20 Awesome Jquery File Uploader Plugins

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Ajax Upload by Valums

Plupload v1.5.1.1
It allows you to upload files using HTML5 Gears, Silverlight, Flash, BrowserPlus or normal forms. It shows upload progress and also allow image resizing and chunked uploads.

Uploadify
Uploadify has multiple File Upload capabilities and uses a combination of javascript,action script or any popular server-side languages.Its large support community with many docs and examples make this plugin worth a try.

AJAX Multiple File Upload Form Using jQuery
This plugin features a nice user interface allowing users to upload multiple files with ease.

Multiple File Upload Plugin
This non-obstrusive plugin not only helps users easily select multiple files it also provides some basic validation functionality,like say differentiate different file types or restrict maximum upload files to 5 at a time,just to help developers idenfity simple errors, without having to upload files.

Uploadprogress v 0.3 – a jQuery + PHP plugin
This plugin allows users to choose files one by one and also shows the upload speed which is cool.

jQuery Form Plugin

FancyUpload – Swiff meets Ajax (v3.0)
This plugin is server independent and completely styleable via XHTML & CSS.

SWFUpload jQuery Plugin
SWFUpload plugin was rewritten by Adam Royle using jQuery to create a real event dispacther.

JqUploader
Input the email & choose a file ,this plugin will send the file to the email address.

JQuery Ajax File Upload

Multiple file uploader

jQuery File Upload
Allows to select multiple files or drag them all at once and upload them simultaneously.This plugin shows a progress bar for uploading progress.Stop individual uploads or all are other notable features.

Multiple File Upload With Progress Bar Using jQuery

jQuery.upload

Ajax File Upload Script Using jQuery

jQuery Custom File Upload Input
This plugin has neat input box and buttons when user selects a file to upload.

Image Upload and Cropping with PHP and Jquery
Image cropping is the most important part in social media networks & projects to limit the size of image.This plugin allows this kind of funtionality.

Uploading Files with AJAX

5 Top jQuery Chart

1. GraphUp Jquery Plugin

“GraphUp is a very flexible and lightweight jQuery (v1.4+) plugin to spice up your data tables. It visualizes the values using color, bar charts and bubbles.”

• Many options — Pick a data cleaner and a painter: fill, bars, bubbles; configurable decimal point (dot or comma); customizable color maps and CSS classes; and more.
• Lightweight — The plugin takes only 4kB to load.

• Extensible — Easily create your own cleaners, painters or color maps. Also, a callback is available to perform any operations on a cell before painting. Super flexible, endless possibilities! Check out the demos.

• Progressive enhancement — Your original table is still viewable without JavaScript enabled.
• Well documented — Check out the live examples and documentation.

Compatible Browsers: Chrome 5, FireFox 2, FireFox 3, IE7, IE8, Opera, Safari

1.1. jQuery Visualize Plugin

jQuery Visualize Plugin is the perfect plugin if you have a table and want to generate a chart out of it. It offers different types of charts such as Bar, Area, Pie & Line charts.

Examples

Type of Charts: Bar, Area, Pie & Line.

Requirements: jQuery, excanvas (included)

Browser Support: IE6*, IE7*, IE8*, Firefox 2, Firefox 3.5, Safari 3 and 4, Opera 9.

* HTML 5 canvas element is not supported by IE but Google maintains a library that translates canvas scripting into VML, allowing it to work in all versions of internet explorer.

Demo: http://www.filamentgroup.com/examples/charting_v2/index_2.php

License: MIT and GPL licenses

2. Highcharts

Highcharts is a really impressive jQuery Chart Library. In a few words Highcharts is compatible with most Browsers and even the iPhone; numerous chart types are supported; it is a dynamic plugin because you can add, remove and modify series, axes or points at any time after chart creation and you can load data from external files; tooltip labels are also supported which is great for detailed information in a point of a chart; zooming and last but not least all text labels can be rotated in any angle.

Examples

Line and column example

Columns with rotated labels

Type of Charts: Bar, Area, Areaspline , Pie, Line, Spline, Column & Scatter.

Requirements: jQuery or MooTools

Browser Support: IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3.5, Safari 3 and 4, Opera 9 and iPhone!

Demo: http://www.highcharts.com/demo/

License: Creative Commons Attribution  Non-Commercial 3.0 License. Free for personal website, a school site or a non-profit organization. For a single commercial Website the license costs $80.

