Some Useful Jquery Applications for your Web

• jQuery File Tree Demo – abeautifulsite.net
• FastFind Menu Script – (http://labs.activespotlight.net/jQuery/menu_demo.html)
• Creating accessible charts using canvas and jQuery – filamentgroup.com
• Building a better web forms: Context highlighting using jQuery – jankoatwarpspeed.com
• Color Picker – jQuery plugin – eyecon.ro
• jquery Hover Sub Tag Cloud – noupe.com
• Photo Slider Tutorial – (http://opiefoto.com/articles/photoslider)
• jQuery lightBox Plugging – leandrovieira.com
• Fancy Box – Simple and fancy jQuery plugin – fancy.klade.lv
• jQuery Plugin – Page Peel – smple.com
• PHP & jQuery image upload and crop – webmotionuk.co.uk
• Spacegallery – jQuery plugin – eyecon.ro
• wSlide – jQuery Plugin – webinventif.fr
• Accordion Content script (v1.6) – dynamicdrive.com
• jQuery auto-tabbing and filter plugin – lousyllama.com
• jQuery plugin: Autocomplete – bassistance.de
• NyroModal :: jQuery Plugin – nyromodal.nyrodev.com
• imgAreaSelect – odyniec.net
• jWYSIWYG – WYSIWYG jQuery Plugin – projects.bundleweb.com.ar
• Gradient jQuery plugin – davidwees.com
• jQuery.ScrollTo – flesler.blogspot.com
• jQuery.Preload – flesler.blogspot.com
• jQuery.ScrollShow – demos.flesler.com
• jQuery Lightbox Plugin (balupton edition) – balupton.com
• JQZOOM updated to Evolution – mind-projects.it
• jRails – jQuery on Rails – ennerchi.com
• jQuery Helper for Komodo Media CSS Star Rater (Redux) – m3nt0r.de
• jquery.biggerlink – ollicle.com
• haccordion, a simple horizontal accordion plugin for jQuery – letmehaveblog.blogspot.com
• LavaLamp for jQuery lovers! – gmarwaha.com
• jQuery Image Strip – blog.joshuaeichorn.com
• jQuery Thumbs – joanpiedra.com
• jQuery.flickrGallery – ptflickrgallery.sourceforge.net
• jQuery idTabs – sunsean.com
• jQuery UI Datepicker Project – marcgrabanski.com
• jQuery Flickr – projectatomic.com
• Simple jQuery form validation – willjessup.com
• Farbtastic: jQuery color picker plug-in – acko.net
• What is jCarousel Lite? – gmarwaha.com
• Effect Delay Trick – learningjquery.com
• Interface Imagebox demo – intelliance.fr
• Updated JQuery Nested Tab Set with Demo – blog.cutterscrossing.com
• jCarousel Riding carousels with jQuery – sorgalla.com
• AutoScroll for jQuery – jdsharp.us
• jqUploader Demonstration – pixeline.be
• InnerFade with JQuery – medienfreunde.com
• jQuery Portlets – sonspring.com

5 Questions to Ask Your Web Developer

Building a website can be a lot like putting together a jigsaw puzzle–sometimes the picture looks good, but when you look closely, pieces are in the wrong places. A website might function, but as soon as you make a change or an update, the picture falls apart.

How do you avoid hiring a designer or developer that builds a website like this? Here are some questions you can ask and some feedback to help you understand their answers.

1. What web standards do they follow?
This is a great question that will fluster someone who doesn’t have standards. What are web standards? This is the way of designing and coding a website that allows the website to grow with technology and the web visitor.  This means using clean code and technologies like:

• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets): a simple mechanism for adding style like fonts, colors, and spacing to web pages
• XHTML (Extensible Hypertext Markup Language): a markup language that has the same depth of expression as HTML, but also conforms to XML syntax
• ECMA Scripts: the standard version of JavaScript used on most web browsers.

You don’t have to know how to write the languages; you just have to know what the standards are to understand the answer.

A simple way to help you connect to this question is to remember that people online don’t all use the same web browser or operating system. Designing and developing to standards gives your website the ability to look and function the way it should on different platforms.

