Diagrams are great, because they are a very simple and extremely efficient way to intelligibly represent even the most complex ideas. But drawing diagrams can also be very complicated, simply because most diagramming softwares require you to draw.
Lovely Charts is an online diagramming application, that allows you to create professional looking diagrams of all kinds, such as flowcharts, sitemaps, organisation charts, wireframes, and many more… for free.
With Lovely Charts’s extremely simple and intuitive drag’n drop drawing mechanism, you’ll be able to focus on what really matters. You won’t have to draw boxes and arrows, you won’t have to worry about what symbol to use.
Source: Lovely Charts
While designing web pages, computer applications, or house interiors, we need to find good color scheme – set of colors producing the best impression. For every tint there are colors which it can coexist with, and which it can’t. Some combinations are uncomfortable, or disturbing – while others are pleasant.
Experienced designers choose colors intuitively, many people can smell which colors go together well and which don’t. However, finding the good combination of colors may be sometimes long and gruelling work. The color theory makes the work easier. Color Scheme Designer will find set of colors you can start with, and it may facilitate your looking for the optimal color palette.
Color Scheme Designer generates color schemes of several types. Every scheme is based on one (base) color, which is supplemented with additional colors making together the best optical imperssion – using one of the authentic algorithms.
Color Scheme Designer V3 has launched recently with A brand new interface, as well as the engine, all rewritten from the scratch. Rapidly increased precision and color space conversions, better preview, enhanced scheme creation system, unique scheme IDs and permanent URL of the scheme.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://colorschemedesigner.com/
License: BY-NC-SA License
Until some future version of HTML gives us new native controls to use in a browser, at Google, they have been playing and experimenting with controls they call “Custom Buttons†in their apps (among other custom controls). These buttons just launched in Gmail and Google Reader recently.
The buttons are designed to look very similar to basic HTML input buttons. But they can handle multiple interactions with one basic design. The buttons we’re using are imageless, and they’re created entirely using HTML and CSS, plus some JavaScript to manage the behavior. They’re also easily skinnable with a few lines of CSS, which was a key factor now that Gmail has themes.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://stopdesign.com/archive/2009/02/04/recreating-the-button.html
License: License Free
JS Charts is a free JavaScript based chart generator that requires little or no coding. With JS Charts drawing charts is a simple and easy task, since you only have to use client-side scripting (i.e. performed by your web browser). No additional plugins or server modules are required. Just include the scripts, prepare your chart data in XML or JavaScript Array and your chart is ready.
JS Charts lets you create charts in different templates like bar charts, pie charts or simple line graphs. It’s compatible with most web browsers. And it is It’s free to use and watermark-free.
Requirements: Firefox 1.5 +, IE 6, Safari 3.1 +, Opera 9 +
Demo: http://www.jscharts.com/examples
License: Creative Commons 3.0 License
Customer support is very important to a successful web application. No matter what web application you have developed, you need a easy to use customer support system for your users. So that they can contact you easily when they have encountered any problems. And then you can provide them quick responses.
HelpDesk Pilot is a web based Help Desk and Trouble Ticket System. With a robust email parser Helpdesk Pilot enables you to turn customer emails into tickets. You can reply to many tickets at once using the Mass Reply feature. Ideally you can send mass reply to all tickets that have raised the question, bug or issue. Every action on a ticket by any member of the application is tracked. This activity log is available below every ticket, ordered chronologically.
I found Installing Helpdesk Pilot is very easy and takes only a few minutes. It runs on any server supports PHP and MySQL. The user interface looks very clean and intuitive on both the admin and customer area. I am sure you are able to provide better customer service and turn requests around much quicker with Helpdesk Pilot. Overall, it is one of the best web based help desk systems you can find.
There are over 11,000 active customers in over 60 countries using Helpdesk Pilot. You can see some big names, e.g. at&t, verizon, IBM and etc… It is free to get started with Helpdesk Pilot by taking a 15-day trial hosted on their servers. Why not give it a try?
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Demo: http://www.helpdeskpilot.com/helpdesk/demo.php
License: 15-day Trial
A New jQuery plugin: imgPreview allows your users to preview an image before clicking on it and, out of necessity, will preload the image so when a user does click through to it there is no waiting time.
The image preview shows up in a tooltip-like box appearing alongside the user’s cursor when hovering over a link. The plugin is entirely unobtrusive; it does not require any hooks to target specific links (no non-semantic classes); it will automatically detect the anchors that are linking to images and will only apply the preview effect to them.
Additionally, it allows for quite a high level of customisation with Callback functions as well. You can also specify a thumbnail prefix for images. So, it won’t take too long time to load larger images.
Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/new-jquery-plugin-imgpreview/
License: License Free
Have you migrate your feeds hosted on Feedburner to Google’s servers yet? We have just completed the migration one week ago, and It looks like my feeds are working normally. All of us should perform the migration as soon as possible because Google has announced that they expect to get all the feeds transferred by February 28, and after that day Feedburner feeds will start reporting a 404.
Feed Compare and Feed Analysis has released new versions that support migrated Google Feeds recently. You can analysis the growth of your own feed and compare it with your competitors. However, if you have not completed the migration yet, they are not working for you. So, what are you waiting for?
Source: http://www.blogperfume.com/feed-analysis/
Source: http://www.feedcompare.com/
Jamie was looking around many of the tutorial sites there are hardly any Calendar systems. Therefore, he has developed a Calendar System using MySQL and Script.aculo.us. There are 3 main parts, the Javascript, the HTML and the PHP script. You can change the date with the form and it will update the calendar without having to reload the entire page, AJAX style.
Setting up the Calendar System is easy. Simply copy the entire calendar into whatever directory you want. Create your database and import the “databaseSQL.sql” file into it, this will create the default data for running it. And then, alter the “databaseConnection.php” file to show your connection details.That should be it.
Requirements: Prototype, Script.aculo.us Framework, PHP, MySQL
Demo: http://nodstrum.com/wp-content/plugins…
License: License Free
The SitePoint online CSS and HTML references have been available for some time now, and have already become a valued source of free information for web designers and developers around the world. Recently, Sitepoint has announced a shiny new look to the SitePoint Reference Site and the highly anticipated first release of JavaScript Reference Information.
The look and feel of the old reference site has been completely replaced with a brand new slick, easy-to read design, including interactive examples, improved navigation, page layout and much more…
Source: SitePoint CSS, HTML & JavaScript Online References
Stephen Bau has been looking for a means of rapidly developing interactive prototypes for his site designs. He has been building a library of commonly used HTML elements, combining these with CSS for typography and layout.
He finally created Fluid 960 Grid System Templates (960 pixel fixed width, 12-column fluid width and 16-column fluid width) which have been built upon the work of Nathan Smith and his 960 Grid System using effects from the Mootools JavaScript library.
These templates are offered free of charge in accordance with the applicable licenses for 960 Grid System and Mootools.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://designinfluences.com/fluid960gs/
License: GPL, MIT License