3. Flot

Flot is as the authors call it an “Attractive Javascript plotting for jQuery” which is true. The charts look simple and nice, it is easy to create charts and all settings are optional. Some key features of plot is turning series on/off, zooming, interacting with the data points and it integrates a simple tooltip feature.

Examples

Tracking curves with crosshair plugin

Type of Charts: Bar, Area, Point & Line.

Requirements: jQuery

Browser Support: IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3.5, Safari 3 and 4, Opera 9 and Konqueror 4+.

Demo: http://people.iola.dk/olau/flot/examples/

License: MIT License

4. jQuery Sparklines

Sparklines generates small inline charts either inline in the HTML or via JavaScript. It is really good for displaying mini graphs notably because most of them just take 1 line of HTML or JavaScript code. Another great feature is it self-refreshing capabilities. You can see it in their Mouse-Speed demo which shows you the power of live charting.

Example

Type of Charts: Bar, Tristate, Bullet, Box Plot & Line.

Requirements: jQuery

Browser Support: IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3.5, Safari 3 and 4, Opera 9 and Google Chrome.

Demo: http://omnipotent.net/jquery.sparkline/

License: New BSD License

5. jqPlot

jqPlot did not catch my eye at first glance but after further research I found it to be one of the best and free jQuery chart library. Numerous graphical options are available you can even add shadows and interact per drag&drop in the charts! It even automatically computes trend lines. We could compare it to highcharts in terms of features and functionality.

Examples

Type of Charts: Bar, Pie & Line.

Requirements: jQuery

Browser Support: IE6, IE7, IE8, Firefox 2, Firefox 3.5, Safari 3 and 4, Opera 9 and Google Chrome.

Demo: http://www.jqplot.com/tests/

License: MIT and GPL version 2 licenses

Conclusion

As you may have seen from this 5 jQuery chart libraries they suit different needs. First Sparklines generates a small inline chart which is perfect for charts where the precision is not important. You look at the small chart and you should directly know what happened.

Highcharts, Flot and jqPlot are very powerful jQuery chart libraries. My personal favourites is Highcharts and jqPlot. The visual quality of Highcharts charts are better than jqPlot but the last one is free. I recommend you to test at least one of them and you will see that they are really powerful.

Finally jQuery Visualize is really easy to use and specially adapted if you want to create a chart out of a table, just like you would do it in excel. This can be convenient when you need a table and a chart to visualize your thoughts. Feel free to give your feedback via comments section.:)

Top 3 Keys For a Great Web Design Every Time

With the huge amount of web browsing done these days, a web designer can’t afford to let their viewers leave their website due to bad design. A well built website should have 3 key elements that help viewers find what they are looking for. These keys are structure, usability, and content. Using these three keys will help web designers create a well designed website every time.

Structure

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The idea behind having a well structured website is to help the viewer quickly find what they are looking for. The information super highway does not afford badly designed websites to attract and maintain viewership. There are many properties contained within the structure of a website.

Spaces and Shapes

The foundation of good structure is utilizing spaces and shapes which contain the majority of content within a website, as well as mold the website into a logical form. Choosing one shape as a template to structure the entire website is good practice. In other words, if rounded borders are to be used on some of the tables, they should be used on all of the tables. In fact, they should be the same radius as well. The reason being, according to author Lilian Garret, “The more clearly the forms follow a regular and predictable pattern, the more we see them as single, unified groups” (Garrett). Spacing is also important in the structure of a website. Lilian Garret also says, “The nearer visual elements are to each other, the more we tend to group them together” (Garrett). In the example of a blog, each post should be adequately spaced apart from another post, while the body of each post, should be closer together.

Colors

Colors also help distinguish the content of a website. A good rule of thumb is to use two contrasting color palettes and one neutral color. The two contrasting colors are for the body background and the body text (keep in mind if viewers are going to be spending time on reading the content of the website: it is easier to read black text on a white background than it is to read white text on a black background). Neutral colors are great for navigational menus, or supporting a background color. Having a white background and using light blue tables to hold the content of a page would be an example of having a neutral color supporting a background color.

Paragraph Properties

Setting the proper paragraph properties of a website is another element to providing great structure. Paragraph properties include font face, font size, line spacing, and letter spacing. By default, internet web browsers have already done most of the work for us and will use the most reader friendly fonts. Stay away from using artistic, decorative fonts, unless they are large. According to fonts.com, “decorative type faces can detract from the communication process”.

