Info: This is a little different post than you see everyday at WRD. It is a concern that popped up while working on "speeding up stuff" and think/hope it is worth discussing. Please share what you think. I'm usually a fan of hosting all the files used in websites myself, under the same location with [...]
Archive for the ‘Google’ Category
Socialite.js is a JavaScript library for having more control over social sharing buttons. The library is lightweight (2kb minified-gzipped), standalone and helps the social widgets to load when you want them or only when needed/requested to speed up web pages. It has support for the major players: Twitter, Google+, Facebook, LinkedIn, Pinterest, and Spotify. There is [...]
Bruce Galpin is sharing a framework of good-looking and Google+ styled buttons in his blog. The buttons can use text, images or both inside them and comes with the high-quality icon set created by WebDesignShock. As the icons have both standard and active state versions, buttons respond well to hovering them. There is also a [...]
It is usually a good practice to enable users to sign-in/sign-up using popular social service accounts like Facebook, Twitter, Google or OpenID. Such an alternative not only fastens the process (no approval e-mails required, fewer form fields to fill, etc.) but also a "one less password to remember" from the user's perspective. There are many [...]
WebDesignShock has recently released a high-quality set of interface icons that follow the style of the ones used in Google+. There are 204 items in the set, they have gray and colored versions (great for hover effect) and come in 2 sizes: 18*18px and 128*128px. That's not all, besides .PNG, the icons are also available [...]
HybridAuth is an open source PHP library for authenticating through multiple social services and ID providers. The services supported include OpenID,Facebook, LinkedIn, Google,Twitter, Windows Live, Foursquare, Vimeo, Yahoo, PayPal and more. It can be integrated easily into existing websites by inserting a file and few lines to the sign-in/up pages. Once authenticated, HybridAuth provides the [...]
A week ago, WRD had introduced Fortune3 which is a full-featured shopping cart application and giveaway of 3*6-month licenses of any plan wanted. If you commented to that article for joining the giveaway, make sure to check the end of this post to find out if you are one of the winners. In case you [...]
Google and other search engines provide solutions for websites to quickly search through the content in a limited set of web pages. For something more customizable and to crawl much more resources like shared drives and feeds (besides URLs), SearchBlox can be a good fit. It is a search server which indexes the contents (supports [...]
Inserting Google Maps into web pages is already easy with the simplicity Google offers in all of their products. However, things can get easier with GMAP3 jQuery plugin if you are planning to use maps with advanced features (like overlays or callbacks). There are simplified functions provided for the popular uses of Google Maps API [...]
Page Speed, the popular Firebug/Chrome add-on -by Google- for evaluating the performance of web pages now gets an online version. It offers a very similar functionality with the Firebug version, analyzes the page performance and comes with suggestions that are categorized in priorities to improve it. This free service also has a new feature: "suggestions [...]
