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15 Attractive and Useful jQuery Plugins

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:38:21 +0000

A Colorful Clock With CSS & jQuery

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This is also the first tutorial that features our first very own jQuery plug-in – tzineClock.

Making a Sleek Feed Widget With YQL, jQuery & CSS3

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A sleek feed widget, that will fetch any feed and display it in your blog sidebar. You can set it up to show the latest posts from the different categories of your blog, your latest stumbles, or even people mentioning you on twitter.

Making a Photoshoot Effect With jQuery & CSS

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With it you can convert a regular div on the page into a photo shooting stage simulating a camera-like feel. Using this plug-in, we give visitors the ability to take shots of the background image.

Fancy Quotes With jQuery, AJAX & CSS

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A fancy quote rating system that will display a number of famous quotes and will enable our site visitors to rate their favorites.We are using PHP and MySQL on the back-end and jQuery and jQuery UI on the front.

An Awesome CSS3 Lightbox Gallery With jQuery

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We are using jQuery, jQuery UI (for the drag and drop) and the fancybox jQuery plugin for the lightbox display in addition to PHP and CSS for interactivity and styling.

Making a Fresh Content Accordion

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A simple, yet eye-catching accordion with the help of CSS, jQuery and the easing plug-in for some fancy effects.

Animated Sharing Bar With jQuery & CSS

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A pure JavaScript with the jQuery framework, to make an animated sharing bar, which will enable your website visitors to share posts on a number of social networks.

Sweet AJAX Tabs With jQuery 1.4 & CSS3

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Organizing the content of a page in a both intuitive and eye-catching manner, is a must in modern web design. One principle that has been around for some time is dividing text into tabs. This allows you to squeeze much more content in a seemingly limited space and provide a structured way of accessing it.

AJAX-enabled Sticky Notes With PHP & jQuery

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An AJAX-enabled Sticky Note management system. It will give visitors the ability to create notes with a live preview, and move them around on the screen. Every movement is going to be sent to the back-end via AJAX and saved in the database.

Halftone Navigation Menu With jQuery & CSS3

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A CSS3 & jQuery halftone-style navigation menu, which will allow you to display animated halftone-style shapes in accordance with the navigation links, and will provide a simple editor for creating additional shapes as well.

Advanced Event Timeline With PHP, CSS & jQuery

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An Advanced Event Timeline with the help of PHP, MySQL, CSS & jQuery, that will display a pretty time line with clickable events. Adding new ones is going to be as easy as inserting a row in the database.

Sort & Vote – A jQuery Poll

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A draggable sort & vote poll, that will enable our website visitors to choose their favorite tutorial from the site. After they vote, a friendly CSS chart will show them how the tutorials are ranked and the total number of voters.

Making A Cool Login System With PHP, MySQL & jQuery

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A cool & simple login / registration system. It will give you the ability to easily create a member-only area on your site and provide an easy registration process.

Creating a Facebook-like Registration Form with jQuery

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A facebook-like sign up form.

A simple AJAX website with jQuery

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Asimple AJAX website with jQuery and the right amount of PHP & CSS. It is going to have a few pages loaded by AJAX from the PHP back-end, and a complete support of the browser history – a real pain for any AJAX or Flash site .

Wordpress Site Customization Tips to Speed up Browsing via Wordpress Plugins

admin — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:38:33 +0000

Reliability is just not always necessary for the success of web blogging but browsing speed matters a lot. People browse millions of web pages daily for getting information and they have hundreds of choices to browse but, the faster a web page browse, the more time a user is saving on the internet. It creates heavy traffic and revenue. In this article we will understand that how to use wordpress plugins for front end and back end optimization.

There are two sections of this article.

1. Wordpress Utility Plugins
2. Wordpress Cache Plugins

I have listed many plugins in this article which are used for optimization but you have to choose what fits your requirements.

