Support Multiple Methods For File Upload With Plupload

 

Plupload is an advanced open source JavaScript component for file uploads. It has the unique feature of supporting multiple upload methods including: HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus and normal forms. Other features include: upload progress, image resizing, multiple file uploads,  and chunked uploads.

Plupload unique features makes it highly usable upload handler for Content Management Systems or similar solutions. It is currently separated into a Core API  and a jQuery upload queue widget this enables you to either use it out of the box or write your own custom implementation.

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Technical Support For Your WordPress Customers

 

Technical Support is a new WordPresss plugin that will enable your customers to easily ask for help, directly from their WordPress dashboard. Regardless of whether you have developed a custom theme for your customer or are just providing integration / consultancy services – this simple plugin will make a noticeable difference in your overall support efforts.

Setting up Technical Support plugin is very easy – all you need to do is install the plugin and configure settings with your email address, logo, website URL, and list of support related topics. The plugin will automatically add a form on customer’s dashboard for submitting support tickets directly to your e-mail.

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Embed Custom Google Maps With gMap jQuery Plugin

 

gMap is a lightweight (only 2 KB in size) jQuery plugin that helps you easily embed Google maps in your web pages. gMap is very flexible, and you can customize it in many different ways by passing a JSON object (containing various custom properties) to the GMap() function.

You can specify location of your gMap object using longitude and latitude.  Additional features include ability to specify which controls you want, enable or disable zooming with mouse scroll-wheel , custom marker image, multiple markers, custom viewport position, and zoom.

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Showcase: Highly Customizable jQuery Slideshow Plugin

 

Showcase is a simple but highly customizable, image slider plugin powered by jQuery. It allows you to specify image URL, description, and link for each slide in your markup or through JavaScript dynamically. It is a cross browser plugin that has been fully tested with: Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome, and Internet Explorer 7 and above.

Showcase jQuery Plugin enables you create simple image slideshows with nice transition effects. It is highly customizable enabling you to control position of the caption, image transitions, placement of navigation controls, etc. You can also customize its look and feel via CSS as markup or through JavaScript dynamically. It also provide additional methods enabling you to pause and start slideshow via external controls/buttons.

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Guidelines, Tools and Resources For Web Wireframing

 

Today “Web” is very different from what it was few years ago. It is better, but far more challenging – you can no longer ignore things like usability, information architecture and design. That’s why wireframing has received so much attention lately.

Wireframing allows you to visually illustrate layout of fundamental elements in the user interface. It also acts as a way to communicate with clients and other stakeholders (content creators, designers, developers, etc). Furthermore, wireframing enables you to consider changes, user paths, and new requirements.

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Pencil: Sketching and Prototyping With Firefox

 

Pencil in an open source GUI prototyping and sketching tools, based on Mozilla Firefox. You can use it to easily create user interface wireframes / prototypes for your web and software projects. Pencil can be installed as Firefox 3 addon. After being installed, you can launch it through Firefox Tools menu.

If you prefer to run it as a standalone application, you will need to install  XULRunner, which provides Pencil a way to run completely outside Firefox.

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Really Useful Tutorials You Should Have Read in January 2010

 

This update covers tutorials, tips and techniques that you should have read in January 2010. Featured publications include: A List Apart, Perishable  Press, DevSnippets, Webdesigner Depot, Nettuts+, Inspiring Pixel, Gaya Design, PV.M Garage, Line25, Woork Up, Six Revisions, Tutorialzine, Papermashup, WPWebHost, TechPortal, Yehuda Katz, Codrops, NuRelm, Queness, PHP Web and IT Stuff, DLOCC, WebM.ag, Jon Galloway, DevMoose, CSSKarma, AEXT, Viral Patel, and JankoAtwarpSpeed.

Featured authors include: Lam Nguyen, Tuhin Kumar, Chris Spooner, Jason Schuller, Louis Lazaris, Dan Wellman, Martin Angelov, Siddharth, Ashley Ford, Navjot Singh, Gaya Kessler, Burak Guzel, Piervincenzo Madeo, Peter Verhage, Yehuda Katz, Jeff Starr, Mary Lou, Chris Taylor, Kevin Liew, James Padolsey, Noura Yehia, Jason Cranford Teague, Devin Walker, Bill Peña, McBonio, Jon Galloway, Jean-Paul Bernadina, Tim Wright, Viral Patel, Shelley Powers, and Janko Jovanovic.

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Clean AJAX Framework

 

Clean is an open source engine for AJAX, that provides you high level easy to use interface for AJAX interactions. It is developed in pure JavaScript enabling you to use it with any other JavaScript framework. Clean AJAX architecture is based on successful design patterns and inspired by Java Message Service API.

Clean AJAX uses messages to control AJAX requests and provides message queue, XSLT, XPath, encryption (SHA1, MD5), web service access (SOAP, XML-RPC, JSON-RPC), cross browser AJAX, AJAX history and cache control.

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Cross Domain JavaScript With Simple PHP Proxy

 

Simple PHP Proxy is a small PHP script that allows your JavaScript to access HTML, XML or JSON data in remote web pages. It overcomes the cross-domain security limitations, even if data is not available in JSONP format.

By using Simple PHP Proxy, your server can act as an intermediary between your JavaScript and the remote data, removing any cross-domain issues from the equation. It just needs to take a request, forward it to a remote server, and return the results. You can use any JavaScript library with it or code your XMLHttpRequest objects by hand.

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TipTip: Lightweight jQuery Tooltip Plugin

 

TipTip is a jQuery plugin that allows use to create simple, customizable Tooltips for your web page. It is really lightweight (only 3.5kb minified). TipTip is an intelligent tooltip plugin that detects the edges of the browser window and will make sure the tooltip stays within the current window size. TipTip has been tested (and works) in: IE7+, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Chrome.

TipTip uses the “title” attribute just like the native browser tooltip does. However, it copies title and then remove it from the element – so that the browser tooltip will not show up. No images are used to style the tooltip and is completely customizable via CSS.

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