'Net Features : scripts

SWiSH miniMax2: Flash For Everyone

Administrator — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:30:00 GMT

Flash has definitely established its place in the Web design world. From full on flash landing pages to menus and beyond, Flash offers the ability to provide a rich, engaging, interactive experience for users and designers love using it on websites.

As search engines become more adept at crawling content within flash files, Flash is having a bit of a rennasaince. If you can't afford the few thousand dollars for the latest version of Adobe Creative Suite, there are alternatives, and there's a good one in newly released SWISH miniMax2. Here are a few noteworthy features:

Includes over 100 preset multimedia effects and over 180 ready-to-use components and vector shapes
Import images, graphics and sound from all popular formats and export presentations to Flash, GIF animation or image sequence
Easy Script Assistant for adding simple interactivity to animations and tools to control motion, draw shapes, edit text, and more

SimpleScripts Releases Automated PHP Script Installer

Pete Prestipino — Tue, 20 May 2008 16:07:00 GMT

SimpleScripts, a one-click script installer for web hosts, has announced over 30,000 installs in its first month. Pretty impressive, considering the stranglehold solutions like Fantastico has on the open-source market.

The system offers web hosts the ability to provide quick and easy installations of popular applications including blogs like WordPress, photo albums like CopperMine, online stores such as ZenCart of Magento, message forums like phpBB, wikis like PmWiki and TikiWiki, and more) for their clients and relieves the host of any maintenance burdens in the process. "We maintain the entire system on our own server clusters," said Matt Heaton owner of SimpleScripts. "We built this system to allow web hosts the ability to offer a simple, fast and self maintained auto-installation system."

SimpleScripts is designed to work on multiple hosting platforms and as of today, the system is compatible with CPanel, Plesk, VPS and dedicated server hosting. Matt Heaton has integrated SimpleScripts for all of the 900,000 plus domains hosted with his companies: BlueHost, HostMonster and FastDomain. These companies are currently averaging over 30,000 SimpleScripts installations per month.

Productivity Scripts for Web Pro's - Greasemonkey

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 19 May 2008 15:45:00 GMT

Greasemonkey is a Mozilla Firefox extension that allows users to install a script that makes modifications to the way Web pages look and act. The advantage for Web users of all levels is that an additional layer of functionality can be added - from price comparison within Amazon web pages to completely stripping Facebook of its advertising - scary, huh? GreaseMonkey however isn't just for a run-of-the-mill Web user, it adds a much improved experience for Web professionals too.

Let's take a look at some of the most helpful Greasemonkey scripts and see what they can do for your productivity and success!

Create a PHP-based Bidded Web Directory

Pete Prestipino — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:22:00 GMT

If you're running on a php host and are keen on being the next great Web directory, check out phpLinkBid, a very full-featured bid directory with powerful administration tools that utilizes PayPal payments. This bidding directory script take just a few minutes to install and for the modest price of $29.95, you pretty much can't go wrong. The feature list reads like a Web professionals dream lineup - SEO friendly URLs, custom language files, multiple currencies, a built-in CMS, template support, an email manager, outbid notifications - the list goes on and on. phpLinksBid also features an interesting add on in its Advanced Link Stats. The display script retrieves Google Pagerank, backinks in Google, Yahoo and Technorati, indexexd pages in Google, Yhaoo and MSN, links from .edu and .gov domains and links in DMOZ.