envato

“We started in 2006 with a simple idea – make awesome websites”. I think Envato is living up to their ideals. Every single one of their sites is well designed and usually has great content. I had no idea a single company made Tuts+ (a series of websites which does tutorials and how-tos for things like Photoshop, Illustrator, 3d design, Flash, etc) and Freelance Switch (a site about being a freelancer).

What makes me point them out today is that I came across AppStorm.net which is comprised for 3 sites focusing on web, iphone, and mac apps. Again, the content on each site is top notch. I just spent the last hour reading reviews for all sorts of slick looking apps that I’ve never even heard of.

It’s great to see a company doing such a wide variety of content based sites (and even charging for their premium content on Tuts+). I highly recommend you check them out (if you’re a nerd or a designer).

Teux Deux. a nice and simple to-do list web app. via casey.

SublimeVideo. javascript plugin for controlling video in html5. looks nice.

Quicksand: Awesome jQuery plugin to filter/animate HTML lists. some more cool demos in this video.

Uniform – Sexy forms with jQuery. form element replacements with a couple themes. not bad.

Designing For Social Traction. great presentation deck about how to get users to signup, teach them about your app, and keep them around. via lukas.

jb.tumblr. now that’s a cool html trick. dude also has two cool tumblr designs. via ram.

Mr Speaker presents: Parcycle. A HTML5 Canvas Particle System. nifty tool. not sure what i’d use it for. but nifty.

How a Web Design Goes Straight to Hell – The Oatmeal. awesome.

Typekit. hosted css font-face solution. that’s pretty damn cool.

Why do we have an IMG element? [dive into mark]. some great quotes from a html mailing list in 1993 about adding images to html. in summary, “The ones that win are the ones that ship.”

Best Website Footer Ever. just scroll to the bottom of the page. via lukas.

Google Has A Solution For Internet Explorer: Turn It Into Chrome. it’s an IE plugin that makes IE seamlessly render everything via Google’s web browser. what a total “fuck you” to Microsoft. i really hope this actually works as presented.

High Performance Web Sites :: SpriteMe makes spriting easy. it’s a bookmarklet that suggests and generates a sprite image and css for any given page. that’s pretty impressive.

punypng Benchmarks. a png/jpg/gif compressor with some pretty good benchmarks

Sample Resume Template | A Free HTML Resume Template by thingsthatarebrown.com. a very nice html resume.

Mozilla Webdev: Cross-Browser Inline-Block. it might seems simple but it’s one of those things you might kill yourself over trying to make it work in a dozen different browsers.

Ajaxian ยป Designing Web Interfaces with Bill Scott and Theresa Neil. interesting presentation deck about how to use different interactions on websites.

Fluid 960 Grid System. that’s pretty well done. via ram

entp – web incubator and consultancy. nice redesign.