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Milestone 01 - 70+ High-End Components for Web Designers and Developers

Here at DevKick we collect high-quality components, sort them into categories and present them on the site with regular updates. But once in a while, we flag our current state and present all components since the previous milestone in a handy blog post with direct links to each component's home page, demo and downloads.

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13th of May at 9:52 pm

Active Forum Discussions:

Galleria+jCarousel+ajax issues

Okay, how do I run the galleria code on each image load? I looked through the source code for galleria, and the closest I found was to use $.historyInit() $.historyLoad() But I don't think those will work. Continued »

14th of May at 5:05 pm by Zeroth | 3 messages

Designer, OMG, what is that?

Okay, I'm going to talk about web design, and about the process of a website creation. Now, everything changed, and, although there are some good examples, the most of them doesn't even know how to match colors and do a tableless layout. Continued »

13th of May at 9:57 pm by neondragon | 1 message

Browser-specific @imports

One idea I have been considering is if it's cleaner to have different import statements for different browsers from one master stylesheet. As of now, I use a minimal amount of browser-specific "hacks" in the base stylesheet. Continued »

13th of May at 2:34 pm by David | 1 message

unified feed

One thing I have been considering is if it's a good thing to have several feeds for different sections. Right now we have a news feed, blog feed and components feed. Would it be wiser to have all of them merged into one master feed, with a clear headline of what category the feed item belongs to? Continued »

13th of May at 2:24 pm by David | 1 message

devkick forum on iPhone

Thanks kris! And I really like that you consider my work god-like :) Continued »

13th of May at 12:34 pm by David | 3 messages

Latest Components:

EXIF Reader / Javascript

Javascript EXIF reader is a small library capable of reading EXIF data from JPEG images.

13th of May at 6:53 pm

Drag. Drop Lock. / Mootools

Drag Drop Lock is a MooTools example on how to create a user interface where you can drag a box and drop+lock it inside another box.

13th of May at 11:03 am

Flipv / jQuery

Flipv is a jQuery script that lets us display vertical text in an accessible way.

13th of May at 10:52 am

Securimage PHP Captcha / PHP

Securimage is an open-source free PHP Captcha script for generating complex images and captcha codes to protect forms from spam and abuse.

5th of May at 2:34 pm

Window.Growl / Mootools

Window.Growl is a simple but handy MooTools component for creating translucent messages that are displayed over the contents of your screen.

4th of May at 11:23 pm

Sliding Dropdown Menu / Javascript

This lightweight drop down menu script allows you to easily add smooth transitioning dropdowns to your website. This can be used for navigation, dropdown lists, info panels, etc.

29th of April at 12:10 pm

JavaScript Dialog Boxes / Javascript

Here is a small, lightweight, framework independent and ready-to-use JavaScript dialog box library that offers four dialog styles: alerts, warnings, prompts and success.

26th of April at 6:12 pm

Accordion / Prototype

Accordion is a well-written accordion script using prototype and scriptaculous.

26th of April at 10:39 am

Cornerz / jQuery

Cornerz is a bullet proof corners plugin for jQuery using Canvas/VML.

22nd of April at 11:31 pm

Mocha UI / Mootools

Mocha is a web applications user interface library built on the Mootools javascript framework.

21st of April at 11:17 pm

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