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Snap2Objects.com released this fine icons set which consists of 15 high resolution icons in various sizes and formats. From .ico and .png files to a layered PSD file with sizes from 512px down to 16px.

The icons set is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License and can be downloaded from its official website.

Details : 3 fixed columns, Flickr, Twitter and delicious integration, thumbnail cover design.

Details : 2 columns, right sidebar, wodget ready, 125×125 ad zones, footer widgets, cross-browser compatible (Internet Explorer 6.0+, Firefox 2+, Opera 9+, Safari 3+ and Chrome 0.2+)

Requirements : Wordpress 2.6+

Demo : ZinePress – Free Wordpress Theme demo

Download : ZinePress – Free Wordpress Theme download

In this collection, you’ll find 9 excellent websites and blogs that provide high-quality examples and tutorials on Ajax and Javascript .

1. Ajax Rain

AjaxRain has illustrated examples of some nifty web-fx that can be achieved with combinations of AJAX, CSS, DHTML or Javascript. Some of the demos are definitely worth a look, even if you aren’t a web designer/programmer.

Ajax/Javascript Examples

• - EXT JS Date Picker
• - jQuery Feed Menu
• - jGrowl
• - FastFind Menu – Jquery
• - Spiffy Accordion

2. Ajax Daddy

A large collection of nifty web 2.0 tools. One neat feature is that you can play with the demo online, before you decide to put the example on your own website.

Ajax/Javascript Examples

• - Flickr Like edit
• - MooTools Autocomplete
• - SlideShow Viewer
• - Prototype window
• - Shoutbox

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Free design templates don’t have to be unattractive, inaccurate and boring. Some web-sites offer high quality templates for the best price you would ever get – for free. You can download Flash-based templates as well as CSS-based layouts absolutely free; furthermore, you can use them for your personal and commercial projects without any restrictions whatsoever. Still, before using some of the templates, throw a glance at the license agreements – they’re changing all the time. Links checked: Nov/21st. 2008.

Free CSS-Based Design Templates

• Free CSS Templates
  There are 105 CSS Templates in the database at the moment.
• Art for the web
  Free web templates
  
  
• TemplatesBox
  Free Website Templates, Free Photoshop Web Templates
• Template Monster
  Web Templates, Flash Templates, Website Templates Design
• TemplateNavigator
  Free Web Templates | Free Flash Templates. TemplateNavigator.com is the largest on the net catalogue of free and professional website templates and free flash templates.
• DotcomWebDesign Providing free site layouts, web page layouts, website templates & site templates for the free Content Management System, cmsimple.

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Free Site Validator is a very handy free service for validating webpages.

When compared to W3C validation services, this solution scans not only 1 page but follows links, goes deeper & almost scans all webpages in a website.

The service uses W3C validation service at the backend & enables you to scan multiple websites.

Report generation can take some time considering it scans all webpages but the service can simply notify you when the validation is completed.

poMMo is an open source maillist manager application for adding a mailing list to your website or to organize stand alone mailings.

poMMo requires PHP & MySQL, offers a very simple web-based setup and it can be ready to use within minutes.

With an Ajaxed interface, you can create custom subscription forms & subscriber groups. After that, it provides you the necessary embed code (or HTML output) for inserting the form.

poMMo is also a smart application as it gets the list of sent-unsent-failed e-mails during the delivery and has an automated “list cleaning” feature by checking the bounced e-mails.

Other nice features of this maillist manager:

• Easy creation of subscriber groups
• Quickly import and export your subscriber base
• WYSIWYG HTML mailing creation
• Flexible collection of subscriber data through user defined “fields”
• Drag and drop field ordering
• Themeable, brandable, multilanguage
• Limit the sending of mails – throttle by hour, bytes, and domain limits
• Revolutionary AJAX based subscriber Management
• Personalize Mailings — e.g. Say “Dear Susan” vs. “Dear Subscriber”
• View and Reload sent mailings from the Mailing History page
• Mailings can be paused, resumed, and canceled “live”
• Mailings take place in the background — you can turn your computer OFF during a sending
• Subscribers can unsubscribe themselves or update their own information (including email address)

This mailing list manager application uses very low disk I/O and can be used for big mailing list groups.

P.S. Admin interface has a small compatibility problem in Firefox.

Feng-GUI is a free web based service that enables you to view: “which areas of an UI is getting the most attention when an user looks at it in 5 seconds”.

With an artificial intelligence behind, the service generates a heatmap over an image uploaded.

Generated heatmap’s opacity can be changed for a better view & can be viewed in a bigger modal window or downloaded.

Feng-GUI is very handy to get another thought -about a user interface designed- other than the collagues, customers..

Website: http://www.feng-gui.com/

jQuery Corners is a jQuery plugin for creating nice-looking, anti-aliased rounded corners without using any images.

The plugin is unobtrusive & works well with all major browsers including iPhone.

The corners to be rounded & the radius of the corners can be easily set.

And, a great feature is the ability to round form buttons.