With the minor delay for the launch of www.toolbarheroes.com (due to us wanting to make it even cooler), we’d like to unveil our first hero and our first tool that he’ll be accommodating.
Terry
We had our illustration expert Brian from Hartoworld create Terry for http://www.toolbarheroes.com. His superpowers are currently unknown (other than a lycra fetish), but they’ll see the light of day when you least expect it.
The First Hero
Our first hero is the Percentage Calculator. It works with JS enabled or disabled and does the most simple of tasks, that of calculating percentages in numerous ways. We’ve also looked to optimise the tool as much as possible by using sprites, compressing & optimising code and using CDNs. We were originally planning to write our own JavaScript library specifically for this project. With time constraints this changed and hence our beloved jQuery 1.4 was given a run out.
The Coming Soon Heroes…
Two other heroes are currently in development: the file size convertor and typical measurements. We’ve got a lot of plans for www.toolbarheroes.com and will be looking to launch at least one new hero per month from June onwards. Other superheroes like Terry will also be making an appearance later in the year. In the future we’ll post up sneak peaks on dribbble.com, once I’ve earned my creative badges in the community.
). The application will act a problem solver for the community whilst utilising different platforms with a fun, intuitive interface. The monkey himself is currently stock but we’re getting Brian THE illustrator to produce an uber monkey shortly. Basic launch March 2010.
