These days becoming a good website maker is starting to take its place as a great stay at home job. Except it can be very complicated and frustrating at times, and these days to make sure you get a good job, you have to make sure your designs stand out. Now among the 6 billion plus web pages, it can be very hard to do, since anyone with a fifth grade education can learn how to use Photoshop and Dreamweaver. Thats why these days other than CSS, javascript is one of the best ways to make your web page something extraordinary. (In case you didn’t know Javascript is not the same or related at all to the “Java” language.) Recently I’ve surfed the web for some of the best javascripts I could find, and found some places that have some great javascripts. All you have to do is upload them to your server, add a link in your page’s head section to them, and then you’re able to do things such as “magically” add reflections to images without using Photoshop, and much more.
MooTools – This is a great piece of javascript framework which is very compact, modular, and object-oriented. With it you can write great scripts that will work on just about any browser, and be considerably shorter. This is only for people at an intermediate and advanced experience level with javascript. Javascript is definitely worth learning though.You can choose what you want to be included in the MooTools script such as FX.Transitions or just the Core script and if you want it to be compressed or uncompressed so you can easily edit it. I’d go with downloading the Core and most of the rest of the code except the effects and such, which you can easily add later if you need it. Also, leave the file uncompressed so you can easily go and add more code afterwards.
| MooTool Home | Download Page |
Reflection.js – Found over at http://www.digitalia.be is another handy little script that uses MooTools to let you add reflections below your images like this:
and it lets you change the size and everything of the reflection easily. This creates some restrictions if you’re using light box with it but if you avoid them this goes great with lightbox.
| Reflection.js for MooTools|
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