7 Ways to Easily Enhance Your Website

May 5th, 2008 in PHP by Adam Parker

SWFir Image Replacement [Website]
Using the dark arts of JavaScript and Flash, swfIR gives you the ability to apply an assortment of visual effects to any or all images on your website.

sIFR [Website]
This is an easy way to insert rich typography into web pages without sacrificing accessibility, search engine friendliness, or markup semantics by dynamically replacing text with flash.

Dynamic Image Reflections [Website]
Allows you to add reflections to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean and works in all the major browsers. Best of all, it’s uder 5kb.

Tablekit [Website]
This is a collection of HTML table enhancements using the Prototype framework. TableKit currently implements row striping, column sorting, column resizing and cell editing using Ajax.

SWFUpload [Website]
Upload files via flash to get the flash upload dialog goodness.

Google Maps API in 5 lines of Code [Website]
This is a PHP class that integrates itself with the Google Maps API and with the Google Geocoding API to make an easy to use interface to display Google Maps on your site. With about 5 lines of PHP code you can display a customized Google Map on your website.

Using Prototype for Easy Field Validation [Website]
Not really a whole lot to add to this, it’s a great tool that can be easily used.