Using the XMLHttpRequest object in synchronous mode causes the entire browser to lock until the remote call completes. This is usually not a desirable behavior. The jQuery BlockUI Plugin lets you simulate synchronous behavior when using AJAX, without locking the browser. When activated, it will prevent user activity with the page (or part of the page) until it is deactivated. BlockUI is useful for creating...

Ext JS is a cross-browser JavaScript library for building rich, dynamic and interactive desktop-style user interfaces for your data-driven web applications. Ext JS includes a diverse set of GUI-based form controls (widgets) for use within web applications. Ext JS DOM selector class allows operations to be performed on elements within the page or data stores that can be used to manage data. Another classes offer...

The qWikiOffice Web Desktop is an open source project which combines the AJAX technology, the Ext JS library and the PHP, resulting in cutting edge web application graphics similar to a desktop environment. Besides a user friendly environment, qWikiOffice offers a powerful platform for which developers can deploy web applications. Any number of these web applications can be plugged into qWikiOffice to create...

This is another collection of free icons. iconaholic Free Icons contains more than 200 icons, groupped in accordance with their main subject and logicaly categorized for easier browsing. They’re mostly 3D and suitable for both front-end and back-end web graphics. iconaholic Free Icons are downloadable for Windows, Mac OS and are in ICO format. Website: http://www.iconaholic.com/downloads.html

If you are web developer, you certainly need new fonts very often. So, you definitely should bookmark this collection of 1001 free fonts. There’s pretty huge amount of highly usable fonts, separated into categories, for better navigation. If you don’t know what you are looking for and would like to be inspired a bit, take a look at the most popular fonts that everybody else is downloading, or browse...

Do you like a scotish style? Would you like to have a tartan pattern as a background of your site? This online Tartan Maker allows you to create nice tartan images without Photoshop or any other graphic editor skills. The online Tartan Maker offers you to set three colors (by picking from color picker or direct entry of color hex code) of tartan cubes which create the base of image. Then you can control dimensions...

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...

Every web developer knows that SEO friendly URL links are a must. But not every developer likes to write Apache’s mod_rewrite rules to have links nicer. Regular expressions sometimes annoy, but the Mod Rewrite Generator can save your time and troubles by generating desired rules in a while. The Apache module mod_rewrite converts URLs in a certain format to another format, and can be very useful in helping...

Let’s have a situation: You’re working on some web project and need some illustrative photos which should be colored in compliance with web site design colors. How to find such shot in a deep sea of internet? It’s not easy, but fortunately idee Multicolor Search Lab offers its service. idee Multicolor Search Lab browses two sets of milions of images and extract those ones which meet color criteria...

Almost every website would like to be profitable somehow. There are many ways how to get a revenue, the most used ones are probably an ad blocks. This online tool is a sandbox for look testing of Google, Yahoo and Chitika ads before you incorporate them into a web project. The sandbox allows you to set up all parameters for Google, Yahoo or Chitika ad blocks, select the type (text/image), palette or geolocation...