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The HTML 5 specification includes lots of new features, one of which is the canvas element. HTML 5 canvas gives you an easy and powerful way to draw graphics using JavaScript. For each canvas element you can use a “context” (think about a page in a drawing pad), into which you can issue JavaScript commands to draw anything you want.
Uni-Form is an attempt to standardize form markup (xhtml) andcss, “modularize” it, so even people with only basic knowledge of these technologies can get nice looking, well structured, highly customizable, semantic, accessible and usable forms.
The Web Development Project Estimator is a simple tool that allows web designers and site developers to quickly and thoroughly estimate the time and materials required for a proposed web project.
Formy is CSS Framework for better form management.
Accessible News Slider is a JavaScript plugin built for the jQuery library. It meets the accessibility requirements as outlined by WCAG 1.0.
The jQuery SWFObject plugin is an addon for jQuery that offers SWFObject’s unique functionality of embedding Flash content using the internal jQuery API.
Since its inception in 1996, CSS has provided a way of displaying these other weights through use a numerical scale with the font-weight property. This is still almost entirely broken in every current browser except Firefox 3 on Mac.
A range of CSS tests concerning selectors and pseudo selectors.
The HTML5 specification has added quite a few interesting and useful tags for structuring your markup. For a majority of everyday uses, these tags will replace many of our typical diventries from our code. So let’s dig in.
A way to explore the popular typefaces you have on your computer from within your browser
The new 17-inch MacBook Pro, the most powerful Mac notebook ever. Enjoy the ultimate mobile creative studio with up to 8 hours of battery life.
PX to EM conversion made simple.
Taking a page out of Apple’s book, Google is now urging Gmail users to drop Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) in favor of Firefox or Chrome that, according to the company, run the popular web-based email service “twice as fast.” Google also labels IE6 as an unsupported browser, meaning it fails to run some Gmail features.
Jquery Slideshow Plugin. Easily create a custom carousel including many different transition & easing options.
A set of methods that provide an inline, customizable way to show JavaScript alerts, confirmations, and prompts.
Espresso, the highly-anticipated web design and development platform from MacRabbit (creators of CSSEdit), has been released as a public beta
Simply put, usability is making your website easy for your visitors to find the information they need when they need it.
Things is a beautifully focused and amazingly intuitive task manager. Other task managers either oversimplify or are too difficult to use. Either way you are not getting stuff done. Things instead has the right balance between ease of use and powerful features.
This tool can significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names.
WP-Invoice lets WordPress blog owners send itemized invoices to their clients. Ideal for web developers, SEO consultants, general contractors, or anyone with a WordPress and clients to bill.
Yahoo! makes a lot of structured data available to developers, primarily through its web services. These services require developers to locate the right URLs and documentation to access and query them which can result in a very fragmented experience.
Online grid builder
The plugin’s functionality is so simple because it’s designed to do only one thing: set all elements you specify to the same height.
Are you looking for some useful tips to improve the look and features of your standard HTML FORM elements?
background-image + background-repeat + background-position + 24-bit PNGs for Internet Explorer 6 (…Better late than never!)
Hyphenation increases the visual appeal of your web site. When jus ti fy ing text with out hyphen ation, word spac ing is dis tract ingly large. With left-aligned text, the right edge will be unnec es sar ily ragged.
The Grid System is an ever-growing resource where graphic designers can learn about grid systems, the golden ratio and baseline grids.
WDDP is a collective of young and talented people from different backgrounds, but having the same interest in capturing things. They do graphics, web, chatting, browsing, fixing broken mainboards, tees, exhibitions, canvases, walking around malls, babysitting, anything. but none of them do photos. no they don’t.
Emastic beta 3 comes with some structural improvements percent-grid.css and absolute-grid.css. These components will give even more flexibility, elasticity and absolute positioning. Also semantic.css to improve the naming convention and code organization.
Via CSSGlobe
So what does it mean to prototype with XHTML? Essentially, it’s the process of using the XHTML itself, and related technologies, to evolve and define your design solution. And what does an XHTML prototype look like?
Revisit the original creative brief, just because your designing something you like - doesn’t mean the client will like it. You have to look at the age group and demographic target your trying to reach, all these things are very important and you should take extra steps to not lose site of this.
Now, Microsoft, who’ve been doing some interesting microformats related things with hSlices have released some excellent microformats oriented tools and more.
Via: microformatique
Instead of creating images or using flash just to show your site’s graphic text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and write in plain HTML and CSS, just as if your visitors had the font installed locally.
In this guest article, Jacen Nicely goes through the first hand personal experiences of becoming a freelance designer detailing the emotions and the three phases of the process (research, planning and implementation) of going from frustrated to a full time freelancer. This article is applicable to all freelancers, not just designers.
For Indonesian Freelancer’s, check this out!
Perhaps you’re feeling slightly uncomfortable about the example we’ve just seen—after all, haven’t web standards advocates like myself been insisting for years that you shouldn’t be using tables for layout?
