Beautiful, Clean Website Design & An Awesome Tool

First about the website it self, it is very clean and organized. plenty of “white space” to make everything easy to read and see. Cool concept on the header illustrating what they do. Simple design for the body of the page and a nice clean footer. I like this because it is very easy to look at and you can tell what the purpose of the site is and what they do within seconds of arriving.

The service this website offers is pretty cool, as the name says, they stitch multiple feeds together into one feed organized chronologically.

The administration area is still kind of clunky. When you make a change or an update you need to refresh the page to see the changes. Looks like it uses AJAX to update everything but it does not refresh the results after for some reason.

Once you get over the technical issues on the admin side the feed works excellent and can be used just fine. I say this is an awesome tool and hope they fix the admin side issues soon.

Source: http://www.feedstitch.com

Awesome Way To Display Your Portfolio Using jQuery

As web designers we strive to amaze potential clients with our work and one of the ways to do that is to have a stunning portfolio. We find new ways to hook the visitor, to make him or her remember our site over everyone else.

I’ve seen sliders on portfolio sites before but have never seen one that has been flipped on it’s side and split into four and set on an offset timer. This is pretty cool to look at.

You will notice that this site I am showing here is using Flash to make the cubes flip but after digging around a bit I found a jQuery module that can be used to do the same thing. Check it out here: Easy Slider, you can see the example here: Easy Slider jQuery Plugin Demo. This module will only make one block so to make the same effect like in the site above you will need to stack four of these modules together and time them just right.

Source: http://www.tekan.com.br

Social Network Platform For WordPress MU

I am pretty amazed at the new things that are coming out for WordPress. This might have been around for a while but I personally have just discovered it. BuddyPress is a social network component that works with the WordPress MU (multi-user) to create an easy to use and manage social network of your own. I have not checked into it too deep yet but from the looks of it so far it sure qualifies as an Awesome Tool.

Check it here: http://buddypress.org

Awesome Tools: Textorizer

I keep finding cool tools online and they are not really anything I can or know much to write about but would want to have filed somewhere so I can come back to later, so I will start a new category called Awesome Tools where I will stash these cool tools that I find.

The first one will be Textorizer. You enter a logo or any image URL and then enter your text into a field and hit Textorize and you will see an image from your URL drawn with the text you entered. It’s pretty cool.

Source: http://textorizer.whatfettle.com/