Author Archives: Brett Bittke
Ajax Instant Messaging for your Website
Ajax IM is a great browser-based instant messaging client. It uses AJAX to create a near real-time IM environment. No refreshing of the page is ever needed for this “web application” to work, as everything is updated in real-time via JavaScript. This is a great tool and is probably one of the best Instant Message Scripts around.
Huge Gallery of Free Fonts
If you have ever had problems finding free fonts then Urban Fonts is for you. Urban Fonts has a huge collection of fonts and they are all free. Some of the fonts on this site are so good. I’ve downloaded many fonts and have never had a problem.
Photoshop like DHTML Color Picker
This is a light weight color picker that is very easy to use. It uses the least amount of code in comparison with it’s competitors: 3.5k of Javascript. DHTML Color Picker is one of the easiest scripts to use and I highly recommend it. It’s fully customizable and uses CSS and Javascript.
Pure CSS Footer
We’ve all had problems with getting the Footer to always stay on the bottom of the page. Now that problem is gone with Sicky-Footer written by Ryan Fait. This is very easy to implement and with minimum coding for both the CSS and HTML. It works in all browsers IE 5 and up, Firefox, Safari and Opera.
CSS3 Opacity Property
If you haven’t heard, you can create an opacity for an image in CSS3 without using JavaScript or any hack. To see the whole image use opacity:1.0 and to see nothing use opacity:0.0;. In order for the opacity to work in IE you must use filter:alpha(opacity=100). For CSS opacity to work in the browser it must have some placement specified, like float:left and that works for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox and Opera. The code is… Read more »