The global community of developers are always delivering the latest and most innovative web tools. Discovering an excellent new app or plugin is the greatest rush, especially when you get to share it with your colleagues. Each recommendation goes from one user to another down the pipeline.
In theory, time and money are saved by using apps and various tools. In practice, the time saved is what excites developers and website designers about new tool releases. For web designers and web developers, so many labor intensive tasks are now done by a single tool in seconds. Thanks to innovative tools and apps, creative minds are able to continue progressing forward with new ideas.
The basic elements of creativity never change, only the tools and mediums that are used. Tools and apps are used to inspire the creative flow today, just as paper and pencils were in the analog era. One day, digital tools might save us more time, than we will know what to do with.
Layers CSS
Lightweight. Unobtrusive. Style-agnostic. Build your look on the web, not Twitter’s – and build it fluid. Layers CSS is aimed for practical use and comes with zero bullshit.
Ink
Reach out your tentacles to a broad range of people who subscribe to your emails. Our CSS framework helps you craft HTML emails that can be read anywhere on any device. Gone are the days where you had to choose between Outlook and email optimized for smartphones and tablets. Ink’s responsive, 12-column grid blends flexibility and stability so your readers can view your emails perfectly from wherever they may be.
Fast Image Cache
Fast Image Cache is an efficient, persistent, and—above all—fast way to store and retrieve images in your iOS application. Part of any good iOS application’s user experience is fast, smooth scrolling, and Fast Image Cache helps make this easier.
Sir Trevor
Sir Trevor is rich content editing entirely re-imagined for the web: an intuitive editor for web content which does not presuppose anything about how it will be rendered.
Font Combiner
Font Combiner is a versatile web font creator and font improvement tool exposing advanced font features to the end user – kerning, subsetting, various hinting options and custom font glyph combinations.
Normalize.css
Snazzy Maps
Snazzy Maps is a repository of different color schemes for Google Maps aimed towards web designers and developers.
PSD Validator
Slippry
Responsive slider plugin for jQuery. Intrinsic trick to enable respinsive resizing without js!
Ion.Sound
Today websites are full of events (new mail, new chat-message, content update etc.). Often it is not enough to indicate this events only visually to get user attention. You need sounds! This library, made for playing small sounds, will help you with this task.
Marvel
Edge Web Fonts
Wrangle – A responsive, touch-friendly jQuery plugin to wrangle up your images
Ember Charts
A charting library built with the Ember.js and d3.js frameworks. It includes time series, bar, pie, and scatter charts which are easy to extend and modify. The out-of-the-box behavior these chart components represents our thoughts on best practices in chart interactivity and presentation.
jQuery Super Simple Text Rotator
HubSpot Messaging Library
Simtip: A simple CSS tooltip made with Sass
CodeBeautify
Glide slider
Frame Player
A video player without video files, just JSON. Based on “images frames” thought to mobile devices!
PredictionIO
PredictionIO is an open source machine learning server for software developers to create predictive features, such as personalization, recommendation and content discovery.
AbsurdJS
Succinct: A tiny jQuery plugin for truncating multiple lines of text
stickUp
Rainloop Webmail
Kite
Sticky-Kit
Freewall
Freewall is a cross-browser and responsive jQuery plugin to help you create many types of grid layouts: flexible layouts, images layouts, nested grid layouts, metro style layouts, pinterest like layouts … with nice CSS3 animation effects and call back events.
Alpaca
Alpaca generates forms on-the-fly using JSON schema and configuration to define object models, types, properties, validation logic and layout. Alpaca generates intuitive forms while giving your business the assurance of data compliance.
Slideme
ifvisible.js
Crosbrowser & lightweight way to check if user is looking at the page or interacting with it.
FerroSlider
Offline.js
Pattern Lab
Resumable.js
It’s a JavaScript library providing multiple simultaneous, stable and resumable uploads via the HTML5 File API.
Circletype.js
Circletype.js is a tiny (2.7kb) jQuery plugin that lets you set type on a circle
Pongstagr.am
FileAPI: A set of javascript tools for working with files
Redux
Redux is a simple, truly extensible options framework for WordPress themes and plugins.
Colourcode
Device.js
Device.js makes it easy to write conditional CSS and/or JavaScript based on device operating system (iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows, Firefox OS), orientation (Portrait vs. Landscape), and type (Tablet vs. Mobile).
Daturi: An app to convert images to Base64
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