Today’s freebie is a multi purpose responsive accordion image slider plugin raccordion. Its a horizontal image slider that adjusts according to the size of the browser width. raccordion slider adds variety and style.
Thursday Roundup # 27
Modern UI Style Design by Microsoft
Modern UI is a new design language created and made popular by Microsoft with the introduction of Windows 8, however the interface was used for the first time with Windows 7 portable devices. Partially we’ve seen this interfaces style since MSN 2.0 or Encarta 95, but not entirely as they are today. The Modern UI design focuses on beautiful typography and less on graphics, while putting the content in the center.
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jQuery Interactive Cycle Slides Plugin: jQSlid
jQSlid is a simple jQuery plugin that offers parallel sliding for both content and the navigation. It can be used in various situations where sliding functionality is required. e.g You can use it for creating sliding banners and portfolio sliders with navigation and content sliding in parallel.
Thursday Roundup # 26
Simple & Pretty Time Series Line Graphs with jQuery and Raphaël: Morris.js
Making good-looking graphs shouldn’t be hard. Morris.js is a lightweight library that uses jQuery and Raphaël to make drawing simple charts easy. It’s a very simple API for drawing line, bar, area and donut charts. Continue Reading →
Thursday Roundup # 25
Open Source Responsive WordPress Theme – Frank
Frank is an open source responsive WordPress theme designed and built to provide a light, responsive and unobtrusive reading experience. Frank’s main focus is speed. The parent theme’s default home page makes 9 database queries and consists of 2 requests weighing ~29Kb (9.6Kb gzipped). Frank keeps it basic—no JavaScript frameworks, no unecessary images, just a simple, no-frills, screaming fast blog.
Open Source jQuery PHP Ajax Contact Form Templates With Captcha: Formify
Creating and configuring a contact form for you website sometimes become a pain if don’t have much experience dealing with commonly related issues. They become more tough if you want to include the attachment functionality as well.
Today’s freebie is a collection of open source jQuery & PHP ajax contact forms, we call it Formify. Formify is a contribution to lessen the pain of creating contact forms. The collection contains six different forms that are commonly used. These open source contact forms can be customized as well to suit the need for your website/application.
Thursday Roundup # 24
A Date Range Picker For Twitter Bootstrap
A beautifully done free date range picker component for Twitter Bootstrap. This date range picker creates a dropdown menu from which a user can select a range of dates.
If invoked with no options, it will present two calendars to choose a start and end date from. Optionally, you can provide a list of date ranges the user can select from instead of choosing dates from the calendars.
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Responsive Business Portfolio Template Built Using Twitter Bootstrap: Agency
Agency is a responsive HTML5 business portfolio template built using Twitter Bootstrap. The template is exclusively designed/developed for eGrappler.com from our friends at Themesforce.com (thank you guys!)
The template follows a clean, eye catching and minimal approach to showcase contents. It comes with all important pages needed for any company’s / freelancer website with a working contact form so users can directly contact you via your website.
Thursday Roundup # 23
Premium Responsive HTML5 Template: Agency
Agency is a powerful multi-purpose html5 responsive template perfect for business and portfolio sites. It follows a clean, eye catching and minimal approach to showcase contents. This responsive template built using Bootstrap – the awesome framework by Twitter guys.
Writing Effective Business Proposals
The other day, a friend of mine who runs a freelance web development agency asked me to talk to his sales team and give them some tips for improving their conversion rate. I worked with his team to analyze that they were not getting satisfactory response to their business proposals. And the top reason was boilerplate proposals. Later, I worked with the team to define a simple process and some best practices for preparing effective business proposals.
In this post, I am sharing some of the best practices that every business or individual/ freelancer can use to develop effective business proposals.