Wordpress Utility Speed Related Plugins

PHP Speedy

PHP Speedy is a script that you can install on your web server to automatically speed up the download time of your web pages. Here’s an example, from a test page:

Before PHP Speedy – 14 requests that took 4.44 seconds

After PHP Speedy – 4 requests that took 1.1 seconds

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CSS Compress

CSS Compress is a nice plugin to reduce the size of bloated CSS files. It removes comments as well as white space characters from the CSS (new lines and tabs). It also performs GZIP compression. Using this plugin reduces the CSS for the default “Kubrick” theme from 8 KB to 1.7 KB! It’s also very easy to install and use. If you are using the W3 Total Cache plugin then you shouldn’t need to use a CSS compressor plugin.
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Digg Protector

The Digg Protector will protect your blog from suffering from the Digg effect. When writing a post, give the HTML image tags a “protect” attribute to protect them. This means that when visitors from Digg come, they will be shown the image in the “protect” attribute. Otherwise, if they are not from Digg, they will be shown the image given in the “src” attribute. A basic HTML knowledge is recommended to use this plugin.
It is intended that this be used to reduce server load if a page on your site is Digged. It is intended that you give a locally-hosted image in the “src” attribute, and a remotely-hosted image in the “protect” attribute, so the Diggers won’t be loading all the images from your server.
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Optimize DB

For some People running WordPress, the use of phpMyAdmin appears to be a risky thing. There’s just too many options. This plugin lets you do just one simple task: optimize the tables of your database, to reduce their overhead.
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Clean Options

The Clean Options plugin provides an easy way for WordPress bloggers to manage their wp_options table. It has many built in safety features that will help prevent accidental deletion of table rows that may be needed for the error free operation of the blog. It’s goal is to give plugin users an easy and safe way to get a bloated wp_options table down to a manageable size, thus improving the performance of their blog, and keep it that way.
It also provides warning messages that will alert plugin users of potential problems that are encountered. In addition to the warning messages, option names can be double-checked by following the link to the wp-admin/options.php page, using the Google search links, and by searching the wp-content folder for files that contain either the option_name outside of get_option, or fragments of the option_name (up to 3 pieces).
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IFrameWidgets

This simple IFrame widget can display any external HTML page inside an HTML IFrame component. The need came from the Hindi Tagcloud JSP and I always thought that there should be some way to display that page on my blog (if you are as lazy to edit your blog theme files, you would agree with me).
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Top WordPress Caching Plugins

W3 Total Cache

The fastest and most complete WordPress performance optimization plugin. Trusted by many popular sites like: mashable.com, smashingmagazine.com, makeuseof.com, kiss925.com, lockergnome.com, tutsplus.com, johnchow.com, ilovetypography.com, webdesignerdepot.com, pearsonified.com, css-tricks.com, yoast.com and others — W3 Total Cache improves the user experience of your blog by improving your server performance, caching every aspect of your site, reducing the download time of your theme and providing transparent content delivery network (CDN) integration.
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Hyper Cache

Hyper Cache is a new cache system for WordPress, specifically written for people which have their blogs on low resources hosting provider (cpu and mysql). It works even with hosting based on Microsoft IIS (just tuning the configuration). It has three invalidation method: all the cache, single post based and nothing but with control on home and archive pages invalidation.
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WP-Cache

WP-Cache is an extremely efficient WordPress page caching system to make you site much faster and responsive. It works by caching Worpress pages and storing them in a static file for serving future requests directly from the file rather than loading and compiling the whole PHP code and the building the page from the database. WP-Cache allows to serve hundred of times more pages per second, and to reduce the response time from several tenths of seconds to less than a millisecond.
WP-Cache started from the ”’Staticize Reloaded”’ by matt and billzeller. Most of their recommendatiosn also apply to WP-Cache. Current version, WP-Cache2, is a huge improvement over previous versions of WP-Cache.
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WP Super Cache

