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Weekend Links – Web Design Trends & Cliches, CSS Design, PHP HTML Parser, Yahoo! Web 2.0, PHP Checklist, MooTools AJAX Bejeweled, Starbox

By David Walsh on December 15, 2007

2007: More Web Design Trends & Cliches

Not so much as a a rip at the year's design trend as it is an indictment of Web 2.0. My RSS icon is cliche -- damn!

http://www.modernlifeisrubbish.co.uk/article/2007-more-web-design-trends-and-cliches/

Best of CSS Design 2007

This list is a more positive look at 2007.

http://www.webdesignerwall.com/trends/best-of-css-design-2007/

Parsing HTML in PHP

A great HTML parsing class written in PHP. Use it to check the number of links, included JavaScript libraries, or whatever you'd like in an HTML document.

http://www.onderstekop.nl/articles/114/

PHP: The Power Behind Web 2.0

This article provides insight and reason why PHP drives Web 2.0. Cites Yahoo! as a major PHP user.

http://www.ddj.com/web-development/204800652

PHP Checklist

Need to evaluate a hosting environment to see which modules are loaded? Use this PHP code.

http://till.vox.com/library/post/phpchecklist.html

MooTools / AJAX Bejeweled

The addictive game made without flash. I'll probably spend way too much time playing this.

http://static.popcap.com/iphone/

Starbox

A collection of Prototype & Scriptaculous JavaScript star raters.

http://www.nickstakenburg.com/projects/starbox/

Recent Features

By David WalshJune 11, 2013
Serving Fonts from CDN
For maximum performance, we all know we must put our assets on CDN (another domain). Along with those assets are custom web fonts. Unfortunately custom web fonts via CDN (or any cross-domain font request) don't work in Firefox or Internet Explorer (correctly so, by spec) though...
By David WalshApril 10, 2012
CSS Animations Between Media Queries
CSS animations are right up there with sliced bread. CSS animations are efficient because they can be hardware accelerated, they require no JavaScript overhead, and they are composed of very little CSS code. Quite often we add CSS transforms to elements via CSS during...

Incredible Demos

By David WalshFebruary 12, 2009
MooTools PulseFade Plugin
I was recently driven to create a MooTools plugin that would take an element and fade it to a min from a max for a given number of times. Here's the result of my Moo-foolery. The MooTools JavaScript Options of the class include: min: (defaults to .5) the...
By David WalshSeptember 4, 2008
MooTools Accordion: Mouseover Style
Everyone loves the MooTools Accordion plugin but I get a lot of requests from readers asking me how to make each accordion item open when the user hovers over the item instead of making the user click. You have two options: hack the original plugin...