We love Mac, we love Fish Eye Menu. The idea behind a fisheye control is a strip of icons, being vertical or horizontally laid out that reacts to the user’s mouse as it approaches the icon. Here is a list of Nice Fish Eye Menu for you to dowload and use it in your web application.
CSS Dock Menu
Fish Eye Menu for Prototypejs
Fish Eye Menu for Mootools
DHTML Fish Eye Menu for Text
Fish Eye Menu Tutorial
JFreeChart is a free 100% Java chart library that makes it easy for developers to display professional quality charts in their applications.The JFreeChart project was founded seven years ago, in February 2000, by David Gilbert. Today, JFreeChart is used by approximately 40,000 to 50,000 developers. JFreeChart’s extensive feature set includes:
- a consistent and well-documented API, supporting a wide range of chart types.
- a flexible design that is easy to extend, and targets both server-side and client-side applications.
- support for many output types, including Swing components, image files (including PNG and JPEG), and vector graphics file formats (including PDF, EPS and SVG).
- JFreeChart is “open source” or, more specifically, free software. It is distributed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public Licence (LGPL), which permits use in proprietary applications.
Requirements: Java 2 platform (JDK version 1.3 or later)
Demo: http://www.jfree.org/jfreechart/samples.html
License: LGPL License
Lightbox is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. This frees you from the constraints of the layout, particularly column widths. However it only supports images.
Now Videobox is a 6kb script, which allows you to show your videos in Lightbox. It was inspired from Lightbox.v2 and uses some of the Slimbox‘s code. It’s written for the wonderful mootools library. And used swfobject to embed flash. It has done a really great job, if you would like to show your videos in the page with an overlay, Videobox is a really great choice.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://videobox-lb.sourceforge.net/
License: MIT License
minishowcase is a small and simple php/javascript online photo gallery, powered by AJAX/JSON that lets you put easily your images in an online gallery, without having to configure databases or changing and customising code (though you may do it if you feel so) allowing to have an up-and-running gallery in a few minutes. It is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 License and has the following major features.
- Simple galleries: just upload a folder full of images to your /galleries/ folder and you have a new gallery!
- Lightbox view: Images can be viewed in a lightbox way, easier and more precise, with a convenient integrated thumbnail menu.
- Languages: set your gallery in French, Italian or Spanish. Set it to select the user’s local language (if available). Translate it to your own language!
- Automatic thumbnails: you don’t have to worry anymore about creating your images’ thumbnails. Let minishowcase take care of it
Requirements: Server with PHP and GD/GD2 Support
Demo: http://minishowcase.frwrd.net/demo/
License: Creative Commons License
The Flash Image Gallery (FIG) is a gallery application that can be used by anyone to display multiple galleries of photos, artwork, or other pictures with descriptions. It requires no server-side language and will run on any web host. It is idealy suited for artists with online galleries, but can be used by anyone. It supports up to 224 images in each gallery. The user interface is simple and intuitive. Most importantly, it is FREE.
Requirements: Any Modern Browsers with Flash and PHP Support
Demo: http://www.flashimagegallery.com/demo/
License: License Free
Printable World Map is free of charge. You can use Printable World Map for Web site, Publication, TV, Education, Work, anything you like. Follow the easy steps, you can have your own colored world map in no time.
- Click one or some countries, which you want to paint.
- Select the color from the color palette. You will have clicked color, and the State’s color will change.
- Click the “Fix color” button, if you will have liked color.
- It repeats from 1 to 3.
- Finally, click the “Download” button. Then you get printable world map.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://english.freemap.jp/world_paint/world_paint.html
License: License Free
As the online advertising industry evolves, it is becoming increasingly difficult for publishers like you to effectively and easily manage your advertising inventory. PubMatic can help us answering the following questions.
Ad Network Auction
It’s not as easy as implementing Google AdSense anymore. Now there’s Yahoo! Publisher Network, Microsoft ContentAds is coming, and you may also be using 3rd party ad networks such as ValueClick or BlueLithium. Which ad network provides you with the most revenue?
Optimized Ad Layout
There are so many different ad layout options (size, color, location, text/banner/video, etc.) that it’s nearly impossible for you to know which layout will generate the most revenue. What ad layout maximizes click-throughs on your web site?
One Management Interface
Even if you knew which ad layout and ad networks work best for you, it’s not easy to maintain accounts across all of the networks and get consolidated reports on demand. How long does it take you to get a consolidated view of your ad inventory performance?
