Fonts 500 is a website presenting the most popular fonts of all times and offering them as a free download.

The list is calculated according to the download counts of popular font download websites.

The fonts are already displayed with the names of them but any text can be mentioned for a customized look of the fonts.

P.S. There are some shareware or demo downloads in the list.

Lorem2 is a very simple website with an useful content.

It presents lorem ipsum content in various formats:

• short paragraphs
• long paragraphs
• short lists
• long lists

You may also like a previous post at WebResourcesDepot: Lorem Ipsum Generators.

Last week, a post announced the giveaway of 3 FlashEff Premium Unlimited licenses ($249 value / each).

Winners are selected today. But before that, FlashEff has a 50% discount until the end of September (2 days left) & if you’re not one of the winners & want to buy this great component, hurry up.

To remind:

FlashEff is a Flash CS3 (and Flash CS4 ready) AS3 component for easing the animation process & creating stunning animations.

Tip: To see the beauty of the effects, click here to go to the effects gallery.

Here are the winners:

• Hernan Dario Silva (comment #19309)
• JC (comment #19399)
• SEANRON (comment #19496)

Thanks to everyone for contributing & congratulations to the winners.

Keep following WRD for more great giveaways & web resources.

DIY Map is a zooming & clickable map, built with Flash, that can be colored with data from a text file.

Using an external data helps using the same Flash file for representing different information.

When a point is clicked & zoomed, any information can be displayed like a link or an address.

List of maps that can be downloaded are world map, USA map, Europe map & few other countries.

The application is free for personal & educational use and requires a licence for commercial use.

Jumpeye Components is giving away 3 FlashEff Premium Unlimited Licenses ($249 value/each) to WebResourcesDepot readers.

Details of the giveaway & how to join it can be found below the post.

What is FlashEff?

FlashEff is a Flash CS3 (and Flash CS4 ready) AS3 component for easing the animation process & creating stunning animations.

Tip: To see the beauty of the effects, click here to go to the effects gallery.

It is also a collection of over 100 patterns (and growing) that enable cool animations and interactive actions on visual objects and texts. FlashEff can be used/customized from both, the visual interface and API.

The visual interface, FlashEff Panel, is a powerful online utility that loads inside your Flash CS3 IDE and configures everything for the FlashEff component.

Using FlashEff, you can:

• Create amazing animations with images, movieclips or text.
• Create animated buttons without coding.
• Perform commands and trigger actions on any event such as rollOver, press or doubleClik.
• Add static or animated fitlers to any visual object within Flash CS3.
• Most of the patterns can be combined to create complex animated objects.

FlashEff Pattern Creation Contest With $2500 Worth Prize!

Do you have advanced AS3 skills? Then create a pattern for FlashEff, submit it until 31 October 2008 & get the chance to be one of the winners who will earn $2500 worth prize.

Click here to see the details of the Pattern Creation Contest.

How To Win The Free Licenses?

Simply comment to this post & that’s all.

Winners will be selected randomly from commenters 1 week later (29 September 2008 – Thursday) with the SQL query below:

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=533 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Good luck to all : ). 

Texter is a simple but effective Windows application running in the system tray and doing a very simple job: replacing abbreviations with the phrases you define.

Let’s say you use XHTML frequently and you define an abbreviation like "divmake" and press "tab" (you can define the hotkey) and it can produce you:

<div class=""></div>

as an example.

You can use it for anything like generating your signature on-the-fly or any other frequently typed text.

Examples of how to make CSS gradient text effects are published in 2 different & beautiful web design blogs: WebDesignerWall and CSS Globe.

Both techniques are using a similar method which is adding a small PNG gradient file over the text with extra tricks. Both methods are compatible with all the major browsers. Have a look at how nice they are:

Css Globe solution:

http://cssglobe.com/lab/textgradient/

WebDesignerWall solution:

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/tutorials/css-gradient-text-effect/

Sample codes for these nice effects can be downloaded from each website.

Adding icons to text links without any programming, not using if elses or functions is possible with Iconize which is only a css file and the related icons.

How does Iconize work?

Iconize, which is a css file, simply looks for the pre-defined texts in the website and shows the icon mentioned in the css file. For ex: Iconize looks for the .pdf text in the website and when finds it, adds the icon after that.

Text in websites are normally in a rectangle shape. This is how things work.

How would it be if they were like this?

CSS Text Wrapper is an online web service which helps you to create the necessary html-css or javascript files for this effect.

You can choose between 3 solutions to get this css text wrap look:

- Inline Css/Xhtml
- Xhtml w/Classes
- Javascript

CSS Text Wrapper helps you to draw the "wrap look" and creates the necessary css or javascript information and all you need to do is to apply them. That easy.