Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

We have introduced some Free iPhone Icons for developers a week ago. They are designed and carefully optimized for use on toolbars and tab bars in iPhone apps. You can find them in AI and PSD formats.

Now we have some Free Android Icons for developers. The package includes 30 PNG menu icons plus the additional source files for further customization. All icons are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike license. Feel free to use them in any form in your projects or even remix them.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.androidicons.com/
License: Creative Commons License

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Validatious 2.0 is an easy form validation with unobtrusive JavaScript. Validatious requires no JavaScript library. However, if you’re already using one, Validatious can easily work with it, and even benefit from it.

There are several settings allow you to control how and when Validatious does validation, how it displays errors and more. If configuring isn’t enough, callbacks and easy overriding gives you complete control.

You can also add custom validators with only a couple of lines of JavaScript. If your site’s language is not english, you probably don’t want error messages in english. There are several ways of changing languages as well.

Requirements: Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://validatious.org/learn/examples
License: BSD License

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Glyphish provides 130 great icons for iPhone applications. They are designed and carefully optimized for use on toolbars and tab bars in iPhone apps, they are also perfect for Android apps, websites, t-shirts, tattoos and more.

iPhone UI icons are 24-bit PNG images used as a mask to generate selected and unselected button states. Dimensions should be about 30×30 pixels for tab bar icons and about 20×20 pixels for toolbar and navigation icons. You can find Glyphish icons in AI and PSD formats. So that you can easily resize and customize them.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://glyphish.com/
License: Creative Commons License

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Securimage is an open-source free PHP Captcha script for generating complex images and CAPTCHA codes to protect forms from spam and abuse. It can be easily added into existing forms on your website to provide protection from spam bots.

It can run on most any webserver as long as you have PHP installed, and GD support within PHP. Securimage does everything from generate complicated CAPTCHA images to making sure the code the user entered was correct.

Requirements: PHP and GD Support
Demo: http://www.phpcaptcha.org/?page_id=12
License: License Free

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Since icons are such a huge element in modern day web design, WooThemes has partnered with Liam McKay, and brought you a fantastic new web icon set.

The WooFunction Icon Set includes 178 amazing web-related icons in a sophisticated and glossy design style. All 178 icons are available as 32×32 pixel PNG files and they are indeed pixel-perfect. If you have an in-depth look at the individual icons, you’ll notice that Liam has spent a lot of time paying attention to the finer details.

Requirements: -
Demo: http://www.woothemes.com/2009/09/woofunction-178…
License: GPL License

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WebTreats Etc shares a lot of royalty free stock icons, clip art, images, brushes, custom shapes, layer styles, layered PSD’s, patterns, textures, and other design resources with us. All of them are free for use in both personal and commercial projects.

You may freely use them in software programs, scrapbooking kits, web templates, websites, blogs, etc. No attribution or backlinks are required, but are always appreciated.

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Demo: http://webtreats.mysitemyway.com/
License: License Free

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If we could drag our tabular data into grids from other programs we could circumvent the need to upload a data file to a web server to be read and parsed, then spit back out to our browser in a readable format.

Anyone who has ever had to parse Excel files on the server side knows how much of a pain it is, we might be lucky if we get a CSV file or some other simple format, but in the real world the end user running their spreadsheet program has no clue what simple tabular data is.

Shea Frederick has created a DataDrop plugin that is used on an ExtJS grid, giving that grid the ability to accept data dragged from spreadsheet programs such as Excel and OpenOffice Calc right into the grid to create rows of data.

Requirements: ExtJS Framework
Demo: http://www.vinylfox.com/datadrop-drag-grid-data-from-spreadsheet/
License: MIT License

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Would you like a Transparent Website Layout? It can be very useful if you would like to have a different theme for your website, but do not want to change too much of the design. Simply changing the background image can also give you a whole different feeling sometimes. We are going to teach you how to design a transparent website layout in Photoshop. Hope you would find it useful.

Final Result

A Transparent Website Layout is what we are about to make. You can click on the image to see a full-scale version.

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CKEditor is a Version 3.0 of FCKeditor. After almost two years of intensive development, the first stable version of CKEditor 3.0 has finally released.

CKEditor is a complete rewrite of our so loved FCKeditor, which got a bit old after six years of great success. Not to say that FCKeditor is doing bad, but there are some new things we could bring to it, and CKEditor is the result of it. There are dozens of new features in CKEditor.

CKEditor is fast to load and fast to use. The development team stayed focused to bring the best performance you can have, using all modern best practices. You’ll be amazed with it.

You’ll note that they have also a brand new UI based on the Kama skin. Other than modern, Kama is colorful like a chameleon, so you can precisely match its color to your needs. This is an innovative and unique feature you’ll find in CKEditor only.

The CKEditor code is also much different now. It’s up to date with the new JavaScript development requirements, offering a rich and powerful integration and interaction API. The editor is totally plugin based, and it can be extended and modified in all senses to fit all needs.

Requirements: Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Opera
Demo: http://ckeditor.com/demo
License: GPL, LGPL, MIT License

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In-Field Labels jQuery Plugin is a simple plugin that turns properly formatted HTML forms into forms with in-field label support. Labels fade when the field is focussed and disappear when text entry begins. Clearing a field and leaving brings back the label.

There are some major benefits. The input element or textarea never really has content, so validation can proceed without first checking for the field value. It takes one line of jQuery code to implement. And its compatible with all modern browsers (And even IE6, the “not-so-modern” browser).

Requirements: jQuery Framework
Demo: http://fuelyourcoding.com/in-field-labels/
License: GPL, MIT License

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