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2title: 'Back to the web'
3date: '2012-12-28'
4published_at: '2012-12-28T14:09:00.000+11:00'
5tags: ['bootstrap', 'colorbox', 'development', 'easytabs', 'jquery', 'pyramid', 'python', 'tablesorter', 'web']
6author: 'Gavin Jackson'
7excerpt: 'I have been doing a fair bit of web development lately and thought it might be good to share some of the awesome new web development libraries I have been playing with. They all seem to be playing wel...'
8updated_at: '2013-01-02T14:14:37.021+11:00'
9legacy_url: 'http://www.gavinj.net/2012/12/back-to-web.html'
10---
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12I have been doing a fair bit of web development lately and thought it might be good to share some of the awesome new web development libraries I have been playing with. They all seem to be playing well with each other which is nice...
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14[![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_oDs_cRXoQXkT-e6gJwrZUqPxUMo1bwFYE8I1Xg2BU_uPJZAf2rBqQQqIQfeGff1oB0bO6s6bYR-T57ycCRrps0Ltz7-47IKxWCRJ64vBSvjD91XeMlXFWem-jr1DCQ-yozB_BoW-jOM/s400/pyramid-logo.png)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_oDs_cRXoQXkT-e6gJwrZUqPxUMo1bwFYE8I1Xg2BU_uPJZAf2rBqQQqIQfeGff1oB0bO6s6bYR-T57ycCRrps0Ltz7-47IKxWCRJ64vBSvjD91XeMlXFWem-jr1DCQ-yozB_BoW-jOM/s1600/pyramid-logo.png)
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16**Pyramid** - a very flexible MVC web framework for Python. Website: [http://www.pylonsproject.org/](http://www.pylonsproject.org/) **Deform** - a python HTML form library, this has an interactive demo page with lots of snippets to get you started, written by one of the core Pyramid contributors Website: [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/deform](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/deform) Demo site: [http://deformdemo.repoze.org/ ](http://deformdemo.repoze.org/)
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18[![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_dqpXLg-HyCyBCZIgVeCuwG3E5ZZm0WF88dhCczigwCsMZut99jO4a6oEWopR9zRyLhVYWEUk9DvMis_5gfb1mXU1J9yVxQFkGA3peJYl2vu9NQn8uTSo8Hv_QH4GyoNGQIx1LD5vOUA/s400/twitter_logo.png)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_dqpXLg-HyCyBCZIgVeCuwG3E5ZZm0WF88dhCczigwCsMZut99jO4a6oEWopR9zRyLhVYWEUk9DvMis_5gfb1mXU1J9yVxQFkGA3peJYl2vu9NQn8uTSo8Hv_QH4GyoNGQIx1LD5vOUA/s1600/twitter_logo.png)
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20**Twitter Bootstrap** - the easiest way to build a responsive web application (a web application that renders correctly on both mobile, tablet and monitor), here are two additional sites that allow you to easily customise the look and feel [http://bootswatchr.com/](http://bootswatchr.com/) or download a pre-built theme [http://bootswatch.com/](http://bootswatch.com/).
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22Website: [http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/](http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/)
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24[![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr1ZgoMXCdfb1NRxXzk-h5tq2x7-BxRoDdw9fj1nAl40BL9jI2RoLXm0aBFC94V5-fjYt2plZX1tFycNMYCW1Y3Vqg022QyGRlj3txehn3CqpyLfcBhntwL84xp3zWRdzn2Irw3lAu9Io/s400/jquery_logo.jpg)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr1ZgoMXCdfb1NRxXzk-h5tq2x7-BxRoDdw9fj1nAl40BL9jI2RoLXm0aBFC94V5-fjYt2plZX1tFycNMYCW1Y3Vqg022QyGRlj3txehn3CqpyLfcBhntwL84xp3zWRdzn2Irw3lAu9Io/s1600/jquery_logo.jpg)
25
26**EasyTabs** - This is a jquery plugin that makes it easy to create a nice looking tab interface. Website: [http://os.alfajango.com/easytabs/](http://os.alfajango.com/easytabs/) ** **
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28**Colorbox** - A flexible jquery based lightbox alternative, supports multiple media types, has 5 great looking themes that you can use out of the box and most importantly - works with tablesorter (see below).
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30Website: [http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox](http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox)
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32[![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZCgJ3iuxKkyc2Sg9e_Fr0eL8EfMlMIPmmNOJUEBTNIStRUo8YGJ8dad9EcQcg78YI56IyCDPguesG7Zu0oNOqd7NhyphenhyphenUg99-oMVQknrCKB-eyd7kEbpp7Y_5lgxSM7EaO6mJiMFXthx4/s400/tablesorter.jpg)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZCgJ3iuxKkyc2Sg9e_Fr0eL8EfMlMIPmmNOJUEBTNIStRUo8YGJ8dad9EcQcg78YI56IyCDPguesG7Zu0oNOqd7NhyphenhyphenUg99-oMVQknrCKB-eyd7kEbpp7Y_5lgxSM7EaO6mJiMFXthx4/s1600/tablesorter.jpg)
33
34**Tablesorter** - Another jquery plugin that allows you to create sortable tables for the web. Sweet! [http://tablesorter.com](http://tablesorter.com/) Seen anything else cool lately Let me know in the comments!
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---
title: 'Back to the web'
date: '2012-12-28'
published_at: '2012-12-28T14:09:00.000+11:00'
tags: ['bootstrap', 'colorbox', 'development', 'easytabs', 'jquery', 'pyramid', 'python', 'tablesorter', 'web']
author: 'Gavin Jackson'
excerpt: 'I have been doing a fair bit of web development lately and thought it might be good to share some of the awesome new web development libraries I have been playing with. They all seem to be playing wel...'
updated_at: '2013-01-02T14:14:37.021+11:00'
legacy_url: 'http://www.gavinj.net/2012/12/back-to-web.html'
---

