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 as a solution to the problems that presented. By making use of many great individuals, Bootstrap has grown significantly. This toolkit includes Javascript plugins, all original .less files, fully compiled and minified CSS, complete styleguide documentation, 3 example pages with different layouts.

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 them as a background or to pick their colors
• Color Swatches, Gradients and Styles are locally stored

Adapt.js is a lightweight JavaScript file that determines which CSS file to load before the browser renders the page. In case the browser tilts of resizes, the script checks its width and loads the needed CSS file accordingly. If JavaScript is disabled default stylesheets can be served via <noscript> which is valid in the HEAD of HTML5.

Alternatives include: Build a separate site for mobile. Or, use media queries to adjust layout, with a polyfill for older browser support, and conditional Internet Explorer comments for Windows phones. Also a factor is how to handle multiple image resolutions without adding file size. Filament Group is advocating context aware image sizing.

Why are Admin Panels so Important?

Web administrators and web designers don’t realize how important admin panels are until they starting using one of the best admin panels available. Using the wrong type of admin panel can have an impact on productivity and results. What people fail to realize is admin panels are just as important as the functionality of the website and project itself. Installing the right type of fully customized admin panel will lead to an overall increase productivity.

Most people don’t know what they are missing until they switch and start using one of the best CP templates on the Internet. Admin panels should be easy-to-use, but advanced enough to allow web administrators the ability oversee every aspect of a website and project. Admin panels are supposed to make administering a website or project easy not difficult. With over 100+ themes to choose from, why settle for less than the best?

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We all know the powerful styling features of CSS3. The rounded corners, soft drop shadows and gradient fills are some of the elements that our designer friends love to use for creating attractive, eye-catching websites. However, they are difficult and time-consuming to implement, involving complex sprite images, extra non-semantic markup, large JavaScript libraries, and other lovely hacks.

CSS3 can help up deal with all that. As we know, Internet Explorer does not support any of these features so we often need to refrain from using them and use the same old tedious techniques for the foreseeable future.

PIE stands for Progressive Internet Explorer and it was developed to make IE 6-8 capable of rendering several of the most useful CSS3 decoration features. It’s an IE attached behavior which, when applied to an element, allows IE to recognize and display a number of CSS3 properties.

PIE currently has full or partial support for the following CSS3 features:

Other features are under active development.

PIE is still a young project with big plans. But it’s already good enough to save you a lot of time and make your life as a Web developer much easier. Happy CSS3 coding!

Accordion is a UI pattern made up of a series of containers for your content, all of which are closed when the new panel opens and reveals itself. Chris Coyier came up with Grid Accordion (powered by jQuery and CSS). It works with the same theory as most other accordions. Only one cell is opened at a time. The big thing is that the column of the current open cell expands to a reasonable reading width. The effect is really awesome as it offers you a handy alternative to classical accordions, by adding all the data you need in a single table.

One way to look at an accordion is like a collapsed single column of a table. I was recently building a page for a client site, where the information that they provided really made sense to present as a table. But it was too much information to view all at once. I thought it would have been overwhelming visually. I also thought that it was most likely that people visiting this page would know what they needed right away, so having them click once to get it seemed pretty reasonable. So, a table of accordions!

EZ-CSS is a light (1kb), flexible, browser-friendly and easy to use CSS Framework. It works by forcing the final element in the HTML flow to become a block formatting context. EZ-CSS is an easy 4-step process: Insert, Copy, Paste, Edit. This framework lets you create multiple columns of any width, with or without gutters of any width. The small stylesheet can be integrated into any existing style sheet (or in a style element) which makes this solution “framework agnostic”.

EZ-CSS relies on very light HTML markup and CSS rules, but its developers pushed the envelope even further for those who need fast results without increasing the risk of breakage. Their “Quick & Dirty” solution is less semantic than the regular method, but it relies on fewer hooks in the markup, fewer rules in the style sheet and at the same time creates a width-less block formatting context without the caveats that come with using DIVs.

If you are a web developer that needs a documentation template page for his (software) products than this post should raise your interest. I will share with you 2 templates that I found and really liked because they are very easy to customize. Why spending time creating a template when you could use a free one and focus your attention on just writing the content and improve product’s quality? Each template has common fields that should be on every doc template such as contact section, author information, overview, and usage.

The HTML/CSS format is preferable since it can be viewed by anyone in a browser. PDF’s and other Video files might require extra software for the buyer/client to view.
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The Envato Team launched recently a new sub-category on Themeforest specifically for CVs/Resumes optimized for web. It’s becoming more and more common for potential customers to request a link to your personal website/CV page rather than a sheet of paper. More and more recruiters are browsing online for prospective applicants instead of advertising their position and calling for applicants. Whether you are a freelancer or you’re looking for a job, these beautiful designed HTML templates will broaden your chance of getting more clients.

1) Clean CV / Resume Html Template + 4 Bonuses!

The download package includes:

• 2 CV / Resume HTML + CSS Template Layouts
• Print ready CSS stylesheet besides the regular one
• An awesome AJAX Contact Form
• PNG and PSD Source Files
• Bonus folder with Envelope, CV, Business card, Letter in .indd format + jpg previews
• Extensive step-by-step documentation on customizing each section of the template

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