Embed CMS in Your Website With PHP News System

 

PHP News System (phpns) is an open source CMS that enables you to embed dynamic content into an existing website. It allows you to design your website however you like, and squeezes content into your design, wherever you like, with one line of code. PHP News System requires PHP, MySQL and ability to change file permissions on the server.

Setting up phpns is fairly simple with the help of built-in web based installer. The administration area provides you ability to create and manage articles, create categories, manage templates, create users, ban users, etc. Embedding your dynamic content into website is simply a matter of including a PHP file.

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Spritely: Create Sprite Animation Using jQuery

 

Spritely is a jQuery plugin for creating dynamic character and background animation in pure HTML and JavaScript. It is a  light-weight plugin with a few simple methods that allow you to easily create animated sprites and scrolling backgrounds. It is a cross browser plugin that works on all major browsers including iPhone and Internet Explorer 6.

Spritely provides two key methods, sprite() and pan() both of which simply animate the background-image CSS property of an element. The difference between the two is that a ’sprite’ image contains two or more ‘frames’ of animation, whereas a ‘pan’ image contains a continuous image which pans left or right and then repeats.

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GetSimple: XML Based Content Management System

 

GetSimple is an open source Content Management System (CMS) that utilizes XML for data storage, has excellent user interface and is really easy to learn. GetSimple requires PHP 5.1.3+ and has been tested with Apache web server. Installation is a snap, all you need to do is upload files to your server and you are ready.

GetSimple is ideally suited for small to medium site websites. IF you are comfortable with WordPress theme development, you will really like GetSimple. Like WordPress, GetSimple allows developer to create their won themes and extend its functionality using Plugins. Plugins enables you to provide customized solutions without having to make things too complex.

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jCore: Open Source Multisite CMS

 

jCore is an open source Content Management System (CMS) build using PHP and MySQL. It can power multiple websites, enabling you to keep CMS software up to date and fix bugs for all websites from a single location.

jCore has two main systems, jCore Server – which holds all the libraries and modules, and jCore Client – which is the stripped version of the core system that install with each website. You don’t really need to install jCore server, just copy the files in a public place so that all you websites can access it.

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Image Power Zoomer

 

Image Power Zoomer is jQuery plugin that adds a magnifier to any image on your page. It lets the user zoom in on any portion of the image by simply moving cursor over it. Furthermore, the magnification power can be adjusted on the fly by turning the mouse wheel back or forth, just like in many graphics programs.

Image Power Zoomer is pretty simple to implement. Based on your understanding of jQuery selectors, you can apply the power zoom effect on an image using variety of ways (e.g., if you need to apply it to multiple images you can select images using class attribute). Image Power Zoomer is a cross browser plugin that works on all major browsers including IE6.

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Floom: MooTools Slideshow

 

Floom is an extendible slideshow widget for MooTools 1.2+ that produces very nice blinds effect. It is really easy to use and can also be used to load large images, since it shows a progress wheel while loading images in the background. Floom is cross browser plugin that works on all modern browser.

Floom is lightweight and really simple to implement. You can either specify the image URL and the caption using the key-value notation inside JavaScript or by adding image tags inside a <div>. If you specify images in your markup you can provide image caption is the title attribute.

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Build Flexible Multi Column Layouts With Less CSS Framework

 

Less Framework is an HTML5 powered CSS framework for building flexible multi column website layouts for varying screen widths. It contains an eight-column grid optimized for a line-height of 24px, as well as a set of typography presets based on the golden ratio that fit into the grid’s vertical rhythm.

Less Framework layouts work perfectly in Chrome, Safari 3.0+, Firefox 3.0+ and Internet Explorer 7+. Your layout will collapse into a single column in legacy browsers and on small screens. The frameworks allow you to use HTML5 tags with the help of HTML5 enabling JavaScript file.

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RegExr: Free Tool For Editing and Testing Regular Expressions

 

RegExr is a free tool for learning, editing, testing, and sharing regular expressions. It is available online at RegExr.com, and has a desktop version (Adobe Air application) for Mac OSX, Windows or Linux. RegExr is built with Flex 3 and uses ActionScript’s built in RegExp engine.

RegExr has very simple and easy to use interface. It provides you with built in sample (organized into various categories) for quick reference. You can also search through expressions shared by the community and share your own. It also allows you to save your own expressions locally.

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Really Useful Tutorials You Should Have Read in February 2010

 

This update covers really useful tutorials, tips and techniques that you should have read in February 2010. Featured publications include: Nettuts+, Queness, Codrops, The Phuse, Ravelrumba, Web Designer Wall, AddyOsmani, AEXT, Smashing Magazine, SpoonGraphics, Sitepoint, Insic Designs, Mehdi Mousavi, Webtint, Marcofolio, David Walsh Blog, Line25, OpenBit, CSS-Tricks, Tutorialzine, Soh Tanaka, Think Vitamin, Build Internet, Code Diesel, and Snook.ca.

Featured authors include: Matt Hedberg, Kevin Liew, Mary Lou, James Costa, Rob Flaherty, Nick La, Adnan Osmani, Lam Nguyen, Christian Heilmann, Chris Spooner, Madhuri & Mona, Mike More, David Walsh, Johnny, Marco Kuiper, Nikunj Sakhrelia, Jeffrey Way, Chris Coyier, Martin Angelov, Mehdi Mousavi, Louis Simoneau, Soh Tanaka, Zach Dunn,Chris Lea, Sameer Borate, and Jonathan Snook.

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jqFancyTransitions: Slideshow With Fancy Transitions

 

jqFancyTransitions is an easy-to-use jQuery plugin that allow you create slideshows with fancy transition effects. It offers three predefined effects:  Wave, Curtain and Zipper. jqFancyTransitions is a cross browser plugin that has been fully tested with Safari 2+, Internet Explorer 6+, Firefox 2+, Google Chrome 3+, Opera 9+.

Implementing jqFancyTransitions is pretty simple; all you have to do add image tags inside a placeholder with unique “id”. In order to add multiple slide shows in your page, you just need to specify different “id” for each placeholder. You can add captions to each slide using “alt” attribute.

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