It is a smart technique which encourages visitors to share a story by offering a quite fun usage.

Nettuts+ is sharing a very nice tutorial (with source) that enables you to implement this feature using jQuery & jQuery UI.

It makes use of the draggable & droppable components of jQuery UI to make drag’n dropping & targeting objects possible.

To see how it works, a demo is provided as well.

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In general, these websites are categorized & presented by their purposes/functions like blogs, business, portfolio, etc.

CSSbake has a different point of view & categorizes websites with their ingredients such as:

• 404 pages
• footers
• forms
• navigation
• & much more..

which is a good way for anyone who is trying to find good practices on specific elements of a website.

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It works like a wiki, anyone can join, add & edit pages for typefaces or for the people behind the types.

It is possible to find out details about fonts like: 

• the designers
• foundries
• country of origin
• release year
• & more..

The resource is not complete yet (and won’t be, as new fonts are created everyday) but growing & becoming a very useful resource.

Typedia also offers some other great information under the "Learn" section.

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Its website is a huge resource of documentation, examples & tutorials for anyone who is into it.

Besides the documentation jQuery offers, following other jQuery users is a great way to learn more & get inspired to discover new ways for taking advantage of this library.

Here are 15+ blogs to follow for jQuery fans that frequently create jQuery-oriented content:

John Resig

Besides being the creator of jQuery, he has other creative JavaScript-related projects like:

• Processing.js
• Sizzle.js
• FireUnit & more

Not only for jQuery users but for anyone into JavaScript, his blog is a great source of information & inspiration.

Official jQuery Blog

The blog covers any type of updates related to jQuery from new versions to jQuery-related posts in the blogosphere, events & more.

Official jQuery UI Blog

jQuery UI is a resource which is preferred by many jQuery users. Its blog regularly shares updates about the library and also list the websites that are powered by jQuery UI (which is a nice source of inspiration).

Filament Group Lab

Filament Group, the team who built the ThemeRoller, various jQuery plugins & jQuery UI widgets is sharing their experiences under their Lab blog.

There are both ready to use & experimental jQuery codes shared which are described & discussed in detail.

Learning jQuery

This is a multi-author blog (mostly authored by Karl Swedberg of jQuery Evangelism Team) with lots of tips & tutorials on jQuery for beginners to advanced users.

jQuery For Designers

The website shares very detailed & easy to implement tutorials on interfaces that are improved by jQuery.

Brandon Aaron

He is in the development team of jQuery and, not frequently, shares great info & tips on jQuery usage.

Jörn Zaefferer (bassistance.de)

He is also in the jQuery development team & has created many popular jQuery plugins.

Paul Bakaus

He is the creator of jQuery UI & some popular plugins like "dimensions". It is possible to find information on jQuery & jQuery UI in his blog.

James Padolsey

He is a freelance web developer who writes about JavaScript & has various ideas/codes shared on jQuery. One of them which you may like: jQuery plugin detector.

Soh Tanaka Blog

Web designer & front-end developer Soh Tanaka has beautiful tutorials that are tailored around jQuery.

JankoAtWarpSpeed

Janko Jovanovic is writing very nice tutorials that uses jQuery and also posts other web design-related articles.

nettuts

One of the most popular web design tutorials website has a bunch of tutorials that heavily uses jQuery. And, the website is also a treasure with all the other articles published.

Marcofolio.net

Marco Kuiper, a freelance web designer & developer, is frequently posting web development tutorials that are based on jQuery.

Build Internet!

Build Internet! has a collection of jQuery tutorials that are presented in detail. The website is not totally jQuery-oriented & publishes other development & web-business-related post

David Walsh

He is in the MooTools development team. However, he mostly shares the jQuery versions of the snippets he creates which is also a nice way to compare jQuery with another great framework.

jQuery How To

The website is totally focused on jQuery content. It shares code snippets, "how-to"s that can be handy for and jQuery user.

