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August, 2010

Validate forms with ease – jQuery.Formation

Formation is a nice jQuery plugin. Its sole purpose is to validate forms – and do it easily.

Formvalidation Validate forms with ease   jQuery.Formation

If you take the time to style it, your forms will look simply great.

One of the most pleasant things about this plugin is that it works on IE6.

You can customize the plugin: specify your own “captcha questions”; error messages; add password fields; et cetera.

A demonstration is available in the homepage.

Webification Mashup 30-Aug-10

  1. The Wilderness Downtown arcadefire Webification Mashup 30 Aug 10This is the first time Webification has linked to a viral web.  But we’re doing this for a very good reason. Words cannot express how awesome this web is.This web is a chrome experiment is a “customized video clip” for Arcade Fire (an indie band), and uses Google Maps, StreetView and HTML5′s newest functions to create a freaky, yet very enjoyable experience in your downtown.

  2. 715 Awesomely Simple and Free CSS Layouts Littleboxescss Webification Mashup 30 Aug 10Although we do oppose taglines with more than one and a half adjectives, this list of CSS layouts is remarkable and will make you want to end your designer’s career–these layouts make you think that there’s nothing new to invent.

  3. 40 New JavaScript Tutorials with Helping Techniques JavaScriptss Webification Mashup 30 Aug 10 Too little code, too much design in this Mashup. That just had to be changed. These 40 tutorials will help any JavaScript beginner (and even an advanced developer) to try and make their websites sexier and more contemporary.

  4. 30 Effective Logo Examples Featuring Animals
    Tullamore estate Webification Mashup 30 Aug 10
    ATTENTION! Don’t visit this list if you don’t like animals.
    Jokes aside. This is a pretty creative post, which gives a good idea on how animals are implemented in company logos to great effect.

  5. 20 Free Fonts Every Web Designer Should Have
  6. NEWYORKER Webification Mashup 30 Aug 10These twenty fonts are awesome. At least I’m going to steal a few.

    A must have for every web designer – just as the title says.

A flexible and easy CMS – Textpattern

Textpattern is an open source content management system with an emphasis on flexibility.

Backend A flexible and easy CMS   Textpattern

It’s built upon PHP and MySQL, so it’s pretty much a standard CMS (think WordPress).

However, Textpattern does have features that stand out:

  • Easy-to-use, intuitive backend–but they could’ve done a better job at the design
  • Built-in SEO tools
  • It’s easy to translate the entire CMS
  • Browser-based template editing
  • It’s easy to adjust the CMS because of the coding structure

Build applications with JavaScript – SproutCore

SproutCore is a JavaScript framework for developing interactive desktop-like web apps.

Flying buttons sproutcore Build applications with JavaScript   SproutCoreSproutCore features an extensive documentation, which will guide you through creating your first web application.

The framework looks pretty easy to use, and building full-scale web applications should be a breeze with this framework.

Some of the nicest SproutCore’s features:

  • UI controls
  • Numerous, easy-to-implement mixins
  • A very good documentation
  • Tools for working with integers/strings… in better ways than JS currently offers
  • Compatible with Django, Ruby on Rails, PHP, and other server-side languages

Wait with style – Neteye activity indicator

Neteye activity indicator is a lightweight jQuery plugin for making an ajax waiting dialog.

Activity indicator Wait with style   Neteye activity indicatorIt’s very easy to style Neteye, and, although it works even on IE6, it degrades gracefully (via feature detection).

No external CSS is required to style the plugin’s loading indicators.

You can change settings, too.

For example, the rotation speed, line length, colour, padding, and size can be changed to make your own ultimate loading indicator.

CodeIgniter CMS – PyroCMS

PyroCMS is a content management system built upon the CodeIgniter framework.

ADDPAGE CodeIgniter CMS   PyroCMS

There are hundreds (if not thousands) of content management systems; why should you use this one?

Obviously, you’d use it if you were a CodeIgniter developer, but even if you aren’t, there’s still some candy left:

  • Easy themes (some PHP knowledge required)
  • Web integration
  • Ridiculously simple backend interface
  • Regular updates
  • Numerous widgets (Twitter feed, HTML code, etc)