Best JavaScript SlideShows
Free JavaScript Slideshow for your Website If you need to create a JavaScript SlideShow for your website there are tons of codes available on the Internet for you to utilize. However, some certainly stand out because they follow web standards and use good libraries/code. Lots of people use Flash based solutions for slideshows but why restrict yourself to only the users who have Flash enabled? Also, some scripts out there are fully standard ...
Monitor and Fix your Processes
Don't slow down your computer with an overloaded CPU I like to run a lot of applications at the same time so a process manager is a very valuable utility. Moreover, we all pick up some viruses or spyware after a couple months of downloading a ton of crap on the computer. This crap usually hits your registry and sits in your processes, slowing down your computer. Sometimes, it's really nice to know ...
Page generated in x seconds
PHP code that shows how fast a page is generated. I have been focusing most of my blog entries recently on code because I am getting ready to publish my own wordpress theme were I want to provide a lot of functionality. One thing that I will add is a simple and perhaps, unnecessary footer that displays how many seconds it took to load the page. Here is how to do it and if ...
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LightBox, ThickBox, GreyBox
A neat way of displaying images, image galleries, or websites with a JavaScript overlay window. A couple months ago I found a cool script called LighBox that lets you click on an image thumbnail and see the actual image on the same page in an overlay window with the background page faded out. It worked for galleries as well because the JavaScript window has previous and next links that take you to previous or next ...
Essential Del.icio.us Tools
Do you use del.icio.us? I started using it but after a while I installed my own version with a focus on web tools. For everyday bookmarks, however, I still use Delicious and love it. I didn't realize at first that there are really cool tools out there that do crazy things with the del.icio.us API but after some research I have put together a list of the essential Delicious tools. Enjoy! The ...
Image rollovers using CSS
There are many ways you can make rollover effects for links, images, or other objects on your site but some ways are clearly better than others. I like to stay away from JavaScript because of speed and instead, define the rollover in CSS. The navigation bar on this site is done in CSS and it just changes color a bit when you rollover. Most of the time this is enough when designing ...