W3Avenue http://www.w3avenue.com Advice & Resources For Rapid Web Development Thu, 12 Nov 2009 09:57:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with Attensa for OutlookSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with FlurrySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily Rotation slideViewerPro: Highly Customizable jQuery Image Slider http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/w3avenue/~3/mrQ8jXNHY-g/ http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/12/slideviewerpro-highly-customizable-jquery-image-slider/#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:30:00 +0000 W3Avenue Team http://www.w3avenue.com/?p=1229 slideViewerPro is a fully customizable jQuery image gallery engine which allows you to create sliding image galleries for your projects and/or interactive galleries that can even work within your blog posts. slideViewerPro supports multiple galleries on a single page, and everything is generated by writing just few lines of simple markup (an unordered list of images).

slideViewerPro is highly customizable, but it does not mean that it is difficult to implement. As mentioned earlier it requires only an unordered list to create your gallery. You don’t even need to specify the width and height of your images, it automatically checks for the size and renders accordingly. Of course if you specify or force your images size, slideViewerPro will use specified image property.

Features

  • Fully customize the look and feel
  • Specify delay and duration
  • Supports Captions
  • Ability to randomly shuffle images
  • Supports auto play
  • Auto generate thumbnails

Developed by Gian Carlo Mingati; slideViewerPro jQuery Plugin is dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.  You can find further information, demos & download on slideViewerPro Website.

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CuteTime can be used as a function or via selector. If used as a function, returns a string containing a cuteTime version of the provided timestamp. If used by Selector, replaces the text of the provided object with a cuteTime. This makes CuteTime unobtrusive, allowing users to see original timestamp if JavaScript is turned off.

CuteTime Displays

  • the future!
  • just now
  • a few seconds ago
  • a minute ago
  • x minutes ago
  • an hour ago
  • x hours ago
  • yesterday
  • x days ago
  • last month
  • x months ago
  • last year
  • x years ago

You can easily localize or change the setting and display text to mach your own needs. Finally make sure you use timestamps that are fully recognized by the JavaScript Date object’s Parse method in all the IE and FF browser versions you want to support.

Developed by Jeremy Horn; CuteTime jQuery Plugin is dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses.  You can find further information, demos & download on CuteTime Website.

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]]> http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/12/cutetime-jquery-plugin/feed/ 0 http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/12/cutetime-jquery-plugin/ Typekit: Delivering Real Fonts as a Service For Your Website http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/w3avenue/~3/FJRojJX7n4I/ http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/11/typekit-delivering-real-fonts-as-a-service-for-your-website/#comments Tue, 10 Nov 2009 21:00:00 +0000 W3Avenue Team http://www.w3avenue.com/?p=1220 This is an exciting time for web design. With growing usage of modern web browsers; the ability to use whatever font you like in your website is now possible. However there are copyright and licensing issues which limits your ability to do so. That’s where Typekit comes in. Typekit has worked with major foundries to develop a consistent web-only font linking license.

Typekit provides a platform that hosts both free and commercial fonts; and allows you to add a line of code to your pages and choose from hundreds of fonts. Simple, bulletproof, standards compliant, accessible, and totally legal.

Typekit offers a free plan that let you use 2 fonts on 1 website from their trial library with 5GB of monthly bandwidth. Their paid plan starts from $24.99/year which allows you to use 5 fonts from personal library on 1 website with 10GB of monthly bandwidth.

Typekit is produced by Small Batch Inc;Founded in 2008 by Jeffrey Veen, Bryan Mason, Greg Veen, and Ryan Carver. Visit Typekit: http://typekit.com/

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]]> http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/11/typekit-delivering-real-fonts-as-a-service-for-your-website/feed/ 1 http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/11/typekit-delivering-real-fonts-as-a-service-for-your-website/ jParse: jQuery XML Parse Plugin http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/w3avenue/~3/OuyyhjSqPrQ/ http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/10/jparse-jquery-xml-parse-plugin/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:30:00 +0000 W3Avenue Team http://www.w3avenue.com/?p=1218 jParse is a jQuery plugin that allows you to quickly and easily parse XML file that has been fetched with an Ajax request. jParse gives you options for custom output, limit, count of items and the ability to run functions before and after jParse is finished. It is lightweight and cross browser code that has been tested with Firefox 2+, IE 6+, Safari 3+ and Opera 9+.

Since jQuery ajax method does not allow for cross domain AJAX requests; the XML that you would like to parse using jParse must be on the same domain from which you are working. Using jParse is fairly simple and you can easily use it to pull value of an XML node, the value of an attribute of an XML node, or the number of <items> in an XML document.

Developed by Kyle Rush; jParse jQuery Plugin is available for download under MIT License.  You can find further information, demos & download on jParse Website.

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]]> http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/10/jparse-jquery-xml-parse-plugin/feed/ 0 http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/10/jparse-jquery-xml-parse-plugin/ JPolite: Front End Portal Framework Based on jQuery http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/w3avenue/~3/7jPtvefp_8s/ http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/08/jpolite-front-end-portal-framework-based-on-jquery/#comments Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:30:00 +0000 W3Avenue Team http://www.w3avenue.com/?p=1216 JPolite is a pure front-end portal framework based on jQuery & BlueTrip CSS framework, with a handful of jQuery plugins already integrated. It provides a compact yet powerful foundation for custom AJAX web applications with Netvibes like user experiences.

