Dynamo.js is a dead-simple way to generate dynamic bits of HTML and add subtle effects to your content. Dynamo is the subtle way to add a new dimension to your site content. Cycle through various bits of text to add subtle variations to your work, or to draw attention to portions of your webpage.
Implementing dynamo with your content involves little setup. Wrap your text in a container, specify the lines you want to cycle through, and start the engine with $(‘#target’).dynamo(). Dynamo works with the help of jQuery.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Download Link: http://prezjordan.github.com/dynamo.js/
License: MIT License
Canvas Query is a wrapper library for HTML5 Canvas element which allows it to be used with jQuery like syntax. Also it adds a lot of common use image manipulation methods mainly convenient for gamedevelopers. Wrapper will adopt all original Canvas2DContext methods and properties.
CanvasQuery provides methods chaining similar to jQuery. You have access to all original context methods + many additional features. Additionally Canvas Query contains micro framework (~1KB) which allows you to quickly deploy bare bones canvas application with mouse and keyboard. Especially useful for javascript playgrounds.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Download Link: http://canvasquery.com/
License: MIT License
The difference between a 5 step registration flow and a single step registration flow is less than the difference between a single step registration flow and none at all.
The goal of this article is to present arguments for why using Gradual Engagement is a good design principle for web and mobile applications. The ideas listed below are directly drawn from our experience of using Gradual Engagement principles when designing Filepicker.io.
When you’re designing your new-user flow for your website or mobile app, the de-facto approach is to send them as soon as possible to a registration page. But there’s another way, a way that emphasizes gradually building a relationship with your user before asking them to register for an account. It’s called Gradual Engagement and can be surprisingly effective at increasing your overall conversion rate and user stickiness. While gradual engagement is not a new concept, it’s increasingly important in this era of mobile apps and social logins. Read the rest of this entry »
MUELLER is a modular grid system for responsive/adaptive and non–responsive layouts, based on Compass. You have full control over column width, gutter width, baseline grid and media–queries.
You mainly get the file grid_system, this is where the system is defined. All other parts (media, layouts, fractions, templates) are just examples of how to work with MUELLER. MUELLER is licensed under BSD.
Requirements: –
Download Link: http://www.muellergridsystem.com/
License: BSD License
Breeze is a JavaScript library that helps you manage data in rich client applications. If you store data in a relational database, query and save those data as complex object graphs, and share these graphs across multiple screens of your JavaScript client, Breeze is for you.
Business data objects mirror your server-side model. Breeze creates them dynamically. Their properties bind to UI controls so the UI updates when your data model changes. Each object knows when it has changed and what has changed.
Breeze works out-of-the-box with all modern browsers on desktop and mobile devices. These browsers implement the current JavaScript standard, known as ECMAScript 5 (ES5), which Breeze uses internally. Breeze is free and open source through the MIT license.
Requirements: JavaScript
Download Link: http://www.breezejs.com/
License: MIT License
New browsers like Internet Explorer 10 have advanced touch experiences using gesture events. There are a few first steps you can do to make sure to help your site become touch-friendly yet also have it work well across many input devices while supporting many modern browsers. In this article, I’ll show you how.
Let’s start with a gesture events is the Browser Surface Test Drive demo:
This introduces gesture recognition objects in JavaScript. Sites can create gesture objects, decide which pointers (mouse, pen, or touch contacts) to process, and direct the gesture events at whatever element is desired. The browser then calculates what gesture is being performed and notifies the page via events. This enables developers to build gesture experiences not yet natively possible in any other browser. These include multiple concurrent gestures, for example, rotating two puzzle pieces with your hands.
Let’s take a look at how this works in code. Read the rest of this entry »
Hugo Giraudel offered a great overview of the CSS clip property and the rect() function. Codrops has published a tutorial: Putting CSS Clip to Work – Expanding Overlay Effect, which is going to create a neat and simple effect for revealing some extra content and expanding a fullscreen overlay.
The article will teach you how to leverage the CSS clip property to make a smooth transition when clicking on a box element. The idea is to show some kind of overlay as if it’s actually underneath the respective element. Clicking an element will create a cut-out effect, revealing another layer that will expand.
Requirements: CSS
Download Link: http://tympanus.net/Tutorials/ExpandingOverlayEffect/
License: License Free
Web Lab is made of up 5 Chrome Experiment installations that bring the extraordinary workings of the internet to life and aims to inspire the world about the possibilities of the web.
The installations make up a year-long public exhibition at the Science Museum, London and can be interacted with by anyone, anywhere at chromeweblab.com.
Worldwide visitors both on and offline will be able to make music with people across the world; launch information into cyberspace and see where images on the web live; watch their portrait being processed, translated, and then drawn in sand by a robot; and travel instantly to far away places all over the world.
Source: http://www.chromeweblab.com/
With the continued adoption of advanced CSS by browsers, we are starting to have the ability to do more and more using just CSS. As we have seen, you can make all kinds of crazy shapes with only CSS. On a recent client project, Trevor Davis has created a grid of diamonds with CSS and shared the tutorial: Who Says the Web is Just for Squares?
He is using Modernizr to detect if the browser supports CSS3 Transforms. And, he is using Sass and Compass for all of the CSS. You may now go forth and make some creative layout with different shapes.
Requirements: Sass and Compass CSS
Download Link: http://davist11.github.com/css-diamond-grid/
License: License Free
#50C1AL is a jQuery Plugin for Listing accounts and Sharing page. There are some options for animations like launchpad, launchpadReverse, slideTop, slideRight, slideBottom, slideLeft and chain effect.
It supports blogger, delicious, digg, facebook, friendfeed, google, linkedin, myspace, pinterest, reddit, stumbleupon, tumblr, twitter, windows and yahoo. You can also make the background blur easily as well.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Download Link: http://tolgaergin.com/files/social/
License: License Free