This plugin generates static html files from your dynamic WordPress blog. After a html file is generated your webserver will serve that file instead of processing the comparatively heavier and more expensive WordPress PHP scripts.
The static html files will be served to the vast majority of your users, but because a user’s details are displayed in the comment form after they leave a comment those requests are handled by PHP. Static files are served to:
1. Users who are not logged in.
2. Users who have not left a comment on your blog.
3. Or users who have not viewed a password protected post.
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DB Cache

This plugin caches every database query with given lifetime. It is much faster than other html caching plugins and uses less disk space for caching.
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1 Blog Cacher

1 Blog Cacher is a WordPress plugin that caches your pages in order to increase the response speed and minimize the server load, so it’s easy to display the content of the files and organize them (for instance deleting the cache for a given entry, for all categories, for all searches, for all posts from a given date, etc.
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I Hope this post will be very useful for the readers.

50+ Promotional Websites to Promote Your Articles and News with Direct Submission

admin — Thu, 27 May 2010 11:31:49 +0000

There are a lot of bookmarking and voting sites to promote your posts and articles. And if you submit your post or article or news on each of those sites regularly you can get a huge traffic of new and regular visitors in very short time. You can get many unique visitors on you site or article daily using this method.

Also if you use this method, you will get very strong backlinks which are good for SEO. In this post, I am listing down the 50+ promotional websites where you can promote your designing and other articles.

Websites links for Direct submission. It doesn’t need any registration process.

10 Interesting and Remarkable jQuery Plugins

admin — Wed, 26 May 2010 07:49:47 +0000

A jQuery Twitter Ticker

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Create a pure jQuery & CSS twitter ticker which utilizes Twitter’s Search API.

Apple-like Slideshow Gallery

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An Apple-like slideshow gallery, similar to the one they use on their website to showcase their products. It will be entirely front-end based, no PHP or databases required.

Google Wave History Slider

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Enable visitors to go back and forth in time to view the changes that take place on a comment thread with Google Wave-like history slider.

A Really Cool jQuery Gallery

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Build a custom gallery that scans a folder of images and outputs a cool image gallery, utilizing PHP, CSS, jQuery and the lightBox plug-in.

Twitter List Powered Fan Page

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We are using the Twitter API and the newly released lists, to create a fan page widget that allows your visitors to include themselves in a specially crafted fan list in your account.

Fancy AJAX Contact Form

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In this tutorial we are going to make an AJAX contact form which leverages modern web development techniques. We are using PHP, CSS and jQuery with the help of JQtransform and formValidator plugin.

Stylish Navigation Menu

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It is used to make a stylish CSS + XHTML navigation menu with the help of the jQuery library.

AJAX Based Shopping Cart

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Create an AJAX-driven shopping cart. All the products are going to be stored in a MySQL database, with PHP showing and processing the data.

Slick Content Slider

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This shows you how to make a slick content slider.

Making Our Own Twitter Timeline

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Create Twitter-like timeline, where you can view and post your tweets. You can use the code for all kinds of purposes and be sure that the possibilities are endless.

330+ Beautiful and High Quality iPhone Wallpapers

admin — Fri, 21 May 2010 19:11:25 +0000

This is huge number of High-Quality iPhone Wallpapers, as per most of the user demand we’re posting an stunning collection of iPhone wallpapers, here in listed below some suggested beautiful wallpapers, some of the finest and most adorable designed Apple iPhone wallpapers for your own iPhone gadget from famous resources.

5 Best PHP Frameworks

admin — Tue, 18 May 2010 07:30:54 +0000

Today’s web developer must be well-equipped in order to fully harness the enormous horsepower and features at his disposal, not to mention satisfy the tastes of an increasingly finicky user. Because these challenges are universally faced among the web development community, several projects known as frameworks have gained a considerable following thanks to their ability to abstract away commonplace tasks such as data validation and database and web services integration, not to mention SEO, template management, and a testing.

In this article, I’ll introduce you to five frameworks that are transforming the way today’s PHP developers go about building web sites. If you haven’t yet explored framework-based development, I invite you to use this list as a starting point for learning more about what’s possible. Rather than simply list the five frameworks that have managed to gain the most mindshare amongst the PHP community, I instead try to highlight at least one feature that differentiates each framework from the other solutions.

