five Top rated Considerations To Seo
Search Engine Optimization, a.k.a. Web optimization, is an approach by which a web site gets to be noticeable on the search engine’s radars. Thinking about the truth that there are through 4 billion publicly accessible web sites on the World-wide-web, getting noticeable when a probable client performs a search on...
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Pagination with PHP, jQuery and MySQL.
So many emails hit my inbox with readers asking me how to implement pagination with php. So i decided to put one together using Jquery, php and Mysql. It looks difficult, but its rather simple....
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2011
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Shopping/Ecommerce Plugin Solutions For WordPress
Here is a list of Shopping/Ecommerce Plugin Solutions For WordPress. I thought i would start this post purely because i spent most of the day trying to find a ecommerce plugin that actually works. So hopefully it helps you too! Jigoshop Jigoshop is an eCommerce plugin for WordPress developed by...
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2011
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Useful PHP Snippets
As a PHP developer i’m always in the search for little snippets to add to my library. This at times so often proves useful when coding big projects and quick little functions. Snippets as such are great to add to existing CMS systems, such as WordPress, drupal or Joomla. Calculate...
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2011
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Good SEO practices – How to beat Google panda
Last week we did a post on Google panda “Has your site been Google Panda slapped?”. This week I want to share with you some ideas and practice that you can apply to your website to help improve and beat the panda! Google has released Panda update 2.2, just as...
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Jun
2011
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Leverage browser caching – Improve Page Spead
Have you seen this error in Google page speed? Leverage browser caching!! Here’s the fix Browser caching of external resources can increase loading time of a web page and decrease server load. In this article i will explain how to enable mod_expires and to improve page speed as page speed...
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Jun
2011
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4800 Australian websites hacked
One of the worst hacks ever seen. At least 4800 Australian websites have been lost with no chance of recovery following a break-in at Australian domain registrar and web host Distribute.IT. The Attack was so bad that four of the company’s servers were deemed “unrecoverable.” “At this time, We regret...
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2011
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Has your site been Google Panda slapped?
So you’ve probably heard about the Google Panda and it’s serious panda slap. For those of you who haven’t, here is a small insight to the panda. As of 22th Feb 2011, a major update by Google on how it ranks sites was introduced! Statistics show that 12% of search...
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Apr
2011
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Sliding login panel with jQuery
Came across this great script for slide down login This script is based on a previous script “Show/Hide Login Panel with Mootools 1.2″ but now works with jQuery 1.3.2 instead of Mootools 1.2. Please note the Login and Register forms in this demo will not work “out of the box”...
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Feb
2011
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Express Mail Newsletter Template
Newsletter templates are so often hard to come by! Express Mail is a template design that caters for all businesses. The template comes with all the essential generic information and elements to get you started. Template Highlights: 5 background themes Valid XHTML Cross email compatible with all major email clients...
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Nov
2010
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Tensor – Joomla Template
Tensor is a sleek template that can fit many different websites. It can have a professional and serious appearance on it’s light version, or a more mysterious one on it’s dark side. Layout is pretty simple so the content is easy to follow. Despite it’s simplicity you’ll get enough positions...
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2010
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Levante – Corporate and Business Joomla Template
Levante is a simple, clean, minimalist and modern template suitable for business and corporate sites. You may use this template also for personal blog site. Featured * 13 Color Schemes * Active * Africa * Barbie * Cafe * Corporate blue * Grass * Green forest * Neutral * Natural...
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2010
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Aiden 1.0 – Joomla 1.5 Template
3 Column layout Joomla 1.5 template. This Joomla template has lots of parameters. Easy to change logo. Change image path to the logo and set URL and title tag too. - 2 background variations (Aqua and blue) – 2 color varations, (Pink and blue) Set top menu to Fixed (Stay...
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2010
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Scorpii – Corporate and Business Joomla Template
Scorpii is a modern and professional Joomla 1.5 template suitable for business and corporate sites. You may use this template also for personal blog site or creative portfolio....
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2010
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Azimuth – Joomla corporate template
Azimuth is a clean template best suited for business and corporate websites. It has subtle visual effects and seven different color variations, one of which will likely suit your company’s colors. It’s lightweight, yet elegant and will work even if the visitor’s browser has JavaScript disabled. A module for testimonials...
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2010
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Phoenicis – Premium Joomla Template | Download
Phoenicis is a modern and professional Joomla 1.5 template suitable for business and corporate sites. You may use this template also for personal blog site....
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2010
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Anne – Business Joomla Template | Download
Home Pages 3 different home page sliders 1. Coinslider 2. 3D Piecemaker Slider 3. News Slider Color Styles Unlimited color themes. Look here how to create new color theme. Default Anne template use 18 different color themes: * 13 Color themes 1. Blue 2. Blue sky 3. Brown 4. Dark...
