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Lightview by Nick StakenburgCSS, Image, GalleryJanuary 29th, 2008

Lightview was built to change the way you overlay images on a website.

Clean: Designed to compliment your images.Fast: Smart image preloading.Easy to customize: You don’t even have to know CSS.Rounded: Adjustable rounded corners, without PNGs.Smart resizing: Images will always fit on your screen.Custom events: Using Prototype 1.6Slideshow: One button slideshow.Effects: Using Scriptaculous.Works on all modern browsers

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SearchFieldCSSJanuary 28th, 2008

SearchField is a simple lightweight, unobtrusive script that adds styling and behaviour to your search form fields.
All you need to make SearchField work is a simple form field and 2 lines of code (links to css and js file) and you are ready to rock.

Features

SearchField features 3 states for search input field based on user’s actions. We have inactive state, on click state (on focus to be exact) and inactive with user inputted text. You’ve seen these features on many sites but the difference here is that all you need to do is provide id to your search field, script takes it from there.

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CKFinderPHP, Ajax, Javascript, WYSIWYG, Tool, HTMLJanuary 17th, 2008

CKFinder is a powerful and easy to use Ajax file manager for web browsers. Its simple interface makes it intuitive and quick to learn for all kinds of users, from advanced professionals to Internet beginners.
Check out some of its features:

Folders tree navigation: intuitive for all users.Quality image thumbnails, making it quick to find things.Sensitive context menus for files and folders.Full user control: create, rename and delete folders and files.Full developer control: all features can be precisely configured with a powerful ACL and user roles system.Lightweight interface.No page refreshes: quick responses.Full source code included for the server side integration.

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File upload forms that don’t suckCSS, HTMLJanuary 15th, 2008

Most file upload forms suck. It’s not just the lack of design, but also the unintuitive and inflexible interface. There is usually a single file upload field, where you need to select and upload files one at a time. If your connection is slow and you have a bunch of files to upload, it will soon start to be irritating. Hotmail does it that way.
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Vertical Bar Graphs with CSS and PHPCSS, PHP, ImageJanuary 9th, 2008

Who wants to use Excel to make a new graph each week? Using CSS and PHP you can create attractive bar graphs (yes, even the stacked kind) that are always up to date.

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dompdf - The PHP 5 HTML to PDF ConverterPHPJanuary 8th, 2008

dompdf is an HTML to PDF converter. At its heart, dompdf is (mostly) CSS2.1 compliant HTML layout and rendering engine written in PHP. It is a style-driven renderer: it will download and read external stylesheets, inline style tags, and the style attributes of individual HTML elements. It also supports most presentational HTML attributes.

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Iconize Textlinks with CSSCSS, Image, HTMLJanuary 7th, 2008

Links are fun, but sometimes we don’t know where they take us. With this little CSS technique a user can identify a link by its icon. This whole thing was inspired by the “Showing Hyperlink Cues with CSS” article of Ask the CSS Guy.
The idea is pretty simple, if a link points to a .pdf file, we show the .pdf icon after the link.
Here are some more examples which are already implemented:

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