Web resources

There are some fantastic resources out there in the web community, here are a few or my favourites (and ones I use regularly) that you might find useful too.

Squidfingers backgrounds
A resource of free backgrounds and seamless/tiled images. Excellent for when you want that retro background.
jQuery
Everything you need for Web 2.0. It makes javascript a piece of cake, allowing even the less experienced coder can build AJAX driven sites, with impressive crossbrowser effects and much much more. You don't get better than this.
Interface elements for jQuery
The best! A fantastic plug in for jQuery with everything you'll need for effects and easy to use. eb 2.0 has never been easier.
Form Validation
An excellent javascript form validation kit using prototyp and scriptaculous. Definitely worth a look if you need to validate any form (client side). Used on all the forms on this site.
TinyFCK
From the official web site: There are two big open source rich text editors: FCKEditor and TinyMCE. Some people prefer the first, some other the second, but there's a problem for who likes to use TinyMCE: it lacks of a free file manager/uploader. What we actually need is to have a TinyMCE installation with a free file manager/uploader, thus we take it from FCKEditor. This is TinyFCK: a TinyMCE with the FCKEditor's file manager/uploader, nothing less, nothing more.
Curvy Corners
Free javascript to turn any square div into a perfectly rounded corners marvel on the fly. Excellent! No more images!
SWFObject
From the official web site: [...] a small Javascript file used for embedding Adobe Flash content. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible.
Magpie RSS
An excellent tool for syndicating RSS feeds on your website. Make sure to read around the files in the download for tips on customising the feeds you use. Helps me with all syndication from elsewhere on mattbee.co.uk
Cube cart
CubeCart is an eCommerce script written with PHP & MySQL. With CubeCart you can setup a powerful online store as long as you have hosting supporting PHP and one MySQL database. Valid XHTML and CSS, very easy to set up and use, and looks a dream (even unmodified).
HTML e-mail advice
ClickZ Experts HTML e-mail advice, including some good HTML Tips, also shows how pathetic Lotus Notes is when it breaks backgrounds and nested tables. Well done IBM.
Fixing PNGS in IE6
You know that one browser that has only a vague association with modern web standards? Yeah, Internet Explorer. Wouldn't it be great if it supported stuff like translucent PNGs? Well, now you can add decent PNG support to IE5.5+ on Windows with no changes to your website HTML source code. This script will add near-native PNG support with full alpha opacity, with only one line in your CSS file, that applies to all <img> tags and also background images! Kudos to (c) 2004-2005 Angus Turnbull twinhelix.com
getElementsByClassName javascript function
This is a much needed function which is not a core javascript feature – so some lovely javascript people all over the internet have made thier custome functions available to the rest of us. This is a fairly comprehensive function, kudos to the authors.

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