WebResourcesDepot (shameless self-promotion)

WRD, time-by-time, shares tutorials on jQuery, like:

• Ajaxed Sliding Shopping Cart With jQuery
• Fly-To-Basket Effect With jQuery
• Sliding Top Menu With jQuery
• Load Content While Scrolling With jQuery
• & more..

Also, it is possible to find lots of jQuery plugins & information (like this post) regularly.

Any others you know that are missing? Please share them in the comments.

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The application first analyzes the content of your image and figures out the best image format to use. If necessary, converts the format automatically.

It also has built-in support for dirty transparency* which can save an average of extra 10% for transparent GIF & PNG files.

What would be more amazing is the service to offer a desktop tool with context menu support.

*: an innovative technique that offers additional compression to any PNG or GIF as long as it has either 8-bit or 1-bit transparency

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Bestwebframeworks has a wider look with less detail & makes comparing PHP, JavaScript, Ruby & CSS frameworks easier.

Frameworks are listed very clearly and shows:

• their licenses
• requirements
• features
• compatibility

depending on the category viewed.

Also, it is possible to hide any framework & sort titles for a quicker comparison.

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It shows examples for most of the functions which gives a strong idea on the coding principles of every framework.

The libraries included are:

• jQuery
• MooTools
• The Dojo Toolkit
• Prototype
• Script.aculo.us
• Ext.JS
• Adobe Spry
• BBC Glow
• Yahoo UI! Library

Every function/snippet provided links to the original documentation which is nice for reading more on the resource.

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One week later, today, the winners are selected and they are announced at the bottom of the post.

But before that, lets remember the products/services which made this huge giveaway (32 products) possible (listed alphabetically):

• activeCollab
• CAZE
• CometChat
• Flowplayer
• MachForm
• MailChimp
• Monoslideshow
• Navicat
  
• Pingdom
• PointBanner
• SSLmatic

activeCollab is an amazing project management & collaboration tool that you can set up on your own server or local network.

Work with your team, clients and contractors in an easy to use environment, while keeping full control over your data.

Giving Away: 1 Small Biz ($249) & 1 Corporate ($449) license.

CAZE is a provider of high quality & creative iPhone CAZEs which has a beautiful collection from leather to metalic ones.

Considering there are lot of iPhone users between WRD readers, these CAZEs are the right stuff to add a twist to your mobile phones.

Giving Away: 4 CAZES – (1 De Luxe/Metallic, 1 Love Pair/Metallic – $24.90 , 1 D Stripe/Leather – $29.90, 1 Silver Tone/Metallic – $29.90)

CometChat is a Facebook-like chat script which allows your users to chat with their friends/online users and in-exchange keep them on your site.

It is built with PHP/MySQL & besides the standalone one, it has vBulletin & JomSocial versions.

Giving Away: 1 license ($49 – the winner can choose any edition).

Flowplayer is the ultimate video player for websites which can be highly customized to fit any need.

It can stream video from different sources & using the JavaScript API, all aspects of it can be controlled.

Giving Away: 1 commercial license ($95).

MachForm is an impressive application for creating beautiful forms & collecting the results.

It comes with all the PHP source code, has spam protection & an easy-to-use administrator interface where everything is handled via Ajax + drag’n drops.

Giving Away: 3 single site licenses ($39/each).

MailChimp is a great service for designing/sending email newsletters to your customers, managing your subscriber lists, and tracking campaign performance.

The service is integrated with most of the popular softwares/services and makes it possible to integrate your own with its API.

Giving Away: $500 of e-mail credits.

Monoslideshow is a Flash® slideshow to view your images and videos in a web page. It can be placed on every website, in whatever size you want and filled with whatever content you like.

It’s designed for maximum flexibility, whether you want to have a professional looking portfolio, or a simple image rotator on your website. 

Giving Away: 3 licenses €25/each.

Navicat offers feature-rich & user-friendly database administration tools for MySQL, PostgreSQL & Oracle.

It can connect to databases even if they are "local only" by HTTP tunneling, enables scheduling of db related tasks & offers a powerful import/export feature. The tool runs on Windows, Linux & Mac.

