WordPress has done its part to help spread the allure of blogging by making it very easy to start a blog—and to update that blog after it’s up and running. WordPress isn’t the only blogging tool in town. Lots of popular tools are out there, including Movable Type, Tumblr, Habari, and Blogger. Given all these choices, why should you use WordPress?

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PHP & script.aculo.us Web 2.0 Application Interfaces (2009)
P-Pu (May 13, 2009) | 264 pages | ISBN: 1847194044 | PDF | 3.3 MB

Build powerful interactive AJAX applications with script.aculo.us and PHP

* Get started quickly with script.aculo.us library with as little as one line of code
* Explore Prototype library features, tutorials, code, and examples
* Learn script.aculo.us’ In-place Editing, Auto Completion, Sliders, Drag-and-Drop, Effects, and Multimedia
* A book with less jargon, and more code explanation for building real-world examples –Tadalist clone, Digg and Delicious clones, 43things.com clone

script.aculo.us is a JavaScript library that provides dynamic visual effects, user interface controls, and robust AJAX features. It is to client-side what PHP is to server-side – powerful, simple, complete fun, and above all, a MUST! As developers, we all dream of building applications that users can instantly fall in love with and get productive. Simple and niche applications are the future of web applications. script.aculo.us when used with PHP as a server-side scripting language, can give us a new way of looking at things and changing the way we work.

script.aculo.us provides you with easy-to-use, cross-browser user interface JavaScript libraries to enhance your web sites and web applications. It provides dynamic visual effects, user interface controls, and robust AJAX features. This book covers all aspects for a developer to learn and master the art of using advanced JavaScript also referred to as 2.0 aspects in PHP web applications. script.aculo.us is an effective and powerful add-on to the Prototype library and when combined with PHP, it can make a lot of difference. The difference every developer dreams of.

This book has been written keeping in view every basic step as well as covering the most complex aspects while writing our applications — from simple effects, to the AJAX way of communicating through systems in applications. It gives you a completely new way of adding interactivity to your web applications. You will learn how sript.aculo.us provides interactivity and beauty to your project so that it engages users and appeals to the masses.

Faster, more efficient, and more productive applications are what we are trying to build. Each chapter of this book has been hand-crafted to make sure that you as a developer can learn and master the art of making beautiful applications.

The book covers all the various aspects of script.aculo.us with a few real-world clone projects, which will surely help you explore your creative side.

The aim of this book is to make you go “WOW”!

What you will learn from this book?

* Discover the script.aculo.us library with the help of real-world case studies
* Explore wonderful Prototype library features like DOM, AJAX, and event handling
* Unleash the server-side techniques using wonderful PHP and MySQL
* Add wonderful Multimedia effects like morph, highlight, fade, and MP3 sounds
* Get to grips with AJAX using Drag and Drop feature
* Learn the tips, tricks and applications of the InPlaceEditor and InPlaceCollection Editor with just a few lines of code
* Explore all the striking features of script.aculo.us including Sliders, Auto-Completion, Multimedia, and so on
* Implement some of the exciting features of Prototype and script.aculo.us to create a ready-to-go-live project
* Create a mash-up of Delicious and Digg applications and experience a new shopping search by integrating features of script.aculo.us library to our web applications
* Integrate modules to build clones for raw applications

Approach

This book has a fast-paced and practical approach. It focuses on features, tutorials, quick-explanations, tips-n-tricks, and live real-world examples, using script.aculo.us. It contains complete code for all projects, all in an AJAX way. The author uses his vast experience as a programmer to show an interesting and creative way of building web applications.

Who this book is written for?

This book is for web developers who build simple yet agile and useful web applications. It is useful for PHP beginners and assumes basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and PHP. The examples in the book use PHP, but can be adapted easily to other languages.

Free download link

1. Adobe Photoshop

When it comes to web design, graphic design, photo manipulation and many other things – Adobe Photoshop is the best tool.

2. Adobe Illustrator

From time to time, when I have to make some icons I use Adobe Illustrator. It has some great features and with the latest releases I can set the interface to look like Photoshop – which is very helpful.

3. Google Picasa

Although I’m not a Google fan, for graphic files management Google Picasa is the best free choice.

4. Microsoft Visio

For wireframing and flowcharts Microsoft Visio is the right tool. Of course that you can do it with a pen and a paper but this is an alternative.

5. Notepad++

I know that there are many users of Adobe Dreamweaver, but I’m not one of them. I prefer Notepad++. This open source application is the best code editor from my point of view. It has many features and additional plugins.

