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Yahoo answers clone scriptYahoo answers clone script
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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...
Facebook Style Footer Admin Panel Part 2
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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!...
jquerylightbox
jQuery lightBox plugin
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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-jquery-validation
jQuery Form Field Validation Plugin
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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...
32 Great Google Chrome Extensions For Designers
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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, so here is the same extension but only for Chrome. Firebug Lite is a tool for web developers, that allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page....
Create A Digg-like site With Joomla – Dugg Plazza
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Dugg Plazza allows all Joomla lovers to design their very own digg like website. Digg scripts are somehow proving to be more popular. After running through a few of these Digg like scripts, we found Dugg plazza to be quite handy. Moving form pligg to Joomla, this was far our best option. ...
Great SEO Plugins for WordPress
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SEO is one of the most important factors to a successful blog or website.  SEO ( Search Engine Optimization ) is applied not only to help drive traffic to your website, but also optimise the site for better results in Google and other search engines....
Ajax Availability Calendar
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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!...
Install Dreamweaver / Fireworks CS4 in Ubuntu / Linux
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I was asked to do a follow up to my previous post  “How to Run Dreamweaver CS3 on Linux using Wine” , but this time illustrate it using Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. The same method can easily be applied for Fireworks and the other adobe package. I’ve broken it up into easy simple steps to follow!  Both posts are very similar and should help guide you into the right direction....
Dolphin 6 – Create Your Own Social Media Network for Free
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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...
Page Rank Extension for Chrome
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Extensions like this really deserve credit. It makes life so much easier when using Chrome than those bookmark extensions. All Chrome needs now to compliment this extension is a alexa rank.  Page Rank for Chrome shows the Google Page Rank for a current website you are viewing. To run this sample: Use a recent trunk build or the Chrome dev channel release. Add –enable-extensions to your Chrome command line....
3 Must Have Web Developer Tools
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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...
Captcha For Joomla 1.5.x and integration with Sobi2
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OK so we finally managed to crack this bad boy for Joomla 1.5.9 . This script allows users to add a Captcha form to there Sobi2 contact page, helping the prevention of spam.  Snake was kind enough to modify and donate this script to us. This Captcha script can be used for any component in Joomla 1.5.x. If you need help setting it up please use our forum and we will assist with the setup and integration into your components. But this should be easy to setup. This specific demo will show you how to set it up using joomla...
Posting twitter posts with Curl using PHP, Sobi2 and Joomla
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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...
5 Top Free Icon Sets
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Free icon sets are often hard to come by. Here is a small list of fancy icon sets that one can use in everyday web designing.These playful free icon sets contain curvy and colorful icons made with one goal, to get all the affection to your projects. We will add to this list as they come. 1:Coquette Icons 2: Glossy Member Icons...
Take control of your online advertising
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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...
Get your own website on Google Sites
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Google brings Google Sites. Very similar to blogs, but yet very different, Google sites allows you to give control to who can and cannot edit the contents of your site, much like MS Share-point. Its the quickest way to have a website, it needs no installation and is perfect for small business to have a small website or starting point. All you need to jump start this fantastic program is a Google Account. If you have a Gmail account, that’s perfect....
Great Free Photoshop brush websites
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Good solid brushes are often hard to come by. Here is a small list of Photoshop brush websites, that one can use to download great brushes. We often use photoshop to design our templates. No 1. deviantART There are nearly 47000 brushes for download. Deviant is one of the most dominating websites with photoshop brushes...
Backup MySQL database & email results using PHP
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This specific post was one that I decided to do, only because I thought I would never use it. This specific tool worked out great and allows users to have there SQL databases emailed to them. Now you are wondering why would somebody use this. Well it’s simple. I needed this specific tool only to back up certain tables in my SQL database, so that the results could be used in a CSV format and then reloaded on a C++ platform. Without me having to do it manually ever time....
Google’s digg like system – SearchWiki
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Google starts its own digg like system called Searchwiki. A new feature lets Google users change the results they see for specific Google searches and revisit their changes and comments later. This new feature not only allows users to customize searches but also allows all Google users to add notes to specific listings, which is visible to others. I personally named it the Google Digg system. This i think by far is one of the killer moves Google has made to it’s search engine yet. This gives me the power to remove all those unwanted fly by night SEO boys...
Web applications user interface library
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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....