2. Do they design for SEO best practices?
It’s no secret today that everyone wants a website that can be found on search engines. Implementing search engine optimization may not be what you want your designer or developer to do for you; however, how your site is designed or coded can affect your strategy when you are ready. When you interview developers, this is a great question to ask and see if the person you’re interviewing is familiar with how to code to meet SEO standards. Here are a few items that affect SEO best practices:

• CSS (Cascading Style Sheets): Designing a website to meet SEO best practices means using style sheets to cut down on the amount of code on your web page. Search engines like text, not code.
• Script files: When you use dynamic items on your site like image galleries or mouse-over menus, usually these are created through JavaScript. To follow proper SEO standards, script files should be created for pages instead of having the script on your web page.
• Web page content: Your text or content should be on the page as much as possible this can even include your website navigation. There are ways to make text visually appealing without having the designer put it inside an image. Images that contain words are not picked up as content by search engines.

If SEO is a strategy you are considering down the line, it’s a good idea to make sure your site will be built with this strategy in mind.

3. How do they plan for change or growth?
One of the most stressful lessons learned is that the website you built yesterday will not allow you to grow tomorrow. Being told you have to start over is one of those statements every business owner can’t bear to hear. Before you begin, ask the question, “Does the technology you’re using allow me to grow or add additional functions?” You may even want to take this further and think about tools you’d want to add down the line. You can also ask designers or developers to provide you with a brief list of tools they have already integrated with sites like yours. This allows you not only the opportunity to see if they are knowledgeable, but also whether they’re supportive in providing you with ideas.

4. How do they test their work?
As I mentioned above, not all of your consumers use the same technology. But to ensure things are operating the way they should or displaying correctly, web developer need to test their work. This issue might seem trivial, but you’d be surprised how many firms only test for one web browser. I recommend you ask specifically what web browsers and versions they test for during the development process. If you’re building an online community, social or e-commerce website, testing is an important part of your success. Secure payment gateways need to be tested in a real environment. Be sure to get the specifics of what your firm considers to be part of a test phase and what it’s being held accountable for after the website has gone live.

5. How do they handle support requests?
After a website has officially launched inevitably there will be a problem–it’s technology; it happens. The question you want to know before you put pen to contract is how does your new firm handle support or bugs–technical hiccups with the website? Every firm will approach this differently, so pay close attention to how it phrase its response and commitment.

Building a website depending on the functions you need can be a lot like putting a puzzle together. The key to success is finding the right firm who understands the pieces that need to come together for your business.

Jennifer Shaheen, the e-marketing and Technology Therapist, has more 10 years experience working with small- to mid-sized businesses on their e-marketing and web development needs. You can learn more about her by visiting her web site, TechnologyTherapy.com

How To Make Your Site Mobile Friendly ???

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you would have heard about the phenomenal sales of the new iPhone by Apple. It sold approximately 1 million handsets in 3 days – which is approximately 231 handsets per second.

Now stop and think what that means for website marketing. There’s no prizes for realizing that a mobile version of your website is now becoming more important than ever.

I understand it might still be hard for you to justify the expense of getting a professional mobile version of your website designed, but here’s 4 FREE ways to get a mobile version up.

1. Mofuse:

If your website produces an RSS feed, then Mofuse could be the answer. It takes your sites RSS feed and turns it into a mobile friendly website – perfect for viewing on a myriad of handsets.

2. Mippin

Mippin is another free tool that allows you to turn your website’s RSS feed into your new mobile site. While it’s a simple tool to use, it lacks a lot of the customization that mofuse offers.

3. Wirenode

Don’t have an RSS feed, then Wirenode might be a better option. While it offers some handy templates to get you started, there isn’t much in the way of customization. It does however offer some basic analytics to track performance.

4. Google Mobile Optimizer

The quickest, easiest but possibly ugliest way to mobilize your site is thanks to Google. Just submit your URL and voila – you have a mobile friendly site. But forget about customization – it’s not for those with fancy mobile website aspirations. But heck – it works!

So if you want to ensure you have a mobile friendly version of your website for all your new iPhone carrying customers, without the hefty redesign costs, you’ve got 5 easy ways to get started.

