There are many Lightbox-type scripts which are built with different JavaScript frameworks and have different features.
planetOzh has created a nice comparison matrix for these Lightbox clones. You can sort the scripts and see their features easily.
Consider that the list does not include all the Lightbox scripts and may be missing the latest information but will definitely give you an idea and save your research time.
It seems that canvas tag ( <canvas> ) will be very popular as it allows drawing graphics using scripting.
Canvas tag is supported in Firefox, Opera 9, Safari by default to allow 2D command-based drawing. But it is not supported by Internet Explorer.
ExplorerCanvas is a JavaScript that you can insert into your pages for bringing canvas functionality to Internet Explorer.
To get the ExplorerCanvas, click here.
For more details about the canvas tag, click here.
Yahoo! has a nice library of design patterns which can be summarized as a list of optimal solutions to common design problems.
Whenever we start to design a new website – an application, we need to decide on lots of things like "what type of pagination I will use, will I use auto-complete for forms and so.
Yahoo! Design Pattern Library aims to answer these questions with providing the generally accepting methods and information. Although tools and logics needed to be used may differ, it is a nice resource for seeing the optimum.
There are few printed publications for web designers and developers.
Website Magazine is a free magazine specially for web designers / developers that is published every 3 months. I’m a subscriber for 9 months and liked the issues until now as most of the subjects were analysed in deep. And to be honest, I like reading printed materials more.
The subscription is free but sign-ups are evaluated first and then approved. To apply for a free subscription, click here.
Although there are many different banner sizes in every website, there are some sizes which we may call the "standard ones".
Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) which represents a considerable amount of agencies and media companies for use in the creating, planning, buying and selling of interactive marketing and advertising, has the nice list of banner sizes which can be called as standard.
The list may help you while designing websites for creating the banner areas in most common sizes.
Browser compatibility issues with how they render HTML differently is a common problem for web designers and developers.
Reset.CSS, if you are not already using it, can save some time from the CSS editing process.
Reset.CSS is simply a collection of CSS styles which removes and neutralizes the inconsistent default styling of HTML elements.
By using Reset.CSS, you simply clear the default values of web browsers and you won’t need to alter these differences for every element again.
There are 2 popular Reset.CSS styles:
Using Reset.CSS styles as another CSS file or by inserting the Reset.CSS styles at the top of your CSS file is enough.
Detecting the city or country of a website visitor is an essential point in offering location based web services or content.
Loading the related language version of the website, showing different banners to visitor from foreign countries and even blocking visitors from certain locations are some examples.
IP information is the most accurate data in determining a visitor’s location.
MaxMind, a company which is one of the best in geolocation services, offers country and city IP database for free besides the paid versions. The difference between free and the paid versions are the accuracy level as free versions are updated once every month rather than every week. With a small mistake margin, they may provide what you need.
Country and city IP data comes in two versions: binary & XLS. Open source binary APIs are avaliable for PHP, Perl, Ruby & other popular languages.
ConnectionStrings.com is a website which shows connection string examples for nearly every data source including:
Website also provides connection string examples for different connection types like ODBC, OLE DB, OleDbConnection (.NET).
Images used in websites have a serious keyword value when they are used right.
There are 3 variables, which we think of, can show search engines what the image is about? These are title, alt, and the image name. Matt Cutts, the head of Google’s webspam team describing us which ones are important in this video:
The alt attribute is used in HTML and XHTML documents to specify text that is to be rendered when the element to which it is applied cannot be rendered. In HTML 4.01, the attribute is required for the img and area element types. It is optional for the input element type and the deprecated applet element type.
Drupal, which is one of the most powerful & free content management system has a new module named Drigg for creating Digg-like websites.
- VotingAPI — a powerful Voting API available for Drupal.
- A voting form based on the VotingAPI. The forms of choice are provided by Extra Voting Forms.
- The User Karma module.
