Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Do you need come unqiue custom designs? LogoMyWay aims to connect clients needing design work such as Custom logo designs, T-shirts designs, Business cards designs and more to a thriving community of talented logo designers exploding with creativity.

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Source: http://www.logomyway.com/

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Speech bubbles are a popular effect but many tutorials rely on presentational HTML or JavaScript. Nicolas Gallagher has written a tutorial: Pure CSS Speech Bubbles, which contains various forms of speech bubble effect created with CSS2.1 and enhanced with CSS3. No images, no JavaScript and it can be applied to your existing semantic HTML.

You can also look at the tutorial: Pure CSS Social Media Icons, which creates social media icons using CSS and semantic HTML. It uses progressive enhancement to turn an unordered list of text links into a set of icons without the use of images or JavaScript.

Source: Pure CSS Speech Bubbles
Source: Pure CSS Social Media Icons

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Matt Legend Gemmell held a 6-hour workshop at NSConference in both the UK and USA recently, focusing on software design and user experience.

Predictably, an extremely popular topic was the iPad, and how to approach the design of iPad applications. He gave a 90-minute presentation on the subject to start each workshop, and he is very kind to share some of his observations of iPad Application Design.

This article is about the user interface conventions and considerations which apply to creating software for the iPad platform and touch-screen tablet devices in general. It is not a technical discussion of iPad-related APIs. This is an excellent article for designers and application developers. I am sure you will find it useful too.

Source: http://mattgemmell.com/2010/03/05/ipad-application-design

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You have all your important data backed up, right? I mean, come on folks, it’s 2010. We may not have flying cars yet like we’re supposed to, but “having backups” is a problem that’s solved. And I’m sure you’ve solved it. I’m sure you sleep well at night knowing that if a comet hit the data center where your website lives, and everything was completely destroyed, you could get back up and running somewhere else quickly enough.

If, however, you are one of the many many people who doesn’t have a good backup strategy in place, this article “Bulletproof backups for MySQL” is here to help you out. He covered quite a bit in this article, but if you make it through everything, you should be able to rest easier knowing that you have good, safe backups of your database.

Source: Bulletproof backups for MySQL

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Now that Apple has officially released the iPad we want to start designing for it. While Apple’s interface builder is great, it doesn’t really allow us to create custom UI elements on the fly. That’s why Geoff Teehan created iPad GUI PSD for us.

The PSD was constructed using vectors, so it’s fully editable and scalable. You’ll notice there are a few new UI elements as compared to the iPhone interface. The workable screen design is formatted to 768×1024 so anything you design in the Photoshop file can easily be brought over to the SDK.

Source: http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2010/02/01/ipad-gui-psd/

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Joomla! is often paralleled to point-and-click presentation software, such as Impress or PowerPoint, in terms of ease of use. Granted, Joomla! makes it extremely easy to build a site having no knowledge of its internal working, or even what HTML is. However, in order to build a stunning site you need a bit more than that. It’s the tricks in the web builder’s bag which determine his success, both in customer satisfaction and financial terms.

Some of the fundamental techniques for creating compelling sites is your ability to master the use of modules. Often overlooked, modules are the most practical way to integrate diverse content on a single page. Leveraging their use from mere content bearers to integral parts of your content can transform your site from boring to intriguing. The following technique has proved itself again and again in a vast array of site genres. I call it the “Faux module positions” technique. (more…)

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A Facebook Page is a public Profile that enables information about business and products to be shared with Facebook users and the public. An user should be able to create one in a few minutes. This article “Creating a Custom Facebook Page” explains how to add custom tabs to your Facebook page to make it do more. He has explained how to built a carousel, navigation tabs, forms, etc on your facebook page easily.

You will need to use FBJS (Facebook Javascript). This provides the functionality we need to develop custom facebook pages. This is also to protect other users privacy at the same time and restrict Javascript features that can be abused. This tutorial helps you cut short your search and gives you a head start in your quest to build custom tabs within Facebook pages.

Source: http://www.webdigi.co.uk/blog/2010/creating-a-custom-facebook-page/

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The 14 Days of jQuery brings you fourteen consecutive days of new releases to celebrate the release of jQuery 1.4. Each day they will publish some fresh videos and announcements — there’ll be code releases, project-related updates, and jQuery UI goodness, among other things.

In addition to the announcements, they will also be releasing a set of videos over the 14 days with talks and tutorials relating the jQuery 1.4 release and other general jQuery topics. You’ll want to check back at The 14 Days of jQuery every day during the two weeks to see what’s new, or sign up to be notified via email. Think of it like an online conference, only longer, freer, and with a bit of mystery and suspense!

Source: http://jquery14.com/

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A website is like your receptionist! They need to look good for making a good first impression on your client. Most of us like a dynamic partner and Flash websites are perfect partners for your business.

Flash sometimes makes websites look cool, attractive at the same time professional. The main glitch in Flash is nothing but using the software to piece the perfect website as it consumes a lot of time and money. Here is a quickfix for that problem: go shopping for to find your favourite flash apps at these places. Although they are not free, but some of them are really bargain, which can saves you hours of development time.

1. Digicrafts

Digicrafts is an excellent place to start shopping for your flash apps. It offers templates, banners, menus and other flash items for sale. They gallery is categorically organised under different creation tools like Flash, Lightroom, Dreamweaver etc as well as in application form type like templates, logo, clip arts etc. It also offers an excellent integrated search options that can reduce your shopping fatigue. The site also provides freebies as well as tutorials for their applications.

2. JumpEye

JumpEye really makes your eye jump! The website offers a very simple interface to browse through their repertoire which contains a wide range of flash components. They also package these apps as a unit which can assist you if you are looking for a complete makeover of your website. Their FlashEff software which is an action script viewer for Flash, where you can create as well as edit their components. They also offer many web apps like Media player, Text Box, Interactive Map to just name a few popular ones.

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Are you interested designing or developing your own iPhone Application or Palm Pre Application? Teehan+Lax has put together iPhone GUI PSD and Palm Pre GUI PSD to help designers pitch and develop polished concepts using a tool their pretty familiar with, Photoshop. The elements are built with vectors for easy editing and scaling.

iPhone GUI PSD: http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2009/06/18/iphone-gui-psd-30/
Palm Pre GUI PSD: http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2009/07/08/palm-pre-gui-psd/

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