• CSS Optimization: Make Your Sites Load Faster for Free – CSS optimizers do a variety of voodoo magic to get the end result. This includes merging similar classes, removing useless properties, removing whitespace, and so forth.
• Alternative Style: Working With Alternate Style Sheets – So you’ve got a web page. You’ve marked it up with structural XHTML. You’ve also been a good little web developer and used style sheets to control what your document looks like. You’ve even gone the extra mile and created several alternative style sheets to show how hardcore you are. Great. But now you need a cross-browser way to dynamically switch between the style sheets.
• Various CSS Tutorials – Many different FREE CSS tutorials from forms to layouts it’s quite an extensive resource.
• Benefits of CSS – Cascading Style Sheets is a technology that has been around for several years. It’s a great way to assign style properties to HTML elements in your web pages, and offers several significant benefits over the old way of putting style information directly into HTML tags.
• Creating a centered page layout with CSS – A reader recently asked how to create a centered page layout using CSS. The effect the reader is looking for is similar to the layout achieved by centering an 800-pixel-wide table on a 1024-pixel-wide page. It’s a widely used page layout that traditionally relies on nested tables to achieve the effect, so it’s not surprising that the reader is looking for a way to replicate the effect with CSS.
• Build a better Web site by understanding floated elements in CSS – Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) are rapidly becoming the de facto standard for Web page layout and positioning. They’re easy to use, don’t require any special software, and work uniformly on most major browsers. Using them correctly, however, requires a sound analysis of the functional purpose of a particular layout, both to ensure that the resulting style sheets are logically and functionally correct and that they are portable across different browsers or viewing devices.
• Styling form controls with CSS, revisited – Roger Johansson writes about web standards, accessibility, usability and other topics related to web design and development:
• The W3C CSS Validator Fuji release – A new version of the W3C CSS Validator (The Fuji CSS Validator release) was released in mid-December. It now defaults to validating against CSS 2.1, which is good, and the layout has been improved, which is also good.
• CSS and Web development search engines – While custom search engines are an interesting concept I find myself somewhat wary of using them. Not because there’s anything wrong with them, but because I can’t help wondering if what I’m looking for is on a site that the custom search engine has not added to its index.
• STUDIO7DESIGNS Custom Graphic and Web Designs, Photography and more! – STUDIO7DESIGNS is dedicated to creating the best graphic and web designs in the web 2.0 style. Currently we have over 200,000 people using our open source designs! Our goal is to take your dream and turn it into reality. From logo design, to fully valid css and xhtml web sites, we strive for perfection. Contact us today with your ideas and we will give you a free design quote!
• Open Source Templates – These are Open Source Templates. Use them anyway you like. This is a great way to learn how to code!
• The Open Design Community – The Open Design Community (TODC) is a group of Open Source Website Designers providing free web design templates helping to make the global internet a prettier place.
• CSS Link Styles – Want to know how to create CSS link styles (pseudoclasses)? It’s easy! Just follow along and you’ll be a master in no time.
• CSS Styling for Print and Other Media – There are many different media types that you can apply to CSS, some of which are more useful than others, and they let you specify the look, feel, or sound of the web page that is linked to the CSS files.
• CSS Layout Generator – The layout generated has changed significantly from previous versions. The main reason for change was to simplify the layout and in doing so make it easier to use. It no longer provides fixed width columns with fluid center or full length columns by default. This generator will create a fluid or fixed width floated column layout, with up to 3 columns and with header and footer. Values can be specified in either pixels, ems or percentages.
• Professional CSS – My favorite part of Web design is learning new things, so I’m always looking for new books on the subject. We’re still trying new things, but we’re out of the browsers-changing-daily era of Web design. There’s not a whole lot more anyone can say about HTML or XHTML, which leaves CSS as the next big topic.
• CSS Reference (based on MSDN and WC3 CSS reference) – CSS styles defined
• RichInStyle.com also provides help on key areas of web style – Now for the first time with RichInStyle.com you can use the latest technologies with confidence – whereas before you would have been ill-advised to rely on style sheets for styling your pages, you can now afford to use them on all your pages and reap all the many benefits that they bring. This is thanks to RichInStyle.com’s exhaustive bug pages, which detail nearly 1000 bugs, all organized into easy-to-read sections, as well as to its bug table, which provides at-a-glance access to information.
