Web Frameworks Archive

Bootstrap Toolbox – Tools, Utilities, Generators and Templates

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Ever since it was initially released, Bootstrap has taken the internet by a storm. It keeps growing in popularity with each passing day — and why shouldn’t it be popular? After all, where else do you find a responsive framework with such an extensive library of prestyled components, and a community that offers many, many extras and addons? In this collection, we have put together some of the best Bootstrap…

Streamlining The Front-End Development Process With The Gumby Framework

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Last month Digital Surgeons launched the latest version of their responsive front-end framework, Gumby. Gumby 2 is a complete re-imagination of its version 1 counterpart. It adds a ton of new features and has been rewritten in Sass to allow for easier customization and maintainability. Many of it’s new features are incredibly helpful in streamlining the front-end development process.

15 Even More Responsive Frameworks Worth Considering

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This is part 3 in in our ongoing series of posts highlighting the latest responsive web frameworks. And yes, today we have 15 even more frameworks for you to consider. Just like all of the other frameworks we have previously featured, the frameworks below have been built for one specific reason: to allow you to rapidly and painlessly build a responsive web site.

10 Lightweight & Minimal Responsive Grid Frameworks

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As responsive layouts rapidly move towards being the standard, more and more responsive CSS frameworks have been cropping up. And with such a huge variety of frameworks available, and with everyone one of them employing different grid properties and techniques, it can be very difficult to choose the right one. Of course, you could go for one of the popular all-singing-all-dancing frameworks, like Twitter’s Bootstrap or ZURB’s Foundation, as they…

15 More Responsive CSS Frameworks & Boilerplates Worth Considering

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Following on from 15 Responsive CSS Frameworks Worth Considering, which we published last November, today we have 15 more for you to consider. All of the frameworks and boilerplates below have been built with strict compliance to standards and conventions and will, as you would expect from any CSS framework, save your precious time by eliminating the need to write any of the base CSS styles yourself and, more importantly,…

15 Responsive CSS Frameworks Worth Considering

15 Responsive CSS Frameworks Worth Considering

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Taking the next step of our responsive layout coverage (we recently published the articles Responsive WordPress Themes and jQuery Plugins to help with Responsive Layouts), today we are taking a look at responsive CSS frameworks that we feel are worth your consideration. You can view part 2 of this post here: 15 More Responsive CSS Frameworks & Boilerplates Worth Considering Just like most CSS frameworks, all of the frameworks below…

CodeIgniter Toolbox- Essential Tutorials and Resources

CodeIgniter Toolbox- Essential Tutorials and Resources

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CodeIgniter is a powerful framework that lets you create web apps very simply and elegantly. It’s an open source PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. Cool, that sounds great, so how do you get started using it? Well, this article features some essential CodeIgniter resources to help with your web app development: think…

Discussing the Pros and Cons of Using a CSS Framework

Discussing the Pros and Cons of Using a CSS Framework

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A CSS framework is a piece of software that has a lot of options for you to use in your HTML development, potentially making it faster and easier for you to develop your website or web app. A CSS framework does this by containing predefined libraries of code. One example is a grid-based framework which sets up a multi-column arrangement with predefined pixel widths so you can focus on creating…

20 New Frameworks for Web and Mobile App Developers

20 New Frameworks for Web and Mobile App Developers

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Web development is about getting stuff done, not figuring out how to get it done. Frameworks and libraries help you, the web developer, focus on creating rather than figuring stuff out. Rather than reinventing the wheel, you can use a framework or library to delegate brunt, non-creative and repetitive work, freeing up your time and energy to create the actual website or application. This article highlights 20 New Frameworks and…

15 Javascript Web UI Libraries, Frameworks and Toolkits

15 Javascript Web UI Libraries, Frameworks and Toolkits

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Almost all of the rich web applications that we currently see on the web today rely on a subtle set of UI controls, libraries or frameworks (or toolkits) that not only greatly simplify application development, they also provide a consistent, reliable, and highly interactive User Interface. What more could you ask for? Currently, there are a wide varied range of Web UI frameworks covering varied languages – for today we…

A Review of the Best and Most Intuitive Flash CMS Solutions

A Review of the Best and Most Intuitive Flash CMS Solutions

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Despite the rumors, Flash websites are still very much popular. Flash does provide a unique and rich user experience with its amazing animations, unique effects, its somewhat genius interactivity. Yes, Flash can be beautiful, but it is also very difficult to learn and is certainly very difficult to easily update (especially for clients) and maintain. For the past few years Flash developers have been struggling to create a powerful and…

25 Amazing and Fresh jQuery Plugins

25 Amazing and Fresh jQuery Plugins

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Keeping up with the new jQuery plugin releases and developments sometimes feels like a full-time job! Every other day something new and better crops up that catches the eye and you think yourself “Wow, that looks good, I could use that!“. For this post I have collected 25 of the best newly (or, pretty close to new) released jQuery plugins, and every time I do a post like this the…

10 jQuery Plugins for Easier Google Map Installation

10 jQuery Plugins for Easier Google Map Installation

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At first glance the Google Map API may seem scary, I mean, were do you possibly start? You probably only want to display a simple map that displays directions to your clients address, you don’t really want an all singing and dancing interactive map with more options than necessary. There has to be a simpler way. Of course there is, and as with almost all web site interactivity, jQuery does…