Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Having trouble of making your favourite text with CSS? CSSTYPE V2 lets you preview your css text as you modify it, and generates the code for you immediately. Typography is the art and techniques of type. The arrangement of type is the selection of typefaces, point size, line length, line spacing and letter spacing. It is very important to get the typography right. Good typography is just as important as good design.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.suprb.com/apps/csstype/
License: License Free

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In many cases when we are developing a web site or web application, our traget market might not only be one country. We might provide different version for various people in different region or country. Here is a Flag Button Developement Kit created by Bartelme Design. We can create different flag buttons for different country easily.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.bartelme.at/journal/archive/flag_button_devkit/
License: License Free

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When your web services or web applications are growing means more visitors are coming to your site. You need more bandwidth and more control of your hosting environment that you cannot get from shared hosting. However, most of the dedicated servers are quite expensive.

Media Temple provides us something in between Shared Hosting and Dedicated Server – Dedicated-Virtual Server started at $50 per month. You can customize your (dv) server with root level access to install anything you need. Allocate separate resources for each one of your clients, run your own private nameservers and completely re-brand the control panel. Or even profit from your (dv) by easily reselling hosting services with separate control panels for your clients.

• 20GB – 60GB Disk Storage
• 256MB – 1GB Memory
• 1TB – 2TB Bandwidth

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.mediatemple.net/webhosting/dv
License: License Free

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Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.dreamhost.com/hosting.html
License: License Free

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Similar to the service of Free Legal Documents by Website-law, Designers Toolbox provides us a set of legal documents templates. So that we can save a lot of money for that and invest more money on development. Different from Website-law, link and credit of each document are not required. However, we need to register as a member in order to download the documents which are in .doc format.

They provides templates of Freelance Agreement, Terms of Use Statement, Website Privacy Statement, Website Copyright Statement, etc…

Notes: I am sorry that the legal documents are no longer available on the site. You may look at the following legal documents templates instead.

Free Legal Documents by Website-law
TelePro Free Website Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions
The Basics & Essentials of Graphic Design Contracts
Freelance Design Contracts and Templates for Designers

Requirements: Any Browsers
Demo: http://www.designerstoolbox.com/legal/tools.php
License: License Free

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The cost of creating legal doucments, e.g. Terms and Coditions, Privacy Policy and Disclaimer, for your web service or application can be very expensive. Some people might draft their own legal documents by reading or copying them from their competitors. However, things can go really wrong if you made some mistakes from drafting the legal documents that you have no knowledge about. Website-law provides us a set of these legal documents for free. They only require you to the Website-law link and credit on the documents.

Requirements: Any Browsers
Demo: http://www.website-law.co.uk/documents.html
License: License Free ( Require link and credit )

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Sometimes, designing pretty forms with high usability is really hard even with lots of tutorials about how to design forms with CSS. Now, there is a very beautiful forms for you to download and use. You can also design your own theme for it if you do not like the default theme. Niceforms is a script that will replace the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones.

Requirements: Firefox 1.5+, Internet Explorer 6.0+, Safari and Opera
Demo: http://www.badboy.ro/assets/articles/niceforms1.0/niceforms.html
License: License Free

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David’s Kitchen wrote an article: Scalable CSS Buttons Using PNG and Background Colors taught us how to create dynamic CSS Buttons using PNG, transparency and background colors that degrades nicely and supports full scalability.

It is really handy for developers because the length of the button will be changed according to the length of the text. The buttons are very pretty with Web 2.0 style. The color of the button changed if you hover on it. However, the buttons are not looking very nice in Internet Explorer 6.0, hope there is a version which supports IE 6.0 as well soon.

Requirements: Internet Explorer 6.0+, Firefox 1.5+
Demo: http://monc.se/kitchen/stew/buttons/btn.html
License: No License

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