Development

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In my older blog post on ajax popup windows for your website you can find the reasons why you should use Ajax (javascript) popup windows.

The popup windows become more and more popular. New frameworks are developed very fast like jQuery and others. These provide the basis for the next level of ajax popup windows.

In this post I review some of the newest ajax popup windows. You can choose then which one you will install to your site.

Shadowbox.js is a very promising popup window script but it is free only for non commercial use. From the other side it's capable of displaying: images, imagemaps, videos, slideshows, flash content.

Ok, here we are again after a few months without a single post.

I had recently this problem. I had a floating div which was displayed normaly at Mozilla Firefox but when I loaded the site at Internet Explorer 6 this div was disappearing after the load of the page.

After search I've found that adding this to the css it is displayed at ie 6 too.

so add at your css this directive position: relative

In my Ask-Nik.info blog I wanted to display at the front page all the recent posts but not ordered by date.

I wanted to display every of my categories by 3 posts each. I've searched a lot of plugins but none did the job for me.

So I searched about a day how to do it by myself.

I finally manage to write a front page template which does this job for me. If you take a look at the Ask-Nik.info blog you will understand what I mean.

Here is the code :

<?php get_header(); ?>
	<div id="content" class="narrowcolumn">


	<?php

		$all_categor = get_all_category_ids();
		foreach($all_categor as $cat) :
			$page = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
			query_posts('paged='.$page.'&showposts=3&cat='.$cat);


	?>

			<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
				<div class="post" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">



    

There are a bunch of extensions that you can use for fun or for your convenience. But I've marked some that are increasing our productivity, our concentration to our work, and decrease our wasted time.

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I will list the extensions by Alphabetical order.

Aardvark 2.0

Powerful and user-friendly "selector" utility for selecting elements and doing various actions on them. It can be used for cleaning up a page prior to printing it (by removing and isolating elements), for making the page more readable, and (most appreciated by web developers), for analyzing the structure of a page.

Aging Tabs 0.5.2

Makes unused tabs fade with age and highlights the selected tab.

Ask Power Tools 2.0

Extends Firefox with Ask.com features

BBCodeXtra 0.2.5.6

BBCodeXtra is an extension, compatible with Mozilla FireFox and Mozilla Suite, which adds to the context menu new commands to insert BBCode/Html/XHtml codes in an easy and fast way.

CoLT 2.3.0

CoLT adds two menu items to the browser's context menu, both of which are only visible when right-clicking a hyperlink. The "Copy Link Text" menu item copies a hyperlink's associated text to the clipboard, while the "Copy Link Text and Location" menu item copies both the hyperlink's text and URL to the clipboard in the format you choose: either as plain text, as an