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Zocial is a semantic set of CSS buttons (no images used) that are beautified with @font-face icons.

There are buttons for 40+ services including Facebook, Twitter, Google+, PayPal, LinkedIn and much more.

Each button can be displayed with or without text (only icons) and the HTML element wrapping them can be anything (which is nice for flexibility).

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Desktop users are experienced enough to know how they can interact with a website, use shortcuts and get the most out of the browser.

For touch-enabled interfaces, things are different. There is a new question: "which gestures are supported by the app/website?".

Cue is a free (public domain) gestural icon system that aims to build a standard visual language of touch-based interactions.

There are icons for actions like swipe, drap, touch, tap and hold, spread and more.

Each icon comes in a labeled and unlabeled version and the set is in .PNG, .SVG Omnigraffle Stencil and InDesign formats.

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Transitions in CSS3 brings many possibilities on animating and morphing HTML elements.

Lea Verou is sharing a beautiful experiment and resource -Animatable- that showcases different CSS transitions (and how simple they are).

Each transition is applied to a box where you can activate by hovering them (or run the transitions for all items).

You can also click the items to easily see the "from" and "to" values of CSS properties changed.

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Fluid Baseline Grid System is a starting point armed with various resources to be a starting point for creating HTML5-CSS3-powered websites.

It is built with typographic standards in mind with combining principals of fluid-column layouts, baseline grids and mobile-first responsive design into a resolution independent and device agnostic framework.

The kit is packed with CSS normalization (while correcting bugs, fixing common browser inconsistencies and improving usability) and includes jQuery, HTML5 Shiv + Respond.js.

It enforces a lightweight, and non-obtrusive code which can be edited easily for every project. By default, it is based on a 3-column folding layout, 1 column for mobile devices, 2 columns for tablets and 3 columns for desktops and beyond.

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Viget Inspire, "an inspiring blog which discusses web design standards, trends and techniques", has an experiment on the uses of CSS3 box shadows.

The article shares 39 original uses of "box shadows" and it is a great showcase of what can be accomplished with this CSS3 property.

In order to create the effects, some examples have multiple box shadows and make use of other CSS properties like :before/:after, transition, webkit-keyframes, text-shadow and background-image: gradient.

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Normalize.css is a set of CSS rules for forcing HTML elements to render more consistently across all browsers.

Compared to CSS resets, it doesn't reset all elements but leave the useful defaults and fixes various bugs.

The CSS file includes rules for a wide range of elements including the ones for HTML5 and well-documented (inline).

The developer mentions that Normalize.css shouldn't be an insert-and-forget resource, rather, it should be used as a customisable starting point on any project..

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ProCSSor is a free web service for formatting and prettifying CSS files on the fly.

It can grab a CSS file by simply copy-pasting, uploading or mentioning the URL directly.

The service has many options to create an output that you'll feel ok with like "brace styles", right/left columns" or "indent properties".

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At WRD, the previous tweet button for sharing stories was the cool Easy Retweet Button by John Resig. However, it was not perfect as, sometimes, it was unable to communicate with the URL shortener service and the tweet links were appearing buggy.

In search for a better one, I tested few others including the official tweet button. They were loading the links ok but had other issues like "loading slow", "blocking pages on load", etc.

And, for a button that is clicked by -maybe- 1/100 of the visitors, loading the scripts and making requests for every visitor didn't look like the smartest choice.

Here is another method, that is actually used at WRD now which loads very fast for everyone and almost fault-proof.

How it works?

First of all, the button is hosted locally and it does not make any requests until it is clicked.

• A link with the querystring that includes URL and the title of the web page is created, pointed to a server-side file (to be presented later in this article) and attached to any custom button we design.
• Once clicked, it sends the URL and title to the server-side file which creates the tweet link and redirects to Twitter with the tweet.

Pros

• Does not load any scripts from other domains (faster).
• Does not perform anything until being clicked (faster).
• Works with multiple URL shortener services. Currently, it uses Bit.ly by default, during the shortening, if there is an error, it falls back to Tinyurl. And if there is an error again, it uses the default URL. (fault-proof).
• Counts the number of characters used and, if more than 140, reformats it. (fault-proof).
• Any tweet button that you design can be used or just a "tweet it " text is enough (styleable).

Cons

• Does not display the number of retweets (as no requests are made on load).