Rhythm

The last element of having good website structure is rhythm. Every page on a website should look and feel the same. Every page should flow from left to right and from top to bottom with the most relevant information in the top left, drawing down to the least relevant at the bottom right. The most important information can be centered in the middle of a web page if there is adequate spacing around it. An extreme of example of this would be Google.com.

Usability

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Usability is defined as the ease of navigating and finding information on a website. There are three elements or ways of having good usability.

Site Map

The first is having a site map. Site maps are important navigational pages that display all of the important and relevant links on an entire website. It’s important to note that if a website has a lot of links, the site map should have categories with drop down menus. This way the site map will always look neat with little clutter of information which might be of no use to a viewer. It’s also important to remember that a site map doesn’t have to include every page on a website, in fact sometimes it is better to leave out some links. A good practice is to leave out links that would have no benefit to someone viewing the website.

Search Bar

A search bar is another element that would increase a website’s usability. If a viewer knew exactly what they wanted from a website, they would be able to type it in the search bar instead of having to navigate around the website or the site map.

Navigation Menu

The last, but most important element of a website’s usability is the navigation menu itself. Links in a navigation menu should be categorized by relevancy of other web pages. If a website has a lot of links, it might want to use drop down menus. Drop down menus are a great way of organizing and categorizing web pages. Drop down menus can be used with horizontal navigation menus as well as vertical menus. For lots of links, it is recommended to use a vertical navigation drop down menu. Amazon.com is a great example of a clean vertical navigation drop down menu.

Content

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With good structure and good usability, great content is on the way. Make use of paragraph and header tags. Place headers in logical order from h1, down to h6. The h1 tag is generally static and takes on the name or overall theme of the website. The h2 through h6 tags should be used for titles of paragraphs and sub titles of paragraphs respectively. If a website has a lot of fresh content appearing regularly, a good method to handle it is by having a header tag with a small abstraction of the fresh content. When designing the website, keep the content in mind. When a new viewer visits a website, they should know what the website is about without having to scroll. Clearly defined titles and short descriptions in the top two to three inches of a website will let new users know what the website is all about.

After using the three keys to create a great web design all that is need is email hosting,correct grammar, creative writing, and interesting graphics or pictures explaining your website.

Web design company : Mr Web Limited

10 New Free Fonts for Your Delight

Our readers are already used to finding beautiful and free fonts around here, and today, to keep you happy, we have a new round of free fonts for your delight. Since we love to hunt down nice freebies and fonts are always in high demand, here are 10 new fonts for you to use in your designs. Enjoy!

Click at the images to go to each website to download the fonts, enjoy!

GRN Burgy

Henry Typeface

MOLESK font

Duke

AE Speedway Font

Cabinsketch

Terminal Dosis

Logisoso

Tall Boy

Ranger

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16 Amazing Time Management & Tracking Tools

Office Timesheets
Web-based time and expense tracking that’s easy to use and available anywhere.

TrackMyPeople
TrackMyPeople allows you to easily track your time, as well as your employees’ time.
The online timesheet TrackMyPeople offers flexible management and reporting options for everyone.

Harvest
Simple time tracking, fast online invoicing, and powerful reporting software. Simplify employee timesheets and billing. Get started for free.

Paymo
Paymo is a time tracking and online invoicing tool that can be used online or on your desktop. Paymo offers you a clear picture of how time is spent in your organization.

myHours
Time Management, Timesheet, Time Tracking online solution. myHours.com enables you to track your work time, the projects you work on and tasks you perform. It is web based and can be used from any location at any time.
Freckle Time
Time tracking, not hair pulling! Freckle helps you track your time, for clients or yourself, and doesn’t get in your way. Freckle is perfect for freelancers, consultants & and small teams.

Yast
Use Yast time tracker for online time tracking and invoicing. 1-click timers, team or individual, shared projects & tasks, configurable reports, mobile app, time your calls.

Tsheets
Employee Time Tracking in the office or field. Simplify payroll & invoicing. Track projects, vacation, overtime, schedules and more.
TEMPO
Tempo provides simple time tracking with powerful visual reporting tools and mobile access.

ClickTime
Web timesheet and expense software made easy. ClickTime is the easiest way to track employee time and manage projects.

Intervals
Intervals is web-based time tracking, task management, and project management for small businesses that need to know where all of their time is going. Includes workflow, timesheets, reporting, document storage, and invoicing.
MakeSomeTime
MakeSomeTime – Online Time Tracking and Invoicing for Pro’s.

