Tile Tabs – Lets you tile multiple tabs vertically, horizontally, or in a custom layout so you can view two tabs at once on the same screen. Tab Mix Plus – Does a lot of tab-related stuff, but I like it because it lets you enable multi-line tab wrapping; that is, if you have too [...]

If you’re looking to quickly set up your own website and don’t necessarily want a large amount of customized functionality, the content management system Weebly might be for you. (Watch this video for more info) Weebly is a very user friendly website creation platform that offers numerous free templates to choose from, and free hosting [...]

I recently tried out a few WordPress plugins to try to add autocomplete suggestion functionality to this blog’s searchbar, and here’s one I came across that I really like: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search-autocomplete/ This plugin uses jQuery UI’s autocomplete functionality and comes with a few of jQuery UI’s themes built in. Super easy to set up; just install [...]

I highly recommend this site: http://snipt.net/public Snipt is a great site which lets users browse, search for, and comment on, useful code snippets from various programming languages — you can find .htaccess snippets, CSS3 snippets, PHP and Javascript snippets, snippets for processing strings, snippets specific to jQuery, Regex snippets, and much much more. Edit: Snipplr [...]

Note that I haven’t tried out the following jQuery plugins, but they are some of the more interesting and seemingly useful ones I’ve read about: jQuery Tools - A UI library containing functionality for scrolling, overlays, tooltips, sliders, and more. Stellar.js - A Parallax effect plugin. jQuery Mega Drop Down Menu - plugin for creating attractive and flexible [...]

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I’d advise everyone to stay away from this WordPress plugin: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/autotwitter/ a) When you visit the plugin’s site it auto-downloads the plugin files (not cool). b) The shortlinks it tweets to your Twitter account which link to your WordPress posts popup an advertisement modal window when someone clicks on the shortlink to go to your post. [...]

Want to design vector format graphics and logos but don’t have the cash for Adobe’s Illustrator program? You might find Inkscape to be a useful free alternative. It runs on Windows XP/Vista/7, Mac OS X and Linux. I only tried Inkscape out briefly, but I was able to slap together a simple logo with some [...]

A couple of weeks ago I got the chance to try out Ecwid, which is an Ajax-powered e-Commerce software that integrates easily into everything from WordPress sites, static HTML sites, Drupal and Joomla! sites, and many others. Before I go into detail about Ecwid, you can check out a demo of the storefront here: http://www.ecwid.com/demo-frontend.html The [...]

I definitely recommend this WordPress plugin to anyone looking to add a lightbox-esque (colorbox to be specific) effect to their posts’ images when visitors click on them. It’s called jQuery Colorbox and it’s a very handy plugin that has many customizable settings and includes multiple visual styles (themes) for the modal colorbox effect. Best of all, [...]