Accordion menus with Javascript

javascript accordion menu

This super small (1,149 bytes) javascript allows you to create accordions of 5 different styles (tabbed, horizontal, etc)
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Website templates

Free website templates

Here’s a collection of about 50 free website templates. What sets these apart from many other freely available website templates is they allow you to download the Photoshop files as well should you wish to tweak the site design.
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Create a Website in Photoshop


This 7 minute video Gives a great comprehensive overview of the basics involved in using Photoshop to output a webpage design from Photoshop using slices.

It covers everything from creating slices, naming, defining background colours instead of images to exporting HTML or CSS.

Lightbox scriptcomparison chart

Lightbox scripts

Here’s a fantastic collection of about 40 lightbox image gallery scripts. Best of all, this giant chart is sortable by scripting language or features, including (multiple features can be selected):Lightboc script features[4]

  • Can display images
  • Can group images into sets
  • Can display inline elements
  • Can display iframes
  • Can fetch content via Ajax
  • Can display Flash
  • Can display various Video object

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Using non-standard fonts

using non standard fonts

3point7designs.com has an interesting article titled “8 fonts you probably don’t us but should’ which addresses the age old problem of having to use fonts that are guaranteed to be on the visitor’s computer. If you are willing to take the risk that a few of your visitors might not see it exactly as intended, have a look at this article. Each font reviewed includes stats on what percentage of computers have it.
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Free SEO Content Management System

free seo cms This is a freeware search engine optimized content management system.  What that means in a a nutshell is that it’s software you can use it to build a website from a database. The key benefit is that it’s a very quick way to generate a large number of pages and also very easy to change your whole site in a minute or so.

They claim that their templates are highly SEO compliant and more importantly, all use CSS.

It even has advanced options to enable PayPal for an e-commerce site and code generators to create CSS tables from spreadsheets, thumbnail photo albums, and lots more.

SEO CMS freeware

Some features (from the website):

  • 90% quicker than WYSIWYG editors.
  • Optimized hand code quality pages.
  • Instantly apply wide range of FREE template designs
  • Reliable, hacker free pages.
  • FREE code generators. Table, photo albums etc.
  • Safe mode for beginners; full html access for experts.
  • All menus, SEO, accessibility tags built automatically.
  • Unlimited number of sites from one install.
  • Preview website before release.
  • Content 100% separate from design.

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Glossy image treatment using Javascript

Automatically create Glossy Imagesusing javascript

This Javascript automatically adds the glossy effect and rounded corners to any images.
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