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MonoDevelop is a free & advanced IDE that is mainly built for C# & other .NET languages.
It works in Linux, Windows & Mac OSX which is great, specially for developers who use multiple platforms but still want to work from the same interface.

MonoDevelop comes with advanced text editing features like code completion support for C# [...]

MediaLoot is presenting a free set of user interface elements that can help designing/prototyping faster.
It has 3 distinct styles: glossy, satin/light gradient, and one-color which the satin/light gradient set is available in 7 different colors.
The set comes in both .PNG & .PSD formats and includes items like:

control buttons
info boxes
breadcrumbs
forms
scrollbars
& more..

Special Downloads:
Ajaxed Add-To-Basket Scenarios With jQuery [...]

GetShopped is a free WordPress plugin for adding e-commerce capabilities into WordPress-powered websites.
It is a very easy-to-setup plugin which can work with any standards compliant WordPress theme (and WordPress MU).

The plugin offers a flexible pricing structure for products with features like:

flexible coupon/discount pricing rules
product specific sales
quantity discounts
free shipping options
multi-tier pricing for quantity discounts

and supports multiple [...]

Using JavaScript, it is possible to load HTML, XML or JSON data with XMLHttpRequest.
However cross-domain JavaScript requests (reaching remote pages) are not possible due to browser security limitations except JSONP-formatted JSON data.

Simple PHP Proxy is a PHP script which aims to fill this gap by creating a layer between your JavaScript code and the remote [...]

Footers of websites are being used more & more effectively everyday to provide a better navigation and more information.
Footerama is a fresh design gallery which presents inspiring footers of beautiful websites.
From Footerama:

footer became an area where the web designers had the maximum opportunity to show their creativity, craziness and umm..personality, individuality.

The footers presented are well-categorized with their [...]

1 Bit Audio Player is a lightweight & free Flash MP3 player that can be automatically inserted into webpages with JavaScript.
It is not a feature-rich or complicated player, rather, it is so simple & ideal for offering quick in-page previews for audio files.

The player comes in flavors

Standalone version (for implementing it into any website)
Wordpress plugin
A [...]

Lilina is an open source PHP application for aggregating feeds from a web-based interface.
It supports RSS, Atom & podcasts inside them. It is also possible to import/export feeds with an OPML file.

The application only requires PHP(5) to run & makes use of 2 built-in libraries: HTML Purifier and SimplePie.
Lilina has a plugin system for extending [...]

E-mails are one of the key elements of a website/web application. They are used in contact forms, sign-ups, notifications, newsletters, etc.
It is a common experience that sometimes e-mails sent from websites go to the junk folders or never reach.
Although it is not always possible to detect the reasons for this, there are several things that [...]

Markercss is a complete CSS framework for creating website layouts quickly.
It comes with a set of stylesheets: layout, borders, backgrounds, links, forms, text, colors & tables which makes it possible to use only what is needed.

The framework has a combination of references like adding a w10 class (10-1000 is defined) will make an element 10px [...]

MySQL is one of the most popular relational database management systems (RDBMS) around, with over 6 million installations. It’s a fantastic choice for any new developer, because of its open source nature, wide support and abundance of tutorials available on the subject. Here are some great tips and tools (beside phpMyAdmin) to improve your MySQL coding, [...]