SlickMap CSS — A Visual Sitemapping Tool for Web Developers

SlickMap CSS is a simple stylesheet for displaying finished sitemaps directly from HTML unordered list navigation.

Highslide JS - JavaScript thumbnail viewer

Highslide JS is an open source image, media and gallery viewer written in JavaScript.

Bowline – A Ruby GUI framework | Lead Thinking

In a nutshell, Bowline lets you build cross platform desktop applications with Ruby, HTML and JavaScript. The idea is to make building desktop apps as simple (and fun) as building Rails websites.

nakajima's elementor at master - GitHub

View testing that doesn't suck.

whymirror.github.com

It's important, however, that his wonderful code live on, and we need your help to do so. We've mirrored what repos we could find and contacted github tech support, who have promised assistance. Whymirror will do what it can to ease the transition but CANNOT be a long-term solution

Eric's Archived Thoughts: Nine Into Five

The same problem happened with address, which was specified to mean only the contact information for the author of a page. It was quite explicitly specified to not accept mailing addresses. Of course, tons of people did just that, because they had an address and there was an address element, so of course they went together!

Basement.org: On The Web, More Isn’t Only Less, It’s Actually Nothing

Amidst my 400 unread Boing Boing links are probably ten or fifteen that are probably real gems. But I’ll never know and Boing Boing sure as hell isn’t going to help me out.

Validatious 2.0 - Easy form validation with unobtrusive JavaScript

validate( "email".is("required").andIsAn("email") );

Beta Blog: Kill Your Signup Form with Rails

Even though the gradual engagement meme has been around for a while, and everyone just hates signup forms, they just seem to keep popping up like a bad habit.

Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study | cxpartners

cxpartners has an interesting eye tracking study on form design. They distill the results into a few simple guidelines which are definitely worth keeping in mind when designing forms.

MailStyle: A HTML Email Plugin for Ruby on Rails | Purify Blog

MailStyle allows you to write the css for your html emails as you normally would, then writes the styles inline when you send your emails. It also makes sure that your image paths are absolute rather than relative.

Designing for trust blog post

In order to lower friction and the hurdles to pass, users need to be provided with a reason to trust you with the information they supply. The time and effort required to complete a form should be appropriate for the task at hand. A constant battle between the reward for completing an action and the effort it takes to complete it, is at play at all times.

htmlBurger PSD to HTML » Home - Convert your Design into Standards compliant XHTML/CSS

We simply convert your design (PSD, PNG, AI, etc.) into a hand coded, pixel perfect and Standards compliant XHTML/CSS. Since our service is targeted to agencies and freelancers the job done by us is 100% confidential. In addition we are offering payment after satisfaction.

jQuery Spritely | Spritely

jQuery.spritely is a jQuery plugin created by Artlogic for creating dynamic character and background animation in pure HTML and JavaScript. It's a simple, light-weight plugin with a few simple methods for creating animated sprites such as the birds you see on this page, and dynamic scrolling backgrounds.

CoffeeScript

Imagine all the syntactical delights of Ruby and Haml for your JavaScript. You write in a nice language, but get normal JavaScript at runtime. All whilst having full access to 3rd-party JavaScript libraries (jQuery, PrototypeJS), debugging support (it becomes pure, readable JavaScript), existing support from test suites (it’s normal JavaScript) and growing support from various text editors (TextMate, Vim, Emacs).

LukeW | "Mad Libs" Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40%

A while ago, I came across a unique registration form built by Jeremy Keith for his audio sharing site, Huffduffer. Though it asked people the same questions found in typical sign-up forms, the Huffduffer registration form did so in a narrative format. It presented input fields to people as blanks within sentences (Mad Libs-style, if you will).

Voodoo Doll to Kill Internet Explorer | Walyou

The hatred of the users for the Internet Explorer browser has reached such a height that now a Voodoo Doll has been made to help show one’s anger for this browser out on this doll.

If you code HTML, Zen Coding will change your life

This thing leaves any other tag-completion method I have ever seen for HTML in the dust. It's light-years beyond anything else I've witnessed -- and autocompletion is something I've looked into deeply, with multiple editors and IDEs.

Why I won't help you - Gem Session

But then there are those posts where the author pastes 10 pages of confused code with no context whatsoever and then demands to know why they're getting funny errors. I find this sort of behaviour offensive to all the people who are basically dealing out free support. I'd rather spend my time helping people who actually give a damn.

jnicklas's carrierwave at master - GitHub

File upload solution that supports form roundtrips when a validation fails.

A tracer utility in 2kb « JavaScript, JavaScript

Inspired by a snippet of code in Oliver Steele’s legendary Functional library, here’s a lightweight tool to help keep track of JavaScript invocations. It works in Chrome, Safari, Firebug and IE8.

wkhtmltopdf - Project Hosting on Google Code

Simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.

Less.js Will Obsolete CSS

Less.js is a JavaScript implementation of LESS that’s run by your web browser. As any JavaScript, you include a link to the script in your HTML, and…that’s that. LESS is now going to process LESS code so instead of including a link to a CSS file, you’ll include a link directly to your LESS code. That’s right, no CSS pre-processing, LESS will handle it live.