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- Docking Boxes
Docking boxes (dbx) adds animated drag 'n' drop, snap-to-grid, and show/hide-contents functionality to any group of elements.
Posted by nptai2009 on 12th Aug 2009
- Drag and drop table contents
With few lines of JavaScript, you can drag and drop table content. Content of the HTML table cells can be dragged to the another table cell or another table.
Posted by Rob on 25th Jun 2009
- 15 Essential Checks Before Launching Your Website
This article reviews some important and necessary checks that web-sites should be checked against before the official launch — little details are often forgotten or ignored, but – if done in time – may sum up to an overall greater user experience and avoid unnecessary costs after the official site release.
Posted by Rob on 15th Apr 2009
- Quality Within Web Design
Quality is a word that a lot of people like to use when describing their web design services. But what is quality, how do you know if a design is quality or not. Well, I think that there’s quite a few ways to spot quality within web designs. Once you can see just what goes into making a quality web design, you can use the techniques to perfect your own style.
Posted by Rob on 15th Apr 2009
- Setting up a PHP development environment for Dreamweaver
PHP pages need to be processed through a web server. So, to develop with PHP in Dreamweaver, you need access to a PHP-enabled web server and the MySQL database. It's also useful to have a graphical interface to MySQL. You can install all of them independently, but the quickest and easiest way is to use an all-in-one solution, such as XAMPP. This section describes how to install XAMPP on your Windows computer. This installs the Apache web server, MySQL, and a MySQL front end called phpMyAdmin in a single operation. All three components are open source software that you can use for developing, testing, and deploying web applications—and they are free!
Posted by grandtres on 14th Apr 2009
- 40 High Quality Fireworks Tutorials
Adobe Fireworks is getting popular than ever, many web designers find a lot of fun to experiment different techniques and learn how to work with various aspects of Adobe Fireworks to spice up boring pictures and make them into works of arts. So, if you’re interested in learning some new skills, whether you’re a beginner, intermediate or advanced user, these Adobe Fireworks tutorials are for you.
Posted by Rob on 19th Mar 2009
- 30 Day of MooTools
A collection of tutorials based on the MooTools Javascript Framework, well worth a look to see some in-depth tutorials on some of the features.
Posted by Rob on 3rd Mar 2009
- 21 Useful PHP Components
Web applications have made huge leaps and bounds in improving user experience thanks to a lot of recently developed Ajax technology. When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of javascript you can produce some pretty cool results. In an effort to help you take it up a notch, we’d like to share some methods for helping your site anticipate a user’s next move.
Posted by Rob on 3rd Mar 2009
- LightWindow
Another entry into the 'Lightbox' arena, with this one you can present any type of media in a nice modal on-screen popup. Well worth a look if you like this kind of effect.
Posted by Rob on 14th Jan 2009
- Sortable tables using AJAX
Again I've been cheated of the chance to learn AJAX for myself! There is a coding god :o) Stuart Langridge saved me the work with this wonderful little bit of AJAX for dynamic column sorting. His explanation is a little thin but this a great tutorial here on how to use it. Stuarts original is here: http://www.kryogenix.org/code/browser/sorttable/
Posted by suehami on 20th Dec 2008
