Codrops has created an Interactive Photo Desk with jQuery and CSS3 that provides some “realistic†interaction possibilities for the user. The idea is to have some photos on a surface that can be dragged and dropped, stacked and deleted, each action resembling the real world act.
If we drag a picture, it get’s “picked up” first, making it appear a little bit bigger. Dropping it results in the picture being “thrown back” to the table, in a random rotation. Viewing all photos mirrors the action of collecting all images into a pile and viewing the first one in a none rotated way. Clicking to see the next one then, makes the previous one being thrown back to the surface. Deleting an image will make it appear as a crumpled paper ball. When using the shuffle function, the photos get rotated and spread over the desk randomly.
Requirements: jQuery Framework & CSS3
Demo: http://tympanus.net/Development/PhotoDesk/
License: License Free
Tutorialzine has written a simple jQuery tooltip plugin called Colortip. It converts the title attributes of elements within your page, into a series of colorful tooltips. Six color themes are available, so you can easily match it with the rest of your design.
You can also easily create your own tooltip designs by just including three additional style classes to your stylesheet and adding an element to the supported colors array in colortip-1.0-jquery.js.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://demo.tutorialzine.com/2010/07/colortips-jquery-tooltip…
License: License Free
MapBox is a suite of open source tools for creating custom maps in Amazon’s cloud infrastructure. MapBox’s TileMill toolkit is a fully configured open source tile rendering engine designed to create maps using any data set, whether your private data or freely available public sources.
MapBox.com also makes large public data sets available for easy access and use. Combining TileMill and these data sets together, MapBox provides the framework that we use to make some of the most beautiful custom maps in the world.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://mapbox.com/
License: License Free
Beautiful Photo Stack Gallery with jQuery and CSS3 tells us how to create a nice and fresh image gallery. The idea is to show the albums as a slider, and when an album is chosen, we show the images of that album as a beautiful photo stack. In the photo stack view, we can browse through the images by putting the top most image behind all the stack with a slick animation.
We will use jQuery and CSS3 properties for the rotated image effect. We will also use the webkit-box-reflect property in order to mirror the boxes in the album view – check out the demo in Google Chrome or Apple Safari to see this wonderful effect.
Requirements: PHP Framework, jQuery Framework
Demo: http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/PhotoStack/
License: License Free
Mac-like Icon Dock (v2) is a “Mac OS X” style icon dock, built entirely in XHTML/CSS and with smooth animation using jQuery/JavaScript. As from the demo, and unlike many other icon docks, the navigation works with no JavaScript. This is very important as the website should still be accessible with JavaScript disabled.
Each icon can have a scalable image and a title. As the image is dynamically resized, it is up to the browser to smoothly render the icon. You can also have a look at jqDock or other Fish Eye Menus.
Requirements: All Browsers except IE6
Demo: http://www.aplweb.co.uk/jQuery/Mac_Dock_v2/
License: License Free
Millions of entrepreneurs struggle to communicate their ideas on a web product they’re working on. Fast, easy, specific, contextual visual feedback is crucial to creating killer products. Bounce opens up an ability to give visual feedback to everyone. And best of all, it’s free and there is no signup required.
You can make some notes for every screenshot you made on Bounce. Simply click anywhere on your screenshot, and type in what you want to say. You can also change the size and location of your note to highlight exactly what you want. You can share the screenshot easily, at the same time, they can make their own notes, save them, and bounce them!
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.bounceapp.com/
License: License Free
Launchlist is intended to help and encourage web designers and developers to check their work before exposing it to the world at large.
The process is simple – Enter your name and email and the same for a recipient, your project details and website URL, and then proceed through the list of provided fields. If a question is irrelevant, you can tick N/A and it will be disregarded. You can even add your own custom fields at the bottom of the checklist if required.
Once submitted, you and your recipient/s will receive a report of your checklist with a summary for your records. Launchlist is and always will be free to use.
Source: http://launchlist.net/
If you’re building a multi-language website or app, you probably use language files. When you change content in one language file, you need to remember to update the other language files. Even with source control, this can get messy pretty quickly if you have many languages, many translators or a large site.
String was built to keep things organized. It can manage your language files – from PHP to PO to Rails to iPhone apps. Import and export easily. You can now easily add languages and sections to your site. You can also invite users and control permissions. String is free, with no project limits. Invite as many users as you like. You’re free to extract all your data and close your project at any time.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://mygengo.com/string/
License: License Free
The spirit20 icon set consists of almost 500 transparent PNGs at 20×20 pixels, and is completely free to use for both personal and commercial projects. No attribution is required. It includes icons documents, media, system, internet, mail, hardware, users, actions and misc.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.19eighty7.com/icons
License: License Free
Each language, and the countries that speak that language, have different expectations when it comes to how numbers (including currency and percentages) and dates should appear.
Obviously, each language has different names for the days of the week and the months of the year. But they also have different expectations to the structure of dates, such what order the day, month and year are in. In number formatting, not only does the character used to deliniate number groupings and the decimal portion, but the placement of those characters differ.
A user using an application should be able to read and write dates and numbers in the format they are accustomed to. The jQuery Globalization plugin makes this possible, providing an API to convert user-entered numbers and dates in their own format into real numbers and dates, and conversely, to format numbers and dates into that format.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2010/06/10/jquery-globalization…
License: License Free
