If often happens, especially for beginner developers, to forget the right property value that should be applied to a style. InstaCSS is aimed to help you finding information about CSS properties and their possible values. The website is constantly improved and it also has a database of searchable HTML tags and JavaScript functions (with usage examples). Moreover, each property page has a “Browse Compatibility” chart.

Having mostly text (loads very fast) and a live search, InstaCSS is a very attractive and useful tool for CSS designers.

  • November 15, 2011

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    Factors to Consider When Choosing a Font

    Whether you’re designing the poster for a new blockbuster movie or advertising colocation facilities, (for example, the Vancouver colocation center), your choice of font can make or break the reception of your communication. Here are few factors to consider before choosing a typeface: Distance The medium in which a font is going to be used [...]

  • November 8, 2011

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    Bootstrap: Kick-start Development of Webapps and Sites

    Bootstrap is a toolkit from Twitter designed to kickstart growth and development of web-apps and web-sites.It provides base CSS and HTML for typography, forms, buttons, tables, grids, navigation, and even more. Technical engineers at Twitter have traditionally used just about any library these folks were experienced with in order to meet front-end requirements. Bootstrap started [...]

  • October 29, 2011

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    Image Slider and Accordion: The Slidorion, A jQuery Plugin

    Image Slider and Accordion: The Slidorion, A jQuery Plugin

    A mixture of an image slider and an accordion, Slidorion features beautiful images along with a variable length description. Having images associated with each tab, and accompanied by a large variety of effects, this plugin is an excellent alternative to the conventional jQuery slider. Available options: autoPlay – Automatically plays the slidorion (boolean) easing – [...]

  • October 20, 2011

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    Create CSS in an intuitive way: LayerStyles HTML5 App

    LayerStyles is a HTML5 App that has an interface similar to Photoshop’s Layer Style Window. Works in the browser and generates CSS code. Styles included are: Drop Shadow Inner Shadow Background Border Border Radius Highlights: Colorpicker can pick any color of the element your working on Drag and Drop images onto the page to use [...]

  • October 10, 2011

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    Simple Modal: Just another Window Modal – Powered by Mootools

    Simple Modal: Just another Window Modal – Powered by Mootools

    SimpleModal is a Mootools plugin to create simple, yet professional-looking modal windows including alerts and confirm messages with only a few lines of code. Confirm configuration involves the use of callbacks to be applied to affirmative action; it can work in asynchronous mode and retrieve content from external pages or getting the inline content. SIMPLEMODAL [...]

  • October 9, 2011

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    WordPress Template & Theme Generator: Divine Elemente

    WordPress Template & Theme Generator: Divine Elemente

    Is there an automated solution involving WordPress and Photoshop? There is, and it is called Divine Elemente, a brand new plugin for WP that is designed to take templates created in Photoshop and integrate them into themes made for WordPress, and in addition to this, these themes carry with them top performance. You’ll find that [...]

  • October 6, 2011

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    Can Adobe Adapt to Cloud Computing?

    Can Adobe Adapt to Cloud Computing?

    Adobe, once the standard for creating rich media and extravagant Flash, CSS, and other explosive designs, is now in trouble due to the open sourced nature of the Internet. The Creative Suite used to be the end-all-be-all for web designers and creative agencies, but free applications on desktop computers and applications designed to integrate with [...]

  • October 5, 2011

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    CSS Spinners and Bars Generators: For AJAX & jQuery

    CSS Spinners and Bars Generators: For AJAX & jQuery

    After a long quiet sleep, the developers of well-known Preloaders.net have finally woken up. Couple of months ago they launched the second version of http://preloaders.net and released http://iconizer.net from beta having added dozens of new features and templates to both projects (including APNG support in the first one and a completely new search engine for [...]