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Weebly Announces $13,000 Prized Theme Design Contest

// March 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Weebly, a very easy-to-use, popular & web-based website-builder service has just opened its theme gallery to all designers.
And, to celebrate this, they launched a design contest with $13,000 in prizes which the entries will be judged by well-known designers:

Michael Cronan (acknowledged with the naming and identities of Tivo and Verio and naming the Amazon Kindle)
Scott [...]

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CSS3, Please! – The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator

// March 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

CSS3, Please! is a web-based & simple-yet-effective cross-browser CSS3 rules generator.
As every browser may require different prefixes for the CSS3 properties, this tool makes it so easy by providing them all with an editable & well-commented way where the output can be seen instantly.
Currently, it helps you write the rules for: border-radius, box-shadow, linear-gradients, rotation [...]

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Open Source And Live Web Analytics: SlimStat

// March 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

SlimStat is an open source web analytics application that collects & presents statistics information about your website.
It is built with PHP-MySQL & can be integrated into websites with JavaScript (like Google Analytics) or PHP.

For  the given period, the application can display:

the number of visitors/pageviews
referrer URLs, domains
search terms
browsers, OSs, countries, screen sizes

There is also a "paths" [...]

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Awesome Speech Bubbles With Pure CSS3

// March 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Nicolas Gallagher is sharing a creative way on creating good-looking speech bubbles with CSS3.
There are no images or JavaScript in the implementations but uses the :before and/or :after pseudo-elements to produce basic shapes.
The HTML remains semantic however we should remember that CSS3 is not fully supported by all major browsers & we may again require [...]

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5 Advanced CSS Pseudo Classes that will Save your Day

// March 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

CSS3 provides powerful pseudo-classes that allow the designer to select multiple elements according to their positions in a document tree. Using these pseudo-classes can be a little confusing at first, but it becomes a lot easier over time to set up your layout.
In today’s article I’m going to take a look at 5 pseudo-classes that [...]

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Traffic Light Feedback Giveaway – Winners Announced (And 50% Lifetime Discount)

// March 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Last week, a post was announcing the giveaway of 3 annual Traffic Light Feedback accounts ( £180 GBP/account) to WebResourcesDepot readers.
Today, the winners are selected. But before that, let's remember:
What is Traffic Light Feedback?
It offers a very simple way of getting feedback from users: asking a question & having 3 clickable responses (green, yellow and [...]

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Instant CMS For Static Websites: Phpns

// March 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Phpns is an open source news/content management system that will enable you to add dynamic content to any website with one line of code.
The application is not a complicated or a full-featured CMS. Rather, it is a simpler one which is very suitable for managing basic websites.

It comes with variables like adding pagination, displaying summary [...]

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Open Source Video Conferencing: BigBlueButton

// March 7th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

BigBlueButton is an open source video conferencing application which is specifically built for remote learning but can be used for standard meetings as well.
The application enables multiple users to login & share their webcam or communicate via VOIP at the same time.
It is a very ideal application for presentations as users can upload PDF or [...]

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Slim jQuery Form Validation Plugin: Ketchup

// March 6th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Ketchup is an easy-to-customize (in means of appearance & functionality) jQuery plugin for validating user inputs on the client-side.
The plugin works by inserting the validation rules inside the markup, just like:
<input type="password" id="new_pass" class="validate(required)" />

It comes with a bunch of ready-to-use rules, including: required, min/max length, number, URL, e-mail & much more where new ones [...]

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Data And Content Visualization: Simile Widgets

// March 5th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Simile Widgets is a set of open source web widgets for visualizing data & content.
They are actually a spin-off from the Simile Project & improved over time by a community of open-source developers.
Currently, it includes 4 widgets:
Timeline

Timeline is for creating an interactive display of events within a timeframe.
It can be dragged or controlled with the [...]

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