UPDATE: Discontinued. Please refer to Resources instead.

Free/Share: Free Web Resources (HTML/CSS/JS/PHP) and Inspiration – March 2012 (Part 2)

Hello all! I am back with another edition of my “monthly” web development roundup. If you are new here, be sure to check out part 1 of my roundup (the February edition) here. As usual, if you have any suggestions feel free to leave them in the comment section below. All the links you can find below are stuff that I found interesting this month. Let me know what you think and if you have any stuff that you found interesting, let me know.

HTML / CSS / JS

• Pushing Updates to the Web Page with HTML5 Server-Sent Events
• jQuery & CSS3 Tooltips
• WebKit Marquee CSS: Bringin’ Sexy Back
• Interesting -webkit CSS Properties
• Sass vs. LESS vs. Stylus: Preprocessor Shootout
• Vendor prefixes are not developer-friendly
• Paul Irish: * { box-sizing: border-box } FTW (Solving Width & Padding Problems)
• More Noticeable HTML Bookmarks (jQuery)
• Fontomas – A tool that helps to combine Iconic webfonts
• Login and Registration Form With HTML5 and CSS3
• Using Modernizr to detect HTML5 features and provide fallbacks
• Maintaining CSS Style States using “Infinite” Transition Delays
• jqFloat.js – A Floating Effect with jQuery!

 

Frameworks / Libraries

• Twitter Bootstrap For WordPress
• basket.js - A simple (proof-of-concept) script loader that caches scripts with localStorage
• Chico UI – A free and open source collection of easy-to-use web tools for developers and designers.
• Skeleton - A Beautiful Boilerplate for Responsive, Mobile-Friendly Development
• Dexy – “The Most Powerful, Flexible Documentation Tool Ever”
• noty – Easily create alert, success, error and confirmation messages

 

Inspiration

• Building a Great Web Design Portfolio – 10 Best Tips & Examples 
• Five Alternative Methods for Typography Inspiration
• 18 Super Quick Web Typography Tips for Newbies

 

Free Resources

• Simple Tape – Free Minimalist HTML Site Template 
• Stumblr – Tumblr Style WordPress Theme (Micro Blog)
• Liquid, Fluid and Elastic Layout Templates, Tools and Frameworks
• Free download: “Inspire” Backend Admin Template (PSD)
• Origin: Free WordPress Theme

 

Optimization / Testing

•  Website Speed Part 4 : PHP Programming for Speed
• Resizer – A responsive design bookmarklet
• Why Inlining Everything Is NOT The Answer
• Dirty Markup – Tidy and beautify your HTML, CSS & JS code
• Kraken Web Optimizer – Online Optimization Tool
• TypedJS – Sanity Check Your JavaScript

 

Others

• More Resources, Tutorials & Freebies (Speckyboy Weekly 06/03)
• 50 Time Saving Photoshop Actions To Boost Your Images
• Top Non-Destructive Photoshop Techniques
• PHP 5.4 is Here! What You Must Know
• Useful WordPress Tools, Themes And Plugins
• How to Prepare for The High-Resolution Web

 

There’s quite a few things here from my usual favourites (CodeVisually, Speckyboy, Smashing Mag). I tried my best to avoid taking too much from one website. I suggest you visit Nettuts+ or its sister, Web Design Tuts+ if you are interested in reading more articles.

Sorry for the huge delay in posting this up! I hope you find something above useful! If you would like to contribute to my list, just leave a comment below or tweet me (@MrSaints). I will NOT continue updating this list. Look out for part 3