If you try out the tools, make sure to link to your new mobile website via our comments section below so we call all take a look.

By Rene LeMerle

71 Links Help You To Learn Webdesign

General

• “What is Webdesign” guide
• Understanding Webdesign
• Validate HTML / CSS (Very important!)
• Why validate?

Programs

• Adobe Photoshop CS3 (Design)
  
• GIMP (Design)
• Adobe DreamWeaver (HTML/CSS/PHP editing)
• NVU (HTML/CSS editing)

HTML

• HTML Basics
• W3Schools – HTML reference
• HTML Tutorial
• WebMonkey

CSS

• CSS Basics
• Complete CSS Guide + Reference list
• W3Schools – CSS reference
• Free CSS Ebook – Need to subscribe to the RSS feed to download the Ebook!
• CssLeak
• CSS-tricks
• BrushKing
• A list apart

Design

• Photoshop tutorials
• GIMP tutorials
• Photoshop Basics
• Photoshop Shortcuts
• Create a weblayout in Photoshop + Dreamweaver
• 27 “how to design a website” tutorials in one place

Open-source PHP applications that rules the world !!!

From managing databases to shopping, writing blogs to sending emails. Ten years of passion, great software architectures, team work and revolutionary ideas. Here are the most influential open-source PHP applications to date:

1998

phpMyAdmin

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the Web. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields, manage privileges, export data into various formats and is available in 50 languages. Development is backed up by the phpMyAdmin team.

1999

SquirrelMail

SquirrelMail is a standards-based Webmail package. It includes built-in pure PHP support for the IMAP and SMTP protocols, and all pages are rendered in pure HTML 4.0 for maximum compatibility across browsers. It has very few requirements, and is very easy to configure and install. It has all the functionality you would want from an email client, including strong MIME support, address books, and folder manipulation.

PHP-Nuke

PHP-Nuke is a Web portal and online community system that includes Web-based administration, surveys, access statistics, user customizable boxes, a themes manager for registered users, friendly administration GUI with graphic topic manager, the ability to edit or delete stories, an option to delete comments, a moderation system, referer tracking, integrated banner ad system, search engine, backend/headlines generation (RSS/RDF format), Web directory like Yahoo, events manager, and support for 33 languages and 9 database servers.

2000

eZ Publish

eZ Publish is an Enterprise Content Management platform with an easy to use out of the box Web Content Management System. It is available as a free Open Source distribution and serves as the foundation for the rest of the eZ Publish Product Family. As a CMS it’s most notable feature is its revolutionary, fully customisable and extendable content model. It is also a platform for general web development, allowing you to develop professional PHP applications. Standard eZ Publish functionality: easy to create and edit content, workflow system, content versioning, multilanguage possibilities, collaboration, e-commerce functionality, revolutionary content class system, role based access control are implemented and ready for you to use. High quality software and total product responsibility from eZ systems make eZ publish the leading Open Source Enterprise Content Management System. Enterprises, governmental offices, organizations and educational institutions trust eZ Publish.

osCommerce

osCommerce is an open source e-commerce solution under on going development by the open source community. Its feature packed out-of-the- box installation allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain their online stores with minimum effort and with no costs involved. osCommerce combines open source solutions to provide a free and open development platform, which includes the powerful PHP web scripting language, the stable Apache web server, and the fast MySQL database server.

phpAdsNew

OpenX began as phpAdsNew, a fork from a similar project called phpAds, created by Tobias Ratschiller in 1998. OpenX is a hugely popular, free ad server designed by web publishers for web publishers. It provides everything you need to manage your on-line advertising. It allows paid banners to be easily rotated along with your own in-house advertisements, and can even integrate banners from third party advertising companies.

phpBB

phpBB is a fast, efficient discussion board program built in PHP with a muti-database backend. Features include: posting, replying, private messages, polls, username/ip banning, strong encryption for storing passwords, user rankings, very advanced access control for private forums, full templating, simple yet robust translation system and much more.

