Category Archives: As seen on the web

As seen on the web this week

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Tools, design & development

  • Snugug/north · GitHub github.com North is a set of standards and best practices for developing modern web based properties. Included are standards and best practices for all aspects of a project, from kick off through development. North encourages an agile, content-first, approach to product development and a mobile-first, in-browser, system based approach to design and development.
  • Pagemap ImageWall — Free Web Photo Gallery | Pagemap Portfolio CMS getpagemap.com All in one file: proportional and square thumbnails, Lightbox slideshows, animated effects and an easy customizable design. For stand-alone galleries and PHP includes.
  • :: Alessandro Ferrini :: FerroMenu jQuery Plugin alessandroferrini.it A simple, responsive, customizable and probably useless jQuery menu plugin. Powered by HTML5 and CSS3. FerroMenu is a free jQuery plugin that allows you to create animatable bubble menus in a cool way and drag them through the screen. I told you it’s probably useless !!!
  • WordPress › WP-o-Matic « WordPress Plugins wordpress.org WP-o-Matic makes autoblogging a snap by automatically creating posts from the RSS/Atom feeds you choose, which are organized into campaigns.
  • roots/bedrock github.com Bedrock is a modern WordPress stack that helps you get started with the best development tools and project structure. Bedrock’s main features: Dependency management with Composer Automated deployments with Capistrano Better folder structure Easy WordPress configuration with environment specific files Environment variables with Dotenv Easy development environments with Vagrant – coming soon! Bedrock is meant as a base for you to fork and modify to fit your needs. It is delete-key friendly and you can strip out or modify any part of it. You’ll also want to customize Bedrock with settings specific to your sites/company.
  • Origami – Design prototyping with Quartz Composer github.io Most designers today create static mockups to communicate app ideas. But increasingly apps are anything but static, which means as designers we need a better tool for interaction design. Origami is a free toolkit for Quartz Composer—created by the Facebook Design team—that makes interactive design prototyping easy and doesn’t require programming.
  • alvarotrigo/fullPage.js github.com preview A simple and easy to use plugin to create fullscreen scrolling websites (also known as single page websites). It allows the creation of fullscreen scrolling websites, as well as adding some landscape sliders inside the sections of the site.
  • Absolute Centering – CodePen codepen.io Absolute Centering in CSS
  • CSS Beautifier fwpolice.com
    Beautifies your CSS automatically so that it is consistent and easy to read

New Online Timeline Tool Available For Everyone

Following in the footsteps of Storify, a new free, open-source online timeline tool is innovating storytelling on the web.

Timeline, created by Zach Wise, a multimedia journalist and journalism professor, was developed in partnership with the Knight News Innovation Lab at Northwestern University, where Wise teaches. The interactive tool allows users to generate timelines on the web by curating content from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps and SoundCloud.

via New Online Timeline Tool Available For Everyone.

Tumblr’s Inflection Point Came When Curators Joined Creators

Tumblr was an accidental social network, said founder and CEO David Karp, speaking at the DLD conference in Munich today.

In its early days, the service didn’t have the “steep social network growth” you might expect, because it was about a core community of creators, Karp said. The company originally set out to build novel tools that offered an escape from the restrictive templates of Facebook and Twitter.

When the site really took off was when the curators — people who primarily respond to other Tumblr users’ content by “reblogging” it on their own pages — came on board.

Today, creators are probably 10 percent of Tumblr, and curators are 90 percent, Karp estimated.

via Tumblr’s Inflection Point Came When Curators Joined Creators – Liz Gannes – Social – AllThingsD.

Tribute to my personal favortie RSS reader of all time – Using Feedly To Create A Personal News Hub

Twitter’s tremendous growth and active user base means breaking news stories to the web has become easier than ever. But when this is juxtaposed with information from mainstream media sources, keeping up with the latest news around a particular topic can be a bit overwhelming. Luckily, the team at DevHD has come with a great solution for harnessing the news of the web while including instant updates from other sources — they call it Feedly.

via Using Feedly To Create A Personal News Hub – 10,000 Words.

Curation Platforms

Curation Platforms are tools enabling you to select manually content online, to edit and share it.

This comparison table is part of a French IT news article about Curation Tools: “Le Guide de la Curation”. For more details about products and criteria, please read to the original article: http://pro.01net.com/editorial/529626/le-guide-de-la-curation-(3)-les-outils/

This comparison is associated to another one about the automatic publishing tools, that automatically select content : http://socialcompare.com/en/comparison/outils-de-publication-automatique-md16pw3

via Curation Platforms | SocialCompare – Comparisons community.