Do you love mini icons? You can find 100 icons in PNG format in 16×16 px within Boolean Iconset. Now, Its all up to your creativity, the metaphors depicted here aren’t meant to be used as is, you can give them your own spin, like the Binocular for Search, Legos for Add-Ons/Plugins, Tree for directory tree, what have you.
This will be a user driven set, so you guys can come up with the ideas/thoughts for the expansion of this Iconset, you can contact the author directly. These icons are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license.
Download Here
Initial setup for XAMPP Virtualhost gives this error:
“Access forbidden!
You don’t have permission to access the requested directory. There is either no index document or the directory is read-protected.
If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster. …”
To solve this:
- in \xampp\apache\conf\httpd.conf, modify:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order deny,allow
Deny from all
</Directory>
to:
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
and everything should work ok!
After the popularity of iPhone applications where (web) developers are creating so many new ones each day, it won’t be wrong to expect the same for iPad.
In order to design for the iPad easier, RawApps, a blog focused on mobile application development, is sharing a detailed and free iPad GUI Kit.
The kit is in PSD format, its canvas size is parallel to the iPad’s 768×1024px and includes layers like the keyboard, sliders, icons, the canvas, etc.
Website: http://www.rawapps.com/blog/03/ipad-gui-kit-in-psd-format-is-here/
simpleCart(js), a very simple but smart shopping cart that was shared on WRD, now has a new version with more features.
The application is an upload & use shopping cart where no database is required and can be integrated into any website so easily.
It works by including a JavaScript file into the webpages and usage of special classes. As an example:
<div class="simpleCart_items"></div>
will display the full cart, no other code needed.
With the V2, it supports both PayPal + Google Checkout as the payment providers & multiple currencies/tax rates can be used.
Matt Legend Gemmell held a 6-hour workshop at NSConference in both the UK and USA recently, focusing on software design and user experience.
Predictably, an extremely popular topic was the iPad, and how to approach the design of iPad applications. He gave a 90-minute presentation on the subject to start each workshop, and he is very kind to share some of his observations of iPad Application Design.
This article is about the user interface conventions and considerations which apply to creating software for the iPad platform and touch-screen tablet devices in general. It is not a technical discussion of iPad-related APIs. This is an excellent article for designers and application developers. I am sure you will find it useful too.
Source: http://mattgemmell.com/2010/03/05/ipad-application-design
Tutorialzine is sharing a beautiful tutorial (with source) on creating an Ajaxed drag’n drop shopping cart with jQuery & PHP.
It uses MySQL for storing the data & simpleTip plugin for displaying information about the products with style.
It takes advantage of the jQuery UI’s draggable & droppable behaviours to accomplish the flawless experience.
The shopping cart is not a ready-to-go one for an e-commerce website but it is a nice base for creating one by improving the features.
Tip: Tutorialzine provides other nice tutorials which you may be interested in like:
Gesturecons is a set of 50 vector gesture icons which is specially designed to be used with projects related to multi-touch interfaces.
However, they can also be used inside any application to demonstrate to users how to complete actions or prompt them to interact with an application when they approach it
They come with .PDF, .AI, & .EPS file types which is great for editing or creating derivatives of the icons provided.
Apostrophe is an open source CMS that enables you to manage websites while browsing them.
It has an ergonomic interface & has a minimal learning curve where anyone which is not familiar with CMS systems can easily use too.
The application can have multiple users with permission-based levels.
Images, videos & any other media can be managed quickly, new pages can be created or new “slots” can be inserted between other slots (like adding an image gallery under a paragraph).
Apostrophe can display the history (past revisions) of every content edited.
It is built with PHP (actually, it is a plugin for the Symfony framework) & requires MySQL for storing data.
Website: http://www.apostrophenow.com/
Backend Demo: http://demo.apostrophenow.com/
Backend Demo – User-Pass: User: admin – Password: demo
Download: http://trac.apostrophenow.org/wiki/ManualInstallation
NIXUS is a free icon set that has 60 high-quality icons which includes actions, charts, devices & more.
The set is suitable to be used in both web applications & designing stuff like banners or buttons considering the detail it provides.
It comes in .PNG format with 3 sizes: 32*32px, 48*48px & 64*64px.
NIXUS is totally free to be used in both free & commercial projects.
Now that Apple has officially released the iPad we want to start designing for it. While Apple’s interface builder is great, it doesn’t really allow us to create custom UI elements on the fly. That’s why Geoff Teehan created iPad GUI PSD for us.
The PSD was constructed using vectors, so it’s fully editable and scalable. You’ll notice there are a few new UI elements as compared to the iPhone interface. The workable screen design is formatted to 768—1024 so anything you design in the Photoshop file can easily be brought over to the SDK.
Download It Here!
Source: http://www.teehanlax.com/blog/2010/02/01/ipad-gui-psd/
