BlendFu is a website featuring free Photoshop & GIMP brushes in a well-tagged presentation.
Users can upload their brush sets & even the designs they created using those sets.
Currently there are 900+ brush sets featured.
And, a great thing about BlendFu is, when you click on a brush set, you can view every single brush in the set in detail.
UPrinting, is giving away free business cards to 10 WebResourcesDepot readers (1,000 cards / each winner).
You can find the details of the giveaway at the bottom of the post.
UPrinting is a popular online printing company which enables you to get almost any design printed in any format like:
You can upload your designs or choose a template from a well-categorized library & customize them (including the sizes).
Considering, there may be questions within the process like the formats, sizes, etc., UPrinting can be contacted via a live-chat support too.
Important: The giveaway includes free shipping to USA & Canada. For other countries, shipping must be paid by the winner.
Commenting to this post is enough to join this business cards printing giveaway & winners will be selected randomly via the query below on 16 October 2008 (1 week later).
SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=564 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 10
Good luck to all : ).
It is a known fact that browser-based geolocation is very close with the new W3C Geolocation Specification.
Firefox will be implementing this feature in its future releases but now has an add-on, named Geode, that enables users/developers to taste it.
The add-on currently uses Skyhook’s Loki technology to map the WIFi signals.
navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(function(pos) {
alert( pos.latitude + ", " + pos.longitude );
})
Pownce & Yahoo! Fire Eagle already implemented this feature.
Every designer & developer loves handy tools that simplify frequent tasks.
And, even if you’ve a complicated software that does the same thing, usually it is much more effective to run a tiny, fast-loading application that does the job.
This is a list of 27 functional Adobe AIR applications that can help a web designer to design & develop:
Info: If you don’t have Adobe AIR installed, it can be downloaded from here.
Very nice application for taking snapshots of any webpage.
It enables you to configure the snapshot sizes & lets you choose whether the snapshot be a thumbnail, browser size or the full page.
Using WebKut, you can take snapshots of an entire webpage, parts of them or a selection.
The tool’s interface helps a lot by showing the size of the area selected, letting the user to choose the image format & quality.
A pixel ruler that enables you to measure the size of any object..
With browser skins, overlay mode and screen size presets, you can also preview how your design will look in the real environment.
Web & interface designers will love it.
PixelPerfect has 1 job to do: measure things on your desktop.
While designing a website or looking for the size of an object in a website, you can run this ruler & that’s it.
A little application that lets you generate a CS3 or Web 2.0 style icon, in only 3 steps. Pick color, type characters, and save it. Icon is generated in 4 different sizes.
The Web Platform Installer Beta (Web PI), makes it easier to create a web development environment on your PC.
It provides a single, free package for installing and configuring Microsoft’s entire Web Platform, including:
You can mention whether you’re an ASP.Net developer or even choose support for specific features like ASP, SQL Server driver for PHP, etc. besides installing the complete Microsoft Web Platform
Considering the IIS version to be installed is IIS7, the installer is compatible with Vista & Microsoft Server 2008.
This is a set of RSS icon Photoshop shapes.
Download package has 20+ shapes including a RSS sticker, speech bubble, arrow, star & more.
The set is handy for creating different icons. And, the standard icon is also in the set which enables you to create something totally new.
DevBoi is a Firefox add-on that adds a sidebar with web-development references and documentations for HTML, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, Ruby on Rails & Prototype.
The sidebar is very handy for any developer as you can reach it with a simple "CTRL+F9", find any function or property, see the browsers it supports & more.
Support for other languages can be downloaded from here.
You can also go the original website for the add-on for downloading it without registering.
BigTarget.js is a jQuery plugin that increases the size of click targets and get more call-to-action conversions.
It has 2 options that can be customized:
clickZone: By default the first <li> element is turned into a link but this can be changed with this option.targetClass: For mentioning the class for hover effect.
Adding BigTarget.js functionality to your site is straight forward. First include the plugin code in the head of your document, and then when the page is ready, attach the bigTarget function to the target anchor — bigTarget.js will do the rest.
$(document).ready(function(){
$("ol.bigTarget h4 a").bigTarget();
});
Superfish is an advanced suckerfish menu plugin for jQuery.
It turns a standard CSS dropdown menu and tranforms it to a more powerful one (it gracefully degrades).
It supports both horizontal & vertical menus and unlimited sub-menus can be defined.
Considering the menu is generated from a CSS-dropdown menu, every sub can be easily styled too.
Image optimization is an important process when designing websites & producing content.
Smushit.com, an image optimization service, uses image format specific non-lossy image optimization tools to squeeze the last bytes out of your images - without changing their look or visual quality.
Also, a report is provided on "how many bytes can be saved" and all the changed images can be downloaded as a zip file.
