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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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.
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.
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Overview
Slideshow is a javascript class to stream and animate the presentation of images on your website. Slideshow was originally written as a plugin for the Textpattern CMS in 2006, using the original Moo.fx javascript library. This new version has been re-written from the ground-up for Mootools, incorporating many developments and feature requests over the past year. Use the links below to see what new features are available in Slideshow and how it might enhance the presentation of images on your website.
Scriptaculous Sortables
Scriptaculous is one of many great new JavaScript libraries created to answer the call for well written ‘Web 2.0′ JavaScript libraries. Written by Thomas Fuchs, scriptaculous has many features that can be used in AJAX-ified applications, drag-and-drop effects, and a whole slew of visual effects.
