Growl is basically a notification bubble/popup that appears in the top right of your desktop, well known from Mac OS X. Gritter is let’s say the implementation of Growl notifications in web design. Practically, it’s something like the alert() function in JavaScript, but it’s not a modal, looks much better, has more functionality and is fully customizable by parameter settings. Growl Types of Notifications Regular...

DHTMLX Toolkit is a comprehensive set of AJAX-based DHTML UI (User Interface) components. These libraries allow you to bring desktop-like functionality to the web. Dynamical loading and other special techniques allow the components to load and update data on page seamlessly without delay. As the components are written entirely in JavaScript, they can be easily integrated with any server-side technology (samples...

Would you like to add some effects to your titles, headings or any other group of letters? Wouldn’t be excellent to have a headline shadowed and then dynamically mirrored, but without images? Yes, WITHOUT IMAGES! Sounds almost unbelievable, but this possibility already exists! Alessandro Uliana created jQuery FontEffect plugin which is capable to manipulate fonts and add effects to them, without need to...

Are you experienced PHP programmer and would like to use favorite PHP functions in JavaScript too? Sounds interesting, doesn’t it? You wouldn’t have to learn new JavaScript objects and functions, get used to new syntax, just write what you already know and have tested. Put PHP directly into JavaScript code and don’t care! Well, but how? Thank God and the group of PHP.JS developers the answer...

The 960 Grid System is an effort to streamline web development workflow by providing commonly used dimensions, based on a width of 960 pixels. There are two variants: 12 and 16 columns, which can be used separately or in tandem. The 12 column grid is divided into portions that are 60 pixels wide. The 16 column grid consists of 40 pixel increments. Each column has 10 pixels of margin on the left and right, which...

osCommerce Online Merchant is an Open Source online shop e-commerce solution that is available for free under the GNU General Public License. It features a rich set of out-of-the-box online shopping cart functionality that allows store owners to setup, run, and maintain online stores with minimum effort and with no costs, fees, or limitations involved. Everything you need to get started in selling physical and...

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’...

TYPO3 is a free Open Source content management system (CMS) for enterprise purposes on the web and in intranets. It offers full flexibility and extendability while featuring an accomplished set of ready-made interfaces, functions and modules. Choosing a CMS can be a long and difficult process, especially since there are a large number of content management systems available. There are hundreds of CMS available...

There’s a lot of WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editors worldwide. You can choose from simple ones to more complex with a lot of features. But sometimes less is more. Mainly, in the event when users shouldn’t change a layout, colors, fonts, etc. of the webpage while editing content (by CMS editor, for example). It’s much better to let change a layout or any other front-end attributes...

Easy Slider jQuery Plugin enables images or any content to slide horizontally or vertically on click. It is configurable with css alone. So, basically you link to plugin file, set the content up and style it with css. Easy and lightweight! At the time of this post, version 1.5 of Easy Slider plugin for jQuery was here. Previous version should be checked first to understand what is this plugin about and how does...