ZEN is an audio player that is built with HTML5, styled + animated using CSS3 and makes use of jPlayer.
It has a very simplified interface with play or pause buttons according to the state and a chic progress circle.
The player can run only a single track but can possibly be improved pretty easily to support multiple files.
We Love Buttons is a project by Pico, a tiny design & development studio, where various designers have created good-looking and imageless CSS3 buttons.
There are ~35 buttons and most of them only works in WebKit browsers which makes the project more an experimental one.
They use CSS3 properties like box-shadow, border-radius or gradients and have a clean code where anyone who is not that familiar with CSS3 can easily learn from.
Boxtuffs is a website which is regularly sharing pretty original and free resources created with HTML5 + CSS3 and built by Salvador Lopez Mendoza, a talented icon + UI designer.
The "stuffs" includes an auto-growing search box, an on/off switch, a download button and more. But all with a twist.
And, a great thing about the resources is "every download comes with the PSD source files".
Scripts are usually loaded within the <HEAD> section of websites which ends up in a slow loading experience.
When they are moved to the bottom, it won't be wrong to expect dependency problems + HTML5 and CSS3 can not be used safely.
Head JS is a tiny (2.3kb) script that can load your scripts in parallel but enable you to execute them in the order defined.
And, there are more features like detecting the browser, JavaScript capabilities and more.
ColorZilla, an advanced color toolkit plugin for Firefox, is sharing a web-based CSS gradient creator.
It has a Photoshop-like interface (just the opacity level is missing) where you can select the images to be used and their locations with the help of a slider.
New "gradient stops" can be added just by clicking to the slider and the tools has a list of "presets" for instantly generating ready-to-use" styles.
A last useful feature is the ability to see "how the output will look in IE".
It is very normal to expect shapes used in websites to be created as images.
However, with the wider use of CSS3 and its capabilities, we regularly see rounded corners, rotation or any other shape to be built with CSS.
Here is one of those resources, a lovely GUI icon set where every item is pure CSS.
The set has 84 items including full set of user interaction and media player control icons besides some other common ons.
The designer of the resource, Nicolas Gallagher, mentions that the work is experimental and not production-ready but it is still very promising.
Awesome Fontstacks is a free web application which enables us to create a set of free web fonts which looks good with each other.
Also, there are 40+ ready-to-use bundles provided by Awesome Fontstacks to select-and-go quickly.
P.S. the fonts are not hosted by the application, rather, it provides the download links for each font selected.
KEYS.css is a simple stylesheet for creating keyboard-style elements which is usually a good way of showing hotkeys to users.
Once the stylesheet is inserted into web pages, it is so easy to use, just wrap letters with the <kbd> tag.
There are 2 styles provided, light + dark and the styled letters fit to any font size automatically.
KEYS.css uses CSS3 properties, so, it will work on modern browsers (or modernized ones with libraries like Modernizr) and degrade nicely when needed.
The shape, size or color of the buttons are definitely very important factors on the success of them.
With the new functional properties CSS3 offering for transforming items -like rounded corners, gradients or multiple backgrounds- we clearly have more options on creating them with HTML.
Here is a set of good looking CSS3 buttons in different sizes, shapes and effects.
Some of them are also improved using icons embedded via @font-face (Iconic).
CSS3 Menu is a free application for creating navigations using the CSS3 properties and no JavaScript.
The application has both Windows + Mac versions and it is possible to set the styles of the outputs easily.
Menus are generated in a HTML list structure, can be vertical or horizontal and have multiple sub-menus.
Also, it can display the previews of the navigations on every step which is a nice feature that speeds up the development.
