Easy Reflections is a PHP script that takes an image and then creates a reflection of it. A ‘reflection’ being in the Apple OSX style as seen in iTunes. This is also known as a ‘wet floor’.

Easy Reflections v3 is a PHP 4 and 5 compatible script that creates reflections from any given GIF, JPEG or PNG image. When I say ‘reflection’ I mean in the Apple OSX style as seen in the likes of iTunes. Why would you want to do this? because as they’re saying ‘reflections are the new drop-shadows.

http://reflection.corephp.co.uk/

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FLASH VIDEO PLAYER

The Flash Video (FLV) Player can be used standalone, without the need for the Flash authoring tool. The player allows you to show your videos more controlled and to a broader audience than with Quicktime, Windows Media or Real Media. It supports playback of a single FLV file, RTMP streams or RSS/XSPF/ATOM playlists, a wide range of flashvars (settings) for tweaking both behavior and appearance and an extensive, documented javascript/actionscript API.

http://www.jeroenwijering.com/?item=Flash_Video_Player

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CSS Tab Designer

Create killer menus effortlessly!

CSS Tab Designer is a unique and easy to use software to help you design css-based lists and tabs visually and without any programming knowledge required!

With the CSS Tab Designer, you can :

* Quickly design your list visually
* Choose from a variety of styles/colors (60+ different designs/colors supported).
* Generate strict xhtml compliant code

Freeware. (1.35 MB)

http://www.highdots.com/css-tab-designer/

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Product info

Style Master: all the tools you need to design, build, code, troubleshoot and learn standards based web design using cascading style sheets.
The Workspace

Style Master is a complete workplace for designing, developing and debugging your CSS.

Design: WYSIWYG editors, advanced color picking tools and interactive previewing using the site you want to style - all in a fully customizable environment that will grow along with your CSS expertise.

Build: Our collection of wizards and templates make it easy for you to create ready to go style sheets, navbars, breadcrumb trails, layouts and whole sites, without even having to look at the CSS until you’re ready for it. Embrace the efficiency of CSS by linking to any number of HTML files from your style sheet.

Code: As you learn CSS you’ll find yourself using Style Master’s hand coding tools more and more, but the editors will always be there for design tasks like creating color schemes, and getting to grips with new properties and selectors.

Troubleshoot: CSS has some tricky browser support pitfalls. With intelligent built in browser support info, Style Master will help you avoid them. Our validation features make sure your code is always valid, our formatting tools keep your code looking clean, and our reporting features will even find any unused CSS for you.

Style Master for just $US59.99.

http://www.westciv.com/style_master/

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Lightbox2
Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/

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php Free Chat is a free, simple to install, fast, customizable and multi languages chat that uses a simple filesystem for message and nickname storage. It uses AJAX to smoothly refresh (no flicker) and display the chat zone and the nickname zone. It supports multi-rooms (/join), private messages, moderation (/kick, /ban), customized themes based on CSS and plugins systems that allows you to write your own storage routines (ex: Mysql, IRC backends …), and you own chat commands !

Screenshots

http://www.phpfreechat.net/

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About freecsstemplates.org

* Released for FREE under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license
* Very lightweight in terms of images
* Tables-free (ie. they use no tables for layout purposes)
* W3C standards compliant and valid (XHTML Strict)
* Provided with public domain photos, generously provided by PDPhoto.org and Wikimedia Commons

http://www.freecsstemplates.org

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This is meant to be a parody of Web 2.0 Logos. While they are pretty cool, they are all kinda the same. It was created as a joke, not a serious logo maker. But feel free to use it to make a logo.

http://h-master.net/web2.0/index.php

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This is a series of my Resourceful List that i bring to you. I am sure it will be very useful for those who intends to add a little more color to their blog design and instead of engaging a designer which might cost you $500 for a theme, why not do-it-yourself, I am sure it’s not a wise of time since you will be learning another skill.

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131 Ultimate Web 2.0 Layer Styles

Adobe Photoshop is one of my favorite editing program that i use daily to cut and create new graphics. So in order to create a web 2.0 badge or navigation bar, i need a template that i can use to easily blend my colour without adjusting it myself, now Deziner released it’s ultimate web 2.0 layer styles for free with over 131 layers and gradients which you can choose from to create a more beautiful logo of your choice. Have you downloaded and installed it in your own photoshop?