I have been doing a fair bit of web development lately and thought it might be good to share some of the awesome new web development libraries I have been playing with. They all seem to be playing well with each other which is nice...

[![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_oDs_cRXoQXkT-e6gJwrZUqPxUMo1bwFYE8I1Xg2BU_uPJZAf2rBqQQqIQfeGff1oB0bO6s6bYR-T57ycCRrps0Ltz7-47IKxWCRJ64vBSvjD91XeMlXFWem-jr1DCQ-yozB_BoW-jOM/s400/pyramid-logo.png)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_oDs_cRXoQXkT-e6gJwrZUqPxUMo1bwFYE8I1Xg2BU_uPJZAf2rBqQQqIQfeGff1oB0bO6s6bYR-T57ycCRrps0Ltz7-47IKxWCRJ64vBSvjD91XeMlXFWem-jr1DCQ-yozB_BoW-jOM/s1600/pyramid-logo.png)

**Pyramid** - a very flexible MVC web framework for Python. Website: [http://www.pylonsproject.org/](http://www.pylonsproject.org/) **Deform** - a python HTML form library, this has an interactive demo page with lots of snippets to get you started, written by one of the core Pyramid contributors Website: [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/deform](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/deform) Demo site: [http://deformdemo.repoze.org/ ](http://deformdemo.repoze.org/)

[![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_dqpXLg-HyCyBCZIgVeCuwG3E5ZZm0WF88dhCczigwCsMZut99jO4a6oEWopR9zRyLhVYWEUk9DvMis_5gfb1mXU1J9yVxQFkGA3peJYl2vu9NQn8uTSo8Hv_QH4GyoNGQIx1LD5vOUA/s400/twitter_logo.png)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_dqpXLg-HyCyBCZIgVeCuwG3E5ZZm0WF88dhCczigwCsMZut99jO4a6oEWopR9zRyLhVYWEUk9DvMis_5gfb1mXU1J9yVxQFkGA3peJYl2vu9NQn8uTSo8Hv_QH4GyoNGQIx1LD5vOUA/s1600/twitter_logo.png)

**Twitter Bootstrap** - the easiest way to build a responsive web application (a web application that renders correctly on both mobile, tablet and monitor), here are two additional sites that allow you to easily customise the look and feel [http://bootswatchr.com/](http://bootswatchr.com/) or download a pre-built theme [http://bootswatch.com/](http://bootswatch.com/).

Website: [http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/](http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/)

[![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr1ZgoMXCdfb1NRxXzk-h5tq2x7-BxRoDdw9fj1nAl40BL9jI2RoLXm0aBFC94V5-fjYt2plZX1tFycNMYCW1Y3Vqg022QyGRlj3txehn3CqpyLfcBhntwL84xp3zWRdzn2Irw3lAu9Io/s400/jquery_logo.jpg)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgr1ZgoMXCdfb1NRxXzk-h5tq2x7-BxRoDdw9fj1nAl40BL9jI2RoLXm0aBFC94V5-fjYt2plZX1tFycNMYCW1Y3Vqg022QyGRlj3txehn3CqpyLfcBhntwL84xp3zWRdzn2Irw3lAu9Io/s1600/jquery_logo.jpg)

**EasyTabs** - This is a jquery plugin that makes it easy to create a nice looking tab interface. Website: [http://os.alfajango.com/easytabs/](http://os.alfajango.com/easytabs/) ** **

**Colorbox** - A flexible jquery based lightbox alternative, supports multiple media types, has 5 great looking themes that you can use out of the box and most importantly - works with tablesorter (see below).

Website: [http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox](http://www.jacklmoore.com/colorbox)

[![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZCgJ3iuxKkyc2Sg9e_Fr0eL8EfMlMIPmmNOJUEBTNIStRUo8YGJ8dad9EcQcg78YI56IyCDPguesG7Zu0oNOqd7NhyphenhyphenUg99-oMVQknrCKB-eyd7kEbpp7Y_5lgxSM7EaO6mJiMFXthx4/s400/tablesorter.jpg)](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUZCgJ3iuxKkyc2Sg9e_Fr0eL8EfMlMIPmmNOJUEBTNIStRUo8YGJ8dad9EcQcg78YI56IyCDPguesG7Zu0oNOqd7NhyphenhyphenUg99-oMVQknrCKB-eyd7kEbpp7Y_5lgxSM7EaO6mJiMFXthx4/s1600/tablesorter.jpg)

**Tablesorter** - Another jquery plugin that allows you to create sortable tables for the web. Sweet! [http://tablesorter.com](http://tablesorter.com/) Seen anything else cool lately Let me know in the comments!