I found a site for you that lists some of the best jQuery Lightbox Scripts. If you don’t already know, lightbox scripts are pretty much just javascript files that create modal pop ups. A lightbox can be used to show images, videos, and/or web pages inline without having to open a new browser window.
Keep an eye out for the colorbox, it’s a good one.
Visit SourceGoogle released a PDF booklet with 10 tips on making your website work. I’m loving the fact that the book is free and that it has has some good tips we all should know.
A sneak peak of what’s inside:
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Drupal is ideally equipped to be used as a base system for creating a custom social networking site like Facebook and MySpace. While these large social networks have their place, niche social networking web sites can help promote businesses, products, projects, and hobbies of any nature.
This book provides careful instructions and clear explanations to take you through the setup and management of your social network site, covering topics from users to marketing to maintenance. It will help you create your own social networking site, suitable for whatever audience you decide!
This book will take you from the very basics of both Drupal and Social Networking right through to more complicated aspects, like creating your own custom design and features for the site. With no experience of Drupal required, the book will introduce you to this award-winning CMS and carefully take you through the steps to create a social networking site from it. As the book progresses, you will learn how to add to and expand your social networking site, adding more features and adding value for your users, and how to make your users feel part of the community. Social networking web sites rely on their users contributing to the site, and this book helps you structure a site in a way users can easily and enjoyable contribute to the site – creating a powerful social network.
The quickest way to get up and running with a social networking or dating site with video, chat, photos, blogs and more is by using a great piece of software called Dolphin 7 from BoonEx.
No need to click a save button anymore with this jQuery plugin: jQuery Autosave. Seriously, this is something I’ve been wanting and never had the time to develop. Thankfully, these guys/girls created what I’ve been wanting. In this article I’m going to let you know some of the features this plugin offers, how to use it, link you to a demo, and thank you for taking the time out to read what I have to say!
One of my favorite producers showed me this the other day:
A great tool for designers, information architects & developers to look smart in meetings.
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I just started my first Meetup at meetup.com called “Richmond’s Open Source Meetup Group.”
My goal is to help people learn about the new up and coming Open Source Technologies, along with re-introducing some of the heavy hitters in the Open Source Community.
Enjoy!
Richmond’s Open Source Meetup Group
http://www.meetup.com/richmond-open-source/
I installed yet another install of phpMyAdmin, and every time I forget how to configure it to force SSL. All phpMyAdmin installs should do this (use SSL). You never want to login without SSL unless you’re on a secured network.
1) Using Apache .htaccess (this can also be put in the httpd.conf if you don’t use .htaccess files):
1 2 3 | RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} !^443$ RewriteRule ^/directory(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/directory$1 [L,R] |
Note: I don’t like this way but I this is a way some people do it.
2) Using phpMyAdmin’s config.inc.php file:
1 2 | // place this at the bottom somewhere $cfg['ForceSSL'] = true; |
