“With browsers rendering JavaScript faster than ever before, it's a great opportunity to get creative with jQuery. This tutorial will show how to create a scrolling 3D tag cloud...it's not as difficult as you might think.”Visit the 3D Tag Cloud Website

Below you'll find a list of the sites I've visited to learn more about Javascript and CSS compression. Please let me know through email or a comment if you know of any other great compression resources, and I'll be glad to post them. Most of the descriptions below are taken from the developers of the example. Thanks, Max.Javascript and CSS CompressionBundle-Fu - Bundle Your JS/CSS Assets in 10 Seconds or Less"Web 2.0 sites have lots of tiny javascript/css files, which causes one extra round trip per file to the server and back! This is bad! Bundle-fu throws it all up into a big package and sends it out all at once. "Make Your Pages Load Faster by Combining and Compressing Javascript and C...

As more and more companies & start-ups contact ideacodes for smartphone design, I found the need to make a link list of templates I might need to use. Recently, I found many of the templates were no longer available online. This is what led to this post. Here I will showcase smartphone templates I’ve found on the web, and archive them at my site, so even if the original source goes away, the templates will still be available. Special thanks to all of the hard working designers that have created these awesome smartphone templates! Also, please check the original source for usage requirements.AndroidAndroid 1.5 GUI PSD v. 1.0 from Pavel MacekDownload the files directlyFireworks t...

Please use the comments section of this post to let the community know of any useful resources I've left out. Most of the descriptions below are taken from the developers of the example. Thanks, m4x.AJAX for WordpressLive Spell Checker"AJAX Live Spell Checker for Wordpress"imgViewJX Wordpress Plugin"imageViewJX is a Wordpress plugin which takes all images from a given directory and flips through them on your WordPress site, without reloading the page imgViewJX uses AJAX library 'xajax'. It is meant as a first experiment in using xajax in Wordpress. Use it if you like it, or learn from it if you want to built something yourself."AJAX'd Wordpress"AJAX'd Wordpress (AWP), formerly know as INA...

If you know of any AJAX based galleries, slideshows, or image manipulation that is not included on this list please post a comment of email me. Special thanks to all of the developers who spend their free time writing great code and releasing it for all of us to use for free.AJAX & Javascript Galleriese2 AJAX Gallery(E)2 Photo Gallery is a open source gallery built with Mootools Javascript Library the compact, modular, Object-Oriented javascript framework. Designed to allow you to upload your photos to a desired folder, tell the (E)2 Photo Gallery what folder to look at and it will automatically load the images using PHP.FrogJS Javascript GalleryFrogJS is a simple, unobtrusive javascr...

Minimalist design patterns are not new to the web, in fact, It's how website design began. This was the first page that Tim Berners Lee ever made back at CERN. Currently archived by on his site, it is the essence of minimal design. This is as minimal as it gets on the web even today. Default text, no columns, or images. If you take a layout like this and add a minimal of CSS you may have a well designed and minimalist website. We'll call this website the internal elegance of web design. This is term I'm borrowing from mathematics where it is used to describe the beauty and efficiently of a formula, or in this case web design.The TestIn order to dig a little deeper into whether a website ...

This awesome project was created by Sebastian Deutsch to visualize Twitter streams sync'd to music using HTML5 and Processing.“We've created a litttle experiment which loads 100 tweets related to HTML5 and displays them using a javascript-based particle engine. Each particle represents a tweet - click on one of them and it'll appear on the screen”.“The original particle engine was ported from a Flex/AS3 project to javascript. We're using processing.js for particle rendering on canvas which is a very useful graphics library created by John Resig. The music will only be played if the browser supports the audio tag. To detect if the audio or canvas feature is present we use...

Consider this list a primer. I've spent the last year looking at data visualizations and have compiled a list of resources that will give you a good view of what's going on in the field. Please use the comments section of this post to let the community know of any useful resources I've left out. Also, if there is enough interest in this post I'll be happy to open up a public wiki on data and content visualization. Please let me know.Places to see Visualizations We Feel FineSince August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world's newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases "I feel" and...

jqModal is a plugin for jQuery to help you display notices, dialogs, and modal windows in a web browser. It is flexible and tiny, akin to a “Swiss Army Knife”, and makes a great base as a general purpose windowing framework. Visit the jqModal Website