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2010
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JMagic 01 – Photography Portfolio | Download
JMagic 01 is Joomla template suitable for all kinds of photo or design portfolios or personal sites, but you can use it for some other purposes as well. Photography Portfolio comes with integrated Anything Slider and K2 ContentzzMegamenu, that improved the other menu systems by giving them additional class and...
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2010
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Free High Quality Icon Sets
Its being a while since I’ve visited the boys over at smashing magazine. I can across a awesome post of 50 great new free high quality icon sets. They published their last icons round-up2 six months ago and since then they collected over 50 new free high quality icon sets...
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Nov
2010
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Hotscripts.com Clone
Create your own hotscripts.com like site, a portal of free and commercial scripts available on the net. This script is very easy to install and implement. You can also easily modify the looks of the site if you want to. It only use single template file and one css file...
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Nov
2010
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YouTube Clone Script
http://www.clipsharetemplates.com clone script allows you to run your own video sharing portal like YouTube.com, Metacafe, DailyMotion, and others The ClearWater template is a stunning and light design featuring stylish mouseover effects and will be a great addition to any video sharing website using Clipshare 4.1 Professional. The Clearwatter template utilizes...
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Oct
2010
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PHP Coupon Clone Script
Easy-to-use SEO friendly coupon script which allow you to create Discounts/Promotion Coupons web site. Earn affiliate commissions while offering discounts for your visitors! With 9 different designs you will be able to create perfect coupon web site in any niche! Add website/store with Seo title, keywords and affiliate url Activate...
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2010
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Twitter Hacked
Sydney – A 17-year-old Australian schoolboy on Wednesday said he unwittingly caused a massive hacker attack on Twitter which sent users to Japanese porn sites and took out the White House press secretary’s feed. Pearce Delphin, whose Twitter name is @zzap, admitted exposing a security flaw which was then pounced...
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2010
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Image Sharing Script
Create your own popular image sharing website. Allow users to share their picture and photos with everyone. Host images instantly with this image hosting script. Features Rate Images Users can rate images with the 5 star rating system (ajax). Rate Images Security Users are only allowed to vote once per...
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Jul
2010
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Yahoo answers clone scriptYahoo answers clone script
Looking to create your own Yahoo Answer Website. Well here is the script that will help you achieve that goal! Question Answer Script with a large and highly customizable set of key features makes it the best of php answer script available. Question answer script has the question & answer...
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2010
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Domain Auctions Script Flippa clone script
This fantastic script can be used to create your very own Flippa website. Not only can it be used as a flippa type website, but it’s great for any marketplace niche. With this Clone Script you will be able to produce a marketplace website within minutes. PRICE: $57 DEMO...
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May
2010
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Deal Coupon Groupon Clone Script
Denovo Voucher Script (DVS) is an affiliate marketing tool you can install on your domain to market affiliated products/promotions/offers etc. as well as distribute vouchers to your visitors through the tool. Groupon Clone Script, Coupon Script, Deal a day Script, Free Groupon Clone, Open Source Groupon Script PRICE: FREE DEMO...
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May
2010
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Google celebrates Pac-Man’s 30th anniversary with playable logo
A playable … logo? That’s exactly what web giant has today, in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Pac-Man’s Japanese release. The doodle (Google’s term for its event and holiday-specific logos) is accessible on its main page and is a full 255-level game complete with a 256th level “kill screen,”...
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May
2010
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Facebook Style Input Box
The approach to re-create the autocomplete method of adding multiple recipients to messages used on Facebook. “I’d seen it in Facebook before, which has a really decent implementation of this concept (it work well, but it doesn’t respect any modern programming principles; basically, it’s a big tag soup with lots...
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2010
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Facebook Style Footer Admin Panel Part 2
This is Part 2 of the Facebook Style Footer Admin Panel, if you haven’t checked out Part 1 this is the perfect time to check it out. The footer panel can be useful for admin driven applications and much more. There are many useful techniques that we covered today like...
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2010
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jQuery lightBox plugin
jQuery lightBox plugin is simple, elegant, unobtrusive, no need extra markup and is used to overlay images on the current page through the power and flexibility of jQuery´s selector. lightBox is a plugin for jQuery. It was inspired in Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar. The better way to know what...
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2010
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jQuery Form Field Validation Plugin
jVal is a jQuery form field validation plugin that provides an appealing animated message flyout that doesn’t impede form layout/design while being user-friendly. FEATURES Current development version is only 8KB and 5.8KB minified Check validity of field values within a certain container or block element based off simple INPUT tag...