Giving Away: 3 Standard licenses $129/each (winner can choose from any of the Windows, Linux & Mac versions).

Pingdom is a very functional web-based service that tracks your website’s uptime and performance.

It has multiple check types like HTTP(S), TCP port, Ping, DNS, UDP, SMTP, POP3 & IMAP. Also, different intervals can be selected & alerts can be received via e-mail or SMS.

Giving Away: 5 yearly Basic accounts ($119.4/each) & 1 yearly Business account ($479.4/year).

PointBanner is a banner design service that creates the chic banners you need for your brands & products.

Besides every standard banner size, they support custom sizes too and offer various packages for making you ready to a campaign.

Giving Away: Five $25 coupons.

SSLmatic offers the certificates of the most popular SSL brands for much cheaper prices with a non-complicated process.

They provide the SSL certificates of RapidSSL, Geotrust, Verisign & besides the standard ones wildcard certificates can be purchased too.

Giving Away: 3 RapidSSL certificates ($19.99/each – original price: $79/each).

And, The Winners:

• Sech D (comment #73328) – activeCollab Small Biz
• JP Bourbon (comment #74261) – activeCollab Corporate
• mondo (comment #73030) – CAZE De Luxe/Metallic
• Pritish Nandi (comment #73743) – CAZE Love Pair/Metalli
• Ahmad Alfy (comment #72729) – CAZE D Stripe/Leather
• Matt (comment #72664) – CAZE Silver Tone/Metallic
• magesh (comment #74248) – CometChat
• joerg (comment #72854) – Flowplayer Commercial License
• Tuan (comment #73151) – MachForm Single Site License
• Ivan (comment #73401) – MachForm Single Site License
• Federica Colas (comment #73154) – MachForm Single Site License
• Simon (comment #73223) -MailChimp $500 of e-mail credits.
• Yoosuf (comment #73077) – Monoslideshow
• ZSK (comment #74092) – Monoslideshow
• TaTaC (comment #73209) – Monoslideshow
• AJ Sedlak (comment #72752) – Navicat Standard License
• Ted Carew (comment #74309) – Navicat Standard License
• Issam (comment #72974) – Navicat Standard License
• Richard S (comment #72743) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
• Mircea Gindulescu (comment #72624) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
• Danie (comment #72835) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
• Hani AbuGhazaleh (comment #72912) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
• Dave Marks (comment #72682) – Pingdom Yearly Basic Account
• Getox (comment #73540) – Pingdom Yearly Business Account
• JC (comment #72818) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
• Joseph Levin (comment #72846) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
• sauzer (comment #72868) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
• Hassan (comment #72795) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
• Endijs Lisovskis (comment #72654) – PointBanner $25 Coupon
• Steve Hansen (comment #73032) – SSLmatic RapidSSL SSL Certificate
• Iniwoo (comment #74269) – SSLmatic RapidSSL SSL Certificate
• James Ison-Stierer (comment #72633) – SSLmatic RapidSSL SSL Certificate

Congratulations to all the winners & thanks very much to everyone for joining the giveaway.

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• 1000th Post, A Big Thank You & Huge Giveaway

Although there are more to share in our bookmarks & your suggestions eases finding new ones, it is a good idea to give a small break and celebrate this with a huge giveaway.

Before introducing the details of the giveaway, a big thanks to everyone who follow WebResourcesDepot via:

• webresourcesdepot.com
• RSS
• Twitter

or any other media and contributes with their comments that help us all to learn more & improve ourselves.

Also, thanks very much to all the advertisers who support WRD.

The Huge Giveaway:

Here are the products/services which make this huge giveaway (32 products) possible (listed alphabetically):

• activeCollab
• CAZE
• CometChat
• Flowplayer
• MachForm
• MailChimp
• Monoslideshow
• Navicat
  
• Pingdom
• PointBanner
• SSLmatic

activeCollab is an amazing project management & collaboration tool that you can set up on your own server or local network.

