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Found Friday Vol 86

April 13, 2012

Well, it’s been a couple of weeks, thanks to stat holidays (and me being a lazy bum), but we’re back with another episode of Found Friday! This week we have: some handy Javascript for styling checkboxes, radio buttons etc; possibly the world’s easiest invoicing app; a great new book that is a must-read for all professional designers; some beautifully designed, fun pennants for your house; and a … Comic Sans bookmarklet. What?

Styling Checkboxes & Radio Buttons

Some handy Javascript here – a good tutorial overall on styling checkboxes, radio buttons and the like using CSS & Javascript (and images). Worth a read.

Billable

I challenge you to find a simpler way to invoice. It’s not robust – it’s just dead easy. Have a look.

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Found Friday Vol 86

March 16, 2012

It’s Found Friday, and I’m rapidly typing this out so I can get back to losing my March Madness pool. This week, we have: a bunch of jQuery plugins to help with responsive design; an article on the new iPad, its retina display, and what it means for us web developers; a great, free, responsive slider plugin for WordPress; an article on skeumorphic design; and a gorgeous Scrabble set for typography nerds.

jQuery Plugins for Responsive Design

Responsive design is new, and new things mean new challenges to solve. Here are a bunch of jQuery plugins that solve problems that responsive design faces.

What the New iPad’s Retina Display Means for Web Developers

The new retina display on the iPad is awesome, but it also is going to be a bit of a headache for web developers. Read why.

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Found Friday Vol 85

March 9, 2012

This week’s Found Friday is heavy on the web & responsive design. We have: a new product from Adobe for testing websites for mobile; a free icon font collection; the border-box box-sizing hack which you will love; an awesome, easy responsive website tester; and some slider slippers for your Magic Mouse. Read on!

Responsive.is

This is an awesome little tool. Go to responsive.is/ and type in the URL of a responsive website you know of after the /. The little toolbar at the top fluidly resizes that site to varied dimensions: laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc. Super handy.

FontAwesome

The folks behind Twitter Bootstrap have released an awesome free icon font, which you can use in conjunction with @font-face in order to easily embed icons into your web designs.

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Found Friday Vol 84

March 2, 2012

After a brief hiatus, we’re back with Found Friday vol 84! This week, we have: a neat online app for collaborative sharing of anything from photos to websites and much more; a free WordPress theme for showing in-browser static web design mockups to your clients; a free, better guides plugin for Photoshop; an article on what we’re forgetting when we’re criticizing websites; and a beautiful, all-wood bathtub. Read on!

Dropmark

Dropmark is dead-simple cloud collaboration. Share photos, links, and much more via a drag & drop interface – actually, just go watch the video. They explain it better than I can. (via swiss-miss)

Design Presenter

I just discovered that our static web design mockup presenter tool breaks in the newest version of Chrome, which led me on a hunt that turned up Design Presenter. This free WordPress theme allows you to easily upload & share your web design mockups with your clients. Handy!

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Found Friday Vol 83

February 17, 2012

This week’s is a good one, folks. Yes indeedy. We have the following: some beautiful new t-shirts for web designers; a preview of the new Mac OS coming summer 2012; better background images for responsive web design; an easy way to build a custom WordPress functions.php file; and an amazing way to sell a new, gorgeous typeface. Read on!

Belong

They say it well: “Together we are connected by the things we do and the things we love. Clothing is an extension of our skin. Wear designs by people who share your passions. Belong.” Not only are the shirts cool, but the responsive build is really well done.