Easy Time Tracking
All-in-one software for all time tracking needs: track employee timesheets, run billing reports and invoice clients. The time tracking and billing software that makes billing and invoicing so easy!
actiTIME
Web-based standalone timesheet for tracking time your employees spent on tasks and projects. Hosted version is available. Free for small businesses.

eHour – Timesheet Management
eHour is the free webbased time tracking solution for companies and organizations who need accurate information on how much time is spend on projects by their people
Ronin
Online invoicing, time tracking, and client management software for small businesses.

Web Design Company - Mr Web Limited

張貼者： William 於 下午10:59 0 意見

標籤： Web tools

2011年10月26日星期三

使用iPad逛購物網站多買50%，網站製作者應好好對待「iPad族」！

最近《華爾街日報》披露一個很有趣的事，它整合了Forrester Research及一些購物網站如Macy’s百貨公司發現，在平板電腦（譬如iPad）上面看購物網站的人士，「買下東西」的機率比一般電腦還高，而且高了至少50%！細節來看，研究的購物網站所吸引的一般電腦的用戶進來，大概有3%的「轉換率」（conversion rate），也就是每一百人進來此網站有三人會真的買下東西，而使用iPad或其他平板電腦的用戶呢，則有高達4%~5%的轉換率！

而且，不只是「容易買東西」，每次一買，平均金額也高很多。該研究顯示，消費者使用平板電腦買東西，購買金額會高出10%~20%。

而且，研究還說，平板電腦的用戶，已經超過六成的人開始在線上買東西了！難怪華爾街日報要以「終極血拼工具」(The Ultimate Shopping Machine)來形容平板電腦iPad。

真有趣！

不過，平板電腦適合購物，應也是顯而易見的事，因為大家使用平板電腦都是「後仰45度」，整個情境比較輕鬆一點，而且平板電腦的畫面感覺較美觀，整個螢幕放大縮小、拖上拉下，非常方便，整個瀏覽的感覺也提升，增進「食慾」，當然就比較容易買，也買得多！
也有另一個解釋，或許，平板電腦的用戶比較富有？才會多買一台電腦！這就好像我兩年前也有一篇文章指出蘋果電腦用戶點擊網頁廣告之後的「轉換率」是微微高於其他電腦用戶的，蘋果電腦用戶平均比較願意花錢，而現在這個現象，繼續轉到iPad用戶上面。

重點來了，平板電腦畢竟還是剛開始的東西，這個趨勢的背後，還藏有什麼新的趨勢？

特別是對於購物網站的經營者，或是現在想開購物網站的設計者，或是想在線上賣東西的業者，搶在人人手上都有一台iPad」之前，應該做什麼「準備」？

第一、iPad上不易填寫「表單」：平板電腦缺了鍵盤和滑鼠，因此它的「打字」、「跳格」不比一般電腦平順。而一般購物網站，偏偏最麻煩的正是「表單」，它要填的東西，既多、且雜，容易填錯，之前也有研究顯示填寫購物表單流程若稍過於複雜則轉換率會大跌，而，目前平板電腦所顯示出的「表單」，竟然和一般桌機電腦是一模一樣的，換句話說，如果現在憑這樣的表單就已經比一般電腦還要容易買東西，當你再進一步解決「表單」的問題，一定可以加更多分、讓消費者買下更多東西！

第二、iPad上不易開「多視窗」貨比三家：平常我們在電腦上買東西，往往是「開好多個視窗」，每個都是一個購物商品，比價一下，所以，人說平板電腦比較容易買東西，也有可能是因為它不容易「開多個視窗」（雖然技術上可行但一般人仍習慣在平板電腦上只專注一個視窗），沒有比價，沒有東想西想，所以購買率高？但我最近使用iPad逛旅行社的網頁，發現也有一樣的問題，因為我只能開一個視窗，所以看了一個產品，研究之後，還得「倒退」回到第一頁，再改變搜尋條件，再搜一次，然後再研究這個新產品。這部份很是麻煩，最後一團亂，降低購買意願；如果用戶可以利用你這個網站「開多個視窗」或「記錄原本搜尋過的產品」，應該能再加分。

第三、行動「型錄」一定要串金流：華爾街日報還引述另一份研究，如果是下載的應用程式，購買率是一般網站的三倍！當然，你也可以分析，已經下載的用戶本身就是VIP或重度用戶，購買機率當然會提高，但它的高轉換率也讓正在做行動應用APP的企業們注意一下，現在愈來愈多品牌或零售商製作「行動型錄」，大部份的當然是先做「手機版」，並未考慮過「平板電腦版」，如果有意做下一步，記得要做「平板電腦版」之外，還要開始「串金流」，加入直接購物功能，好好把握購物熱情！