Work with your team, clients and contractors in an easy to use environment, while keeping full control over your data.

Giving Away: 1 Small Biz ($249) & 1 Corporate ($449) license.

CAZE is a provider of high quality & creative iPhone CAZEs which has a beautiful collection from leather to metalic ones.

Considering there are lot of iPhone users between WRD readers, these CAZEs are the right stuff to add a twist to your mobile phones.

Giving Away: 4 CAZES – (1 De Luxe/Metallic, 1 Love Pair/Metallic – $24.90 , 1 D Stripe/Leather – $29.90, 1 Silver Tone/Metallic – $29.90)

CometChat is a Facebook-like chat script which allows your users to chat with their friends/online users and in-exchange keep them on your site.

It is built with PHP/MySQL & besides the standalone one, it has vBulletin & JomSocial versions.

Giving Away: 1 license ($49 – the winner can choose any edition).

Flowplayer is the ultimate video player for websites which can be highly customized to fit any need.

It can stream video from different sources & using the JavaScript API, all aspects of it can be controlled.

Giving Away: 1 commercial license ($95).

MachForm is an impressive application for creating beautiful forms & collecting the results.

It comes with all the PHP source code, has spam protection & an easy-to-use administrator interface where everything is handled via Ajax + drag’n drops.

Giving Away: 3 single site licenses ($39/each).

MailChimp is a great service for designing/sending email newsletters to your customers, managing your subscriber lists, and tracking campaign performance.

The service is integrated with most of the popular softwares/services and makes it possible to integrate your own with its API.

Giving Away: $500 of e-mail credits.

Monoslideshow is a Flash® slideshow to view your images and videos in a web page. It can be placed on every website, in whatever size you want and filled with whatever content you like.

It’s designed for maximum flexibility, whether you want to have a professional looking portfolio, or a simple image rotator on your website. 

Giving Away: 3 licenses €25/each.

Navicat offers feature-rich & user-friendly database administration tools for MySQL, PostgreSQL & Oracle.

It can connect to databases even if they are "local only" by HTTP tunneling, enables scheduling of db related tasks & offers a powerful import/export feature. The tool runs on Windows, Linux & Mac.

Giving Away: 3 Standard licenses $129/each (winner can choose from any of the Windows, Linux & Mac versions).

Pingdom is a very functional web-based service that tracks your website’s uptime and performance.

It has multiple check types like HTTP(S), TCP port, Ping, DNS, UDP, SMTP, POP3 & IMAP. Also, different intervals can be selected & alerts can be received via e-mail or SMS.

Giving Away: 5 yearly Basic accounts ($119.4/each) & 1 yearly Business account ($479.4/year).

PointBanner is a banner design service that creates the chic banners you need for your brands & products.

Besides every standard banner size, they support custom sizes too and offer various packages for making you ready to a campaign.

Giving Away: Five $25 coupons.

SSLmatic offers the certificates of the most popular SSL brands for much cheaper prices with a non-complicated process.

They provide the SSL certificates of RapidSSL, Geotrust, Verisign & besides the standard ones wildcard certificates can be purchased too.

Giving Away: 3 RapidSSL certificates ($19.99/each – original price: $79/each).

How To Win Them?

There are very few things to do:

• Simply comment to this post
• Subscribe to our RSS feed to instantly see the winners announcement post when it is online (totally optional but what can go wrong with getting great web design/development resources everyday)

Winners will be selected on 12 September 2009 (1 week later) with the query below in the same order they are mentioned inside the post:

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=1146 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 32

Good luck to all : ), and again, thanks very much for following WRD.

P.S. The image used is by pinkmoustache.net.

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It does not require any software and works in few steps:

• download (PDF) & print a special template
• fill it with your handwriting
• scan & upload the template

The service automatically creates your font & presents you the download file.

Also, just before downloading the generated fonts, you can see a full-preview & decide to re-create a new one or not.

P.S. The service is currently in beta status.

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