This is a really cool tutorial showing you how to create some smooth animated menus using the JQuery library.

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Plugoo Widget enables your website visitors (blog, social network profile, online shop…) to get in touch with you in real time, directly on your Instant Messenger (MSN Messenger, GoogleTalk, Yahoo! Messenger, AOL AIM, ICQ, Jabber…). If your messenger status is online, visitors can send you an instant message through the Plugoo Buddy in your messenger buddy list. You can thus chat with them, answer their questions or comments Live!

Your visitors don’t need neither to download a software nor to create an account before they can contact you. They never have access to your instant messaging information (username). And conversation between a visitor and you is strictly private – other simultaneous visitors on the website don’t see the conversation. You don’t have to change your habits, you keep using your favorite messenger on your desktop or from your mobile phone. Start using plugoo and chat with any visitor of your website absolutely free!

The PHP Web Stat offers you a highly configurable web tracker and detailed real-time web stat script. You will be able to analyze and monitor all visitors of your website. Our script is totally FREE and licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

General characteristics

• requires no database connectivity
• separate counter for your website
• easy administration console
• configuration of the modules: turn on/off, count entries,
  percentage view, etc.
• exclude own visits by cookies
• ip recount time can be adjusted
• exclude fixed ip-addresses
• analysis of any time interval possible/saveable
• password protection
• update notifier
• changeable style with CSS-editor
• easy installation manual
• compressed cached logfile
• different languages

This is the wonderful list of 17 free and online web based tools for designers and developers which may be very helpful for you as well when you are at work. Designers and Developers will must like this list but you can also use them and will love whether you are office worker, manager, supervisor, student, home user, etc. Most of them are not very well-known but, they are really amazing in respect to their features. Just take a look at them and share your thought’s here.

FontStruct

FontStruct is a free font-building tool lets you quickly and easily create fonts constructed out of geometrical shapes, which are arranged in a grid pattern, like tiles or bricks. Once you’re done building, FontStruct generates high-quality TrueType fonts, ready to use in any Mac or Windows application.

Whats its color

Whats its color is an image-color processing utility that will evaluate an image and give you the image’s primary and complementary dominant colors of an image, how many visually unique colors are in an image, and the top ten visually unique colors in an image.

DamnIT

DamnIT is a free service that emails you when a user encounters a JavaScript error in your webpages. You’ll receive detailed automated error information instead of vague bug descriptions.

Scrumy

Scrumy is a simple and intuitive way to do Scrum project management. At its core, Scrumy is a virtual taskboard, and is free. Scrumy Pro has more Scrum-specific features like multiple sprints, burndown charts, and daily snapshots.

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In this collection, you’ll find 9 excellent websites and blogs that provide high-quality examples and tutorials on Ajax and Javascript .

1. Ajax Rain

AjaxRain has illustrated examples of some nifty web-fx that can be achieved with combinations of AJAX, CSS, DHTML or Javascript. Some of the demos are definitely worth a look, even if you aren’t a web designer/programmer.

Ajax/Javascript Examples

• - EXT JS Date Picker
• - jQuery Feed Menu
• - jGrowl
• - FastFind Menu – Jquery
• - Spiffy Accordion

2. Ajax Daddy

A large collection of nifty web 2.0 tools. One neat feature is that you can play with the demo online, before you decide to put the example on your own website.

Ajax/Javascript Examples

• - Flickr Like edit
• - MooTools Autocomplete
• - SlideShow Viewer
• - Prototype window
• - Shoutbox

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Free Site Validator is a very handy free service for validating webpages.

When compared to W3C validation services, this solution scans not only 1 page but follows links, goes deeper & almost scans all webpages in a website.

The service uses W3C validation service at the backend & enables you to scan multiple websites.

Report generation can take some time considering it scans all webpages but the service can simply notify you when the validation is completed.

poMMo is an open source maillist manager application for adding a mailing list to your website or to organize stand alone mailings.

poMMo requires PHP & MySQL, offers a very simple web-based setup and it can be ready to use within minutes.

With an Ajaxed interface, you can create custom subscription forms & subscriber groups. After that, it provides you the necessary embed code (or HTML output) for inserting the form.

poMMo is also a smart application as it gets the list of sent-unsent-failed e-mails during the delivery and has an automated “list cleaning” feature by checking the bounced e-mails.

Other nice features of this maillist manager:

• Easy creation of subscriber groups
• Quickly import and export your subscriber base
• WYSIWYG HTML mailing creation
• Flexible collection of subscriber data through user defined “fields”
• Drag and drop field ordering
• Themeable, brandable, multilanguage
• Limit the sending of mails – throttle by hour, bytes, and domain limits
• Revolutionary AJAX based subscriber Management
• Personalize Mailings — e.g. Say “Dear Susan” vs. “Dear Subscriber”
• View and Reload sent mailings from the Mailing History page
• Mailings can be paused, resumed, and canceled “live”
• Mailings take place in the background — you can turn your computer OFF during a sending
• Subscribers can unsubscribe themselves or update their own information (including email address)

This mailing list manager application uses very low disk I/O and can be used for big mailing list groups.

P.S. Admin interface has a small compatibility problem in Firefox.

jQuery Corners is a jQuery plugin for creating nice-looking, anti-aliased rounded corners without using any images.

The plugin is unobtrusive & works well with all major browsers including iPhone.

The corners to be rounded & the radius of the corners can be easily set.

And, a great feature is the ability to round form buttons.

iBegin Share is an open source “content share & bookmark” script.

Visitors can save/ spread the content as:

• share/bookmark at social bookmarking websites
• send it via e-mail
• save as PDF or DOC
• print

  The script comes as a standalone version & WordPress plugin.

  And, contents shared at any time period can be analyzed with a stats page.

prettyGallery is a jQuery plugin for creating sliding image galleries on the fly.

Besides images, any content can be presented within the slider.

Images in the gallery are defined in an ordered list. Items per page, speed of the navigation & labels used can be configured.

The gallery uses prettyPhoto, a jQuery Lightbox clone,  for displaying the images in large-size.

This lightbox clone is very good-looking & can display:

• images
• present the images as an image gallery
• Flash

It works in all major browsers & animation speed, opacity and more settings can be updated.