Open Source Resources for Web Application Developers

Couloir Slideshow is a demonstration of Flash-like behavior implemented solely in Javascript, HTML, and CSS. It is a very good resources for creating a gallery with resizing and fading effects. You are permitted to use it on your own project so long as you do so according to the rules outlined in the Creative Commons ‘Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0′ License and the license terms contained in the associated, third-party APIs.

Requirements: Any Modern Browsers with Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://www.couloir.org/js_slideshow
License: Creative Commons License

COLOURlovers™ is a resource that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color – whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification – a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.

The COLOURlovers™ community is regularly updated with information and examples of the way colors are used in the real world — along with news articles on color trends and interviews with top creative professionals.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.colourlovers.com
License: License Free

Particletree has written a detailed report – Web App Autopsy about 4 very different web application companies that are at varying stages of their life cycle. In addition to age and size, these companies vary in their business models, programming languages and views on approaching the web as a platform. Also They are sharing code line counts, business processes, conversion rates, support requests revenues per customer. This information can help us identify some trends about web application.

Original Article: http://particletree.com/features/web-app-autopsy/

One of the Pingdom Tools for webmasters – The Full Page Test loads a complete HTML page including all objects (images, CSS, JavaScripts, RSS, Flash and frames/iframes). It mimics the way a page is loaded in a web browser. The load time of all objects is shown visually with time bars. You can view the list of objects either in load order or as a hierarchy. The hierarchy view allows you to see which objects are linked to in for example a CSS file. Every test also shows general statistics about the loaded page such as the total number of objects, total load time, and size including all objects. You might also interested in Ping and Traceroute as well.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://tools.pingdom.com/fpt/
License: License Free

Brusheezy is not the best name but has a hugh collection of top quality photoshop brushes and patterns. Users are free to download and vote for the best custom photoshop brushes and patterns.

Requirements: Refer to Readme File of the Author
Demo: http://www.brusheezy.com
License: MIT License

LightWindow is the most powerful modal window I have seen so far. It has so many features, you have the complete ability to style and position it. It is very easy to implement as well. Lastly, most moal window application didn’t actually test for their media types and how they behaved in other browsers and operating systems. However, LightWindow has done a great job, other than images, inline content, iframe content and ajax content, it also supports Quicktime Movie, SWF and PDF.

Requirements: Any Modern Browsers
Demo: http://stickmanlabs.com/lightwindow/#demos
License: MIT License

Are you tired of using some small and ugly web 2.0 services icons? You should try the Web 2.0 Services Icons Pack which is made by Made by ilemoned and miniajax. They looks amazing and all in PSD and PNG formats, it is very easy to modified and blend it to your website.

Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.miniajax.com/social-media-icons.php
License: GPL License

YShout is a lightweight yet full-featured package that allows you to easily add an interactive shoutbox to your website. So that you can communicate with your visitors in real time, and also provide a great chat room for the visitors to discuss on your website or web application. You can tailor YShout’s appearance to fit your website perfectly by using CSS. YShout 5 features a completely rebuilt control panel. It contains some new preferences, as well as a lot of returning favorites.

Requirements: PHP and Javascript
Demo: http://geekchat.net/yshout5/example/
License: Donationware

Do you want to build your own color schemer? Do you want to put a color picker in your web application? ColorJack DHTML Color Picker is the best choice. Users can simply click on the color picker to choose their favourite color. Also, users can drag the color picker to where they want it to be. They can even close it easily by clicking on the “X” symbol at the top right hand corner. It’s licenced under Creative Commons, so you are free to use or modify the DHTML Color Picker on your own project.

If you like this, you might want to use ColorJack Sphere Color Picker as well. However, this version is not compatiable with Internet Explorer at the moment. Therefore, there is no download-able package at the moment.

Requirements: Any Modern Browsers with Javascript Enabled
Demo: http://www.colorjack.com/plugin/
License: Creative Commons