The Vista-like Ajax Calendar (vlaCalendar) is a unobtrusive web version of the slick and profound Windows Vista taskbar calendar, by using the Mootools Javascript Framework, AJAX, XHTML, CSS and PHP.

Key Features

• Authentic Vista look-and-feel
• Quick navigation by jumping back and forth between months, years and decades without drop-down boxes
• Smooth transition animations
• Customizable features
• Lightweight

SEO is a really trendy topic. It’s also a topic that is misunderstood. I think this has to do with how the search engines are constantly refining their search algorithms for increased performance and relevancy but also to thwart black-hat SEO spammers.

I come across a lot of really good articles while researching SEO and thought I would share them with you. I will revise this post over time as I gather more SEO information. Feel free to post anything you come across as well!

• Google Webmaster Guidelines
• Beginners Guide to SEO
• Search Engine Ranking Factors
• Website SEO Score Tool
• SEO Browser

pChart is a PHP class oriented framework designed to create aliased charts. Most of today’s chart libraries have a cost, our project is intended to be free. Data can be retrieved from SQL queries, CSV files, or manually provided.

Focus has been put on rendering quality introducing an aliasing algorithm to draw eye candy graphics. In fact, quality is slowing down the renderer engine… this is one of our way of improvement!

The first purpose of pChart was to provide an easy interface for drawing anti-aliased pictures using the GD library. Then alpha-transparency and shadow supports have been integrated in addition to all the primitive functions to draw basic shapes. pChart can be used as a high level drawing library if you only need to create shapes & text composed pictures.

TipJoy is a new service that allows users to leave small tips for content that they love. Once you have signed up for TipJoy you can leave a $0.10 tip with a single click and never leave the site!

Update:

This site is no longer in service. It seemed to be a good idea but maybe it was just bad timing. Read my article on why some start-ups fail.

Google Trends is a tool from Google Labs that shows the most popularly searched terms based on one or more keywords from the beginning of 2004 to now. Google Trends charts how often a particular search term is entered relative the total search volume across various regions of the world, and in various languages.

With Google Trends, you can compare the world’s interest in your favorite topics. Enter up to five topics and see how often they’ve been searched on Google over time. Google Trends also shows how frequently your topics have appeared in Google News stories, and in which geographic regions people have searched for them most.

This is an excellent tool to add to your SEO arsenal.

SPAW Editor is a web based in-browser WYSIWYG HTML editor control. It is a replacement for standard HTML textarea fields for rich text content editing. Version 2 builds on great widely acclaimed features of the first version and includes lots of exciting new features and improvements. The following are some major features that are built into the editor.

Tabbed Multi-document Interface

Version 2 introduces new industry unique tabbed multi-document interface feature. Now you can edit virtually unlimited number of HTML snippets in a single WYSIWYG instance. This can save a lot of screen space, unnecessary scrolling and loading time compared to other solutions where you have to load as many WYSIWYG instances as HTML snippets you want to edit.

It’s easy adding 301 redirects to your website using Apache’s htaccess. A 301 redirect is the most efficient and Search Engine Friendly method for web page redirection. It’s not difficult to implement and will preserve your search engine rankings as well.

Often when someone does a redesign of their website or puts it into a new platform, and little consideration is regarded for the difference between the existing an new link structure. You should have a redirect in place if your old link structure varies from the new one. This will help you maintain you search engine rankings and decrease the possibility if someone reaching a 404 page.

Hi! My name is Richard and this is my first attempt at blogging. I plan on submitting snippets of code as often as I can to share with the Open Source Community! I love the internet and want to share my journey and thoughts on the web, programming & resources with readers. Happy reading!