This is a very good looking Flash news slider (AS3 code) which uses XML for fetching the data.

The Flash slider simply displays an image and a descriptive text with a link to the URL wanted. The slider can be controlled via the next-previous & pause buttons.

You can find the steps for creating this Flash news slider as a tutorial and download the source files.

Design of the slider is inspired from the LaNacion.com website.

Validanguage is an object-oriented, unobtrusive JavaScript form validation library that does not rely on any JavaScript frameworks (optional Prototype integration).

It provides 2 APIs:

• HTML-like API placed inside comment tags. The choice for ease of use and simplicity.
• JSON-based API for advanced configuration.

With Validanguage, you can:

• use the pre-configured functions like required, minlength, maxlength, etc.
• easily configure custom validation functions to be triggered at onblur, onsubmit, onchange events.
• add onsuccess and onerror callback functions to integrate it into your existing site design.
• & more..

P.S. Thanks to Dan for the suggestion.

This is a lightweight (2kb) JavaScript tooltip script that is created by Leigeber, a web development blog having nice JavaScript resources.

The tooltip script has a fading animation whose alpha & speed can be set easily.

How to use it?

• Include the script.js in your webpage
• Add the following JavaScript codes to the tag holding the content. For ex:

<span onmouseover="tooltip.show('<strong>Lorem ipsum</strong>');" onmouseout="tooltip.hide();">JavaScript tooltip</span>

The JW Image Rotator is a Flash image rotator which enables presenting photos in sequence, with fluid transitions between them.

It supports rotation of an RSS, XSPF or ASX playlists with JPG, GIF and PNG images, a wide range of flashvars for tweaking the behavior and appearance.

Besides the flashvars, one great feature of JW Image Rotator is its JavaScript API which gives the control of the rotator totally to you.

There is an online setup wizard which generates the embed file for you for an easy startup.

This is another coda slider built with jQuery (check YCodaSlider 2.0 - wrd post). As the use of them are becoming common, it is better we have different choices.

To run this coda slider, along with jQuery you need the following plugins:

• scrollTo
• localScroll
• serialScroll

Some features of this coda slider:

1. Degrades perfectly without JavaScript enabled
2. Hitting the page with a specific hash (i.e. page.html#preview) shows the right tab, and highlights the right navigation
3. Any link on the page that refers back to a panel should trigger the effect and highlight the right navigation - this should happen without any extra work.

Besides the codes, you can find how this coda slider is built in detail.

We generally have lots of content to present but can not load all of it at once as it may take too long.

I always loved the dZone’s Ajax content loading while scrolling feature and created a similar one using jQuery.

I’m pleased to share with WebResourcesDepot readers (Check the demo - scroll down to see new content in the demo)

This Ajax auto content loading can very be handy in almost every project. Don’t forget to bookmark it (del.icio.us link).

Download package includes a working demo coded with ASP with a test MySQL database. ASP code is just a simple query so you can switch it with a one you like easily.

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Feed Compare is a fresh service for comparing Feedburner feed subscribers.

This feed comparison application lets you compare up to 4 feeds at a time and presents the results with a nice flash chart interface (amCharts).

Feed Compare is great, not only comparing the end numbers but also for viewing the subscribers in a timeline (max: 24 months) to analyze the feeds of similar sites better.

P.S.: Thanks for the guys at Feed Compare for the suggestion.

Dynamic Drive, a great resource for web designers & developers has a nice collection of free CSS menus that you may find handy.

There are several horizontal and vertical menu examples, buttons, pagination samples & more.

Besides these CSS menus, Dynamic Drive is worth to browse deeply & regularly as new resources are added frequently.

iRadeo is a free online radio application that can be used to stream MP3 / WAV files.

This online radio application automatically detects and streams the files that are uploaded to a specified directory.

One great feature of iRadeo is the embedding support which lets your visitors stream your radio via a simple JavaScript code.

Features of this free online radio script:

• Streams - Supports both MP3 and WAV file formats
• Auto-Detects - Auto detect MP3 file information through the ID tags (both ID3v1 and ID3v2) and will display in the player
• Customization - Easy to customize through a single CSS file
• Embed - Easly allow listeners to embed your player on their site with just few lines of code
• Shuffle - Option to allow files to stream randomly (no file from same single artist or album will be played twice in a row)
• Limit Skips - Option to limit number of skips allowed per session.
• Auto-Play - Option automatically start streaming once page is loaded

iRadeo is coded with PHP and uses the SoundManager 2 JavaScript sound API (see WRD post) for the controls.

Flashmo.com is presenting free flash templates which you may find useful.

These flash templates include very nice ones including 3D Curve Wall, 3D Spiral Carousel or Flashmo 63 Effect.

You can download the source FLA files and can edit them to fit your needs.

P.S. Flashmo MP3 Player is a very nice one too.