Top jQuery plugins for web 2.0 effects
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OK, so allot of you are asking me, why move from mootools? Simple really, my answer to them was jQuery. jQuery can help you make your website more interactive, fun and more web 2.0. In short jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. So here is a small list of great plugins for this fantastic framework....
2 Alternatives to PHPMyAdmin that are great
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OK, so with a little hunting around to see if there is any other alternative to PHPMyAdmin, i found 2 others. Don’t get me wrong I’m a big fan of PHPMyAdmin but like to keep my options open and feet on the ground with the latest trends and applications. First one up is SQL Buddy....
Google’s Browser Project Chrome has landed
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Ok, so this is what the big noise is all about. Everybody is talking about Google’s new invention called Chrome. Built from scratch by a team in Denmark, and open-sourced as well so other browsers could include it. One aim of V8 was to speed up JavaScript performance in the browser, as it’s such an important component on the web today. Now the question remains, will Internet users change there style of browsing? I for one have already moved over to this project and will never turn back. Google Chrome can be downloaded here...
8 Extra Webmaster Resources
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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...
Top 20 new awsome Fonts
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We’ve compiled a list of awesome fonts that should be added to any Font‘s collection. Most website developers believe that a well picked font is the key to a successful website design, even website ideas. Design inspiration in font style. 1:) 2:) 3:) 4:)...
Top rated web development add-ons for firefox
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Web development tools are often hard to find. Here is a list of add-ons for Firefox to help make your development allot easier. This selection was hand picked by stylized web. Having all your tools in one browser is a must. 1. CSSMate – online CSS editor extension, similar with EditCSS. 2. ViewSourceWith – let you view page source with external applications. 3. PicLens – transforms your browser into a full-screen 3D experience for viewing web images. 4. FireShot -creates screenshots of web pages which you can modify. 5. SeoQuake – helps with search engine optimization and internet promotion of...
SOBI2 RC 2.8.7 has been released
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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....
Social networks all in one box – Spokeo
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Those of you who have 100′s of social networking account’s, This post is dedicated to you. Spokeo searches your friends’ blogs and photos across 40 social networks so you don’t have to visit hundreds of websites one by one. All social networks in a box....
Great Ajax Scripts to make that website idea happen
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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....
How to Run Dreamweaver CS3 on Linux using Wine
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This is for those Linux lovers and website developers!, This tutorial that i stumbled on will show you how you can run Dreamweaver CS3 on Linux using Wine. I would imagen that this will apply for all the CS3 packages. I’m using Ubuntu 8.04 Edgy Eft for this, so change these commands to match up whatever your distro uses to accomplish the same thing. Please also make sure that your Dreamweaver has been installed in your Windows partition. you need this before you can run Dreamweaver in your Linux. All right, lets get cracking on this!...
131 Web 2.0 Layer Styles for Fireworks
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Today’s post is target mainly to developers using Adobe Fireworks. We often find that 50% of website developers use fireworks and the other percentage use photoshop. We stumbled across 131 web 2.0 layer styles for fireworks. These styles bring fresh ideas and concepts when designing website templates....
Top 8 Free Joomla Developer Extensions
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Listed below are 8 of the most essential tools needed for classic movement design and functionality. These tools are set to bring movement and life to any design. we focus on News Shows, Tabs Managers, Featured Content Slider, Image Slider and many others....
How to implement a Captcha system to your website
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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....
Adobe Photoshop Tutorials – Part 1 of 5
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In this 5 part series we will be covering different styles and technique’s that can be used in Adobe Photoshop. From light motion trails to glowing sparks. Here you will learn to create beams, glows, motion trails, rainbows, and other lighting effects, giving your images ambiance and depth....
Website Tools And Scripts
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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...
Free Graphic Headers
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Browse this collection of free web page headers graphics. All images are high quality 800×200 JPG’s. Perfect for CSS layouts. These should really help build a basic basis on what colors to use for your design and line view....
SEO Tools That Should Be Used.
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Tools that should be used in preparation of your website design . AWStats – An website analysis tool similar to 103bees and Google analytics however this analysis the Logfile of a website and therefore does not require JavaScript on each page. It does require Perl/CGI access so this may not be for everyone. Google Keyword Tools – Another handy little Keyword tool, this is nice to find out the cost of the Keywords with Adwords and what is commonly searched on the web....
Izzymenu CSS Menu Generator
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Free CSS menu (site navigation) generator for your website, This is a awsome tool to help beginners build menus for the websites. No coding needed. Easy way to have professional “CSS based” menus, you can get it at izzymenu.com...
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