Android Icons is a set of 30 free vector icons that are originally developed to be used for Android applications but all are also great for websites.

They come in transparent PNG + EPS formats and can be freely used in personal/commercial projects.

The Fluid Grid System is a CSS framework which combines the principals of the typographic & baseline grid into a resolution-independent one.

It has a comprehensive logic. The classes are mentioned like: six_column section or three column which makes it easier to use & understand.

With the simple layout & use of CSS, the Fluid Grid System degrades well in both older web browsers, scales with text nicely & presents content to screen readers in a logical manner as well.

The framework is also great for rapid prototyping besides final production layouts as designers can quickly design complex layouts.

Map Icons Collection is a set of 600+ free placemark icons that can be used to mention almost anything on maps with style.

The set is categorized very well in the project's wiki pages like restaurants, culture, sports & much more.

Sizes of the icons are mostly 27*27px or 32*37px and they are all transparent PNG format.

Using paper textures is always a popular trend in design of any kind.

Here is a set of 7 high quality paper & cardboard textures -created exclusively for WebResourcesDepot by TextureZine- that are free to use in personal/commercial projects.

All textures are in JPEG format & 3168*4752px size.

Info: The download package is a .zip file & sized 46.2mb.

P.S. The textures can not be distributed in any other media. Please refer to this page if you mention them on your website. Thanks very much for that.

eCSStender is an open source JavaScript library, created by Aaron Gustafson, that helps browsers (including IE6) pay attention to the CSS code you write.

It aims to prevent the usage of browser-specific properties & hacks but make leaner & meaner CSS possible.

eCSStender is an extendible library with its API support & has ready-to-use extensions like CSS3 selectors, @font-face, rotation & more.

How does it work?

• it loops through the document's stylesheets and begins collecting information
• parses the rules it understands
• checks if the parsed rules are supported by the extensions
• applies the supported rules to the document via JavaScript

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Free Vector Chart Icons is a set of 5 icons that is brought to you by WebResourcesDepot & IconShock (a talented icon design company).

The set includes 256*256px & 512*512px .PNG files besides the .AI vector source files.

The icons in the set are: pie, column, line, area charts & a meter.

It is totally free to use them in both personal & commercial projects.

P.S. The icons can not be distributed on any other media. Please link to this page if you share it on your website, thanks for that.

Help improving these chart icons!

It is hard to find quality & free chart icons. So, it will be great to improve this set by adding more icons into it.

Please share any other chart icon ideas & IconShock will be creating the Vol.2 for us.

CSScaffold is a PHP-powered CSS framework which will improve the development time by extending the CSS language.

A great thing about the framework is, "it is written exactly like CSS", so, no need to learn a new syntax.

How it works?

CSScaffold sits in your CSS directory, & uses .htaccess files to automatically pass any CSS file through itself first for processing/caching which all happens in the background.

Some Features:

Like mentioned, CSScaffold improves the language itself. This happens by making the usage of:

• constants
• mixins
• nested Selectors
• expressions
• caching and gzipping

possible.

It has a plugin architecture which makes adding new features possible & easier.

Shaboopie, a website with lots of web & graphic design freebies, is presenting 80+ good looking & free vector logos.

All logos are very modern, slick & offered in PSD format.

You can check the logos faster with the snapshots:

• Snapshot 1
• Snapshot 2
• Snapshot 3

The website also presents inspirational posts like this or this besides the freebies.

EasyImg, to mention at first, is a very different kind of web service which can be very powerful under the creative hands.

It is a highly customizable web-based graphics engine that enables anyone to insert "instantly created custom images" to their websites.

How it works?

EasyImg works by sending a formatted query to the service as the source of an image. An example will describe it better:

<img src="http://images.easyimg.com/fd592fce/h-60/w-480/bw-2/r-15/bc-e0dede/fc-fcfbdc/c-fc2671/font-Tahoma/size-30/banner.png?text=WRD Test Banner" />

will return:

 where:

• fd592fce = is the token for my account
• h-60 = height is 60px
• w-480 = width is 480px
• bw-2 = border width is 2px
• and you can possibly guess the rest easily..

Besides the standard image properties, it is possible to use various fonts, rotate the final image, add gradients & more.

And, as it doesn’t use any JavaScript or CSS hack, it is totally compatible with any browser.

EasyImg can be set to re-create the image every time it is called or use caching for faster usage.

Also, it is not a must to host every image generated at the system. They can be downloaded as a single ZIP file anytime.

Where can I use it?

Primarily, it is a great fit to be used in websites where images must/can be customized like:

• users customizing the look & feel of their accounts (you may need to create rounded corners with different colors)
• usage of rotation
• usage of custom fonts
• no image editing software (ideal for customers who are not into webdesign but want to update the look of websites – can be integrated into CMSs)

And, it is a perfect fit for special cases like dynamic barcode generation (just use the barcode font).

EasyImg comes with different plans where a free one exists as well.

You can see how powerful it can be with the options it offers & from the samples. Or, you can play with the online canvas.

P.S. This post is a sponsored review.

xCSS is a CSS framework that makes developing complex style structures easier within an object-oriented workflow.

Using xCSS can save a lot of development time by:

• using variables
• having a intuitive overview of the overall CSS structure
• re-using existing style cascades
• & more..

xCSS requires PHP 5 to run & can be configured very quickly by inserting few lines to the webpages + the stylesheet.

The framework is lightweight, can seamlessly integrate into any existing workflow & well-documented which lowers the learning curve.

Also, besides minimizing the CSS overhead, it still keeps (X)HTML attributes semantic.