6. Intype

An alternative to Notepad++ is Intype. This editor is free and it has the best snippets bundled with the application. Great for productivity.

7. EasyPHP

EasyPHP is a complete package that includes an Apache server, a MySQL database, PHPMyAdmin as well as easy development tools for web sites and applications.

8. Firefox

This is my browser of choice, not only because it is fast and reliable, but because it has the best plugins.

9. Firebug

The first plugin for Firefox installed on my PC is Firebug. It is a powerful debugging tool for websites.

10. Web Developer Toolbar

Like Firebug, this is another debugging plugin for Firefox. It has additional features to Firebug and that is why I have both installed.

11. Opera

When you want to see the flaws your site has, Opera is the best tool. From my point Opera renders the site the right way.

12. Safari

Being one of the most popular browser Safari must be a first priority tool. You will want to test your site on Safari since it has around 8% or the browser market share.

13. Xenocode Browsers Sandbox

This tool is for testing purposes: it enables you to test your site on most important browsers without installing them.

14. W3C Validators

The HTML and CSS validators are very important because from time to time I check for my code compatibility with the standards.

15. CleanCSS

This is a site that optimizes and helps you compress your CSS code based on several options that you can select.

16. A List apart

Please tell me that you know this site. This is the foundation site for web designers.

Tab navigation has been one of the most fundamental element in any modern web structure. In order to make sure visitors can properly navigate through the website. One of the biggest challenge web designers and developers faced is to integrate a simple and nice tab navigation that not only don’t confuse, but helps visitors easily understand where they should be clicking.

Whether you are running a website or blog,  tab navigation is probably one of the element that helps drives traffic to internal pages. Here we’ve compiled a mass list of 50+ nice clean and sleek

CSS Tab-Based navigation samples you can adapt on your site. Full list after jump.

1. jQuery Coda-Slider  [demo]

2. Perspective Tabs [demo]

3. Tab Accordian [demo]

4. Flexible Tab Navigation [demo]

5. jQuery UI/Tabs [demo]

6. 14 Free Vertical CSS Menus [demo]

There are a lot of free and useful syntax highlighting scripts around us. Most of the scripts are written using Javascripts, though some of them are powered by other programming languages such as Phyton or Ruby.

Today, we are going to look into 9 Syntax Highlighting Scripts that powered by Javascript.

1. SyntaxHighlighter

I believe this is the most common syntax highlighting script used by most of us. It supports a lot of different languages and you can easily create new “brush” for your language if it is not supported by default.

2. SHJS

SHJS stands for Syntax Highlighting in Javascript. It uses language definations from GNU Source-highlight and support a lot of different programming languages. SHJS has been tested and support major browsers sych as Firefox 2 and 3, IE 6 and 7, Opera 9.6, Safari 3.2 and Chrome 1.0.

3. beautyOfCode

beautyOfCode is a jQuery plugin for syntax highlighting. It uses the SyntaxHighlighter scripts by Alex Gorbatchev and makes it more XHTML-compliant.

4. Chili

Chili is a jQuery code syntax highlighting plugin. It comes bundled with recipes for a lot of languages and supports many configuration options.

5. Lighter.js

Lighter.js is a free syntax highlighting plugin for MooTools. Using lighter.cs is as simple as adding a single script to your webpage.

6. Highlight.js

highlight.js is easy to use and supports a lot of programming languages. It has some plugins for easily integrations to other CMS, forum or blog.

7. DlHighlight

DlHighlight is a simple syntax highlighting scripts that supports only 4 programming languages: JavaScript, CSS, XML, HTML.

Are you sure you want to keep spinning your wheels every time a new version of your preferred framework is updated? What you need, my friend, is a futureproof, bulletproof means of protecting your CSS mods so that you can ride the wave of agile development without the associated headache from upgrading!

Since we had looked into 22 open source PHP frameworks, i decided to do a roundup of 20 Open Source PHP Content Management Systems so that readers who don’t have strong PHP knowledge can easily create their website using free and open source CMS.

1. Wordpress

2. Drupal

3. Joomla

4. Frog CMS

5. SilverStripe

6. Mambo

7. TYPOlight

8. Concrete5

9. Textpattern

10. Symphony

11. MODx

12. Habari Project

13. CMS Made Simple

14. ImpressCMS

15. Exponent CMS

16. MiaCMS

17. Jojo CMS

18. TYPO3

19. Elxis CMS

20. Chyrp