How does it work? Just put your image size after our URL and you'll get a placeholder. Like this: http://placehold.it/350x150

A lightweight templating engine

CSS edits and image changes apply live.
CoffeeScript, SASS, LESS and others just work.

A free to use, lightweight jQuery plugin that makes scrollbars look like in OSX Lion - based on Nikolay Dyankov original work.

The Tabber-Widget easily allows you to add multiple tabbed widgets in to one widget area.

Create tab and accordion type widgets without writing a single line of code.

Create custom post lists with easy to use advanced settings. Highly customizable for designing unique post-list designs.

It's pretty amazing what you can do with the pseudo elements :before and :after. For every element on the page, you get two more free ones that you can do just about anything another HTML element could do. They unlock a whole lot of interesting design possibilities without negatively affecting the semantics of your markup. Here's a whole bunch of those amazing things. A roundup, if you will.

This post looks at a way to add a subtle noise effect to HTML elements using CSS. Using this technique is of interest because it doesn’t require use of an image editor, weighs in at just a little over 2K and doesn’t generate any extra HTTP requests.

ImageOptim optimizes images — so they take up less disk space and load faster — by finding best compression parameters and by removing unnecessary comments and color profiles. It handles PNG, JPEG and GIF animations.

S2 — идеальная система управления контентом (CMS) для небольших и средних контент-сайтов.

Moqups is a nifty HTML5 App used to create wireframes, mockups or UI concepts, prototypes depending on how you like to call them.

Perfect to use as-is or as a blank WordPress theme for development!
“A theme framework that I highly recommend to anyone working with WordPress. Dig under the surface and you’ll see just how much power it’s got.” Elliot Jay Stocks , web designer, author, & speaker

Brackets is an open-source editor for web design and development built on top of web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The project was created and is maintained by Adobe, and is released under an MIT License.

You normally don't think of as having a background color, but they certain can have that property. It might come up if say, you wanted two borders around your images. You could use border for one and simulate the other by giving the image a background-color and padding. Or maybe you set the background to a bright red color so that missing images are bold and obvious.

In today’s post, we are going to look into how to integrate Facebook Open Graph with a self-hosted WordPress in a detailed step-by-step guide. It will require editing your existing WordPress theme and creating a Facebook application (if you don’t have one).

If you have a Facebook username, go to http://graph.facebook.com/yourname and you can see your id in the return string.

There has always been great resources available online for designers and developers, and I’ve been using these myself since I started making websites some twelve years ago – that’s the fantastic thing about the web community. Now I’m using Subtle Patterns as my way of giving back to the next (and current) generation of web designers and developers or anyone else who needs some high quality patterns.