You can use JPolite as a base for creating complex / customizable websites quickly by separating content, appearance and behavior. JPolite provides the ease of turning an HTML content block into tabbed or accordion control without extra code.

Features

  • BlueTrip CSS framework, with Grid System applied on column layout
  • Gritter as an utility function to notify users
  • jQuery UI controls plus themes, as well as module drag-n-drop
  • A lightweight core with a strong customization system
  • Module Types – various types of modules can be included and applied on modules easily
  • Theme Support – three sample themes with a switcher, “Modern”, “Sliver” and “Classic”
  • Comprehensive Customization guides
  • Layout Persistence – cookie based layout persistence sample, can be customized to save remote store
  • XDO – A RESTful resource presentation layer powered by Chain.js, with messaging and event handling

Developed by Wayne Lee; JPolite is available for download under MIT License.  You can find further information, demos & download on JPolite Website.

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You can easily integrate Slide Box into your website with very simple markup and customize its look and feel using CSS. You can control whether you need to slide panel from top or bottom as an options parameter. Additional parameters that you can pass to the plugin include height and width of your sliding panel.

Developed by Samuel Garneau; Slide Box jQuery Plugin is available for download for free without any license restrictions.  You can find further information, demo & download on Slide Box Website.

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jQuery Panel Gallery Plugin can be easily customized using several options including: ability to choose the direction in which the transition occurs from left to right, right to left, top to bottom, or bottom to top; you can set the initial delay before the transitions begin; set the transitions to loop or stop after the last image; set the time it takes for each panel to appear; and set the delay between the images.

Developed by Catch My Fame; jQuery Panel Gallery Plugin is available for download under CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 license.  You can find further information, demo & download on Catch My Fame Website.

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]]> http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/06/jquery-panel-gallery-plugin/feed/ 0 http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/06/jquery-panel-gallery-plugin/ JoobsBox: Open Source Job Board http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/w3avenue/~3/RVSLMEcMiNc/ http://www.w3avenue.com/2009/11/06/joobsbox-open-source-job-board/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 03:15:00 +0000 W3Avenue Team http://www.w3avenue.com/?p=1210 JoobsBox is an open source job board software which is built with PHP (Zend Framework) & MySQL. It comes with a plugin system which makes it possible to extend the application easily. The application offers a powerful administration panel where all the categories, listings, plugins & other variables can be controlled. JoobsBox is multilingual and themeable.

Installing JoobsBox is really simple; it comes with an installer which takes care of everything for you and only requires you to provide site’s name, preferred user interface language and the database information.

Features

  • Powerful search engine
  • Approve, edit and delete job postings
  • Create, edit and delete categories
  • Configurable categories order
  • Configurable language
  • General settings (portal title, number of posts on homepage, etc.)
  • Set duration of job listings
  • RSS feeds for entire portal or for specific categories
  • Multi-language support
  • SEO friendly URLs
  • Seamless integration with your existing website
  • Auto-post jobs to Twitter (plugin)
  • Optimized for iPhone (plugin)
  • Google Analytics statistics (plugin)

Developed by the management team of Joobs.ro; You can find further information, demo, documentation & download on JoobsBox Website.

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Integrating Ecwid in your website is really easy: You sign up to get access to the Ecwid Control Panel and Integration HTML Code. Immediately after you paste three simple lines of HTML into your website’s source code, your site will have full online selling capabilities. The code will render a web store inside your existing pages, using AJAX technology. No installation is required – all functionality is stored on Ecwid’s servers. Use the Ecwid Control Panel to add your products and to manage the settings of your online store. All changes will be reflected on your website right away.

Features

  • SaaS, 100% AJAX and Free
  • Takes minutes to add to your site
  • Supports drag-and-drop
  • Upgrades are seamless
  • Requires little to no technical support
  • Supports Google Checkout, PayPal, Authorize.NET, and 2CheckOut
  • Allows you to customize the looks using CSS editor
  • Uses Amazon EC2 to store data and applications
  • Dedicated catalog for mobile devices using plain HTML

Ecwid is a product of Creative Development DBA Qualiteam. To signup or learn more about Ecwid go to: http://www.ecwid.com/

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You can use it to validate forms with semantic HTML and/or a simple JavaScript DSL. Validatious has multilingual support and easily extensible (i.e., adding custom validators) with only a couple of lines of JavaScript. Several settings allow you to control how and when Validatious does validation, how it displays errors and more. If configuring isn’t enough, callbacks and easy overriding gives you complete control.

Validatious is written by Christian Johansen. The standalone version gratefully uses Dean Edwards’  addEvent  and Base as well as addDOMLoadEvent, created by Jesse Skinner, Dean Edwards, Matthias Miller and John Resig.

Validatious is offered with a BSD License, which means you can use it for whatever you want to, however you want to. You can find further information, demo, documentation & download on Validatious Website.

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