Joomla on XAMPP with SEF enabled

In order to make your URLs in Joomla a bit more understandeble you need to do the following
a. enable modrewrite module in apache
b. tweak Joomla’s .htaccess file

This is how I did it:

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Collection of useful blog icons

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/05/24/freebies-round-up-icons-buttons-and-templates/

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Bubble Tooltips

A great article telling about how to create CSS+JS tooltips.

http://web-graphics.com/mtarchive/001717.php

Creating DOM elements on the fly with graft

http://schf.uc.org/articles/2006/10/15/making-javascript-dom-a-
piece-of-cake-with-the-graft-function

Ajax Progress bar script

http://www.blackbirdblog.it/blog/archivio/2006/03/09/ajax-progress-bar/

Autosuggest / Autocomplete with Ajax v. 2.1

Found on the net a rather interesting Ajax script that suggests different variants for completion of user input as he/she types.

http://www.brandspankingnew.net/specials/ajax_autosuggest/
ajax_autosuggest_autocomplete.html?

GBmaps.com

Ever wandered how companies get great looking office location maps on their websites? Check out GBmaps, map creation is their business: gbmaps.com

Rounded Corners

Here are a few great concepts of creating boxes with rounded corners with CSS only:

Pure CSS:

Other Solutions:

Well designed shopping cart

http://www.cooper.com/about/case_studies/hp_shopping.html

Jonathan Snook’s approach to web design

http://snook.ca/archives/design/how_i_design/

Related info:
http://www.7nights.com/asterisk/archive/2005/04/page-description-diagrams