Weekend Links – MooTools Calendar, PHP JavaScript Search, Website First Impressions, Dynamic CSS Class, jQuery HeatColor

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MooTools Calendar

A really suave MooTools class to place inline, accessible, and unobtrusive calendars intro your page.

http://www.electricprism.com/aeron/calendar/

PHP.net API Search In Firefox Using JavaScript

If you're like me, you visit the PHP.net website daily. This scriptlet is used like a bookmark -- click it, enter the function you're prompted to provide, and you'll go straight to the function's page.

http://www.rooftopsolutions.nl/article/164

21 Factors That Influence the First Impression of Your Website's Visitors

A great list of factors that can define your website -- great re-visit value or a one-visit wonder?

http://vandelaydesign.com/blog/design/first-impression/

MooTools Dynamic CSS via JavaScript

Add CSS to your website using a MooTools class. Plenty of examples to help you use the class.

http://revnode.com/oss/css/

Nintendo Relaunches wii Site Dojo, MooTools, SWFObject

Nintendo relaunced the wii website using the Dojo and MooTools frameworks. Very slick UI and impressive functionality.

http://www.nintendo.com/games/guide#qhardware=Wii&qesrbRating=&qplay=&qgenre=&qrelease=&panel=qgenre&sortBy=title

HeatColor -- jQuery Plugin

This jQuery plugin takes the value of selected elements and color-codes the background based on their values.

http://www.jnathanson.com/blog/client/jquery/heatcolor/index.cfm

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Discussion

  1. Thanks for the link!

  2. Jens Klose

    I’ve added a new project to google code as fork to the MooTools Calendar:

    includes the Mootools 1.2 port
    includes some bugfixes
    new options

    project site

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