSS Remix and CSS Mania will certainly provides you with much inspiration. You can also enjoy top quality web applications sites like Webware and SEOmoz’s Web 2.0 Awards and see how an intuitive, elegant and yet powerful web applications may be.
Choosing a Framework
Now that the design and features of your web application are ready, you then choose the best or your most familiar programming language to begin with. No matter what programming language you are going to use, I strongly suggest choose one with “frameworkâ€. Read the rest of this entry »
Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions can be a headache for freelancer. TelePro released a sample of Privacy Policy, Copyright Notice and Terms and Conditions for everyone to download without any charge or obligation. You can feel free to use them on your own projects. A link back to Free Website Legal Documents would be appreciated but is not required. On each Legal Document page there is a text symbol Legal Document text symbol and link at the top of the page, to view as plain text. Click the link to view or download the text as plain HTML.
Requirements: Link Back is Appreciated
Demo: http://www.tele-pro.co.uk/pages/legal/
License: License Free
Have you thought of using a set of round social bookmark icons? Vikiworks released a collection of social web application icons including Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, WordPress, Furl, Twitter, Windows live, Blinklist, Blogger, Lifelogger and etc… All icons are sized to 64*64 in PNG format and it’s great to use them on your website or blog. The whole collection is divided into two parts, Social Bookmark Iconset Part I and Social Bookmark Iconset Part II.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: Social Bookmark Iconset Part I
Demo: Social Bookmark Iconset Part II
License: License Free
ShrinkSafe is a JavaScript “compression” system. It can typically reduce the size of your scripts by a third or more, depending on your programming style.
Many other tools also shrink JavaScript files, but ShrinkSafe is different. Instead of relying on brittle regular expressions, ShrinkSafe is based on Rhino, a JavaScript interpreter. This allows ShrinkSafe to transform the source of a file with much more confidence that the resulting script will function identically to the file you uploaded.
Best of all, ShrinkSafe will never change a public variable or API. That means that you can drop the compressed version of your JavaScript into your pages without changing the code that uses it. Many of your Javascript files will be condensed into a single file and compressed.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://alex.dojotoolkit.org/shrinksafe/
License: License Free
Getting your email to look great in all the major email clients can be a challenge at times, so Campaign Monitor has done the hard work for you with 30 free email templates. They have tested them in all the major email clients, so add your own content and you’re all set. Grab all 30 templates in a single 113k zip file from 30 free HTML email templates.
However, not everybody has an email client that can show HTML, and some people just prefer plain text. CampaignMonitor got permission from the creators of three really well designed plain text newsletters to share modified forms of their format with you, which should save you some time and make sure that your plain text readers aren’t missing out. You can view them on Plain text templates and formatting tips.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/templates.aspx
Demo: http://www.campaignmonitor.com/resources/plain-text-templates.aspx
License: License Free
RobotReplay lets you record and watch your website visitors in action. Replay the actual mouse movements of your visitors. View recorded sessions of every mouse movement, click and keystroke. What areas of the page do users spend a lot of time on. Do they appear to get lost? RobotReplay allows us to see where the readers get bored in order to improve the site’s usability and convert more visitors to buyers.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.robotreplay.com/
License: License Free
Free Webmaster Tools and SEO Tools includes Backlink Checker, Google Banned Checker, Pagerank Prediction, Keywords Suggestion, Link Popularity, Search Engine Position, Alexa Traffic Rank and Broken Link Checker, etc. There are a lot more useful tools can be found in iwebtool. We should know our web application/website better in order to improve it.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.iwebtool.com/tools/
License: License Free
Password Strength Meters are becoming more and more popular amongst web services. Google uses one when creating a Google account. The password strength meters wil be updated for every key input the user types. So how does one go about making one of these meters? Code and Coffee created one for us, it calculates how many different combinations there are for the password you enter, then determine how many days it would take to crack your password. The algorithm returns a percentage that he then in turn convert to a nice GUI for the end user to see.
Requirements: Modern Browser with Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://www.codeandcoffee.com/wp-content/uploads/demo.html
License: License Free
