It is possible to create stylish textboxes with auto-complete feature, just like Facebook has, using plugins for jQuery & MooTools.
For jQuery:
Autobox is a jQuery plugin that makes creating textboxes with auto-complete support easier.
Values expected can be mentioned staticly or called dynamically via Ajax requests. Documentation for the plugin can be found here.
For MooTools:
TextboxList, a MooTools plugin, for creating auto-complete enabled Facebook-like inputs has a new version (see WRD post for the old version).
It can be feeded with data from any data-source easily, makes a binary search for a better performance & offers various options for maximum flexibility.
Kap Lab is presenting 5 impressive & free visualization components for Flex.
All components are AS3 based & some of them offer multiple layout options which makes them very flexible in means of presentation.
The components are:
- Diagrammer (for diagram creation, mind mapping…)
- Visualizer (for displaying hierarchies like organizational schemas..)
- Radar Chart (for data analysis, comparing data items…)
- Treemap (for inventory management, social news mapping…)
- Ring Chart (for displaying statistics)
Examples are provided for each component with the sources & there is a support forum where users share their experiences.
P.S. Download requires a free membership.
Few weeks ago, a post at WebResourcesDepot was sharing 20+ Cheat Sheets Handy For Designers. Considering how helpful they are, here is another collection of cheat sheets specially for web designers & developers.
From the applications used to CSS & XHTML or JavaScript frameworks to url rewriting, there are 70+ well-categorized cheat sheets that will ease your everyday web tasks. Here they are:
Applications
Adobe Dreamweaver Cheat Sheets
- DreamWeaver CS4 Keyboard Shortcuts (PC)
- DreamWeaver CS3 Quick References (PC – Mac)
- DreamWeaver 8 Quick Reference (PC)
- DreamWeaver MX Quick Reference (PC – Mac)
Aptana Cheat Sheets
Adobe Flash Cheat Cheets
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Fonts 500 is a website presenting the most popular fonts of all times and offering them as a free download.
The list is calculated according to the download counts of popular font download websites.
The fonts are already displayed with the names of them but any text can be mentioned for a customized look of the fonts.
P.S. There are some shareware or demo downloads in the list.
Sockso is an open source music server application that lets you share the music files easily with everyone.
With a very simple setup, just running an executable file, the environment is instantly ready.
The aplication is managed from a Java GUI. User can connect through a web-based interface and:
- create playlists
- listen to the music via a Flash-based player
- download tracks, albums or playlists
- upload new music files & more.
Sockso supports MP3, OGG Vorbis, Flac, and WMA files, If needed it can re-encode output streams to save bandwidth. To see all the features of the application, click here.
GalleryView is a jQuery plugin for creating any type of content galleries including images or HTML.
It offers a wide list of configuration options from widths/heights to colors used.
The plugin simply converts an unordered list into a gallery. You can enable/disable captions which are produced from the alt tags.
By updating few images, new themes can be created easily. For several different demos, click here, here & here.
Requirements: jQuery, jQuery Timers & Easing Plugins
Compatibility: All Major Browsers
Using textures mostly helps creating surprising designs (both in good & bad ways). But it is certain that, quality textures, when used wisely, will end up nicely.
ZenTextures is an online gallery presenting beautiful free textures.
Textures are very well-categorized like: paper, grunge, wood, stone & more.
Currently, there are 400+ textures shared which are free to use for both personal & commercial projects.
As we all experience, every hosting account or server sometimes fails, no matter how good the hosting company is. And, this can be accepted as normal when it is within the limits.
For better reacting to the downtimes, analyzing the health of the web application & the environment it is hosted on, uptime monitoring is a working solution.
phpWatch is a free PHP uptime monitoring script that can watch unlimited number of websites and send notifications via e-mail or SMS (for US phones).
With an Ajaxed interface, new monitors & notifications can be easily configured. And, once the cron job / scheduled task -that pings the servers in desired time intervals- is set, the script is ready to go.
phpWatch also offers an API which lets other applications to query the monitored services, get the statistics and use the notification system for sending SMS and e-mail alerts.
Requirements: PHP, MySQL
Flabell is presenting a beautiful & free Flash Mp3 player that can display multiple artists & playlists.
Every aspect of the Mp3 player can be customized via XML including size, colors, speed and transition effects.
It streams the songs so there is no need to wait until the file is totally loaded. With a click, you can shuffle the songs.
And, a great feature is the share/embedding support. If enabled via XML, anyone can easily embed the player to their websites.
You can use the Flash Mp3 player directly on a website or integrate it to your Flash project by moving some ActionScript files and dragging the movieclip containing the Flash player in your Flash file.
The player comes with the source code including .Fla files, fonts & PSDs.
Requirements: No Requirements
Whether it is a web application or an iPhone application, creating the visual output in an image editing software first and creating it in code next is a common development process.
Mercury Intermedia is presenting a huge set of vector iPhone user interface elements to make the design process much easier.
The set consists:
- buttons, grid views
- notification windows
- system menus
- keyboard & more..
P.S. It is created with Adobe Illustrator (.AI).
