A little late, yes, but here’s the July round up of some cool web design resources like a voting system for HTML 5 videos, an introduction to HTML 5 canvas, why Google doesn’t take meta keywords into account, free icons and more.
General Resources
Vote on HTML 5 videos with jQuery
http://www.zurb.com/playground/html5-video-voting
A nice system implemented in HTML5 to score votes on a video so you can gather feedback about them.
Test your visitors’ memory
Test how much people remembers about your website with this easy to use online quiz generator.
CSS3 properties generator
Generate almost every CSS3 property with this visual tool.
jQuery Mobile Slider for touch devices
This slider for mobile sites will work on iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Now there’s no excuse to not to add a slider to the mobile version of your site. Photo Swipe has been conveniently released under the MIT license.
Carousel for responsive layouts
http://matmarquis.com/carousel/
Now that everything in the web just has to be responsive, here’s a strong carousel for your responsive layout.
Free Real State Icons
http://www.studiopress.com/graphics/real-estate-icons.htm
Brian Gardner’s StudioPress offers some neat real state icons.
Pokemon Icons
http://edwellbrook.com/releases/pokemon/
Yeah, these look superb for an avatar and you can mix shapes to create your own.
Social Icons
Pack of 35 social icons including Twitter, Facebook with the PSD source file included. It’s time to start including Google+ in these icon packs.
Online tools
Identify fonts
http://fount.artequalswork.com/
Now that fonts are no longer limited to Arial and Verdana, this bookmarklet will be handy to quickly identify the fonts used in a website.
BrowserID: single signon identity
BrowserID is Mozilla’s response to online identity. It operates in a descentralized way and is stored in your computer browser.
Articles
Introduction to HTML5 Canvas
http://www.netmagazine.com/node/1223
Rob Hawkes for .net magazine gives an introduction to the basics of HTML 5 canvas element.
Google doesn’t uses meta keywords
http://yoast.com/meta-keywords/
Joost de Valk went over the topic of meta keywords: are they really used or not by search engines? He embedded a video where Matt Cutts says that Google doesn’t use meta keywords.
WordPress Plugins
Syntax colouring for WordPress
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-code-editor/
Ever felt the need for some syntax colouring in WordPress code editor?
Shortcodes Pro
http://mattvarone.com/featured-content/shortcodes-pro/
Matt Varone released the Shortcodes Pro plugin for free: you can create your own shortcodes and assign the code they will execute without leaving the WordPress Admin.
Inspiration
Illustration and lettering
http://www.wakeupmrsingh.com/Core/
Awesome artwork by Karan Singh, an illustrator based in Melbourne, Australia, who creates artwork for clients like Nike, Computer Arts and MTV.
New Typography blog
The Case & Point is a new blog encompassing typography and lettering curated by Working Format.
Great, artistic and very informative! Keep posting!
WORCESTER WEB DESIGN
Awesome list of resources, especially JQuery mobile slider. Thanks
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