CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework is a free & cross-browser solution to create good looking menus.

Download package already contains examples but new themes can be created very easily.

Menus can be transformed by only changing the class name. Available transformations are:

• horizontal
• vertical left-to-right
• vertical right-to-left
• horizontal linear
• horizontal upwards.

The framework normally uses only CSS but for IE6, there is a JavaScript file that must be included.

CSSPlay is presenting a chic circular menu that can have sub-menus.

Within a limited space, the menu offers a comprehensive browsing experience.

There is also a small information that can be displayed when an item is hovered.

It uses ordered-lists for all major browsers & uses some tables if the browser is IE6.

P.S. The menu is not totally free. A donation is required for use.

The Vista-like Ajax Calendar (vlaCalendar) version 2 is a unobtrusive web version of the slick and profound Windows Vista taskbar calendar, by using the mootools javascript framework, AJAX, XHTML, CSS and PHP.

This Vista-like Ajax Calendar script is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial 3.0 License. You can use these files however you want, but don’t redistribute without the proper credits and do not use this for commercial purposes.

wTag is a shoutbox (chatbox or mini chat) that is written in JavaScript and PHP, and using Ajax to exchange data with the server without need to reload an entire page. It uses MySQL database as backend. Just take a look at demo here.

• Replace URLs catched in a message with clickable links.
• UTF-8 encoding for multilingual support.
• Compliance with XHTML 1.0 Transitional and CSS.
• Custom designs: it’s easy to change the chatbox look by editing the CSS files.
• A form validation and warnings display system

OpenCart is an open-source PHP-based online shopping cart system. A robust e-commerce solution for Internet merchants with the ability to create their own online business and participate in e-commerce at a minimal cost.

This open-source shopping application supports unlimited categories, different currencies & languages. Users can also review the products and buy them.

OpenCart is designed feature rich, easy to use, search engine friendly and with a visually appealing interface.

cyn.in Community Edition is a free open source edition distributed under the terms of the GNU GPL v3 license. The community edition is a virtual appliance that can be easily installed with minimum amount of assistance. The virtual appliance contains all components it needs, there are no complex integrations required with your existing environment. It enables teams to share workspaces, applications, documents, files and digital content within a secure, unified environment & a web 2.0 interface.

cyn.in has an un-paralleled feature set that enables rich and dynamic collaboration. Strong security features, rules, workflows and role based access control makes cyn.in perfect for medium to large enterprises. Easy to use web 2.0 applications, fast UI and ease of setup helps small teams adapt quickly.

This versatile 1kb horizontal accordion script can be used for menus, images, presentation content and more.

The script will automatically adjust to the number of elements in the accordion and the dimensions of the accordion.

The front-end markup for the script is a simple unordered list as in the example below…

<ul id="sm" class="sm">
<li><img src="images/1.gif" alt="" /></li>
<li><img src="images/2.gif" alt="" /></li>
<li><img src="images/3.gif" alt="" /></li>
<li><img src="images/4.gif" alt="" /></li>
</ul>

To build the accordion call the function below onload…

slideMenu.build('sm',200,10,10,1)

Click here to view the working sample.

jQuery.popeye is a plugin which transforms an unordered list of images into a simple image gallery which enlarges the image clicked in Lightbox style.

The images are displayed in a box with prev-next controls & an info about the images can be mentioned.

The compact box has fixed, automatically calculated dimensions. The width and height are calculated so that all thumbnail images are cropped to the smallest width and height in the set and centered resulting image area.

The plugin can be easily customized with a list of settings provided.

Click here for the demo.

Niceforms, a script to beautify web forms, was very popular for creating beautiful forms. And now the 2nd version is out.

Niceforms 2.0 is a totally re-written version which is very easy to apply, handles more elements & has more customization options.

How to use it?

The script simply replaces the most commonly used form elements with custom designed ones.

Inserting the niceforms.js & the CSS file is enough to use it.

Besides the default theme, new themes can be developed with CSS editing.

Niceforms works in all modern browsers except IE6 (it gracefully degrades).

Compatibility: Cross browser compatible except IE 6

s3Slider is a jQuery slideshow plugin inspired from smooth slideshow (but for jQuery rather than MooTools).

It creates the slideshow from an unordered list & can be implemented easily.

Information about the images in the slideshow can be displayed at almost any part of the image as the script can be styled totally via CSS.

The plugin supports a timeout option for setting the time between slides.