7 Clutch Free Tools For Budding Web 2.0 Developers and Designers

I found this resource list particularly useful for those who are developers especially, though pack with only 7 tips but the i am sure i have learned something out of it since i am not an expert on this topic but it’s worth a read.

25 Web 2.0 Headlines Formulas

Like what skellie said, “Headlines can make or break a story. With thousands of different articles vying for our attention, web users can afford to be picky. The ascendancy of the headline has been one aspect of Web 2.0 culture which hasn’t received the attention it deserves.” Do you guys agree on this point?

51 Web 2.0 Rss Button & Icons

Kenneth Foo let his graphics do the talking over at his giant resource list where he found 51 unique Rss Buttons and Icons, I just thought it would be much better if everyone of the buttons found can be accompanied with a .PSD file so that i can edit it’s colour and etc.

99 Web 2.0 Designs

Vandelaydesign had done it again! This is a nice collection of 99 resources on designing your dream web 2.0 site. I had to say the background stripes maker was what i need for my navigation bar which i will be changing the design really soon on my blog, let me say thank you first!

100 Web 2.0 Online Generators

A list of online generators for tool tip, graphics and image, favicon, flash, css and color. Now a days designing an image and creating a favicon does not require more than 5 steps to finish and you do not need to waste time on cutting and editing the image since it is already generated for you, change the colours and required specifications and you are done!

68 Web 2.0 Designing Tutorials

For those who are requesting to have tutorial guides and aids to do it yourself so that you are able to make minor adjustments to the final results, now you can have it done your way with 60 designing tutorials teaching you step by step on how to create your own web 2.0 logos,software cover for your next software project, glassy look buttons and etc.. A worthwhile site to bookmark on.

54 Css Web 2.0 Design ideas

If you are a Webmaster or Blog designer, these 54 Css Design can assist in inspiring you with more ideas on creating your next 2.0 theme.

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The Month of August have seen many familiar blogging faces change their skin and why change a blog skin or some prefer to be called as theme or template. There are many answers to why a blogger would want to change his current skin and of course it should always be for a good course. The main thing they change their blog design is to attract traffic.

ProBlogger, John Chow and Carlocab took a step forward and giving their blog a new look. The new look had certainly increase the number of curiosity in the blogosphere, look at the number of backlinks these guys are receiving for a change.

Problogger had his reasons of the change to a new blog face lift, he quoted that “I always find a fresh coat of paint can really lift a room, a haircut can improve a mood and a blog redesign can get the creative juices flowing again.”

Johnchow is all about making money online and if you are serious in making money online then you would be interesting in why he also did a makeover “The old theme was stuck at $12,500 a month and I wasn’t going to break out of that unless I do a redesign. This is all part of the make money online process. I didn’t do a redesign for the sake of a redesign.”

Carlocab changed his blog design without announcing it to the crowd but i believe most of his readers catch his intention of bringing a better and refreshing look from his older skin.

Does blog design really matter?
This was the issue for the month of August, it have brought to many bloggers attention that blog design does matter and to give yourself a more professional look, you need more juice other than just blogging contents, a unique blog design enables your readers to see you from a different aspect and with a more exquisite look, there is bound to be more onlookers to your blog.

Yaro Starak a professional blogger in the blogosphere had something to say about redesigning your blog and why is it important to do a blog redesign if not a simple tweak on your current blog, while it is not the most important aspect but giving a new look with a more diversify design would bring out your professionalism and how you will be look upon in this blogging business.

Yaro Starak

If what Yaro starak says is true then it would be good that you would consider to audit your blog design and see whether there is a need to change, there are many themes and templates around for free which may require a tweak or two just to make sure it is customized to your requirement or else you can seek for professional help, if you are willing to pay good money for a nicely designed theme. Nate Whitehill recently did a wonderful job by giving JohnChow his new skin lift or visit his unique blog design themes which he makes it affordable for everyone to purchase an exclusive theme starting from $79!

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