Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Urban Fonts has an amazing collection of over 8,000 free fonts for you to download fonts. You can customize the look of the font previews by typing your own text in the input text field provided in all the font pages, or switch to an alphabetical view. The Names button switches your preview back to the name of the font. The colors of the text and background can be easily changed using the built in color picker. Urban Fonts also lets you choose how many fonts you’d like to have displayed in your page.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.urbanfonts.com/free-fonts.htm
License: License Free

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WebSnapr lets you capture screenshots/thumbnails of almost any web page. Let your visitors to instantly visualize any web page before clicking. WebSnapr also provides us the WebSnapr Preview Bubble which is a simple, unobtrusive script used to display an overlay bubble showing a hyperlink target thumbnail using WebSnapr. It’s a snap to setup which can increase site traffic, click-through rate and site stickiness.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.websnapr.com/previewbubble/
License: License Free

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A set of Emprise Javascript Charts ( Line, Area, Scatter, Pie, Bar and Function series ) with zooming, scaling and scrolling ablity. Built with compatibility in mind and tested on all major browsers, you can be assured your charts will function consistently for the broadest range of end users. Every aspect of the charting display can be configured and customized through well-documented properties and methods. It is free for everyone unless you want extra features.

Requirements: Safari, Camino, Firefox and Internet Explorer 6+, Opera
Demo: http://www.ejschart.com/examples/index.php
License: License Free

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Does your web application have international appeal? Do you support multiple languages? Do you need a set of Flag Icons? Icon Drawer produced more then 220 flag icons representing countries and unions all over the world in PNG format. Sizes : 16×16, 24×24, 32×32, 48×48. They look so pretty.

Icon Drawer also produced Mac OS X application icons such as Chess, GarageBand, Quick Time Player, Mail, Pages, Preview, iChat, iPhoto, iTunes, Address Book, Text Edit, iCal in black and blue colors. If you wish to all these icons on your website/web application, you need to place link Icon Drawer on your site. (Somewhere on static first level page, not in blog or news page).

Requirements: Link to Icon Drawer
Demo: http://www.icondrawer.com/free.php
License: License Free ( Required Link to Icon Drawer )

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Site Meter is a comprehensive real time website tracking and counter tools give you instant access to vital information and data about your sites audience. With the detailed reporting you’ll have a clear picture of who is visiting your site, how they found you, where they came from, what interests them and much more.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.sitemeter.com/?a=samplestats&HELP=ON
License: License Free

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Now you can chat with visitors to your website instantly using text or even voice! ChatStat provides every website owner, and eCommerce store with live interaction and tracking technology, making every dialog with their prospects and customers as effective as if they walked into a storefront and were greeted by their most talented staff. ChatStat’s innovative Live Customer Interaction system applies the Web 2.0 paradigm to instant ‘live’ human interaction and web analytics. There are many exciting features e.g. Live Translation for text chat in up to 40 languages and get Website Analytics displayed using MovingGraph Technology. Proactive 2-way live chat is free for up to two operators!

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.chatstat.com
License: License Free ( Up to 2 Operators )

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ModalBox is a JavaScript technique for creating modern (Web 2.0-style) modal dialogs or even wizards (sequences of dialogs) without using conventional popups and page reloads. It’s inspired by Mac OS X modal dialogs. ModalBox is built with pure JavaScript and is very lightweight (10kb).

Requirements: Safari, Camino, Firefox 1+ and Internet Explorer 6+, Opera 8+
Demo: http://wildbit.com/demos/modalbox/
License: License Free

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DinPattern has designed some original and professional patterns. All patterns available there are free to use. The author designed these patterns just out of fun, and make no money from them. But, if you feel you have gotten some good use out of them, and like to leave a tip to keep the site going.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.dinpattern.com/patterns01.php
License: License Free

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Despite of the fact that there are increasing number of spam on the internet, we need some tools to defend it. Psyrens has created an Ajax CAPTCHA which allow us to validate the CAPTCHA field in real time. It is very simple but extremely useful.

Requirements: Any Modern Browsers with Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://psyrens.com/captcha/
License: License Free

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As we know, the input with the type=”submit” is either too ugly (Firefox), a little buggy (Internet Explorer) or completely inflexible (Safari). The solution for most is to use image inputs and create the damn things ourselves. And it’s unfortunate, because then we’re reduced to the tedious tasks of opening up Photoshop every time we’re in need of a new button. What we need is something better—something more flexible and meant for designers. Lucky for us, the solution already exists. ParticleTree introduced us a better way to do it, also with mouseover and mouseout effect.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://particletree.com/features/rediscovering-the-button-element
License: License Free

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