Collective #33
Web Platform
This platform will help us all to make a better web: Adobe, Apple, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, Opera and the W3C are the Web Platform Stewards that united for creating an open resource for the web.
Check it outInspirational Website of the Week
This week's pick is Ideakites for their interesting navigation concept and clean typography.
Get inspiredLearnStreet
LearnStreet is an early-stage startup focused on changing the way people of all backgrounds and skill levels learn how to code.
Learn somethingDesigning Better JavaScript APIs
If you are developing your own utilities and libraries and plan to make them accessible to others, read this great Smashing Magazine article by Rodney Rehm.
Read itPikaday: JavaScript Datepicker
Pikaday is a light JavaScript date picker by David Bushell. Modular CSS makes it easy to customize.
Try itCSS3 Microsoft Modern Buttons
A light-weight and easy-to-use CSS/JS library that uses CSS3 styles for more than just rich button design. Made by Ace Subido.
Get itSellbox: Sell your Dropbox Files
Sellbox let's you sell any file you host in your Dropbox account (5% fee) in just a few seconds.
Check it outFree Responsive Website Template
Proximet is a free responsive website template by Anariel Design. It comes with a free business card design.
Get itDark Gold UI Kit
The Dark Gold UI Kit by Pixel Fabric contains common web UI elements like buttons, sliders, pagination and more. The well organized and fully layered PSD allows an easy usage.
Get itAdvanced Search Form for WordPress
Learn how to create an advanced search form in WordPress from this tutorial by Fearlessflyer.
Read itResponsive Web Design Makes It Hard To Be Fast
An interesting article by Guy Podjarny on the complexity and difficulty that comes with responsive websites. Some insightful points follow in the comments.
Read itSelfstarter: Build Your Own Crowdfunding Site
Selfstarter is an open source starting point for building your own ad-hoc crowdfunding site made by Lockitron.
Check it outFree Font: Sanchez Condensed (Regular & Italic)
Sánchez, designed by Daniel Hernández, is a serif typeface belonging to the classification slab serif. The regular and italic variants are for free.
Get itFontDropper 1000
FontDropper 1000 is a bookmarklet that let's you easily test or design with web fonts from WebINK.
Check it outToggle Switches (PSD)
Some pixel-perfect and colorful toggle switches from GraphicsFuel for your next interface design.
Get themWeb Developer Economics: Monthly Service Costs
Chris Coyer compiled a very insightful list of services for web developers and freelancers that he uses and their associated costs. As usual, with some great additional info in the comments.
Read itDelta jQuery UI Theme
Kiandra offers this nice jQuery UI theme (dark & light) for free. If you have every tried to create a custom jQuery UI theme, you will appreciate this a lot!
Get itManymo Android Emulators
If you are developing for Android, you'll definitely want to give the emulators of Manymo a try.
Try itFree T-Shirt Mockup (PSD)
An easy-to-edit T-Shirt mockup PSD by WeGraphics.
Get itFree Font: Slinkster
Need an impactful font for large display? Slinkster by Will Ryan is an intricately unique display fontface created by carefully overlapping equally-sized circles.
Get itFree iOS 6 Vector GUI (PSD)
A superb PSD resource by Christophe Béghin: a full vector GUI based on iOS 6, iTunes & App Store.
Get itAppView: iPhone App UI Theme
AppView is a beautiful iPhone app UI template as vector-based, layered and fully organised PSD file.
Get itRed Dwarf
Red Dwarf, by Rick Viscomi, beautifully visualizes the global positions of any given GitHub repository's stargazers (people who "star" the project).
Check it outCacoo: Create Diagrams and Collaborate
Cacoo is a free online drawing tool that allows you to create a variety of diagrams such as site maps, wire frames, UML and network charts.
Check it out