最重要的是，無論你有什麼網站，我們要開始監控「iPad流量」。從前我們都只看各瀏覽器帶來的流量做了什麼事？或來自不同搜尋引擎的流量（含Facebook），做了什麼不一樣的事？但現在，一定要可以看出「iPad族」做了什麼事，在從中調整一下你的網站的版型、版位，因為平板電腦實在太不一樣了，好好的對待「iPad族」，明天業績提升二倍，就靠他們了！

（圖片來源：Fredrik Ohlin）

張貼者： William 於 下午12:36 0 意見

標籤： Web News

美國網路廣告持續飆升

根據IAB美國互動廣告局的最新數據顯示，美國網路廣告營收持續上升， 2011年上半年再創新高，今年上半年達 149 億美元，去年同期成長 23.2 ％。幾乎一半的收入（49 ％）來自搜尋引擎行銷，比去年同期增長了 27 ％，達 73 億美元；展示廣告超過三分之一（37 ％），收入達 55 億美元。

今年第二季網路廣告增加 24.1 ％，至 77 億美元。比去年同期的 62 億美元，增長 13.9 ％。其中展示增長率為 27.1 ％，大幅超過前一年的 16 ％。相關廣告包括橫幅廣告、富媒體、視頻和贊助等。其中贊助廣告成長率最為可觀，從 2.42 億成長至 4.67 億美元，成長率高達 93 %；視頻廣告次之，從 6.27 億成長至 8.91 億美元，漲幅為 42.1 ％。

2011年上半年，分類廣告微幅衰退 2 %，從 12.62 億美元衰退至 12.37 億美元；電子郵件行銷從 1.2 億美元大幅退至 0.79 億美元，跌幅高達 34.2 %。客戶不再青睞以曝光量計價的模式，廣告效果如何比較重要，雖然以曝光量為基礎的廣告增長了 10.8％；然而是市佔率僅有 31 ％，比去年同期的 35 ％明顯下降。

由於互動廣告具備機動彈性的特質，在美國受到越來越受行銷人員青睞，無論訴說品牌故事或主打商品等，都能為廣告主和消費者帶來極大的價值。

張貼者： William 於 下午12:30 0 意見

標籤： Web News

Facebook 的廣告效益增加了

根據 TBG 的分析，上一季 Facebook 的廣告曝光量達 2550 億次，廣告點擊率增加了 18.5 ％；CPM（每千次曝光成本）增加了 7.1 ％；而 CPC（每次點擊成本）也下降了 10.8 ％。研究發現，Facebook 的廣告效益增加了，廣告贊助商更願意在 Facebook 上述說品牌故事，由於社群上親朋好友集結，較易相互傳頌品牌故事。
TBG指出，Facebook上品牌故事的廣告增加了 6.7 %，佔廣告代理商花在 Facebook 廣告預算的 53.7 %；另一項 Efficient Frontier 的研究則抱持不同的看法指出，上一季，Facebook 的廣告量增加了 25 ％；但是，受到品牌廣告數量增加的影響，每次點擊價格也上升 54 ％。
Efficient Frontier 指出，Facebook 的廣告支出和每次點擊成本，正以快速的速度持續上升，顯示社群行銷日益重要。Facebook 廣告每次點擊費用，第三季度比第二季增加 54 ％，顯示廣告客戶在社群上展開劇烈競爭。Facebook 已經成為眾多品牌的行銷管道，為。每次點擊成本的增加，充分反映出廣告主的價格競爭。
Efficient Frontier 指出，2011 年第三季美國搜尋花費比去年同期增加了 20 ％，英國為 16％；零售業和金融業相關的廣告預算顯著增加了，然而，搜尋廣告的投資回報率則有下降的趨勢。展望未來，Facebook 的廣告每季會以 30-40 ％的增幅繼續上升，持續穩步上升，將使 Facebook 廣告的投資回報率更有效。
媒體應該關注的是：廣告效益增加了，廣告價格是否合理？廣告主認同，廣告價格與投資回報率息息相關，願意接受廣告效益提升價格合理調升的正向發展；廣告主不願意，多花一分錢在沒有效益的媒體上，即便是廣告拼命降價，仍然無法贏得廣告主

張貼者： William 於 上午11:12 0 意見

標籤： Web News

2011年10月24日星期一

50 Graphic tributes to Steve Jobs

Dan Malarkey

Aakreit Sachdeva

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