CodeIgniter:

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you’re a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you’re tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks.

Of the five frameworks introduced in this article, none hails from a more interesting background than CodeIgniter. With the first version dubbed “pMachine” back in 2001 by creator Rick Ellis, the software was first put to use powering none other than Nancy Sinatra’s web site. Subsequently redubbed CodeIgniter in 2006, the framework is now used as the foundation for the popular ExpressionEngine content management system.

Cake PHP

In many ways, CakePHP acted as the trailblazer for modern framework development within the PHP community, with the project founded back in 2005 on the heels of Ruby on Rails. In fact, having borrowed many of Rails’ most compelling features, CakePHP is often erroneously referred to as “Rails for PHP,” despite the project having long since taken on a life of its own.

One of CakePHP’s most powerful advantages is a lively community who actively contribute not only tutorials, components, and other features through the Bakery, but also open source CakePHP-based projects through the Cake Forge, which as of this date hosts more than 240 open source applications. Sporting an impressive portfolio of deployments, among them The Miss Universe Pageant, MIT’s Scratch Program, and The Mozilla Foundation’s enormous Firefox Add-ons site, CakePHP is clearly worth considering no matter how ambitious your project may be.

The Zend Framework

Like all of the frameworks discussed in this article, the Zend Framework is packed with the standard features one would expect in a framework, such as data validation, database integration, and user authentication. However, this particular solution is unique in that it places the most emphasis on facilitating connectivity with a wide variety of web services, among them the Amazon Web Services API, Amazon’s EC2 and S3 services, Twitter, Windows Azure and Yahoo.

Further, the Zend Framework enjoys the backing of a particularly large corporate namesake sponsor, namely Zend Technologies. While the development process is no less open than other community-driven framework projects, this relationship does afford the Zend Framework project some additional benefits thanks to Zend Technologies’ corporate resources and partnerships with companies such as Microsoft, who recently contributed a Windows Azure component to the project. Another interesting recent development was the collaboration with Deutsche Telekom to produce the Developer Garden component, which gives developers the ability to use the Deutsche Telekom network to perform telephony tasks such as sending SMS messages and establishing voice-based calls.

Symfony

Along with CakePHP Symfony is one of the PHP community’s elder framework projects, having been founded by an enterprising French developer named Fabien Potencier back in October 2005. These days, it powers thousands of web sites around the globe, including the enormous Delicious social bookmarking application.

Symfony’s particular strength lies in the project management team’s incredibly well-organized support initiatives, led by the project’s corporate foster Sensio Labs. In addition to an annual conference, Sensio offers regular training sessions, and a series of open source books. Coupled with an abundance of documentation and a community that has contributed thousands of plugins, Symfony users won’t be left wanting in terms of understanding and extending this framework.

Prado

Prado is a component-based and event-driven framework for rapid Web programming in PHP 5. Prado reconceptualizes Web application development in terms of components, events and properties instead of procedures, URLs and query parameters.

A Prado component is a combination of a specification file (in XML), an HTML template and a PHP class. Prado components are combined together to form larger components or complete Prado pages. Developing Prado Web applications mainly involves instantiating prebuilt and application-specific component types, configuring them by setting their properties, responding to their events by writing handler functions, and composing them into application tasks.

Prado provides the following benefits for Web application developers:

reusability – Codes following the Prado component protocol are highly reusable. Everything in Prado is a reusable component.
ease of use – Creating and using components are extremely easy. Usually they simply involve configuring component properties.
robustness – Prado frees developers from writing boring, buggy code. They code in terms of objects, methods and properties, instead of URLs and query parameters. The latest PHP5 exception mechanism is exploited that enables line-precise error reporting.
performance – Prado uses a cache technique to ensure the performance of applications based on it. The performance is in fact comparable to those based on commonly used template engines.
team integration – Prado enables separation of content and presentation. Components, typically pages, have their content (logic) and presentation stored in different files.