IconDock, an icon design company, is sharing a set of 50 vector social media icons.
The set comes in EPS, PNG & GIF formats with 16px & 32px sizes (they can be resized to any custom size using the vector format).
Besides the popular social networks like Facebook, Twitter or Delicious, the set also includes icons for retweeting, Google Talk, Amazon, SlideShare & much more.
ColorBox is a jQuery Lightbox plugin which is lightweight (9kb) & supports photos, photo groups, slideshow, ajax, inline, and iframed content.
The lightbox has a very nicely designed interface which can be improved or customized with CSS.
ColorBox is unobtrusive, every option is mentioned in the JS & requires no changes to the existing HTML.
For faster displays & slideshows, it preloads background images and, optionally, can preload upcoming images in a photo group.
The plugin comes with a bunch of settings, including transition types-speeds & opacity, for maximum customization.
MonoDevelop is a free & advanced IDE that is mainly built for C# & other .NET languages.
It works in Linux, Windows & Mac OSX which is great, specially for developers who use multiple platforms but still want to work from the same interface.
MonoDevelop comes with advanced text editing features like code completion support for C# 3, code templates & code folding.
It also has an integrated debugger, web server (for instantly testing ASP.NET applications) & a GTK# visual designer.
The software also offers much more features like source control, makefile integration, unit testing, packaging & deployment, localization & more.
MediaLoot is presenting a free set of user interface elements that can help designing/prototyping faster.
It has 3 distinct styles: glossy, satin/light gradient, and one-color which the satin/light gradient set is available in 7 different colors.
The set comes in both .PNG & .PSD formats and includes items like:
GetShopped is a free WordPress plugin for adding e-commerce capabilities into WordPress-powered websites.
It is a very easy-to-setup plugin which can work with any standards compliant WordPress theme (and WordPress MU).
The plugin offers a flexible pricing structure for products with features like:
and supports multiple payment providers like Google Checkout, Paypal & Payment Express.
GetShopped makes it possible to complete the shopping process quickly with a one-page-checkout & optionally, guest checkouts is supported.
It is easy to manage orders with the help of a powerful admin interface, print invoices, packing slips & more.
The plugin also offers lots of other features from comments to new/featured product widgets.
Using JavaScript, it is possible to load HTML, XML or JSON data with XMLHttpRequest.
However cross-domain JavaScript requests (reaching remote pages) are not possible due to browser security limitations except JSONP-formatted JSON data.
Simple PHP Proxy is a PHP script which aims to fill this gap by creating a layer between your JavaScript code and the remote domain to get data in HTML, XML or JSON formats.
There is also a demo which you can request any URL.
Footers of websites are being used more & more effectively everyday to provide a better navigation and more information.
Footerama is a fresh design gallery which presents inspiring footers of beautiful websites.
From Footerama:
footer became an area where the web designers had the maximum opportunity to show their creativity, craziness and umm..personality, individuality.
The footers presented are well-categorized with their themes/colors & new items are added regularly.
1 Bit Audio Player is a lightweight & free Flash MP3 player that can be automatically inserted into webpages with JavaScript.
It is not a feature-rich or complicated player, rather, it is so simple & ideal for offering quick in-page previews for audio files.
1 Bit Audio Player uses its own unobtrusive JavaScript and SWFObject to embed Flash players into the pages.
It is possible to display players near every MP3 link or selected ones using CSS selectors.
The icons can be customized by simply editing the .FLA source file.
Lilina is an open source PHP application for aggregating feeds from a web-based interface.
It supports RSS, Atom & podcasts inside them. It is also possible to import/export feeds with an OPML file.
The application only requires PHP(5) to run & makes use of 2 built-in libraries: HTML Purifier and SimplePie.
Lilina has a plugin system for extending its capabilities & the look/feel can be customized with the theming support.
E-mails are one of the key elements of a website/web application. They are used in contact forms, sign-ups, notifications, newsletters, etc.
It is a common experience that sometimes e-mails sent from websites go to the junk folders or never reach.
Although it is not always possible to detect the reasons for this, there are several things that we can do to minimize the risk. Here they are:
This is the most important one which you may be automatically offering all the tips below.
It is mostly a good idea to send website e-mails through the e-mail server that will require authentication rather than the web server's SMTP server. Servers that are specifically set to send e-mails generally have Reverse DNS & SPF records, support greylisting ,etc.
Every scripting language offers methods to send e-mails with authentication.
On the other hand, sometimes, using e-mail servers are not enough as you may need to send lots of e-mails but the hosting provider may be applying limits, etc. In such cases, if you'll be sending e-mails through your web server, make sure to check these all:
As every domain resolves to an IP address, optionally, IPs can resolve to domain names which is called reverse DNS.
Many spammers use non-existing or dynamic e-mails without reverse DNS records. E-mail servers generally check if the sender IP has a reverse DNS record or not.
How to add reverse DNS records?: reverse resolving uses the pointer DNS record type (PTR record) which you should be asking your hosting provider to create it (check if it exists).
