Sitepoint Marketplace is an indispensable website trading point for people who are involved in buying and selling of websites. Sitepoint Watch enhanced website flipping in a more presentable effortless way. You can have all the newest and ending soon auctions of Sitepoint at a glance. Furthermore, you need not refresh the page to update the newest information. It is a handy website flipping tool for people who would like to monitor website auctions closely. It helps them buying and selling websites easily.
Source: http://www.sitepointwatch.com/
Thank you Patrick for bring this wonderful web resources to my attention. Do you love Apple? Do you Love iTunes? Do you Love looking at all your albums in your iTunes in a sense of accomplishment. Now you can do it in Flash. iTunesAlbumArt allows us to display the albums we love or just our photo albums with the interface of iTunes Cover Flow. iTunesAlbumArt looks stunning and works smoothly. Users can scroll or click to select the album. All the album pictures and details are defined by an XML file.
Requirements: Modern Browsers with Flash installed
Demo: http://www.weberdesignlabs.com/blog_files/itunes2/iTunesAlbumArt.html
License: MIT License
Flexible WYSIWYG editing in the browser is still an inconsistent affair at best in terms of user experience, integration effort, and generated markup. In the meantime a crop of text formatting languages such as Markdown, Textile, BBCode and wiki markup have emerged as ways for users to enter rich content in a controlled enviornment.
Control.TextArea provides a toolbar for textareas where users are entering text in one of these markup languages. In addition to a toolbar it provides access to a cross browser text selection and manipulation API so that creating new functionality, or integration with your custom application features is vastly easier. The design of Control.TextArea is very clean and clear. It requires Prototype.js to work.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://livepipe.net/projects/control_textarea/
License: MIT License
Taggify is a web widget which allows bloggers and publishers enhance their sites by adding visual tags to any site’s images. Visual tag is a clickable image region tagged with some title, description and link. When visitor moves mouse over such region Taggify shows popup tooltip with interesting content provided by the publisher.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.taggify.net/
License: License Free
iA has presented us with the 2008 Web Trend Map, in all its beautiful beta glory. This time they have taken almost 300 of the most influential and successful websites and pinned them down to the greater Tokyo-area train map. By popular demand, they enlarged the poster size from A3 to A0.
iA has spent so much time on making this wonderful and detailed Web Trend Map. I think this looks really good and it is a good idea to set it as your wallpaper, or even put the poster on the wall of your home or office. There is a Big, A3 PDF and Clickable online version to play with as well.
Source: http://www.formforce.com/web-trend-map-2008-beta/
The Spry framework for Ajax from Adobe Labs is a JavaScript library that provides easy-to-use yet powerful Ajax functionality that allows designers to build pages that provide a richer experience for their users. It is designed to take the complexity out of Ajax and allow designers to easily create Web 2.0 pages.
The Spry framework is a way to incorporate XML, JSON or HTML data into pages using HTML, CSS, and a minimal amount of JavaScript. The Spry framework is HTML-centric, and easy to implement for users with basic knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The framework was designed such that the markup is simple and the JavaScript is minimal. By building the front-end of your web application with Spry you enable a more efficient designer-developer workflow by keeping UI separated from back-end application logic. You can view the demos and samples created by Spray.
Demo: http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/demos/
Collis Ta’eed has written a very nice article on Digital Web Magazine about Creating The Perfect Portfolio. An online portfolio is very important to a freelancer. Your portfolio will be looked at without you present, without any other information about you. If your portfolio has to stand alone in a critical situation like hiring, it’s worth spending some time making sure it’s going to get the job done.
Collis shares with us some of his observations and opinions—particularly from the viewpoint of an employer—on how to approach the task of building an online portfolio. The article is very detailed and well-written, it has also featured some of the best portfolio examples on the internet. Read the article carefully, you will learn a lot from it.
Source: http://www.digital-web.com/articles/the_perfect_portfolio
Easylistener is a Flash music player which can literally play any mp3 on the web. Simply point it at your favorite music blog, RSS feed or playlist document and it will crawl that URL and start playing back any mp3s it finds. The user interface of the player is stunning, I love it very much.
You can use Code Creator to configure Easylistener just how you want it. Just input the Playlist URL you would like Easylistener to crawl. Choose the size and the color of the player. And then click “Copy to Clipboard” when you’re finished customizing it and paste the codes into your blog, myspace or webpage.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://next.yahoo.net/archives/32/easylistener
License: License Free
Thank you for everyone who participated in “5,000 Readers Milestone Giving Away 2x SEO Book†Event. It was very successful. There are about 100 people shared their opinions about the most important factors of SEO. I have come up with the following conclusion.
1. Content is King (32 Votes)
2. Valid Code, Semantic Clean Markup (19 Votes)
3. Keywords (16 Votes)
4. Title Tags (7 Votes)
5. Alt Tags (5 Votes)
6. Links (5 Votes)
7. Sitemap (4 Votes)
8. Good Domain Name (2 Votes)
As we can see from the above, most of the people believe the best SEO is to have good and quality content. And valid code and semantic clean markup is very important as well. After than it would be keywords density within your content. I have found all of your suggestions and experiences about SEO are very useful. I recommend everyone have a look at all valuable comments. I am sure you can learn something from them. It was very difficult for me to pick the best 2 from the list, so I have just picked 2 lucky winners randomly.
1. Zike
2. David
Congratulations. You will receive an email for the download of SEO Book shortly. Thank you very much. And please stay tuned with the coming Giving Away Events.
Remember the time when we are creating graphical headlines and navigations of special fonts in Photoshop, optimize and save the image into GIF or PNG formats, and then upload it to the server. If we would like to change the text for the headlines, we need to do the whole process once again. Now, you do not have to do it in this clumsy way and you do not have to do it with Flash either. Text2PNG can do that for you automatically.
Text2PNG provides webmasters the ability to convert their website headlines and navigations to PNG images automatically. The process is very simple, you just code your headlines in usual HTML and CSS with an element ID. And then by adding a small JavaScript file and selecting which tags to replace, it will replace the selected headlines into graphical PNG format with your chosen font. How easy is that! You can view the example below.
In order to speed up the process of the script, they cache all the image on the browser cache and on the server. Each PNG image expiration is set to ten years from the day it’s created. However, you can always update the images on your site when the content is changed. The new images will be generated and cached again.
You can have a look at the fonts they support. If you would like to use the script in your blog or other content management system, you can use the Font Selection Tool, which allows you to select the font you need for your website easily. You can have a look at the screenshot below.
Requirements: –
Demo: http://www.text2png.com
License: License Free