2001

Gallery

Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is easy to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the ability to create and maintain their own albums in the album collection via an intuitive Web interface. Photo management includes automatic thumbnail creation, image resizing, rotation, ordering, captioning and more. Albums can have read, write, and caption permissions per individual authenticated user for an additional level of privacy.

Drupal

Drupal is a modular content management system, forum, blogging and community engine. It is database driven and can be used with MySQL, MySQLi and PostgreSQL. Its features include (but are not limited to) discussion forums, Web-based administration, theme support, a submission queue, content rating, content versioning, taxonomy support, user management with a fine-grained permission system based on user roles (groups), error logging, support for content syndication, locale support, and much more. It is considered to be an excellent platform for developers due to its clean code and extensibility, and it can also be used as a Web application framework.

2002

MediaWiki

MediaWiki is a web-based wiki software application used by all projects of the Wikimedia Foundation, all wikis hosted by Wikia, and many other wikis, including some of the largest and most popular ones. Originally developed to serve the needs of the free content Wikipedia encyclopedia, today it has also been deployed by companies for internal knowledge management, and as a content management system. Notably, Novell uses it to operate several of its high traffic websites.

2003

WordPress

WordPress is a state-of-the-art, semantic, personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, Web standards, and usability. It was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architected personal publishing system. While primarily geared towards functioning as a Weblog, WordPress is also a flexible CMS capable of managing many types of Web sites. In addition to the basic blog functions, it also has an integrated link manager (e.g. for blogrolls), file attachments, XFN support, support for stand-alone pages, Atom and RSS feeds for both content and comments, blogging API support (Atom Publishing Protocol, Blogger, MetaWeblog, and Movable Type APIs), spam blocking features, advanced cruft-free URL generation, a flexible theme system, and an advanced plugin API.

Zencart

Zen Cart™ truly is the art of e-commerce; free, user-friendly, open source shopping cart software. The ecommerce web site design program is being developed by group of like-minded shop owners, programmers, designers, and consultants that think ecommerce web design could be and should be done differently.Some shopping cart solutions seem to be complicated programming exercises instead of responding to users’ needs, Zen Cart™ puts the merchants and shoppers requirements first. Similarly, other shopping cart software programs are nearly impossible to install and use without an IT degree, Zen Cart™ can be installed and set-up by anyone with the most basic web site building and computer skills.

2004

SugarCRM

SugarCRM is a complete CRM system for businesses of all sizes. Core CRM functionality includes sales force automation, marketing campaigns, support cases, project mgmt, calendaring and more. Built in PHP, supports MySQL and SQL Server.

2005

Joomla!

Joomla! is an award-winning Web-based content management system. It provides for split front end content access and backend administrator access. Group-based access control allows for different levels of system control for both the site and the administrator. The Joomla! framework allows for extension by installable components (applications), modules (template blocks), languages, templates, and mambots (plugins that enhance system functions).

Symfony

Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP5. It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster. Choosing symfony allows you to release your applications earlier, host and scale them without problem, and maintain them over time with no surprise. Symfony is based on experience. It does not reinvent the wheel: it uses most of the best practices of web development and integrates some great third-party libraries.

OrangeHRM

OrangeHRM aims to be the world’s leading open source HRM solution for small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) by providing a flexible and easy to use HRM system affordable for any company worldwide.The project was started during fall 2005 and the first beta release was made in January 2006. Today OrangeHRM has users worldwide enjoying a free, stable and highly usable HRM solution. The system is backed by professional support and services as well as a fast growing, receptive and knowledgeable worldwide open source community. By building and leveraging this community of users, developers and partners, the usability, scope and international adoption of OrangeHRM is continuously being improved.

2006

Zend Framework

Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services, and consuming widely available APIs from leading vendors like Google, Amazon, Yahoo!, Flickr, as well as API providers and cataloguers like StrikeIron and ProgrammableWeb.

2007

Magento eCommerce

Magento is a new professional open-source eCommerce solution offering unprecedented flexibility and control. It was designed with the notion that each eCommerce implementation has to be unique since no two businesses are alike. Magento’s modular architecture puts the control back in the hands of the online merchant and places no constraints on business processes and flow.

Cake PHP

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

9 open source script for commercial use.

I like opensource. It was the best free stuff for us.

