Friday 1 November 2013

Recommended apps and tools for designer and developer of the week

The list of selected best tools, apps and websites that are worth checking out as these are available to make your task of designers and developers easy. We keep a track of new cool tools and apps being rolled out to prepare the list and make you all feel the ease of checking them out all at one place.

Useful Apps and Tools for Designers and Developers

1. UICloud

UICloud  is the largest user interface design database that is available for designers. You can search through over 46457 UI elements or browse 1229 UI kits. Simply enter the UI element keywords and leave the rest for UI cloud to do. It will present in front of you a huge range of UI kits.

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2. Tridiv 

Tridiv is a concept, code and design by Julian Garnier. It is a web-based editor for creating 3D shapes in CSS with ease and fun-filled way.
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3. Font Combiner

Font Combiner is a versatile web  app for creating your own fonts. With this tool you can generate your own custom font in a format and file size.
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4. Raw

Raw is an open web app that lets you create custom vector-based visualizations on top of the amazing D3.js library through a simple interface. Besides, t ensures data safety an much more!
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5. InstallRails

InstallRails.com is the easier way to install Rails on your computer. It is a step-by-step guide for users to install Ruby on Rails. Using standard tools InstallRails makes users learn and easily understand as to how can Ruby be installed on rails.
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6. Codio

Codio is an ideal tool for teaching and learning how to code.  Its an open source free tool that is publicly available.  You simply need to create a project and you’re ready to run the code. All thanks to this great tool named Codio.

best-designer-developer-tools-apps7. Formstone

Formstone is a collection of jQuery plugins focused on interface structure and customization. This tool includes plugins for pickers, scrolling, zooming, and much more.
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8. GoodUI

A Good User Interface is a article that lets you know how to achieve high conversion rates. You can check the examples to see it for yourself. Take a look these examples by clicking the link.
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9. DiagnostiCSS

This is a tool that lets users detect potentially inaccessible and invalid HTML markup. What it does is highlight inline styles and event attributes, invalid links, empty and deprecated elements, and much more.
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10. Appmaker

Appmaker from Mozilla is a drag-and-drop mobile app creator that is not yet into final stage. It’s in pre-alpha release so all you users can expect some bugs but is quite promising.
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Monday 21 October 2013

Switching Login and Registration form with html 5 and css


In this tutorial we are going to create two HTML5 forms that will switch between login and registration using the CSS3 pseudo class :target.We are using CSS3 animation framework from Dan Eden.Thsi Login Form Will Work As a swich from login to registration and vice versa.

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Note that this is for demo purpose only, it will only work in browser supporting the :target pseudo class, and you should not use this code on a live website without providing solid fallback.


DEMO HERE

The HTML

<h1>Log in</h1>
<p>
    <label for="username" class="uname" data-icon="u" > Your email or username </label>
    <input id="username" name="username" required="required" type="text" placeholder="myusername or mymail@mail.com"/>
</p>
<p>
    <label for="password" class="youpasswd" data-icon="p"> Your password </label>
    <input id="password" name="password" required="required" type="password" placeholder="venkatesh" />
</p>
<p class="change_link">
    Not a member yet ?
    <a href="#toregister" class="to_register">Join us</a>
</p>
<div id="register" class="animate form">
<form  action="myscript.php" autocomplete="on">
<h1> Sign up </h1>
<p>
    <label for="usernamesignup" class="uname" data-icon="u">Your username</label>
    <input id="usernamesignup" name="usernamesignup" required="required" type="text" placeholder="mysuperusername690" />
</p>
<p>
    <label for="emailsignup" class="youmail" data-icon="e" > Your email</label>
    <input id="emailsignup" name="emailsignup" required="required" type="email" placeholder="mysupermail@mail.com"/>
</p>......


Applying the stylesheet for both forms

#subscribe,
#login{
    position: absolute;
    top: 0px;
    width: 88%;
    padding: 18px 6% 60px 6%;
    margin: 0 0 35px 0;
    background: rgb(247, 247, 247);
    border: 1px solid rgba(147, 184, 189,0.8);
    box-shadow:
        0pt 2px 5px rgba(105, 108, 1090.7), 
        0px 0px 8px 5px rgba(208, 223, 226, 0.4) inset;
    border-radius: 5px;
}
#login{
    z-index: 22;
}

Creating the switching animation

The first thing to do is to hide the second form by setting the opacity to 0:

