Fresh resources for web developers you can't miss

This week I found some interesting fresh resources for web developers I want share with you. This list includes an awesome MooTools slider, a free on-line service for cross-browser compatibility testing, a jquery plug-in to implement a notification system (for example Facebook-like) and other interesting links. Take a look and add a comment to suggest other resources.


SlideItMoo 1.1
SlideItMoo is a great slider for MooTools that supports: continuous navigation, elements selection based on CSS selector, direction control (-1: enter from left; 1: enter from right), mouse wheel navigation, effect duration as parameter (when autoslide is enabled, the duration between slides is the sum of the effect duration and the slide duration )

Beautiful jQuery Slider
This tutorial explains how to develop a beautiful jQuery slider. The result is really awesome.

Adobe BrowserLab
Adobe BrowserLab is the perfect on-line solution for cross-browser compatibility testing. It supports, Internet Explorer 6-7, Firefox 2-3 on Windows XP and OS X. It's very useful and fast to rendering pages.

Password Strength
Password Strength is a jQuery plug-in that tries to calculate how many possibilities the hacker needs to try to guess your password.

Growl for jQuery
Growl (for the net & jQuery) is a simple notification system inspired by Growl for the Mac OS X. You can use it to implement a notification system Facebook like.

Mootools Link Tweaker Class
Link Tweaker is a tiny Mootools class to add distinct styles (of your choosing) to external links and/or various types of file download links.

If you want to suggest a new resource please leave a comment, thanks!

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10 Useful resources for web designers and developers

Today I want to present you a selection of some useful resources for web designers and developers. This list contains in particular some awesome fonts, a simple PHP Content Management System, a JavaScript Cart, a PHP application for job boards, a weekly calendar (Google Calendar like, made with jQuery), an open source knowledge base application and interesting links with jQuery and MooTools plugins.


1. 52 Really High Quality Free Fonts For Modern And Cool Design
This post contains a great collection of awesome fonts



2. Beautiful New Free Fonts For Your Designs
In this collection Smashing Magazine presents high-quality fonts: Calluna, Andika Basic, Mentone, Sovereign Regular, Medio, Tiresias Infopoint and many other high-quality free fonts.

3. GetSimple CMS
GetSimple is a powerful and very simple CMS that has everything your client needs, and nothing a CMS doesn't.

4. SimpleCart(js)
No databases, no programming, no headaches. SimpleCart(js) is a simple javascript shopping cart in under 20kb that you can setup in minutes. It's lightweight, fast, simple to use, and completely customizable. All you need to know is basic HTML.

5. jQuery Week Calendar
The jquery-week-calendar plugin provides a simple and flexible way of including a weekly calendar in your application. It is built on top of jquery and jquery ui and is inspired by other online weekly calendars such as google calendar.

6. JoobsBox
JoobsBox is the most flexible software for job boards, allowing community expand it to unlimited needs. Plugins and Themes allows you to extend JoobsBox to do almost anything with your job board.

7. jCryption
In short words jCryption is a javascript HTML-Form encryption plugin, which encrypts the POST/GET-Data that will be sent when you submit a form.

8. 68Kb Knowledge Base Software
68KB is an open source PHP MySQL driven knowledge base script. Built with you in mind to make it easy to configure and setup.

9. Moowheel
The purpose Moowheel is to provide a unique and elegant way to visualize data using Javascript and the <canvas> object. This type of visualization can be used to display connections between many different objects, be them people, places, things, or otherwise. The script is licensed under an MIT-style license.

10. SlideItMoo
SlideItMoo is a simple MooTools plugin to display thumbnail images of your gallery. It can slide either by mouse wheel scroll or by clicking the arrows on the left and/or right.