1. Post Affiliate FREE

Post Affiliate is freeware affiliate system written in PHP. It allows you to easy set up and maintain your own affiliate program.

Development Status: Production/Stable

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Operating System: Unix

More Detail
Free Affiliate Software

Download Link
http://www.qualityunit.com/members/d….php?product=2

2. affmarket

“Affiliate Market” from Indonesia by Arif Hidayat. A web store with affiliate system in PHP side-server language and MySql database, it’s originally from simple open source (post affiliate) that re-concept and many additional feature (also from other open source and my freaky idea). Millist affmarket : PHP opensource – Affiliate Market

Development Status: Beta

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Operating System: All

Download Link
http://www.affilit.co.uk/32456/affilit3.zip

3. Sonic Affiliate

Sonic Affiliate is a open source, web based, affiliate marketing program that we developed. It is loosely based on PHP Affiliate 1.2 and POST Affiliate 1.3, but it is much more powerful.

Development Status: Beta

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Operating System: POSIX

More Detail
Sonic Affiliate | SonicFog Web Development | Affiliate, Database, Program, License, Strategies, Lang

Download Link
http://sonicfog.com/sonic_affiliate/sonic_affiliate.zip

4. WorkHub

A web based, downloadable project management system that organises web and software development teams and automates some of the more repetitive tasks.

Development Status: Production/Stable

License: Free for non-commercial use

Operating System: WinXP

More Detail
Welcome to SoftwareMonkeys.net

Download
Register – SoftwareMonkeys.net

5. Affilit

Affilit : Is a Affiliates Network Program and is now fully developed. The script promotes webmasters web sites. It is a Great script for webmasters with multiple website’s, no need to buy a licence for each website just set it up and advertise all your website’s on one program.

Development Status: Production/Stable

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Operating System: Not Available

More detail
Affilit’s Affiliate Network Program

Download
Download Affilit

6. AffiliStore
AffiliStore 2 creates a multi-page affiliate marketing price comparison website from multiple merchant csv product feeds. This version of AffiliStore has some excellent features which will allow you to build and maintain a successful affiliate website.

Development Status: Production/Stable

License: GNU General Public License (GPL)

Operating System: Win 2000, XP, Mac

More Detail
Affiliate Marketing Price Comparison Websites | AffiliStore

Download Link
http://www.affilistore.com/include/a…2-download.php

7. OpenAds
OpenX is a hugely popular, free ad server designed by web publishers for web publishers. It provides everything you need to manage your online advertising.
Make more money from online advertising today.

More Info
OpenX: Take control of your advertising | OpenX

Download Link
Download | OpenX

8. elgg
Create your own social network, quickly and easily. Elgg allows you to take full advantage of the power of social technology with elegant, flexible solutions for organisations, groups and individuals. Elgg wins best open source social networking platform 2008.

More Info
Elgg.org

Download Link
Elgg.org – downloads

9. PHPizabi
PHPizabi is one of the most powerful social networking platforms on the planet. With literally thousands of websites powered by PHPizabi including everything from simple friends sites to the most complex networking super sites out there. Easy to install, use, and raising the bar on what it is to provide a reliable, fast, social networking package to raise your business to the next level.
More Info
PHPizabi – Create Worlds

Download Info
PHPizabi – Create Worlds

.htaccess Tricks and Hacks every webmaster must know

The .htaccess files (Hypertext Access file) is a very powerful configuration tool on Apache web server. The Apache web server has a number of configuration options that are available to the server administrator. The .htaccess is a simple ASCII text file placed in your website root directory. You can create and edit an .htaccess file using a text editor like notepad.

As a configuration file .htaccess if a very powerful and a slight syntax error can result in a severe malfunction of your server. So to avoid that always try to keep a backup copies of all your files from the server before working with the .htaccess file.

1. Creating a custom error page with .htaccess on a linux apache is a very simple task. Using you a text editor like notepad you create an .htaccess files. Custom error pages give your website an professional look and catch those visitors who reach your website following a back link.

ErrorDocument 401 /error/401.php
ErrorDocument 403 /error/403.php
ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.php
ErrorDocument 500 /error/500.php