Year: 2008

ecommr is a website showcasing the best (and sometimes worst) in e-commerce design, with a clear focus on the individual elements that make up online stores. We break down retailers and focus on individual user interface elements in order to provide a gallery of inspiration for designers, developers, information architects, and anyone working with online retail.
This site is run by a group of folks with a collective interest in user interface design for online retail. We continually scour the web for new ideas and trends in e-commerce, so we developed this site to serve as a resource for others like us.

UNetbootin allows for the installation of various Linux/BSD distributions to a partition or USB drive, so it's no different from a standard install, only it doesn't need a CD. It can create a dual-boot install, or replace the existing OS entirely.

Ammyy Admin – is the system of remote computer access. It's reliable and accessible way of providing remote computer assistance and remote teaching for your clients or employees in any place of the world. Ammyy Admin connects remote computers within some seconds without any installation or configuration. You can view a computers of your clients, manage their keyboard and mouse.

Comprehensive, yet simple, stealthy and fast. Datejs has passed all trials and is ready to strike. Datejs doesn’t just parse strings, it slices them cleanly in two.

I'm pleased to present you with part one of a two part series on creating a photo site using PHP, jQuery, and AJAX. Originally, I intended to fit the entire tutorial into one screencast, but that quickly became a pipe dream as I realized that there was simply too much to cover. Nevertheless, even if you only watch this first video, you should learn a great deal.

In this tutorial, we will be creating a basic 'Shoutbox' system with PHP. Aimed at beginners to PHP development, this allows you to get your feet wet working with databases before moving on to some of the more advanced PHP tutorials here at NETTUTS.

Barack Obama in a collage of over 600 headlines from around the world on November 5th, 2008 after wining the US presidential election.

This jQuery plugin will easily create beautifully rounded corners. No images or obtrusive markup necessary.
Architectural features:
* Less than 8000 bytes after yui compression.
* Beautiful and fast anti-aliasing for older or stubborn browsers.
* Degrades well for browsers with javascript turned off.
* Native browser corners used on Safari, iPhone, and Firefox 3.
* Form and anchor buttons are easily styled and rounded.
* Documentation and test coverage (this file).

A full featured and beautiful CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) framework which combined the best of Blueprint, Tripoli (hence the name), Hartija's print stylesheet, 960.gs's simplicity, and Elements' icons, and has now found a life of its own.

Michiel Kenis requested a tutorial explaining how to create a similar effect used to showcase the products on the Apple web site.
This 'product slider' is similar to a straight forward gallery, except that there is a slider to navigate the items, i.e. the bit the user controls to view the items. Simple stuff.
jQuery already has the plugins to create these effects so we don't have to go about creating them ourselves from scratch.

This shows a demonstration of a slider widget from the jQuery UI library used to create the same effect used on Apple's web site.

We've found that certain search terms are good indicators of flu activity. Google Flu Trends uses aggregated Google search data to estimate flu activity in your state up to two weeks faster than traditional systems.

Building your own personalized travel guide couldn’t be easier. In five simple steps you tell us where you’re going, where you’re coming from, your name, and when you’ll be there. That’s it!