InstantShift, a popular blog on web design and development, is sharing a set of 40+ good looking icons.
The icons are simple-yet-beautiful, have a chic texture over them + come in 2 formats:
P.S. They are free to use in both personal and commercial projects.
Awkward Showcase is a very flexible jQuery content slider plugin that can display any type of HTML content.
The plugin only controls the functionality and design is completely created on the HTML-CSS side.
Slider can have thumbnails that are positioned vertically or horizontally, captions can be displayed for each item and multiple tooltips can be positioned over slides (to provide detailed info about a specific part of the slide).
It can auto-arrange the height according to the content displayed, has multiple transition effects, the interval between each slide can be changed and much more.
We all know robots.txt, the text file that is uploaded to the root folder of websites and helps us communicate with the search engine bots for telling them which pages to not to index.
What if we want to communicate with humans and tell them who built the website? There is usually not a suitable space for this in websites and visitors may not be interested in seeing such an information inside "about" pages (in most cases).
This is where Humans.txt, which is an initiative for knowing the people behind a website, comes in.
Just like robots.txt, you upload a humans.txt file to the root folder of the website and can mention every detail that "careful eyes" would be interested in learning about the team behind, the designers, developers, copywriters, etc.
It won't be wrong to expect it getting popular as some big guys like Google or Flickr already have it. And, WRD has it too : ).
Subtle Patterns is a fresh website sharing simplistic yet high-quality patterns that are created by Atle Mo.
As the name says; the patterns are difficult to recognize and analyze. But, they help creating a soft contrast with the rest of the design.
Every pattern tile perfectly and, besides .GIF files for each item, they are available as a single .PAT (Photoshop pattern) file.
Columnal is a CSS framework which is a remix of the popular frameworks 960.gs and 1140px Grid with some improvements.
It is 1140px wide but fluid and focused on supporting desktop + mobile browsers using the same styles.
The framework comes with a built-in debugging CSS for displaying the structure of any pages being designed.
There is support for "columns inside columns" and has classes for vertical spacing.
Also, the download package of Columnal has a "PDF of the grid system for sketching" and wireframing kits for Adobe Illustrator + Balsamiq Mockups.
Roam Design, an award-winning creative marketing consultancy, is sharing 99+ Icons which is a set of slick, monochrome and vector icons.
The items in the set include actions, media, devices and mobile-specific ones like battery status icons.
99+ icons comes as a .AI file and it is free to be used in personal projects (or in commercial projects with a link back).
There are many websites where you can find documentation for the new properties CSS3 brings but you'll probably love this the most.
css3files is an awesome website which guides users about CSS3 properties with a very friendly information and interface.
It explains every property in detail with visual guides pointing to "what every value is used for" and there are examples (with outputs).
The website also has a browser compatibility chart and a list of links to other good resource for each item.
StackLayout is a CSS framework which supports both fluid and fixed-width layouts.
Compared to many popular grid systems, it only uses 12 class names in total and makes use of inline-block CSS property rather than floats.
Stacks can be nested infinitely which helps creating complicated layouts easily.
The framework has a component (a CSS file) which eases building cross-device compatible versions of websites.
StackLayout is compatible with most of the browsers, few old ones has some issues which can be fixed with the help of the documentation provided.
TinyBox2 is the successor of the previously published resource TinyBox which is a standalone JavaScript modal windows library.
The library is lightweight (5kb) and supports images, iframes, HTML and Ajax requests natively.
Modal windows are very flexible with the options like toggle animation, auto-hide, opacity level, custom positions and more.
And, they can be closed by simply clicking on the close button, anywhere outside the modal box or ESC.
There are callback functions for the open + close events and the windows can be set to load in a specific size or the width/height (auto) of the content to be displayed.
(ico)trip is a website which creates/shares a new icon and makes it downloadable as a .PNG file each day.
Rather than widely used icons, the project focuses on items that we may not find elsewhere.
Icons are mono-colored, in 126*94px size and they are all very detailed.
The website also has a RSS feed which you can subscribe to get the new icon every day.
