[WIP][DEVELOPMENT] DevToolkit - A set of tools for developers

Go read my latest message, I did some work on this

Hey guys, Antariano here with another quick idea. I'm going to do a little poll first to see if interest arises or not.

The problem
As UI lover I always try to make the experience for my users as pleasing as possible. Altough I never programmed a bukkit plugin, I always tried to make the stuff that I do visually appealing.
This is why I thought it would be nice for developers to make their stuff nice, too!

The idea
What I plan to do is basically a set of.. let's call them "widgets"... that are dynamically created from an URL.
Here's a basic list:

• Icon Set

This is pretty straight forward: A set of typical, bukkit and plugin-dev related icons to make your posts/categories a bit nicer.

• Banners

Automatically generated banners for either plugins or plugin devs. Upload your image, put some text in, and that's it!

URL would be something like this: example.com/banner/type/title/message
Where type is to choose from a list of different banners.

• Progress Bars

Progress bars! We all love them, we all want them! Now they are here, dynamically created. Or better: they will be here!

URL would be something like this: example.com/pb/type/percentage/fcolor/bcolor/message
Where type is to choose from a list of different progressbars, colors are the bar's colors, and message is an optional message (either in or below the bar).

• Newsfeeds

This badasses will take either an RSS or a Twitter feed and put them in an image, so you can put those in wherever you want. Nice, huh?

URL would be something like this: example.com/news/type/url
Where type is to choose from a list of different newsfeeds, url is the url to the feed (or twitter account).

• more to come once I think about them or you suggest them

So now it's your turn! Tell me what you think
In case we do this I will probably need some brave souls that do the hosting though

 

Dynamic signatures FTW?

 

Amazing

 

I think this has not reached a level of interest that would justify the effort - neither to drop it, though. So, this is an elegant way to bump.

 

Allright, I will throw some stuff together, at least the icons. SpaceBukkit comes first, though.

 

Dynamic categories: Icon+title
example.com/cat/type/icon/title

 

Wow, this kinda got buried, didn't it?

Well, don't worry guys, this is still a thing. In fact, I finished something today! First version of progress bars!




As you can see, the progress bar is completely generated by PHP. The gradient took me a while to figure out, but the result makes it worth it
Current parameters:

progressbar2/width/height/foreground/background/percentage/showtext/textcolor/imagequality

It all renders fast without any problems

Eager to hear comments / suggestions / critique now!