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Create A Q&A Section For Any Website Easily With Qhub (4 Licenses Giveaway)

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Qhub LogoQ&A websites are a great way of sharing information with other users. Simple, focused and easy to use for everyone.

Qhub, a web application for quickly creating Q&A websites, is giving away 4 annual licenses (1*Deluxe and 3*Pro licenses) to WRD readers.

Joining the giveaway is pretty easy and details can be found at the bottom of this post.

What is Qhub?

Qhub is a hosted web application for having a question and answer website within minutes.

It is either a new community you are trying to create or a place to engage with your users and answer their questions, the application handles the requirements well.

Qhub Sample Website

Users can simply ask questions with adding tags to them and others can choose to answer and/or rate other answers. There is also a point system for motivating users to be more active.

The look and feel of the website can be completely customized (logo, background, colors, custom CSS, etc.) to match the main website.

Admin panel provided is feature-rich enough to control users, entries and any other system settings.

Various widgets (like Side Tab widget or Ask a Question widget) are offered for spreading the content into other websites. And, an API exists for integrating the data with 3rd party apps.

How to join the giveaway?

Qhub is giving away 1*Deluxe and 3*Pro licenses (all of them are annual) and in order to join the giveaway, you can choose one or both of the options below to increase chances of winning by:

The winners will be announced as an update to this post a week later (12 Jan 2012).

Good luck everyone.

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GuideGuide – Free Photoshop Plugin For Working With Grids

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Designing grid-based layouts in Photoshop is usually a headache as it takes time to calculate and position many vertical + horizontal guides.

GuideGuide is a free Photoshop plugin which simplifies creating grids in Photoshop with only a few clicks.

GuideGuide Photoshop Plugin

After defining a few variables (number of rows/columns, gutter width, etc.), it instantly generates the grid using Photoshop guides. And, for any active selections in the document, the plugin sets the grid within the limits of the selection.

Also, any frequently-used grid settings can be saved for later use.

P.S. Smashing Magazine has a very nice article on the usage details of the plugin.

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Sugar – Useful New Methods For JavaScript

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Sugar is a JavaScript library that aims to ease JS development by extending its native objects with new, helpful methods.

It brings lots of new featured for working with strings, numbers, dates, arrays, objects,regular expressions and functions.

Sugar JS

As an example:

  • capitalize would make the 1st letter capital
  • isEven and isOdd helps finding if the given number is odd or even
  • count would find how many times the given character exists in an array
  • isFuture would return if any given date is bigger than today
  • and so much more.

The library is very well-documented and it is a huge helper for JavaScript-heavy applications.

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Small-Sized & Pixel-Perfect Vector Icons – Bijou

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Bijou is a set of beautiful icons that are tiny-in-size yet pixel-perfect in details.

There are 120+ items in the set which consists of popular icons like charts, actions, arrows, smileys, etc.

The download package includes transparent PNGs, a PSD file with all the icons as layers and a Photoshop custom shapes version (.CSH).

Also, usage is free for personal and commercial projects (no attribution required).

Bijou - Free Vector Icons

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WordPress 3.3.1 Security and Maintenance Release

WordPress 3.3.1 is now available. This maintenance release fixes 15 issues with WordPress 3.3, as well as a fix for a cross-site scripting vulnerability that affected version 3.3. Thanks to Joshua H., Hoang T., Stefan Zimmerman, Chris K., and the Go Daddy security team for responsibly disclosing the bug to our security team.

Download 3.3.1 or visit Dashboard → Updates in your site admin.

Scrolling Effects With jQuery – Scrollorama

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Scrollorama is a jQuery plugin for creating eye-candy effects in parallel to the scrolling of web pages.

By dividing the content into blocks, it simply lets us to animate elements on the page (when a block is reached) based on the browser window’s scroll position.

The animations are accomplished using CSS properties, durations of them can be defined and it is also possible to set the exact scrolling positions of the start/stop events.

Scrollorama

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CSS3-Powered Presentation Framework: Impress.js

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Few months ago, a WRD article: "9 Free JavaScript Libraries & Templates For Beautiful Web-Based Presentations" has shared great presentation engines built by web technologies.

A new presentation framework is released recently -named Impress.js- which enables us to build very beautiful outputs.

Slides can be by positioned, rotated and scaled on an infinite canvas with zoom in/out and 3D effects by making use of CSS3 transforms and transitions to create the awesomeness (which makes it only compatible with WebKit and the latest Firefox + IE browsers).

And, for older browsers, Impress.js fallbacks to a standard presentation without the effects but by keeping the functionality.

Impress.js

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Quickly Build Mobile Web Mockups – Mobjectify

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Building mobile web apps already became pretty easy with user-friendly and high quality frameworks

Mobjectify is a free web application which makes it so much simpler by offering an awesome web-based mockup builder.

The application enables us to create pages and add various web elements (like forms, buttons, content areas, footers, etc.) with few clicks.

Mobjectify

It also offers multiple themes to choose from or you can create new themes. There is a live preview and results can be exported as a single HTML file anytime.

Mobjectify powers the mobile web pages with jQuery Mobile + its theme engine and only leaves the custom coding to you.

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jQuery UI Bootstrap – A Theme Inspired From Twitter Bootstrap

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You'll remember Twitter Bootstrap, a toolkit by Twitter for kickstarting CSS development and creating beautiful interfaces easily.

jQuery UI Bootstrap is a jQuery UI theme that is inspired from Twitter's project and brings the slickness of it to jQuery UI widgets.

jQuery UI Bootstrap

Using the theme, it is not only possible to use the Bootstrap-themed widgets but also work with Twitter Bootstrap side-by-side without issues.

You can also read more about the motivation behind the project on the developer's web page announcing the jQuery UI Bootstrap.

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