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License: License Free
When we are developing web application using PHP, it is not a one day process. Sometimes, we spent few months writing PHP code. If the code we wrote were very messy, it is very hard to understand what we wrote previously. So that, we need a PHP framework to work in a structured and rapid manner.
CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. The goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications, without any loss to flexibility.
Requirements: HTTP server, PHP 4.3.2+, Database Engine
Demo: http://manual.cakephp.org/
License: MIT License
Pinvoke has created 5 sets of amazing mini fonts ( Base size: 8 points ). The fonts can be used royalty-free by the licensee for any personal or commercial projects. If you like these fonts, you may also like
Pinvoke Mini Icons as well.
Requirements: Any Browsers
Demo: http://www.pinvoke.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
Pinvoke has designed 4 sets of amazing mini icons ( 10×10 and 16×16 pixel ). The icons can be used royalty-free by the licensee for any personal or commercial projects.
Requirements: Any Browsers
Demo: http://www.pinvoke.com
License: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license
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
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 )
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
Tango Icon Library provides developers a set of professional high quality icons. They are in PNG ( Transparent background which can easily integrate into any web site) and SVG format ( Scalable which means you can increase the size of the icons without losing quality.
Requirements: Any Browsers
Demo: http://tango.freedesktop.org/Tango_Icon_Library
License: Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license
Prototype framework enables you to deal with Ajax in a very easy way. It simplifies the way of using Javascript and deals in a smart way with JavaScript code returned from a server and provides helper classes for polling. And also, it is cross-browser compatible.
The biggest part of the Prototype framework are its DOM extensions. Prototype adds many convenience methods to elements returned by the $() function: for instance, you can write $('editForm').addClassName('active').show() to get the element with the ID ‘editForm‘, add a class name to it and show it (if it was previously hidden).
This framework can save you more than 50% on coding javascript and developing an ajax driven with large amount of DOM manipulations web site. If you have not tried it, please have a look. A well-defined framework is needed for developing a professional web application.
Requirements: Any Browsers
Demo: http://www.prototypejs.org/api
License: MIT License
