A while ago a friend asked if I could design a female character for her. It was to be used as a mascot for a site she was developing. In the end the illustration was not used and odds are I will never used it. So rather than leaving the design tucked away on my [...]
Well, I have left my comfy spot at a local digital media agency and joined the Avusa iLab team. Over the past few years I have built up a decent rack of skills and experience, working with great A-list brands and leading online publications. However, working with iLab on Avusa Media products will most definitely [...]
This is a little script I’ve been playing with. I’m using it on my pet project GoGuide.co.za, a social bookmarking site. The plan is for the site to pull a thumbnail image of a submitted URL’s page. The script scans specified sites for the first image with a width greater than 200px. [...]
Wow, I’m thrilled to be nominated as a finalist in no less than two categories of the SABlogAwards!
I launched Nobox in November last year and as such this is my first time as a nominee.
I must say it is quite an honor to be listed with some of SA’s coolest blogs, however, it would be a [...]
Yesterday was quite a day. You may notice a few articles are missing. After a long days work, large amounts of caffeine and flu medication pumping through my veins, I some how managed to delete the NoboxMedia database - don’t laugh, grunt or roll your eyes. This is the first time I have deleted an [...]
Yup, that’s right - I’m building a Social Network and so are you ! Stop laughing! Stop rolling your eyes! I have experience in building successful social networks, as I have been involved in the building of two. They have done pretty well. I now think it is time to invest my energy in producing [...]
Over the last few weeks I’ve noticed allot of sites have old tired Digg buttons. I’ve also noticed allot of sites don’t have Digg buttons at all - crazy! We find to be an extremely valuable resource at getting our articles out there and as such thought I would offer this typical web2.0 styled Digg [...]
First of all, if AJAX is new to you, an Ajax framework is a library of scripts that help you to develop web applications faster and with greater ease. Frameworks help with the processing of requests sent to the server or JavaScript. A framework helps programmers in two levels: on the client side, it offers [...]
I’ve put together a list of 66 Web2.0 sites. As far as I can tell, they pretty much the best the web have to offer. If you have any suggestions on new, up and coming sites, please drop it in the comments below.
A how to on Installing FFMPEG on Ubuntu
So you would like to set up a site that allows users to upload videos of any format, get the server to convert the video to a Macromedia Flash format and then play it through a cool customized flash video player (Much like TouTube)? Well then this is [...]
The web is changing and so is the way we posting data. If you take a look at Google, Facebook, and almost every new start up, simply posting form data is a thing of the past. You can now validate without posting, upload multiple files, change the way form elements work and much, much more. [...]
It’s one of those illusive scripts that sound complicated and difficult, but it’s not. In fact, it’s actually straight forward to rotate an image via a web based interface. We put together a simple script which rotates the image to the left or the right and saves over the original image . It uses GD [...]
A few months ago I came across my first lightbox. It was the modal message box on Dhtmlgoodies. Since then I’ve seen the emergence of Facebook, which is crazy about lightboxes and I’ve seen Google using them more and more.
www.goowy.com/index.aspx
Includes email, contact manager and games, this service gives you an email address that you can access from your online desktop. Easily customizable, you can incorporate a lot of cool applications into this one platform.
desktoptwo.com
A desktop online, Desktoptwo includes many of the things you’ll find on your computer, such as a hard drive, email, IM, [...]
technorati.com
Monitor your links and reputation through the world’s leading provider of blog information. Find new blogs to read and attempt to get into Technorati’s top blog list!
www.bloglines.com
Amass your own collection of blog feeds. Publish your own blog and share your favorite content with others.
findory.com
Get your own homepage that shows you what you’re interested in from [...]
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This guestbook features Gracefully degradable AJAX and Subtle visual effects.
Adds a tableSorter with custom header, sorting classes and row striping.
A simple, yet powerful tool to create web charts and graphs from dynamic XML data.
Jitsu is a next generation UI toolkit for building rich web applications.
Use these resources to create cool Web 2.0 looking graphics/icons instantly.
A mod version of the tooltip widget for GWT which supports mouse movement event.
How to make a BreakOut clone in Javascript using Prototype.js library.
An Unobtrusive Javascript plugin for Ruby On Rails framework.
RichFaces is a rich component library for JavaServer Faces built on Ajax4jsf.
Rapid implementation of dynamic Ajax interfaces in your application.
Build rich, Ajax-enabled Web applications by using the Eclipse development model.
Allows you to build first class, high-quality websites without the cruft.
Stable and easily configurable version of Skinnable Checkboxes! And ajax-driven too!
An example to show how data can be retrieved from the server using AJAX.