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2010
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Creating Slick Forms Using Ajax, jQuery & CSS
Here is 10 Impressive techniques using some jQuery magic to spice up those old registrations forms and any form you might have on your website. View them here!...
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2010
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jQuery Autocomplete
This script is based on jQuery Autocomplete plugin made by PengoWorks. It has many options and is quite easy to setup in your page. You can pass advanced options as a JavaScript object, hashes etc. It’s easily to edit the style of the dropdown result box, there are a couple...
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2010
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Facebook Style Footer Admin Panel Part 1
Learn how to recreate the Facebook footer admin panel with CSS and jQuery. Facebook has many Ajax driven features and applications that are very impressive, and one of the things I particularly like is the footer admin panel, where it neatly organizes frequently used links and applications. Read how to...
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2010
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32 Great Google Chrome Extensions For Designers
Google chrome is a fairly new web browser but it has already gained huge popularity with its great speed and features. Thanks to the guys from www.1stwebdesigner.com, here is a list of 32 great extensions for Google Chrome. 1. FireBug Lite I hope we all know FireBug addon for FireFox,...
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2010
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Protecting Web Site Content
When you create a web page, article, graphic or any other kind of web site content many of us would prefer that credit is given to where it is due. Alas, majority of the time we succumb to “wishful thinking” and our material ends up being used and credited by...
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May
2010
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Bad Website Ideas – What Makes a Bad Website
If you consider yourself to be a creative individual, or you simply want to express your passion for a certain subject, then creating a website could be for you. Many new websites enter the internet every day, and that is hardly likely to change anytime soon. Unfortunately, many of these...
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2010
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Is Forum Posting Still a Good Method for Marketing?
Sometimes companies will have a new product, service, or idea, but they’re unsure how to market it. Maybe they’re a new company that’s starting out. They don’t want to spend money on expensive advertising. These companies want a cheaper alternative....
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2010
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Google gets a facelift
Google rolled out several improvements to its search on Thursday. So i thought i would just share with those who haven’t yet checked it out. The use of more slick and web 2 effects really gives Google search a top class look and feel. Not so flat as it use...
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2010
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Website Scripts
As a PHP developer i’m always in the search for little snippets to add to my library. This at times so often proves useful when coding big projects and quick little functions. Snippets as such are great to add to existing CMS systems, such as WordPress, drupal or Joomla. Calculate distances in PHP I used this on an accommodation website not to long ago. this snippet allows you to measure the distance from one point to another. Great combo with Google maps too! function distance($lat1, $lon1, $lat2, $lon2, $unit) { $theta = $lon1 - $lon2; $dist = sin(deg2rad($lat1)) * sin(deg2rad($lat2))...
http://www.clipsharetemplates.com clone script allows you to run your own video sharing portal like YouTube.com, Metacafe, DailyMotion, and others The ClearWater template is a stunning and light design featuring stylish mouseover effects and will be a great addition to any video sharing website using Clipshare 4.1 Professional. The Clearwatter template utilizes all seven advertising positions which are configurable via the new advanced Clipshare 4.1 siteadmin advertise section, the template is a wide set design suitable for 1024+ resolutions this allows for better display of video’s and information. Demo...
Looking to create your own Yahoo Answer Website. Well here is the script that will help you achieve that goal! Question Answer Script with a large and highly customizable set of key features makes it the best of php answer script available. Question answer script has the question & answer publishing including images & videos, with highly secure environment to sustain any attack. Whether its features, support or ease-of-use, Question answer script offers the most out of money. Learn more about what makes the Question Answer Script the choice for people who are serious about the creating thriving online Question...
This is Part 2 of the Facebook Style Footer Admin Panel, if you haven’t checked out Part 1 this is the perfect time to check it out. The footer panel can be useful for admin driven applications and much more. There are many useful techniques that we covered today like the fixed footer, CSS tooltips, height calculation function, and multiple toggle function, that can be used in various ways for your future projects. Read how to do it!...
jQuery lightBox plugin is simple, elegant, unobtrusive, no need extra markup and is used to overlay images on the current page through the power and flexibility of jQuery´s selector. lightBox is a plugin for jQuery. It was inspired in Lightbox JS by Lokesh Dhakar. The better way to know what is jQuery lightBox plugin, click the Example tab above and see it in action. Download here: http://leandrovieira.com/download/7/...
jVal is a jQuery form field validation plugin that provides an appealing animated message flyout that doesn’t impede form layout/design while being user-friendly. FEATURES Current development version is only 8KB and 5.8KB minified Check validity of field values within a certain container or block element based off simple INPUT tag attributes Easy configuration of validity checks per field as per attributes in the INPUT tag Check the validity of all fields within a certain container with a single function call Check the validity of a single field when the user clicks away firing the onBlur event Prevent the user to...