PubMatic provides an industry leading platform that lets you maximize your revenue and minimize the complexity of selling advertising on your web site. It is really useful if you would like to find out which ad network works best for your website. It is easy to use and understand and it is FREE.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.pubmatic.com/
License: License Free
Are you still using the traditional 2D graph for your reports and presentations? N.Design Studio taught us how to create 3D Pie Charts with Illustrator CS2 at ease. The Pie Charts looks so real and professional.
As a freelancer, we may come into the situation that you have to present some sort of statistical data to your client. Of course you may use Excel’s graph tool to easily create a bunch of charts, but more or less all of those predefined designs suck. Bartelme Design show us how to create visually appealing Pie charts using Adobe Illustrator’s graph tool.
GoSquared showed us how to create beautiful Pie Charts in Illustrator. Just follow a few simple steps, and you’ll view pie charts in a whole new light.
IMmodernLife created a comprehensive tutorial of how to make overwhelming niceness of the Pie Charts. He is using Adobe Illustrator CS2, but the tips should apply to most of the more recent versions.
Requirements: Adobe Illustrator
Demo 1: http://www.ndesign-studio.com/resources/tutorials/3d-graphs/”
Demo 2: http://bartelme.at/journal/archive/creating_graphs/journal/281/
Demo 3: http://www.gosquared.com/liquidicity/archives/103
Demo 4: http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/howto…
License: License Free
It is difficult to find a well-developed calendar component for our web applications. NoGray has developed a free and highly customizable Javascript calendar component for web developers like us. The look and feel of the calendar can be changed easily using CSS. You can have more than one calendar on any page, create any number of months per calendar. You can also enable multi selection of date as well. The calendar looks really and very easy to integrate into your websites.
If you found the calendar does not suit your needs, you can spend some money and ask them to customize it for you. And also there are some other useful and free Javascript tools for webmasters, I particular like the Free Color Picker as well.
Web Application is getting more and more popular recently. They can be really useful because it can be accessed everywhere in the world with internet access. If you have an idea, do not know how to build it? NoGray might be able to help you. It is a small web design and development firm. They specialized in creating well-developed web applications for customers.
NoGray focuses on 3 simple steps when working with clients. They will design the homepage and main template for the website which gives the client a clear perspective on how it will look like first. While the development, they will create a easy to use content management system to ensure clients can update or make changes to the application easily afterwards. After all, they will also submit your website to major search engines without you worrying about the SEO stuff.
You know where to go if you need someone to help on your website or web application projects. ; )
Requirements: XHTML Doctype
Demo: http://nogray.com/calendar.php
License: License Free
TNX.net is a relative new but awesome text link ads system for both advertisers and publishers. The system seems working really well as it trades over 25.000.000 text link ads per month. Despite of the fact that TNX.net is completely free to join, which has attracted more than 24,000 webmasters using the system already.
For Publishers
Webmasters can sell your text link ads through TNX.net as well. It will calculate ratings of each page for you and give you TNX-Points when a link is sold. You have full control to block new text link ads purchase at any time. So that you can avoid irrelevant text link ads appear on your site. After you have gained some TNX-Points, you can either use these points to purchase links from other websites, you can actually sell your TNX-Points to TNX.net Network at any time. Current rate is $0.61 for 1000 points and it will grow by 2% every week. You can also earn 12.5% commission of your referrer earned.
For Advertisers
TNX.net allows advertisers purchasing non-reciprocal links from thousands of relevant websites. Instead of purchasing site-wide text link ads, TNX.net allows advertisers select any single page you want to locate your ads at. Or you just need to select the sum of text link ads, they will be placed on websites with selected PageRank, number of Yahoo backlinks on selected category automatically. The price of purchasing 1000 inbound links only cost you $1.14 at the moment which is quite bargain I think.
User Interface and Security
The user interface is very good which is really easy to use. You can mange both advertiser and publisher accounts easily on one single account. And also, TNX.net claimed that there is no more than 4 text link ads are placed on each page by default, it does not look like a link farm, therefore there is no risk to get banned or penalised by search engines.
Try it now
TNX.net network is now offering us 2,000 TNX – Points on every new accounts. And they will credit you 5,000 TNX-Points free of charge after your website is approved. You can read more details on http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=477444. Feel free to ask them questions if needed, I am sure they are happy to help you out.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: Sign Up Now
License: License Free