#register{ 
    z-index: 21;
    opacity: 0;
}

#toregister:target ~ #wrapper #register,
#tologin:target ~ #wrapper #login{
    z-index: 22;
    animation-name: fadeInLeft;
    animation-delay: .1s;
}
.animate{
    animation-duration: 0.5s;
    animation-timing-function: ease;
    animation-fill-mode: both;
}
@keyframes fadeInLeft {
    0% {
        opacity: 0;
        transform: translateX(-20px);
    }
     
    100% {
        opacity: 1;
        transform: translateX(0);
    }
}
#toregister:target ~ #wrapper #login,
#tologin:target ~ #wrapper #register{
    animation-name: fadeOutLeftBig;
}
@keyframes fadeOutLeft {
    0% {
        opacity: 1;
        transform: translateX(0);
    }
     
    100% {
        opacity: 0;
        transform: translateX(-20px);
    }
}

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Timeago using jquery and php

The timeago fuctionality is important feature in all sites either in comments system or in social network since it shows the time that event happend. In this tutorial we are going to see the use of two jquery plugins "timeago.js and livequery.js "

Live Demo here

 DEMO HERE

how to implement
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.timeago.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$(".timeago").livequery(function() // LiveQuery 
{
$(this).timeago(); // Calling Timeago Funtion 
});
});
</script>
//HTML & PHP Code
<?php
$time=time(); // Current timestamp eg: 1371612613
$mtime=date("c", $time); // Converts to date formate 2013-06-19T03:30:13+00:00 
?>

You opened this page <a href='#' class='timeago' title="<?php echo $mtime; ?>"></a>
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Friday 18 October 2013

Facebook Like Friend Suggestions effect using jquery

"People You May Know" of facebook

One of the Most popular Social networking feature "People you may know" on sidebar.Today ,we will se the tutorial on how to develop such effects using the Jquery,Html and css .You can develop such for your site with the database containing the profile image and just rotating the people.So you can have this featureon your site as well

The output will be




Designing The Page
index.html

<div style=" margin-top:40px; margin-left:30px" align="center">
<div id="left"style="padding-bottom:25px; font-size:15px ;float:left;">Click Delete Button "<b> X </b>"</div>
<span style=" padding-left:20px; font-weight:bold;">Suggestions</span>
<ul id="facebook">
<li id="list1">
<img src="img1.jpg" /> <span class="del"><a href="#" class="delete" title="Delete this user " id="1">X</a></span>
<a href="" class="user-title">Mark Zuckerberg</a>
<span class="addas">Add as Friend</span>
</li>

</ul><br/><br/><br/>
<h3 >
only Subscribers to get source through email</h3>
<div id="footer">
LetscreateLab production by venkatesh pillai
<a align="right" href="http://letscreatelab.blogspot.in" >Back to site</a>
</div>


Adding The effects to The Page

$(function()
{
$(".delete").click(function(){
var element = $(this);
var I = element.attr("id");
$('li#list'+I).fadeOut('slow', function() {$(this).remove();});      
return false;
});
});

Applying The stylesheet

*{margin:0;padding:0;}
#facebook{
height:60px;
width:250px;
overflow:hidden;
background:#F4F8FF;

padding:6px 10px 14px 10px;;
}
#facebook li{
border:0; margin:0; padding:0; list-style:none;
}

#facebook li{
height:60px;
padding:5px;
list-style:none;

}
#facebook a{
color:#000000;
text-decoration:none;

}
#facebook .user-title{
display:block;
font-weight:bold;
margin-bottom:4px;
font-size:11px;
color:#36538D;
}
#facebook .addas{
display:block;
font-size:11px;
color:#666666;
}
#facebook img{
float:left;
margin-right:14px;
padding:4px;

}
#facebook .del
{
float:right; font-weight:bold; color:#666666
}
#facebook .del a
{
color:#000000;
}
#facebook .del a:hover
{
background-color:#36538D;
padding-left:1px;
padding-right:1px;
color:#ffffff;
}

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Thursday 17 October 2013

Inspiring Contact form to learn from

I have visited many site in my internet surfing hobby and i have inspired from a lot of stuff from many sites here are some of the contact form i have inspired from and I also created a lot of great contact form but here some web stuff these are some of great inspiring contact form try to develop by youself and have fun 

 

Bold Contact Page from Mixd


Bold Contact Page from Mixd


Signup Form from Involvio Orientation

Signup Form from Involvio Orientation 

 

Bold Contact Form from Denise Chandler

Bold Contact Form from Denise Chandler

Drop In Contact Form from Online Department

Drop In Contact Form from Online Department 

Innovative Submission Form from Simple as Milk

Innovative Submission Form from Simple as Milk


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Youtube old Style Menu

Google has just changed the UI of the youtube but the old menu system was just inspiring. so i tried to design it and completed within 20 min and said myself "that was nice!" .So i decided to share the tutorial with all of friends and followers.The concept is just simple and i used a js file "ytmenu.js" and the result was there!
I used simple icons to make more interesting and fun try the demo and comment  your feeling.