Learn how to recreate the Facebook footer admin panel with CSS and jQuery. Facebook has many Ajax driven features and applications that are very impressive, and one of the things I particularly like is the footer admin panel, where it neatly organizes frequently used links and applications. Read how to do it !!!!...
An open source project available for all to use and develop. Using AJAX to update in real time an availability calendar. This script is great and is ideal for hotels or apartments. We at present are busy building a Sobi2 plugin using this module and will soon be available for download at Website Ideas. Some great features that it has!...
Finding good quality FREE scripts are so hard at times to come by. Coders spent hundreds of hours on them and end up selling the stuff ( which you cant blame them). But today we take a look at a script that really blew me off my feet, Dolphin 6 . The prefect script for a social media network. It has all the functionality you will need to start off with and has wonderful features ranging from emotions , RSS Feeds, Fully incorporated Ajax controls to user friendly control panels. BoonEx Dolphin is 100% open-source, so you can modify every...
To create a website you need a toolbox full of tools – software, add-ons and some more software. Perhaps in theory a simple text editor is enough to create necessary code. But in real life comfort comes first and you will need the following three tools to create a website as smoothly as possible. 1. A Ftp Client – FireFTP Uploading files to your shared hosting account is a common bottleneck in the web development process. It is thus important to minimize programs used and make sure they include all the functions possible. FireFTP is a FireFox add-on that allows...
Being experimenting with the API of Twitter. I started out playing with curl to send updates from a joomla directory, once a user added a listing. The concept was to have followers follow the updates live via twitter. Tools used: Joomla , Sobi2 and some basic PHP. Firstly make sure your server supports curl and that the extension is active. A simple install to linux would look something like this. sudo apt-get install curl libcurl3 libcurl3-dev php5-curl Now you have PHP cURL installed, the next thing you need to do is to restart apache2, run the following command in your...
Looking to take control of your advertising campaigns? Well OpenX is your answer. There came a point in time where I had no control of my ad campaigns. With so many different projects and making use of different CMS systems, advertising for me became a nightmare. Having to log into 20 different accounts to view page impressions and so on was not working. So I then stumbled upon a free ad server for web publishers, called OpenX. It allows users, web developers and advertisers to take control of their advertising. Web developers have gone as far as using this server...
Being a big fan of web interface library’s, i stumbled upon a web application user interface that uses mootools as its framework. called MochaUI. This can be used for web applications, web desktops, web sites, widgets, Standalone Windows and Modal Dialogs. I’ve personally set this ui up to see what MochaUI was made of, and to my surprise she meet with my approval, so i thought i would share it. Please note that mootools is needed along with this script....
Web master resources are often hard to come by, especially free stuff. Here is a small list of my favourite web resources. From stock photos to Java scripts. I will add to this list as we go. Free Icons Web Here you can browse and download Over 15,000 high quality Free Icons for Windows, Macintosh and Linux Systems. See Here...
Well, we have been following this for some time now, SOBI2 RC 2.8.7 has been released. I’m personally a big fan of sobi2 and the sigsiu team. For those of you who dont know what Sobi2 is, It’s rated 1 of the top directory components for joomla. Sigsiu.NET has developed this directory for Joomla! and Mambo which are published under the GNU/LGPL license. Additionally they offer a lot of free and paid addons for SOBI2 which enhance the functionality of the directory component. Great website ideas can spring to mid by using there component....
Stumble can be a great tool. Today we look at different Ajax scripts from AjaxDaddy and what they can really do for us. With Ajax scripts and tools you will be able to create flickr-like Editing Fields Using AJAX & CSS, Auto Suggest class adds a pop down menu of suggested values to a text field and simply rotate images with some accompanying links. Demonstration of the Dojo Fisheye Widget Another implementation of the fish-eye menu – dock menu. This script makes it easy to create a sliding carousel component. Flashy style....
Today we look at very simple feature to which is a very important one. A Captcha Security device, to help prevent that unwanted spam. This script generates images (known as “Captcha’s”) which contain security codes used for protecting a form from spam bots. By encoding a ‘password’ inside an image and asking the user to re-enter what they see you can verify the user is a human and not automated software submitting your form....
Here is some stunning scripts form Dynamic Drive. Dynamic Drive offers a wide range of DHTML scripts and Javascripts to enhance your website. Drop Down/ Overlapping Content Adds 3 new options, including option to reveal drop down content via “click” of anchor link instead of “mouseover”. DD Tab Menu (5 styles) Adds ability for menu to revert back to default selected tab when mouse moves out of menu. Tab Content Script/ Ajax Tabs Content Both scripts updated to v2.1, which adds a new public method to easily paginate between tabs. Featured Content Glider Added ability to retrieve contents from an...