The Code

It is built by PHP. You'll see that the code is simple and can be ported to any other scripting language quickly. Here it is:

<?php
/*
- A customizable, fast-loading and fault-proof tweet button.
- Built by Umut Muhaddisoglu (@umutm) of http://www.webresourcesdepot.com.
- Strict LTADSSIYND License (Listen To A Dire Straits Song If You Never Did)
*/
/* Requires Update - START */
$viaText		= ' (via @umutm)';
$bitlyLogin		= 'yourBitlyLogin';
$bitlyApiKey	= 'yourBitlyPass';
/* Requires Update - END */

/* ******************************No Need To Update Below****************************** */

/* Getting Post Variables - START */
$postURL 		= urlencode($_GET['postURL']);
$postTitle 		= html_entity_decode(htmlspecialchars_decode($_GET['postTitle'], ENT_QUOTES));
/* Getting Post Variables - END */

/* Bit.ly Shorten Function - START */
function getBitlyURL($theURL,$theBitlyLogin,$theBitlyApiKey) {
	return file_get_contents('http://api.bit.ly/v3/shorten?login=' . $theBitlyLogin . '&apiKey=' . $theBitlyApiKey . '&longUrl=' . $theURL . '&format=txt');
}
/* Bit.ly Shorten Function - END */

/* TinyURL Shorten Function - START */
function getTinyURL($theURL) {
	return file_get_contents('http://tinyurl.com/api-create.php?url=' . $theURL);
}
/* TinyURL Shorten Function - END */

/* Shorten URL - START */
$shortenedURL = getBitlyURL($postURL,$bitlyLogin,$bitlyApiKey);
if (strrpos($shortenedURL, "bit.ly") == false) {
	$shortenedURL = getTinyURL($postURL);
	if (strrpos($shortenedURL, "tinyurl") == false) {
		$shortenedURL = $postURL;
	}
}
/* Shorten URL - END */

/* Prepare Tweet - START */
$tweet = urlencode($postTitle) . urlencode(' - ') . $shortenedURL . $viaText;
$tweetLength = strlen($postTitle . ' - ' . $shortenedURL . $viaText);
$postTitleLength = strlen($postTitle);
$restLength = strlen(' - ' . $shortenedURL . $viaText);
$dotsMargin = 4; 

if ($tweetLength > 140) {
	$tweet = urlencode(substr($postTitle,0,140 - $restLength - $dotsMargin)) . urlencode('.. - ') . $shortenedURL . $viaText;
}
/* Prepare Tweet - END */

/* Redirect To Twitter - START */
header('Location: http://twitter.com/intent/tweet?text=' . $tweet);
/* Redirect To Twitter - END */
?>

The Button

It is possible to use a button you designed. At WRD, the "Official Tweet Button" images are used thinking that they will be the standard soon. If you prefer to use it too, here is the HTML-CSS for it:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
	<title>Faster Tweet Button</title>
	<style>
	#tweetButton a {display:block;width:55px;height: 20px;background: url("tweetButton.png") 0 0 no-repeat;}
	#tweetButton a:hover {background: url("tweetButton.png") 0 -20px no-repeat;}
	</style>
</head>
<body>
	<span id="tweetButton"><a href="http://www.thedomain.com/tweet.php?postURL=changeWithTeURL&postTitle=changeWithTheTitle" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"></a></span>
</body>
</html>

How To Install?

Here are the steps:

• Open tweet.php and edit the Bit.ly user-pass of yours (it is free to get one) and the "via" text in the beginning of the file.
• Upload the file anywhere under your website.
• Link to your tweet button image with <a href="http://www.mydomain.com/tweet.php?postURL=<?php echo 'http://www.theURLOfThePage.com'?>&postTitle=<?php urlencode('The Title')?>"></a> by editing the URL and the title
• That's it.

For WordPress

After the first 2 steps above, for the 3rd step:

• Link to your tweet button image with <a href="http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/tweet.php?postURL=<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>&postTitle=<?php echo urlencode(get_the_title($post->ID)); ?>" target="_blank" rel="nofollow"></a>

Any thoughts to make it better?

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As CSS3 is being used more everyday and there are already ways to CSS3-enable incompatible browsers, if not already, it is time to check what it offers.

Impressive Webs, a blog on web design, is featuring CSS3 Click Chart which enables us to easily find out the new CSS properties with examples.

By clicking to the "?" besides every example, you can see the codes used to create them, the description of the property and browsers supporting it.

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Faary is a free web-based form builder that enables designing forms by simply defining them as text.

In order to better define how it works, an entry like:

• header,        Sign-up to Newsletter
• text,             *Your E-mail,email
• submit,        Send it!

will end up in a newsletter form with the title: "Sign-up to Newsletter ", an e-mail input which is required and a submit button.

The application supports every input type, client-side JavaScript validation and headers/sub-headers.

Once the details for the form is set, the output can be previewed and downloaded as a .zip file.

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