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Weekend Links – Lightbox Matrix, Performance Best Practices, Processing.js, Adsense Testing, Multibox

By David Walsh on May 10, 2008

The Lightbox Clones Matrix

If you're in the market for a lightbox but don't know which lightbox has been created for your library, let this be your guide. This site provides checkboxes to customize your search. Awesome!

http://planetozh.com/projects/lightbox-clones/

Yahoo! Releases New Performance Best Practices

There are a lot of performance tests I'd like to do but simply don't have the time. Luckily, Yahoo! does them for me. Some of these are pretty obvious but others may not be.

http://ajaxian.com/archives/yahoo-releases-new-performance-best-practices

Processing.js

When some people say they are to release a project, you know they're going to drop something cool. John Resig is one of those people. Processing.js is a JavaScript visualization tool. Hard to explain, but if you check out the examples, you'll be amazed.

http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/

Adsense Split Testing Results for 250x250 vs. 300x250

The size and placement of your advertisements is crucial when really pushing for ad revenue. Mark Sanborn shares his experience.

http://www.marksanborn.net/php/adsense-split-testing-results-for-250x250-vs-300x250/

Multibox

Multibox is a lightbox built for MooTools programmers. It displays HTML, videos, images...it's amazing! I'll be using this for personal projects from this point forward.

http://www.phatfusion.net/multibox/

Recent Features

By David WalshJuly 28, 2011
Animating CSS3 Transforms with MooTools Fx
I recently posted an awesome (if I may say so myself) CSS3 / MooTools tutorials called Create a Photo Stack Effect with Pure CSS Animations or MooTools. The post presented two ways, a pure CSS method or MooTools-powered class, to duplicate Google+'s elegant photo stack...
By David WalshNovember 26, 2012
Animated 3D Flipping Menu with CSS
CSS animations aren't just for basic fades or sliding elements anymore -- CSS animations are capable of much more. I've showed you how you can create an exploding logo (applied with JavaScript, but all animation is CSS), an animated Photo Stack, a sweet...

Incredible Demos

By David WalshJanuary 7, 2009
CSS Fixed Positioning
When you want to keep an element in the same spot in the viewport no matter where on the page the user is, CSS's fixed-positioning functionality is what you need. The CSS Above we set our element 2% from both the top and right hand side of the...
By David WalshSeptember 18, 2008
MooTools Typewriter Effect Plugin Upgrade
Last week I shared my MooTools Typewriter Class with you. It was pretty well received and I got a few feature requests that I've implemented including "backspacing" and character variance delays. I'm not going to explain the old code, so click here...

Discussion

evilhuman
Multibox looks awesome! Thanks for that.
alphonse
I was looking around as to how i can just pass a link to a page:

example : http://www.mywebsite.com/?play=mymove.mp4

And on that page, automatically play the movie using multibox.. any ideas? it would surely be appreciated..

thanks
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I want to start my own blog too, what blog platform do you use, where i can download it ?