DEMO HERE
 
Creating The Page
Index.html

<body>
<div class="container">
<header class="header">
<h1>Simple YouTube Menu Effect <span text color="red">A simple drop-down menu as seen on YouTube</span></h1>
</header>
<div class="main">
<p text align="center">YOUTUBE'S OLD STYLE MENU </p>
<div class="side">
<nav class="dr-menu">
<div class="dr-trigger">

<span class=" icon-menu"></span><a class="label">Account</a></div>
<ul>
<li><a class="icon-user" href="#">Venkatesh Pillai</a></li>
<li><a class="icon-camera" href="#">Videos</a></li>
<li><a class="heart" href="#">Favorites</a></li>
<li><a class="bullhorn" href="#">Subscriptions</a></li>
<li><a class="download" href="#">Downloads</a></li>
<li><a class="settings" href="#">Settings</a></li>
<li><a class="icon-switch" href="#">Logout</a></li>
</ul>
</nav>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>



<script src="js/ytmenu.js"></script>
</body>


Styling The Menu
component.css

.menu {
    width: 100%;
    max-width: 400px;
    min-width: 300px;
    position: relative;
    font-size: 1.3em;
    line-height: 2.5;
    font-weight: 400;
    color: #fff;
    padding-top: 2em;
    float:right;
}

.menu > div  {
    cursor: pointer;
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    z-index: 100;
}

.menu > div .icon {
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    position: absolute;
    font-size: 150%;
    line-height: 1.6;
    padding: 0 10px;
    -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease;
    -moz-transition: all 0.2s ease;
    transition: all 0.2s ease;
}

.menu.menu-open > div .icon {
    color: #1C73FF;
    left: 100%;
    -webkit-transform: translateX(-100%);
    -moz-transform: translateX(-100%);
    -ms-transform: translateX(-100%);
    transform: translateX(-100%);
}

.menu > div .icon:after {
    content: "\e008";
    position: absolute;
    font-size: 50%;
    line-height: 3.25;
    left: -10%;
    opacity: 0;
}

.menu.menu-open > div .icon:after {
    opacity: 1;
}

.menu > div .label {
    padding-left: 3em;
    position: relative;
    display: block;
    color: #1C73FF;
    font-size: 0.9em;
    font-weight: 700;
    letter-spacing: 1px;
    text-transform: uppercase;
    line-height: 2.75;
    -webkit-transition: all 0.2s ease;
    -moz-transition: all 0.2s ease;
    transition: all 0.2s ease;
}

.menu.menu-open > div .label {

    -webkit-transform: translateY(-90%);
    -moz-transform: translateY(-90%);
    -ms-transform: translateY(-90%);
    transform: translateY(-90%);
}

.menu ul {
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0 3em 0 0;
    list-style: none;
    opacity: 0;
    position: relative;
    z-index: 0;
    pointer-events: none;
    -webkit-transition: opacity 0s linear 205ms;
    -moz-transition: opacity 0s linear 205ms;
    transition: opacity 0s linear 205ms;
}

.menu.menu-open ul {
    opacity: 1;
    z-index: 200;
    pointer-events: auto;
    -webkit-transition: opacity 0s linear 0s;
    -moz-transition: opacity 0s linear 0s;
    transition: opacity 0s linear 0s;
}

.menu ul li {
    display: block;
    margin: 0 0 5px 0;
    opacity: 0;
    -webkit-transition: opacity 0.3s ease;
    -moz-transition: opacity 0.3s ease;
    transition: opacity 0.3s ease;
}

.menu.menu-open ul li {
    opacity: 1;
}

.menu.menu-open ul li:nth-child(2) {
    -webkit-transition-delay: 35ms;
    -moz-transition-delay: 35ms;
    transition-delay: 35ms;
}

.menu.menu-open ul li:nth-child(3) {
    -webkit-transition-delay: 70ms;
    -moz-transition-delay: 70ms;
    transition-delay: 70ms;
}

