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jQuery TOOLS - The missing UI library for the Web

Tabs is the most popular JavaScript tool on the web. Tabs, horizontal tabs and accordions, finally done the right way. Tooltip helps you to build easier user interfaces. Big or small. Pluggable effects. Yet another crucial tool.

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Nivo Slider - The world's most awesome jQuery & WordPress Image Slider jQuery & WordPress Image Slider The Nivo Slider is world renowned as the most beautiful and easy to use slider on the market. The jQuery plugin is completely free and totally open source, and there is literally no better way to make your website look totally stunning. If you don’t believe us, check out the list of features below and you soon will. Beautiful Transition Effects

rlightbox – a jQuery UI mediabox Table of Content Announcement rlightbox development is discontinued at the moment. jQuery Geo docs Welcome! jQuery Geo is an open-source, geospatial mapping jQuery plugin from Applied Geographics developed with the intention of making spatial web mapping significantly simpler than it may initially seem. We would like to point out the term "open-source" to explictly state that Google, Bing, & Esri are generally free but not open. Please read the following sections for more information and examples, and thank you for considering us! If you have any questions feel free to ask the lead developer on Twitter. If you would like only release notifications, you can follow the project itself on Twitter.

favico.js - Make a use of your favicon Badges Animate your favicon with animated badges. You can customize type of animation, position, background color and text color. rlightbox – a jQuery UI mediabox Table of Content Announcement rlightbox development is discontinued at the moment. Nivo Slider - The world's most awesome jQuery & WordPress Image Slider jQuery & WordPress Image Slider The Nivo Slider is world renowned as the most beautiful and easy to use slider on the market. The jQuery plugin is completely free and totally open source, and there is literally no better way to make your website look totally stunning.

Open Source Ebook Readers for Android Your Android device is a versatile tool which can be put to a variety of practical uses, including reading ebooks. But for that you need a decent ebook reading app. While there are several ebook readers available on the Android Market, the Cool Reader and FBReader open source apps are probably the best of the bunch. There are several features that make Reader worthy of its name. For starters, Cool Reader really excels at format support: the app can handle all popular ebook and text formats, including EPUB, FB2, TXT, RTF, and HTML.

Crazy Egg – Visualize where your visitors click Over 200,000 businesses Convert Better with Crazy Egg, The Original Heatmapping Technology A heatmap is an easy way to understand what users want, care about and do on your site by visually representing their clicks - which are the strongest indicators of visitor motivation and desire. A Crazy Egg heatmap lets you collect more than 88% of the data you would using a traditional eye-tracking process. At a fraction of the price. With no hardware. Almost no IT involvement. The apple effect for overlay Here you can see an Apple effect in action: Berlin Gustavohouse The Gustavo House in Storkower Strasse. It was built in 1978 and reconstructed in 1998 by the Spanish artist Gustavo. Berlin Alexanderplatz Station

Revised Font Stack Serious efforts are being made to get more typeface choices on the web to enhance web typography. Still, most of us prefer web-safe fonts like: Verdana, Georgia, Times New Roman and Arial. Though choices are limited, yet the number can be increased by exploring other pre-installed fonts. “… font stacks are ultimately design factors, and should be scrutinized as such.”—Nathan Ford, Better CSS font stacks Baskerville, Garamond and Palatino have already been used a few times to create font-stacks that inspire.

Merging Realities: Skeuomorphic Design Infographic Auditory skeuomorph This type of skeuomorphism can be easily illustrated with audio effect that imitates that sound of the camera shutter while you are taking pictures with your cell phone. You know that there is no mechanical shutter in your device but it does exactly the same sound like its real life analogue. Visual skeuomorph Downloads- 978 Grid System for Web Design Introduction Welcome to 978.gs. This website is owned and operated by Brothers Roloff, LLC. By visiting our website and accessing the information, resources, services, products, and tools we provide, you understand and agree to accept and adhere to the following terms and conditions as stated in this policy (hereafter referred to as 'User Agreement'). This agreement is in effect as of Jan 22, 2011. We reserve the right to change this User Agreement from time to time without notice.

Writing efficient CSS selectors 17 September, 2011 Efficient CSS is not a new topic, nor one that I really need to cover, but it’s something I’m really interested in and have been keeping an eye on more and more since working at Sky. A lot of people forget, or simply don’t realise, that CSS can be both performant and non-performant. This can be easily forgiven however when you realise just how little you can, err, realise, non-performant CSS. These rules only really apply to high performance websites where speed is a feature, and 1000s of DOM elements can appear on any given page. But best practice is best practice, and it doesn’t matter whether you’re building the next Facebook, or a site for the local decorator, it’s always good to know…

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