FlexNav is a mobile-first approach to creating site menus.
FlexNav supports touch screens and adapts to smaller screen sizes without a second thought.
FlexNav supports modern browsers and IE versions from 7 and up. Besides touch events it supports keyboard tab navigation and hover reveal for desktop. It even works with JavaScript disabled.
Sonic is a neat little JS library that creates looping thingies (loaders).
Sonic works by drawing a shape at tiny intervals along a preset path. It’s fairly simple to use and, with a bit of experimentation, you can create highly original spinners.
It’s pretty fast, and for older browsers there’s also SonicGIF which turns your precious spinners into GIF images.
Kraken is a lightweight boilerplate for mobile website front-ends.
Kraken uses Origami, a fluid six-column grid, and along that sports the following features:
Kraken also features a number of useful add-ons; it’s also available for WordPress, which is pretty cool.
Lazy Line Painter is a jQuery/Raphael plugin for converting SVG pictures to neat animations.
Lazy Line Painter works by converting every single line into an animation. The idea, then, is not to have any lines that are too big.
The end result is a .js file with the animation; you can use the converter in the plugin’s website as well.
Profound Grid is a SCSS-powered CSS3 grid with an emphasis on flexibility.
The grid integrates SCSS’s mixins, variables and selector inheritance into a flexible grid system.
It’s responsive and can be used for most devices including tablets, etc. Profound Grid ships with a number of pre-made layouts which you can customize or outright copy to use on your website.
Bones is a WordPress theme built around the famous HTML5 Boilerplate.
Instead of aspiring to be a framework, Bones provides a per-project template just like the Boilerplate.
Among notable features of Bones are: mobile-centric and responsive approach; LESS/Sass for CSS; custom post types and dashboard functions come preloaded; etc.
Overall, Bones seems like a strong foundation for any WordPress project — it seems worth a try at the very least.
20 April, 2013
By Lauris Veips
