Best web design resources of July 2011

A little late, yes, but here’s the July round up of some cool web design resources like a voting system for HTML 5 videos, an introduction to HTML 5 canvas, why Google doesn’t take meta keywords into account, free icons and more.

General Resources

Vote on HTML 5 videos with jQuery

http://www.zurb.com/playground/html5-video-voting

A nice system implemented in HTML5 to score votes on a video so you can gather feedback about them.

Test your visitors’ memory

http://www.clueapp.com/

Test how much people remembers about your website with this easy to use online quiz generator.

CSS3 properties generator

http://css3generator.com/

Generate almost every CSS3 property with this visual tool.

jQuery Mobile Slider for touch devices

http://www.photoswipe.com/

This slider for mobile sites will work on iPhone, Android and Blackberry. Now there’s no excuse to not to add a slider to the mobile version of your site. Photo Swipe has been conveniently released under the MIT license.

Carousel for responsive layouts

http://matmarquis.com/carousel/

Now that everything in the web just has to be responsive, here’s a strong carousel for your responsive layout.

Free Real State Icons

http://www.studiopress.com/graphics/real-estate-icons.htm

Brian Gardner’s StudioPress offers some neat real state icons.

Pokemon Icons

http://edwellbrook.com/releases/pokemon/

Yeah, these look superb for an avatar and you can mix shapes to create your own.

Social Icons

http://drbl.in/bxEV

Pack of 35 social icons including Twitter, Facebook with the PSD source file included. It’s time to start including Google+ in these icon packs.

Online tools

Identify fonts

http://fount.artequalswork.com/

Now that fonts are no longer limited to Arial and Verdana, this bookmarklet will be handy to quickly identify the fonts used in a website.

BrowserID: single signon identity

http://identity.mozilla.com/

BrowserID is Mozilla’s response to online identity. It operates in a descentralized way and is stored in your computer browser.

Articles

Introduction to HTML5 Canvas

http://www.netmagazine.com/node/1223

Rob Hawkes for .net magazine gives an introduction to the basics of HTML 5 canvas element.

Google doesn’t uses meta keywords

http://yoast.com/meta-keywords/

Joost de Valk went over the topic of meta keywords: are they really used or not by search engines? He embedded a video where Matt Cutts says that Google doesn’t use meta keywords.

WordPress Plugins

Syntax colouring for WordPress

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-code-editor/

Ever felt the need for some syntax colouring in WordPress code editor?

Shortcodes Pro

http://mattvarone.com/featured-content/shortcodes-pro/

Matt Varone released the Shortcodes Pro plugin for free: you can create your own shortcodes and assign the code they will execute without leaving the WordPress Admin.