*Design 5 Awesome Free Tools To Help You Choose Your Website Color Scheme
Submitted 2 years and 21 days ago (more from techiemania.com)When visitors take their first glance at your theme, the colors you choose instantly send a subconscious message to them about your page. Fortunately, there are plenty of tools to help you choose the right scheme. Here are five of the best color tools available to web designers today.
*Programming Apprise - the attractive alert alternative for jQuery
Submitted 2 years and 25 days ago (more from thrivingkings.com)Apprise is a very simple, fast, attractive, and unobtrusive way to communicate with your users. Also, this gives you complete control over style, content, position, and functionality. Apprise is, more or less, for the developer who wants an attractive alert or dialog box without having to download a massive UI framework.
*Programming jQuery Plugin Boilerplate
Submitted 2 years and 26 days ago (more from stefangabos.ro)I’ve decided to put the things I’ve learned in a sort of a template for creating jQuery plugins. So, here it is, a boilerplate for kick-starting jQuery plugin development! Another helpful link on creating jQuery plugins which outlines the basics, best practices, and common pitfalls to watch out for as you begin writing your plugin can be found at http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Authoring
*Miscellaneous Speed Up Your Website in a Single Click
Submitted 2 years and 27 days ago (more from zbugs.com)Online tool that lets you merge, minify, and gzip compress JavaScript and CSS. Just enter your url.
*Programming dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library
Submitted 2 years and 28 days ago (more from dygraphs.com)An open source JavaScript library that produces produces interactive, zoomable charts of time series. It is designed to display dense data sets and enable users to explore and interpret them.
*Accessibility Yahoo! Sports: How to create a great data table experience
Submitted 2 years and 35 days ago (more from youtube.com)Nice 2 minute video on using table attributes correctly for accessibility. Yahoo! Sports has very detailed statistics tables. The site has carefully used semantic markup to make the tables easy for screen reader users to navigate the data. This video introduces these HTML tags and attributes.
*HTML/CSS CSSPrefixer - keep your styles clean
Submitted 2 years and 35 days ago (more from cssprefixer.appspot.com)Hate writing vendor prefixes for all browsers? Just let CSSPrefixer do it for you!
*Programming Live.js - one script closer to designing in the browser
Submitted 2 years and 35 days ago (more from livejs.com)Live.js makes sure you're always looking at the latest version of the page you're working on, whether you're writing HTML, CSS or Javascript. Just include Live.js and it will monitor the current page including local CSS and Javascript by sending consecutive HEAD requests to the server. Changes to CSS will be applied dynamically and HTML or Javascript changes will reload the page.
*Usability Fundamental Guidelines Of E-Commerce Checkout Design
Submitted 2 years and 42 days ago (more from smashingmagazine.com)Here is the harsh reality of e-commerce websites: according to recent e-commerce studies, at least 59.8% of potential customers abandon their shopping cart. Why do customers abandon their shopping cart so often? Is there some fundamental mistake that designers of e-commerce websites do very often? Are there any common guidelines or rules of thumbs that make it more difficult for our users?
*Programming Visual Event
Submitted 2 years and 42 days ago (more from sprymedia.co.uk)When working with events in Javascript, it is often easy to loose track of what events are subscribed where. This is particularly true if you are using a large number of events. This bookmarklet visually shows the elements on a page that have events subscribed to them, what those events are and the function that the event would run when triggered. This is primarily intended to assist debugging.