jQuery library is quite popular among developers & designers. These 10 plugins can be used widely for any kind of development work in any generic website development.

Virtual jQuery Keyboard – Very useful for typing password in various public places, can be used for websites where requires secure virtual keywords for passwords. You can download full source codes & read the @ Design Shack site.

jQuery 3 State Switch Plugin -  Useful for sites which requires to show some specific selection & some states of list item using radio button & checkbox at the same time.

jQuery Tooltip -can be used  to show any kind of tooltips in websites & web applications. The code is really simple & it adds tooltips without any hassle.

ColorPicker – is a jQuery plugin that let you select color in the same way done in Adobe Photoshop.

Date Range Picker – this allows allows you to set the date range without using the keyboard. Uses jQuery UI.latest & Date.js integration for easy preset development.

Sliding-Sliding Doors - allows you to show animated menu with beautiful sliding door visual effect.

Word Counter – Easy but useful code to show wordcount in a text area. great for using on any website allowing comments from users.

jQuery quickSearch – allows you to do search in a table. See examples here & you can find more details about it @ riklomas

Text-shadow in IE with jQuery – this code is written by Kilian Valkhof  in one of his posts where he explains how to create shadows for text with jQuery in Internet Explorer. The plugin offers two functions: textShadow(); and removeTextShadow()

Facebox – is a jQuery-based, Facebook-style lightbox which can display images, divs, or entire remote pages. Requires jQuery 1.2.1. & also you will require loading image, close label, four corners, and solid border images in addition to the javascript and css files.

note : post inspired by ajaxline which is a great resource for developers.

Ecommerce applications are the best developers resources for setting up any kind of online shopping website to sell products & services. Open Source shopping carts are one of the best choices for the coders who want to get something to work with ease & less of efforts.

These are some of the best open-source e-commerce commonly used.

osCommerce -  It’s one of the oldest shopping cart .apps to be used. Completely multilingual, compatible with PHP 4 versions. It is SEO friendly & supports almost all payment methods.

Magento – This is very popular nowadays. Multilingual, supports local languages, multiple currencies. SEO friendly, has lot of marketing & promotional tools & can supports lot of payment gateways.

Zencart – It can be very easily installed & customized. Though it does not support many payment options as osCommerce, but serves quite well for physical product sites & file download sites.

PrestaShop – Very sleek interface & creating special deals as gift coupons, discounts, tag products, selling virtual goods and service is a breeze.

VirtueMart – This is a system for Mambo and Joomla. It hardly takes any time to integrate with Joomla. It has lot of features for people in terms of stock market to instant currency conversion.

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Microsoft Powerpoint is the most  popular software in creating slideshows for business presentations. As most presentations have lot of data to show & produce, charts are quite often used in these slides. The common way to make Powerpoint Charts is Microsoft Graph. You cancreate several types of charts, including line, column, area and pie charts. It is quite easy to make charts in this. You can check out a nice tutorial on adding a Chart to PowerPoint.

But as more websites like www.slideshare.net is emerging the trend of making & uploading corporate presentations is growing. Though Microsoft Graph is a good option but lacks a bit in looks & animations. FusionCharts is launching a Powerpoint Charting add-on called oomfo, the product is still in beta but you can register for a sneak peek  here. The best part of it is the interactive charts & great 3d animations. You can also watch a product screenshots video to see it in action.

WordPress is known to be the most popular blogging platforms, but it has moved far beyond to  be JUST a blogging platform to a fully customizable CMS solution. One can tweak wordpress to turn it into a fully functional website, a social networking site & even a shopping cart site.  There are quite a number of eCommerce plug-ins for WordPress, the most popular one is wp e-commerce plugin which you can get for free. Many of the themes use this as the base plugin for the shopping cart  functionality.

These are the best Shopping Cart Templates For WordPress :

Crafty  Cart - It’s a fresh flavoured retro style for selling t-shirts and handmade items, designed to be a starting point for any online shop. This is one of the best-  looks great, quite stable, & of course free.  It uses WP e-Commerce plugin for WordPress for functions.

Crafty Cart – Download it HERE

Vanilla Cart – This is also a good free clean & elegant theme for shopping cart sites. Similar to Crafty Cart it also uses WP e-Commerce plugin.

Vanilla Cart – Download it HERE

Shopper Press - It’s a fully featured shopping cart plugin for wordpress with it’s own set of templetes. It has free as well as paid templetes.

ShopperPress  – Download it HERE

eGoods – This is also a nice option for setting shopping website, made by designers based in Germany.

eShop – Download it HERE

I have recently changed my blog theme to The Seven Five is a semi-automatic “Lifestream” WordPress theme, the theme is great & I am luving  it. I added some pages like archives page, 404 error page. I could have added a plugin for a 404 page but I like to make a own custom 404 error page, you can check my 404 page.  It is very simple & you can do to just by doing the following steps

# Create a 404.php page in your themes folder if you do not have one. It’s best to use the same styles your blog so that it looks a part of the blog.

# Add the basic Add these basic code lines in your 404 file. The beast way is to put the same Header, footer lines & and insert content as u wish.

<?php get_header(); ?>

<?php get_sidebar(); ?>

<?php get_footer(); ?>

These are some of the tags that you can use:

Display Archive by Months:

<?php wp_get_archives(’type=monthly’); ?>

This code will display archive by months, but it will list all months.

Display list of Categories

<?php wp_list_cats(); ?>

This code will list all categories on your blog.  you can style them however using list tags or others.

Display Recent Posts

<?php get_archives(’postbypost’, ‘17?, ‘custom’, ‘<li>’, ‘</li>’); ?>

This shows the most recent Posts written on your Blog.

There are other tags too which can be used but these are the most basic ones to use.

Heres a list of the top 126 Ajax tutorials out there. They are organized into a wide range of categories from Getting Started to Shopping Carts. Everything you need regarding Ajax is right here. This is one great resource for the web developers !!

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