.menu.menu-open ul li:nth-child(4) {
    -webkit-transition-delay: 105ms;
    -moz-transition-delay: 105ms;
    transition-delay: 105ms;
}

.menu.menu-open ul li:nth-child(5) {
    -webkit-transition-delay: 140ms;
    -moz-transition-delay: 140ms;
    transition-delay: 140ms;
}

.menu.menu-open ul li:nth-child(6) {
    -webkit-transition-delay: 175ms;
    -moz-transition-delay: 175ms;
    transition-delay: 175ms;
}

.menu.menu-open ul li:nth-child(7) {
    -webkit-transition-delay: 205ms;
    -moz-transition-delay: 205ms;
    transition-delay: 205ms;
}


.menu ul li a {
    display: inline-block;
    padding: 0 20px;
    color: #fff;
}

.menu ul li a:hover {
    color: #1C73FF;
    background-color:#fff;
}

.icon:before,
.icon:after {
    position: relative;
    font-family: 'icomoon';
    speak: none;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-variant: normal;
    text-transform: none;
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

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Expandable Search bar with Css

I was just thinking that today Lot of Website Contains search bar with expandable effects so I decided to have that tutorial on that effects . So today we will learn how to create an Expandable search bar effects with simple HTML and CSS .The main Advantage of this is that it requires less space on the website and it can expand over other Elements also.

DEMO HERE

creating the page
Index.html

<body>
<div class="container">
<!-- Top Navigation -->
<header>
<h1>Expanding Search Bar <span>A click-to-expand search input</span></h1>
<hr color="white">
</header>
<p>The search bar can be opened on click And its gets Expanded</p>
</div>
<div >
<div id="sb-search" class="sb-search">
<form>
<input class="sb-search-input" placeholder="Search Here.." type="text" value="" name="search" id="search">
<input class="sb-search-submit" type="submit" value="">
<span class="sb-icon-search"></span>
</form>

</div>
</div>
</div>
</div><!-- /container -->
<script src="js/classie.js"></script>
<script src="js/uisearch.js"></script>

<script>
new UISearch( document.getElementById( 'sb-search' ) );
</script>
<hr color= "white">
<div class="footer">
<center><h4 >LetscreateLab creation-by venkatesh pillai</h4></center>
</div>

</body>



Styling The Page 
component.css 

.sb-search {
opacity:0.8;
    position: relative;
    margin-top: 10px;
    width: 0%;
    min-width: 60px;
    height: 60px;
    float: right;
    overflow: hidden;
    -webkit-transition: width 0.3s;
    -moz-transition: width 0.3s;
    transition: width 0.3s;
    -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden;
   
}

.sb-search-input {
    position: absolute;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    border: 2px #FFFFFF;
    outline: none;
    background: #fff;
    width: 84%;
    height: 60px;
    margin: 0;
    z-index: 10;
    padding: 20px 65px 20px 20px;
    font-family: inherit;
    font-size: 20px;
    color: #FC6907;
}

.sb-search-input::-webkit-input-placeholder {
    color: #0066FF;
}

.sb-search-input:-moz-placeholder {
    color: #0066FF;
}

.sb-search-input::-moz-placeholder {
    color: #0066FF;
}

.sb-search-input:-ms-input-placeholder {
    color: #0066FF;
}

.sb-icon-search,
.sb-search-submit
  {
    width: 60px;
    height: 60px;
    display: block;
    position: absolute;
    right: 0;
    top: 0;
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    line-height: 60px;
    text-align: center;
    cursor: pointer;
}

.sb-search-submit {
    background: #fff;
    filter: alpha(opacity=0);
    opacity: 0;
    color: transparent;
    border: none;
    outline: none;
    z-index: -1;
}

.sb-icon-search {
    color: #fff;
    background: #FCB84B;
    z-index: 90;
    font-size: 22px;
    font-family: 'icomoon';
    speak: none;
    font-style: normal;
    font-weight: normal;
    font-variant: normal;
    text-transform: none;
    -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased;
}

.sb-icon-search:before {
    content: "\e000";
}


styling Searchbar open state

/* Open state */
.sb-search.sb-search-open,
.no-js .sb-search {
    width: 100%;
}

.sb-search.sb-search-open .sb-icon-search,
.no-js .sb-search .sb-icon-search {
    background: #da6d0d;
    color: #fff;
    z-index: 11;
}

.sb-search.sb-search-open .sb-search-submit,
.no-js .sb-search .sb-search-submit {
    z-index: 90;







 
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