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ActiveCampaign, a full-featured platform for sending newsletters, is giving away $75 credits to 3 WRD readers each.
The details of this giveaway is mentioned in the bottom of this article and here is more about this exciting service:
Today, newsletters are one of the most popular ways of communicating with users/customers. Also, they are not expensive and, most importantly, they can be measured.
ActiveCampaign is a solid and hosted web application for managing subscribers, sending them newsletters and tracking the results.
It is possible to create multiple lists, view detailed information about the subscribers (like links they clicked or campaigns they opened) and even import new subscribers from many other popular web apps (Sales Force, Google Contacts, etc.), databases (MySQL-MSSQL) or with the help of a CSV-XML file.
And, for sure, the application enables us to create customized "subscribe forms" + integrate into our websites by inserting a few lines of code to our web pages.
ActiveCampaign has lots of beautifully-designed e-mail templates (cross-client compatible) to choose from or new ones can be designed with the web-based e-mail designer provided.
Once a newsletter is created, a built-in e-mail testing feature displays how it will look in popular e-mail clients like Outlook, Gmail, Yahoo, Live Mail, Apple Mail, Lotus Notes, iPhone, etc. It even notifies you about any possible issues (including design + spam score) and shows how to fix them.
The newsletters don't have to be sent by simply clicking to "send" but can be automated in several ways:
ActiveCampaign runs many checks to make sure the e-mails will be sent with success (like ensuring you have valid SPF, Sender ID, DomainKeys or DKIM and managing bounces/cleaning up your lists by removing invalid e-mails).
A detailed "reporting module" brings every detail you may need to analyze the deliveries. Read/opens, number of clicks to links, un-subscribes and bounces. Also, it is possible to view the trends of days/times that the e-mails are viewed the most to decide on a better delivery date-time.
There is also the social side of every buzz (including your campaigns) on the internet and the application can display what others are talking about your campaign on Twitter and Facebook (including Facebook "likes").
ActiveCampaign has add-ons/integrations for many other apps like WordPress, Joomla, SalesForce, SugarCRM, FreshBooks, HighRise and more.
Also, a well-documented API opens the doors of any type of integrations to developers.
ActiveCampaign is giving away $75 credits to 3 users and to join the giveaway:
P.S. The policy of ActiveCampaign is applied to the winners of the free credits.
Good luck to everyone.
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Daniel Raftery of ThrivingKings, a talented web developer, has created and sharing various useful jQuery plugins.
One of them is Formly, a plugin for easily adding cross-browser styling and validation to forms.
Another one is Sticky which enables us to create good-looking notification messages on any corner of a web page. They can be set to auto-close and multiple messages can be displayed at the same time.
There is Apprise, a simplistic modal box plugin for displaying alert-like dialogs. It has built-in options to show verification, confirmation and text alerts. Also, these alerts can be set to appear with an animation.
And, the last one is Badger which is a pretty original plugin that can insert a chic badge on any part of an HTML element. The badges can contain any text and a nice way of getting the user's attention and providing information.
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If you are writing a computer program in C, C++ or Python that needs to deal with computer vision in some way, check out the newest addition to the Free C / C++ Libraries page. This library has functions for image processing, transforms, detection and recognition, motion analysis and object tracking, camera calibration, and so on. Why reinvent the wheel?
Fork is an open source content management system that offers a user-friendly environment for building and managing a website.
It is built with PHP (uses Spoon)-MySQL and there are various mature extensions offered like a form builder, blogging, location, analytics (integrates with Google Analytics) or newsletter.
A few number of high-quality themes are offered for free to easily get started and also learn how it integrates with HTML.
Fork is definitely not as feature-rich as WordPress or other popular alternatives but it is lightweight, promising and improved regularly.
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Touchy Boilerplate is a starting kit for creating mobile web apps that covers most of the tricky parts of the development process.
It includes an HTML template with all the mobile-related meta tags, various browsing scenarios like animated navigation, fixed header + scrollable content and deep linking support.
Also, there are Geolocation functions and various other UI elements provided.
The boilerplate uses jQuery or Zepto.js and has 2 other optional helpers: Touchy JS and Touchy PHP which handles most of the exciting stuff mentioned above.
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One of the exciting features in CSS3: "transitions" come with a transition-timing-function which lets us to define an acceleration curve, so that the speed of the transition can vary over its duration. This is simply how we accomplish easing animations with pure CSS.
If we want to use custom easing animations rather than the pre-defined ones like ease, linear, ease-in, ease-out or ease-in-out the cubic-bezier property, which enables us to define a cubic bezier curve to use as the easing function, reaches to our help.
However, setting the cubic-bezier values can be challenging and a visual representation of the curve makes things much easier. Here are 3 great tools that help creating custom easing values:
The application works with drag 'n' drops and/or keyboard shortcuts.
By updating the curve, it auto-generates the cubic-bezier values. And, you can save them for future use by attaching friendly names and even share each with a unique link.
A similar tool which enables creating the values for the curve with drag 'n' drops and also compare the custom one with the pre-defined values.
Ceaser comes with values/transitions of Penner Equations (with approximate values) which means there are many new built-in transitions besides the default ones.
Also, you can create new ones easily and test them on different transition values like width, height or opacity.
There are also few other tools for creating visually creating CSS cubic-bezier values:
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The giveaway for the popular MySQL admin tool SQLyog has ended, winners of 5 Single Developer Licenses with premium support ($179/each) are selected and announced below.
Here is a short re-introduction of the product in case you are not one of the winners but considering a purchase (btw, a trial version exists).
It is a desktop application for managing any number of MySQL databases that run on any number of hosts.
SQLyog handles creating/editing and deleting databases, users, tables and records like a breeze.
The application can import/export data (CSV/XML/HTML/Excel) and backup or restore databases/tables. It can even run such commands (or any other commands/queries) as scheduled tasks.
There are many other advanced capabilities offered like:
SQLyog works on Windows and can be used on Linux or Mac OS X devices with the help of Wine.
Here are the winners of 5 Single Developer Licenses with premium support:
Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for joining the giveaway.
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CSSload is a free and web-based application that can generate loading spinners/bars with pure CSS.
The application offers several (currently 6) loader types and they can be customized in means of color, size and animation speed.
It uses the animation, transitions and transforms capabilities of CSS3 and compatible with browsers supporting them.
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When building mobile web apps, it is pretty hard to test and debug the applications in multiple platforms as each platform may require a different device.
Ripple is a multi-platform mobile environment emulator which comes as a Chrome extension and aims to ease this process.
It enables us to choose the platform (mobile web, PhoneGap, WebWorks, WAC, etc.) + the device(s) supporting the platform and can display how a given URL would look like with such a combination.
The extension allows the use of existing tools to perform JavaScript debugging, HTML DOM inspection, automated testing, as well as multiple device and screen resolution emulation in real-time.
Also, Ripple displays detailed information about each device, the User_Agent used for loading the URL and has a "Geolocation" module that eases testing Geolocation-reiated apps.
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