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Geo-Enable Websites With JS: YQL Geo Library

// March 12th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Geolocation is one of the most popular subjects for today's web & there are many solutions that help geo-enabling web applications.

YQL Geo Library is an impressive resource for geolocation as it is totally free & JavaScript-based.

It has various powerful features like:

• detecting the visitor’s location with the W3C geo API and with IP as a fallback
• find geo location from text
• find location from lat/lon pair
• find locations in a certain web document (by URL)
• get the location for a certain IP number

The library is lightweight (4kb uncompressed) & non-complicated. It just works by calling a function like:

yqlgeo.get('217.12.14.240',function(o){
  alert(o.place.name + ',' + o.place.country.content +
        ' (' + o.place.centroid.latitude + ',' +
               o.place.centroid.longitude + ')'
        );
});

will get you the city, country, latitude & longitude of any given IP.

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NextDayFlyers.com – Business Cards And Printing Credit Giveaway – Winners Announced

// March 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Last week, a post at WRD was announcing the giveaway of a $50 printing credit and 2 * 1000 standard business cards by NextDayFlyers.com.

The winners are selected & can be found at the bottom of this post. But before that, let's remember:

What is NextDayFlyers.com?

NextDayFlyers.com is an online printing service that can cover all your printing needs like premium club flyers, business cards, greeting cards & other marketing materials with a quick turnarond.

They have different options of sizes / papers for maximum customization & offer low prices for quality prints.

And the winners:

Winners are selected by NextDayFlyers.com and here they are:

• $50 printing credit: Colleen Radford (comment #117413)
• 1,000 business cards: Austin Storm (comment #117207)
• 1,000 business cards: Vladimir (comment #117732)

Congratulations to the winners & thanks to everyone for contributing.

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Sprite Animations With jQuery: Spritely

// March 11th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Spritely is a jQuery plugin for creating dynamic character & background animations using HTML + JavaScript.

With the power of JavaScript, the animations can be controlled on events (clicks, mouseovers) easily.

Animated elements can fly over the page without effecting any other element (can be ideal for floating-type banners) & the page still remains accessible.

Specially, for the platforms where Flash is not supported, Spritely can be an alternative (like iPhone, iPad).

It works in all major browsers including IE6.

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Weebly Announces $13,000 Prized Theme Design Contest

// March 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Weebly, a very easy-to-use, popular & web-based website-builder service has just opened its theme gallery to all designers.

And, to celebrate this, they launched a design contest with $13,000 in prizes which the entries will be judged by well-known designers:

• Michael Cronan (acknowledged with the naming and identities of Tivo and Verio and naming the Amazon Kindle)
• Scott Thomas (former design director of Obama for America)
• Jason Putorti (former lead designer of Mint.com)
• Andrew Wilkinson (Founder, MetaLab)
• Dustin Curtis
• Rob Martin

Prizes are $10,000 for the winner, $2000 for the 2nd & $1000 for the 3rd position.

Creating a theme for Weebly is very easy as you don't have to worry for the HTML-CSS. Just focus on the creativity, design a layered PSD & Weebly team will convert it for you.

If the design created is not one of the winners, it may still be added to the themes database by Weebly & designers will be credited.

Deadline for submitting designs is April 30th, 2010 & it is open to everyone.

To read more and join the contest, check the contest page.

P.S. This post is a sponsored review.

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CSS3, Please! – The Cross-Browser CSS3 Rule Generator

// March 10th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

CSS3, Please! is a web-based & simple-yet-effective cross-browser CSS3 rules generator.

As every browser may require different prefixes for the CSS3 properties, this tool makes it so easy by providing them all with an editable & well-commented way where the output can be seen instantly.

Currently, it helps you write the rules for: border-radius, box-shadow, linear-gradients, rotation & @font-face. Some other transforms like skew & scale will be added soon.

For some transforms, that Internet Explorer can support via IE filters, they are mentioned too.

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Open Source And Live Web Analytics: SlimStat

// March 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

SlimStat is an open source web analytics application that collects & presents statistics information about your website.

It is built with PHP-MySQL & can be integrated into websites with JavaScript (like Google Analytics) or PHP.

For  the given period, the application can display:

• the number of visitors/pageviews
• referrer URLs, domains
• search terms
• browsers, OSs, countries, screen sizes

There is also a "paths" feature that shows a user's browsing path page-by-page.

You may be asking, "why to use SlimStat instead of Google Analytics?" The best answer would be "live stats".

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Awesome Speech Bubbles With Pure CSS3

// March 9th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Nicolas Gallagher is sharing a creative way on creating good-looking speech bubbles with CSS3.

There are no images or JavaScript in the implementations but uses the :before and/or :after pseudo-elements to produce basic shapes.

The HTML remains semantic however we should remember that CSS3 is not fully supported by all major browsers & we may again require JavaScript to add this support (like IE7.js).

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Traffic Light Feedback Giveaway – Winners Announced (And 50% Lifetime Discount)

// March 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Last week, a post was announcing the giveaway of 3 annual Traffic Light Feedback accounts ( £180 GBP/account) to WebResourcesDepot readers.

Today, the winners are selected. But before that, let's remember:

What is Traffic Light Feedback?

It offers a very simple way of getting feedback from users: asking a question & having 3 clickable responses (green, yellow and red) where users don't have to fill anything.

You can import customers lists easily & auto-send them the feedback forms with customized/branded templates. After all, it is possible to get reports.

And the winners are:

The winners are selected randomly with a database query and here they are:

• krull (comment #115834)
• Tuan (comment #116839)
• Inwebdeveloper (comment #116257)

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for contributing.

50% Lifetime Discount Code

Traffic Light Feedback offers a special discount code to all WRD readers that enables you to get the service with 50% lifetime discount (the offer ends on: March 31st 2010).

The discount code is: AD8FGWEBRE .

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Instant CMS For Static Websites: Phpns

// March 8th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

Phpns is an open source news/content management system that will enable you to add dynamic content to any website with one line of code.

The application is not a complicated or a full-featured CMS. Rather, it is a simpler one which is very suitable for managing basic websites.

It comes with variables like adding pagination, displaying summary or the full content, RSS generation & much more.

Phpns is multi-user, can create SEO-friendly URLs & optionally, helps you create/manage templates.

The application is built with PHP, uses MySQL for storing the data & comes with a web-based installer.

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Open Source Video Conferencing: BigBlueButton

// March 7th, 2010 // No Comments » // Website Resources

BigBlueButton is an open source video conferencing application which is specifically built for remote learning but can be used for standard meetings as well.

The application enables multiple users to login & share their webcam or communicate via VOIP at the same time.

It is a very ideal application for presentations as users can upload PDF or office documents & keep everyone in sync with their current page, zoom, pan, mouse pointer etc.

Also, users can share their desktop with others easily.

There are 3 user types:

• Presenter: can upload presentations & sharing their desktop
• Viewer: have no authority within the conference, can only view & chat with other users
• Moderator:can upload presentations, share the desktop & change user types of other users.

Users can raise hands to get the attention of the presenter, mute any other participants they want & chat between themselves in public or privately.

BigBlueButton completely relies on open source technologies & it can be improved further with the API provided.

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