Weebly, a very easy-to-use, popular & web-based website-builder service has just opened its theme gallery to all designers.

And, to celebrate this, they launched a design contest with $13,000 in prizes which the entries will be judged by well-known designers:

• Michael Cronan (acknowledged with the naming and identities of Tivo and Verio and naming the Amazon Kindle)
• Scott Thomas (former design director of Obama for America)
• Jason Putorti (former lead designer of Mint.com)
• Andrew Wilkinson (Founder, MetaLab)
• Dustin Curtis
• Rob Martin

Prizes are $10,000 for the winner, $2000 for the 2nd & $1000 for the 3rd position.

Creating a theme for Weebly is very easy as you don't have to worry for the HTML-CSS. Just focus on the creativity, design a layered PSD & Weebly team will convert it for you.

If the design created is not one of the winners, it may still be added to the themes database by Weebly & designers will be credited.

Deadline for submitting designs is April 30th, 2010 & it is open to everyone.

To read more and join the contest, check the contest page.

P.S. This post is a sponsored review.

CSS3, Please! is a web-based & simple-yet-effective cross-browser CSS3 rules generator.

As every browser may require different prefixes for the CSS3 properties, this tool makes it so easy by providing them all with an editable & well-commented way where the output can be seen instantly.

Currently, it helps you write the rules for: border-radius, box-shadow, linear-gradients, rotation & @font-face. Some other transforms like skew & scale will be added soon.

For some transforms, that Internet Explorer can support via IE filters, they are mentioned too.

SlimStat is an open source web analytics application that collects & presents statistics information about your website.

It is built with PHP-MySQL & can be integrated into websites with JavaScript (like Google Analytics) or PHP.

For  the given period, the application can display:

• the number of visitors/pageviews
• referrer URLs, domains
• search terms
• browsers, OSs, countries, screen sizes

There is also a "paths" feature that shows a user's browsing path page-by-page.

You may be asking, "why to use SlimStat instead of Google Analytics?" The best answer would be "live stats".

Nicolas Gallagher is sharing a creative way on creating good-looking speech bubbles with CSS3.

There are no images or JavaScript in the implementations but uses the :before and/or :after pseudo-elements to produce basic shapes.

The HTML remains semantic however we should remember that CSS3 is not fully supported by all major browsers & we may again require JavaScript to add this support (like IE7.js).

Last week, a post was announcing the giveaway of 3 annual Traffic Light Feedback accounts ( £180 GBP/account) to WebResourcesDepot readers.

Today, the winners are selected. But before that, let's remember:

What is Traffic Light Feedback?

It offers a very simple way of getting feedback from users: asking a question & having 3 clickable responses (green, yellow and red) where users don't have to fill anything.

You can import customers lists easily & auto-send them the feedback forms with customized/branded templates. After all, it is possible to get reports.

And the winners are:

The winners are selected randomly with a database query and here they are:

• krull (comment #115834)
• Tuan (comment #116839)
• Inwebdeveloper (comment #116257)

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for contributing.

50% Lifetime Discount Code

Traffic Light Feedback offers a special discount code to all WRD readers that enables you to get the service with 50% lifetime discount (the offer ends on: March 31st 2010).

The discount code is: AD8FGWEBRE .

Phpns is an open source news/content management system that will enable you to add dynamic content to any website with one line of code.

The application is not a complicated or a full-featured CMS. Rather, it is a simpler one which is very suitable for managing basic websites.

It comes with variables like adding pagination, displaying summary or the full content, RSS generation & much more.

Phpns is multi-user, can create SEO-friendly URLs & optionally, helps you create/manage templates.

The application is built with PHP, uses MySQL for storing the data & comes with a web-based installer.

BigBlueButton is an open source video conferencing application which is specifically built for remote learning but can be used for standard meetings as well.

The application enables multiple users to login & share their webcam or communicate via VOIP at the same time.

It is a very ideal application for presentations as users can upload PDF or office documents & keep everyone in sync with their current page, zoom, pan, mouse pointer etc.

Also, users can share their desktop with others easily.

There are 3 user types:

• Presenter: can upload presentations & sharing their desktop
• Viewer: have no authority within the conference, can only view & chat with other users
• Moderator:can upload presentations, share the desktop & change user types of other users.

Users can raise hands to get the attention of the presenter, mute any other participants they want & chat between themselves in public or privately.

BigBlueButton completely relies on open source technologies & it can be improved further with the API provided.

Ketchup is an easy-to-customize (in means of appearance & functionality) jQuery plugin for validating user inputs on the client-side.

The plugin works by inserting the validation rules inside the markup, just like:

<input type="password" id="new_pass" class="validate(required)" />

It comes with a bunch of ready-to-use rules, including: required, min/max length, number, URL, e-mail & much more where new ones can be created as well.

Using Ketchup, it is possible to combine validations (a field can be both required & e-mail).

Although the default setup of the plugin is very satisfactory, like mentioned, it is possible to create a new look & feel (which is easy with the documentation provided).

Simile Widgets is a set of open source web widgets for visualizing data & content.

They are actually a spin-off from the Simile Project & improved over time by a community of open-source developers.

Currently, it includes 4 widgets:

Timeline

Timeline is for creating an interactive display of events within a timeframe.

It can be dragged or controlled with the mouse wheel & events can be clicked to see the details.

Timeplot

Timeplot is a DHTML widget for plotting time series easily.

On mouse-overs, it can display the values interactively (it works with the same data format that Timeline supports).

Runway

Runway is a Flash-based implementation of the popular iTunes-like coverflow.

The colors, fonts, reflection & transit,in values can be configured easily. Also, it can fire events to update the web page's Javascript.

Exhibit

It is for creating web pages with advanced text search and filtering functionalities, with interactive maps, timelines, & other visualizations.

You can find more details on a previously published WRD post on Exhibit.

NextDayFlyers.com, an online printing company, is giving away 3 prizes to WebResourcesDepot readers: a $50 printing credit and 2 * 1000 standard business cards.

The details of the giveaway can be found at the bottom of the post, but before that:

What is NextDayFlyers.com?

NextDayFlyers.com is an online printing service which is specialized in quick printing, mailing/finishing of full-color postcards, premium club flyers, business cards, greeting cards & other marketing materials.

Prints come with different options of sizes & papers for maximum customization.

The service offers low prices for quality prints, has an online design tool (if you didn't design it already) & orders are printed within 24 hours.

How To Win The Prizes?

There are 3 prizes given:

• 1st: a $50 printing credit
• 2nd: 1000 standard business cards (UV or Matte coating)
• 3rd: 1000 standard business cards (UV or Matte coating)

In order to join the giveaway, please comment with "why you need this free printing offer" & winners will be selected by NextDayFlyers.com 1 week later (11 March 2010).

And Few Rules:

• You should be over 18 years old to join the giveaway
• Business card printing prizes include free ground shipping to only Continental U.S.

That's all, good luck to everyone.