Sébastien Gruhier has always wanted to create a Class to handle in a easy way portal page like netvibes. After having tried to used Sortable of script.aculo.us, He decided to write his own Class. Prototype Portal Class allows users to drag and drop, re-arrange and remove any windows on the portal page. This is the first version he made. It has been tested on Safari, Firefox, Opera and IE 6/7. The first version is based on Prototype 1.5.1.1 but the next version will be based on 1.6.
Requirements: Prototype Framework
Demo: http://blog.xilinus.com/prototype-portal/test/index.html
License: MIT License
Auction Ads display live relevant eBay Auctions on your website, when your site’s visitors click on an Auction Ad listing and take an action on eBay you earn cash. Actions are defined as a Winning Bid, a Buy-it-Now or a confirmed user registration. There are some big improvements to Auction Ads recently.
They have re-design the look of the ads and also have a nice raise in affiliate payouts. Effective immediately you will receive 5% instead of 2% of all revenue produced from publishers you refer with your affiliate link to AuctionAds for the first 6 months of the new publisher’s earnings!
Most importantly, I have received an emal from Auction Ads today. AuctionAds are now offering an instant $25.00 balance to all new publishers who sign up for AuctionAds this month! New publishers just need to sign up and they will receive a balance of $25.00 automatically. I have signed up straight away, why not give it a try now?
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: Sign Up Now
License: N/A
With maps.amung.us you get to see exactly where your site visitors are from – live! The maps update themselves on your site without having to reload the whole page. The maps are customizable which you can choose different backgrounds, pin shapes and color schemes. Embeddable maps are available in two sizes, a full size version and a smaller version for sites that have lesser space. Just copy the code into your website to get it working.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://maps.amung.us/
License: License Free
FastFind Menu Script is a javascript menu created by ActiveSpotLight under the BSD License. It pulls a content feed as data to populate the menu, this can be static or dynamic. The version they use internally uses JSON/XML as data feeds. This script allows for nested menus, based on dynamic Ajax responses. The menu can also be dragged/dropped by using the jQuery Interface Library. I really like the menu because it is very clean and smooth. It is very extremely useful for any web applications that has no space to place a menu.
FastFind Menu Script is still under development and has been tested in FF1.5-2, IE 6-7, Opera 9, and Safari. The current build has the following issues in Safari: Arrows do not appear to show in-menu versus external links, as appear in the other browsers.
Requirements: JQuery Framework and Interface for jQuery
Demo: http://labs.activespotlight.net/jQuery/menu_demo.html
License: BSD License
I think many readers are familiar with this awesome Javascript CSS Menu by Devthought, but I really need to include it in WebAppers. Fancy Menu is nothing to do with Flash. it is a custom navigation bar with some cute Javascript effects that will certainly impress your friends. It requires Mootools library, this beauty is contained in 1.5kb. Not only that, but it’s also cross browser (tested on Internet Explorer 6/7, Firefox and Safari) and accessible.
Requirements: Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox and Safari
Demo: http://devthought.com/cssjavascript-true-power-fancy-menu/
License: License Free
PHP/SWF Charts is a simple, yet powerful PHP tool to create attractive web charts and graphs from dynamic data. Use PHP scripts to generate or gather the data from databases, then pass it to this tool to generate Flash (swf) charts and graphs. PHP/SWF Charts makes the best of both the PHP and SWF worlds. PHP scripts provide integration, and Flash provides the best graphic quality. It supports many charts types, Line, Column, Stacked column, Floating column, 3D column, Stacked 3D column, Parallel 3D column, Pie, 3D Pie, Bar, Stacked bar, Floating bar, Area, Stacked area, Candlestick, Scatter, Polar, Mixed, Composite and Joined. Can you ask for more? They have the following main features.
- Web charts and graphs from dynamic data
- Live and interactive chart updates without reloading the web page
- Clickable charts, and drill-down
- Animated transitions
- Printable charts
- Simple and flexible chart generation
PHP/SWF Charts is free to download and use. The free, unregistered version contains all the features except for:
- Clicking a chart takes the user to the PHP/SWF Charts web site
- No displaying charts inside another flash file
- No technical support, and no product updates by e-mail
Requirements: Flash Player 6+, Server with PHP Support
Demo: http://www.maani.us/charts/index.php?menu=Gallery
License: License Free
Another great Addon for Ext Framework again. Ext File Upload Form Widget is to provide an user interface for easy uploading of files to a server.
Files are first added to an “upload queue” and then they are uploaded to the server. Any file can be individually removed from the queue before upload or the whole queue can be cleared.
The result of upload is shown for each file by icons of success or failure and, in the case of failure, the server error message is shown as the tooltip of the failure icon.
Requirements: Ext Framework
Demo: http://aariadne.com/uploadform/
License: LGPL License
Other than Google Adsense, Banner Ads and Text Link Ads, we have another way to advertise and monetize our website very soon. Youtube has just started video advertising solution, now you can run your own video advertising soon.
For Advertisers, LiveRail is a unique online video advertising platform that lets you promote your business with measurable results and predictable costs, by only paying when someone chooses to watch your ad.
For Publishers, LiveRail can help you distribute your video content online and monetize it without signing away your copyrights. By publishing your video through LiveRail serve your video back exclusively to your own website, covering all your bandwidth costs, along with highly targeted, relevant and unobtrusive advertising, that your viewers only need to watch when it interests them.
Advertisers can see a full list of their active campaigns, with breakdowns on their views, click throughs and spending.
Advertiser’s commercials are encoded in Flash-video format, and include descripions and links to the advertiser’s website. If you want to find out more about how LiveRail works, you can request an invitation and start using the system.
Democracy Ajax Poll is a WordPress plugin which adds polling functionality to your WordPress blog. It grew out of frustration with the only other WordPress polling option, WP-poll. It didn’t have valid markup, it was clunky, and it required one heck of an installation process.
This plugin uses Ajax for quick sending and loading of poll data, although it doesn’t depend on javascript to function. It is fully functional in non-javascript environments, meaning it will work in ALL browsers. The Ajax part is tested to work in Safari, Opera, Firefox, and IE6/Win.
Democracy Ajax Poll also has a full-featured admin panel, which allows one to manage their polls. You can activate, edit, delete, and add new polls from the admin panel. It uses cookies as well as IP logging to prevent users from working spamming the ballot box. It is good looking and also allows in-post polling. The most important point is that there is no linkback of author on the poll, so it looks like it is really your own poll which is better than PollDaddy polls.
Requirements: WordPress 2.0 or Greater
Demo: http://blog.jalenack.com/archives/democracy
License: GPL License
I think many people are familiar with PollDaddy which is an online tool, which allows you to create free polls and place them on your website, blog, MySpace, hi5, Friendster or Xanga account or anywhere online.
PollDaddy is simple and flexible, allowing you to customize our styles to match your website or email campaign. Deliver your poll through JavaScript, flash, direct link, widget or RSS to survey your user’s opinions.
It looks really nice as well. You can choose different themes for your polls. The only drawback is that there is a PollDaddy.com link on your polls.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.polldaddy.com
License: License Free
