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
Showcase Point is a daily updated showcase for website showcases / galleries all over the world which contains a lot of nice CSS showcases and flash showcases. Website showcases are very important to webmasters. They can drive a lot of traffic to your website once your site is published on one of the most popular showcases. We love to submit our websites to those showcaes, however where can we find them?
Showcase Point is the one designed to help you find the nice showcases, and provide you a place to do the review, discussions about the showcase. They also provide you the PageRank for reference. Once you have find the chosen ones, you can press “Submit†button, submit your site through a popup window easily without leaving the list of showcases. I think it is a really good source of inspiration.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.showcasepoint.com
License: License Free
Social bookmarking is a powerful tool in promoting a website. But going through all of those social bookmarking sites is very time-consuming and downloading all toolbars is madness! That’s where SocialMarker.com comes in, the free service designed to reduce the time and effort needed to socially bookmark a website. The only requirement is that you need to be using FireFox when socially marking.
Requirements: Firefox Browser
Demo: http://www.socialmarker.com
License: License Free
FatFreeCart is the free version of E-junkie shopping cart. Get Google CheckoutIt works inside your website, your blog and will even work from your MySpace page. It is simply a copy-paste cart and does not require you to register with us or install anything.
FatFreeCart works with PayPal and Google Checkout. It supports product variations, shipping, handling and sales tax. On top of being certified by PayPal and Google, it has been successfully tested on humans and they absolutely love it (which means higher conversion rates for you). FatFreeCart is also the only serious cart with a somewhat funny name.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.fatfreecart.com/
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
CSSplay has released 15 professional horizontal menus. All using the sliding doors technique so that the menu items will fit the text. These menus work in all the latest browsers. Some of them are Mac style, and some of them are Windows Vista style. You can use them in both personal and commercial projects. You can use these menus as part of your application interface. You can also use it in your “Paid Projects” for your clients.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.cssplay.co.uk/menus/pro_horizontal.html
License: License Free
In the world of free, pricing isn’t given much attention. But if you’re looking for a real, sustainable business, it’s unavoidable. Paul Farnell’s gone through it all with his app Litmus and breaks it down for you in Vitamin – How to price your web application.
Paul Farnell mentioned that pricing is always somewhat of a black art, and a subject about which there is precious little written with regard to web applications. It’s something he has always been fascinated by. The question of how to price our web application, Litmus, was subject to countless hours of discussion. He will discuss some common factors and hopefully help spark some ideas which can help you decide upon the price of your own application.
Requirements: No Requirements
Source: http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/how-to-price…
License: N/A
Highlight.js highlights syntax in code examples on blogs, forums and in fact on any web pages. It’s very easy to use because it works automatically: finds blocks of code, detects a language, highlights it.
The program knows almost any languages: Python, Ruby, Perl, PHP, HTML, CSS, Django, Javascript, VBScript, Delphi, Java, C++, RenderMan (RSL and RIB), SQL, SmallTalk, Axapta, 1C.
WordPress plugin for highlight.js is also avaliable, it is useful if your blog is located on a shared hosting and you don’t have a permission to edit template and style files.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://softwaremaniacs.org/media/soft/highlight/test.html
License: See License.txt
As rich web applications are being built with larger JavaScript code bases, the need for JavaScript compression to keep bandwidth and page load times as small as possible is becoming more important for faster load times and more enjoyable user experiences.
There are many tools available that can help you compress your JavaScript code but it can be time consuming and difficult to analyze which tool work the best for a given situation. The goal of CompressorRater is to report aggregated statistics on the general level of compression in all these tools, as well as allow developers to easily play with and compare the different tools on their own JavaScript code without having to set up all the tools on their own. CompressorRater compares JSMin, Dojo shrinksafe, Packer and the YUI Compressor. It is really a handy tool for web application developers.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://compressorrater.thruhere.net/
License: License Free
Web Designer Wall is designed and maintained by Nick La, who also runs N.Design Studio and Best Web Gallery. He has been designing for several years and his works has been published on numbers of magazines. WDW serves as his public blog where he posts his design ideas, design techniques, tutorials, and talk about modern web design trends.
Nick La said
“Why Web Designer Wall? As a designer, I often have a lot of ideas that flow in my mind; usually I draw them on my sketch pad and then paste on the wall. This is how the name was created — a wall of ideas.”
The design of Web Designer Wall is amazing. There are a lot of useful resources about design. His latest article on Vector Illustration Trend is inspiring as well.
Requirements: No Requirements
Demo: http://www.webdesignerwall.com
License: N/A
