Developed and maintained by web designer Joni Korpi, Less Framework is a new generation CSS framework that is built perfectly for any web browser such as Chrome, Safari 3.0+, Firefox 3.0+ and Internet Explorer 7+, and any device including the Apple iPhone and iPad. It’s a lightweight CSS framework for building flexible multi-column website layouts. LESS contains an eight-column grid optimized for a line-height of 24px, and a set of typography presets based on the golden ratio that fit into the grid’s vertical rhythm. Webpage can collapse automatically into a single column in old browsers and on small width screens. LESS CSS framework requires a single.css, multi.css, HTML5.js and switcher.js to function. Download Less Framework 1.0.
Website thumbnails (also known as thumbshots, snapshots, or previews) are screenshots of web pages that can help you quickly and easily recognize and identify certain websites. ShrinkTheWeb is a powerful and free website thumbnail generator service of any website for webmasters and bloggers, allows you to automatically created website thumbnails with 250,000 request limits or month, and also offer more limits in the paid plans. For the free plan, no customize size can be mentioned and inner page thumbnails are not supported. On the other hand, this website screenshot service can capture JavaScript and Flash elements.
Shrink The Web can also filter and find offensive, foreign, duplicated/related, and parked/broken sites. Simply enter the website’s URL and specific a thumbnail size (There are six default sizes of thumbnails you can choose from), press the “customize it!” button. And then copy/paste the image code into your webpage where you want the thumbnail to appear. If you pay for a premium account, you would have more features like specific inside page capture, full-length thumbnail, custom sized captures, refresh thumbnails anytime you want, and custom browser resolution (i.e. 800×600 or 1024×768). WordPress, vBulletin, PHPLD, Drupal and Django third party plugins are available as well.
Web Design Blog PV.M Garage just released a new free WordPress theme Sports News PVM, a theme designed and coded by Piervincenzo Madeo. This theme has a two-columns layout with an unique soft grunge design and a featured news section, was created for sports blog and magazine websites. Sports News PVM is free to use both in private and commercial projects under GNU General Public License. You are allowed to use the free theme for all your web projects for free without any restrictions. Download Sports News PVM.
SimpleViewer is one of the most popular Flash image gallery applications featuring smart preloading, resizable interface, thumbnail menu and optional description text, that you can easily create customizable Flash image viewing gallery. WP-SimpleViewer is a SimpleViewer WordPress plugin which allows you to add SimpleViewer Flash gallery to your posts and pages. The admin interface helps you to create the thumbs for a new gallery and change its settings.
You can also add captions for the images that shows up in the gallery as well. All plugin and gallery settings can easily be changed on the WP-SimpleViewer admin page. Galleries can be added by selecting them with the “Add media” button of the plugin or by using a shortcode after the thumbs have been created in the backend. WP-SimpleViewer Flash image gallery WordPress plugin is compatible up to 2.9.2. Take a look the demo post of SimpleViewer Flash gallery.
