Zimplit is a ridiculously easy to use free CMS application which is ideal for simple websites.

There is no standard admin panel. A toolbox appears after logging in & you start editing the website.

You can add images, links, edit the HTML of a page and copy a page to use it as a template for a new page.

It requires PHP 4.3+ to run & no databases required.

The application needs CHMOD 777 on all files for editing them. Since they are HTML files (except zimplit.php), it does not sound very bad.

Smart image resizer is a PHP script which makes it very easy to resize & crop images. And, this is done without touching the original image.

The width & height of the image to be resized is mentioned in the img tag like:

<img src="/image.php/coffee.jpg?width=200&height=200ℑ=//uploads/coffee.jpg" alt="Coffee" />

and image is resized via the GD library.

Newly created image is stored in a cache directory & won’t be re-created until new dimensions are mentioned to improve the system performance.

Cropping an image also warks the same way. Simply mention the crop ratio & that’s all.

Smart Image Resizer supports JPG, GIF & PNG images and requires PHP 5.1.0+ to run.

dompdf is a HTML to PDF conversion / rendering engine written in PHP 5.

It downloads and reads external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes.

It enables rendering via PDFlib or R&OS CPDF class which can be selected.

Some features of dompdf:

• handles most CSS2.1 properties & selectors, including @import, @media & @page rules
• supports most presentational HTML 4.0 attributes
• supports external stylesheets, either on the local machine or through http/ftp (via fopen-wrappers)
• supports complex tables, including row & column spans, separate & collapsed border models, individual cell styling, multi-page tables (no nested tables yet however)
• image support (png, gif & jpeg)
• link and anchor support
• inline PHP support.

P.S. A security vulnerability exists with dompdf but also the solution can be foundfor it at the product page.

Flash Gallery is a free flash gallery application with Flickr photostream & auto-thumbnail creation support.

The application scans the related folder, creates the thumbnails & uses filenames for titles.

Flash Gallery requires PHP to run but this is not needed if you’re streaming Flickr images.

The application has a customizable design, full-screen support & it is fully resizeable.

GeSHi is a highly customizable syntax highlighter that can be used to better present code snippets in websites.

It is developed to be used in phpBB forum software but is also presented for seperated use.

This syntax highlighter supports almost every popular langugae like ActionScript, ASP, C, JAVA, PHP, Ruby, SQL & more (even robots.txt).

Some features of GeSHi:

• The ability to change the styles of any highlighted element on the fly
• Use of CSS classes to reduce the amount of output produced (GeSHi can also produce a stylesheet to be used with a language on the fly)
• XHTML 1.0 Strict + CSS2 compliance
• Auto-caps/noncaps of keywords
• Line numbering
• And many more!

P.S. GeSHi requires PHP to run.

Gregarius is an open source web based feed reader. It is similar to Google Reader but you can install in on your servers.

It has a very simple & functional interface with a password protected administration area.

This feed reader has Ajaxed item tagging & full-text search features. It is committed to web standards: renders XHTML/CSS, supports OPML.

The application is built with PHP & uses MySQL or SQLite for storing the data.

With a getting active community, Gregarius has multiple themes & plugins.

Zoki Poll is a free PHP – Ajax poll script that stores data in a XML file.

It has flexible display options for integrating the poll in limited spaces like horizontal scrolling long question & answers or vertical scrolling of answers.

Vote results are displayed with a nice, animated percentage bar & the look of the poll can be easily changed via CSS.

To prevent duplicate voting, Zoki Poll has a cookie-based protection system.

This Ajax poll script does not have an administration interface & it is a nice piece of code if you’re ready to integrate it yourself.

P.S. Downloading the script requires free registration.

Using different CSS properties for different browsers is very common as they are not rendered the same.

Conditional-CSS allows you to use "if statements" for targeting specific browser versions or a group of browsers.

Features of Conditional-CSS:

• Target CSS to any web-browser
• Streamline maintenance of your CSS files
• Optimise your CSS
• Work around those annoying little CSS bugs
• Automatic expansion and inclusion of @import statements
• It’s free and open source!

Website has an online compiler that enables you to generate the Conditional-CSS file in PHP, C or C#.

Simple Customer is a handy application for web designers / developers or anyone who is working online, connects internet & works from various places and wants to keep all contact / customer information at one place.

Just as it says, this free contact list application is very simple & enables you only to keep the contact informations & notes related to them with a sleek interface.

The application is open source, built with PHP / MySQL & can be easily improved futher to fit your needs better.

FLIR (Facelift Image Replacement) is an image replacement script that enables you to use any font in your websites.

It is similar to sIFR but uses JavaScript + PHP rather than Flash.

Fonts to be used are pre-uploaded and a PHP script creates the image using these fonts. Later on the image is inserted via JavaScript.

PHP GD library can not render some fonts properly. For this reason FancyFonts plugin (optional & requires ImageMagick) is also integrated to FLIR and it can handle almost any font.