• A demonstration of what can be accomplished visually through CSS-based design. – There is clearly a need for CSS to be taken seriously by graphic artists. The Zen Garden aims to excite, inspire, and encourage participation.
• Check Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and (X)HTML documents with style sheets – The W3C CSS Validation Service is a free software created by the W3C to help Web designers and Web developers check Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). It can be used on this free service on the web, or downloaded and used either as a java program, or as a java servlet on a Web server. Do you need it? If you are a Web developer or a Web designer, this tool will be an invaluable ally. Not only will it compare your style sheets to the CSS specifications, helping you find errors, typos, or incorrect uses of CSS, it will also tell you when your CSS poses some risks in terms of usability.
• Sliding Doors of CSS, Part II – Sliding Doors of CSS (Part I) introduced a new technique for creating visually stunning interface elements with simple, text-based, semantic markup. In Part II, we’ll push the technique even further. If you haven’t read Part I yet, you should read it now.
• Super-Easy Blendy Backgrounds – Recently, while trying to implement a few different navigation ideas that a designer had thrown my way, I became frustrated with my weak image editing skills. The design was gradient-heavy, so a traditional approach to navigation markup and styling would require a dozen or so background-image slices to meet the varying colors and height requirements.
• Do You Want To Do That With CSS? – Multiple Column Lists – In this tutorial we will learn methods to make a list display as multiple columns of list items, rather than as a single column or horizontal row.
• CSS Beginner Tutorial – CSS, or Cascading Styles Sheets, is a way to style HTML. Whereas the HTML is the content, the style sheet is the presentation of that document. Styles don’t smell or taste anything like HTML, they have a format of ‘property: value’ and most properties can be applied to most HTML tags.
• CSS Intermediate Tutorial – Like the HTML Intermediate Tutorial, this CSS Intermediate Guide should not be that difficult, but rather build on the basics of the CSS Beginner Tutorial.
• CSS Advanced Tutorial – The CSS Advanced Tutorial is for those who want to push CSS to the extreme, highlighting methods that might not be immediately obvious to the intermediate developer.
• How to size text using ems – Text for the screen is sized with CSS in terms of pixels, ems or keywords. As most of us know, sizing with pixels is easy: get your selector and give it a font-size – no more thought required. Sizing with keywords is more complicated and requires a few workarounds, but you’re in luck as the techniques are well documented. That leaves ems.
• Beautiful CSS Templates – All templates are valid XHTML (strict) and CSS. They use less than 25 kilobytes of images and all of them should (hopefully) comply with Section 508 and atleast a WCAG Double-A rating.
• Centering text on the longest line – The Web Typography project continues to proceed, albeit at a glacial pace. One of the reasons for the slow progress is guidelines such as this: to distinguish verse quotations from surrounding prose, they should be [...] centered on the longest line. An uncommon request, but it sounds straightforward enough. Don’t let that fool you. Centering a block is reasonably simple if you know how wide it is.
• Complete CSS Web Templates – All templates are free to use. All we ask is that you please keep the link in the footer of the templates that links back to the designer to help them make a living and to help them be able to provide free website templates.
• Variable fixed width layout – There’s an different approach to web page layout which is gradually getting some traction. The idea is that the layout is changed to best accommodate the window size. As you might expect, it is accomplished by using JavaScript to change the CSS of the webpage.
• Not the best but good for beginners – Sort of cheesy web templates but they are great to learn on.
• More on multi-column layouts – Since Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 shipped with a partial implementation of the proposed CSS 3 Multi-column layout module, it’s received a fair bit of attention. A List Apart recently covered the implementation along with some scripted alternatives, and Quirksmode provides really detailed coverage of what is and isn’t supported (right now that’s the best place to go to learn the syntax).
• Free Web Templates – Use these free Web templates to create valid XHTML documents using CSS instead of tables. If you don’t want to learn to write CSS layouts, you can still create valid XHTML using free Web templates. The newest are listed first.
• Fun with Drop Shadows – Drop Shadows are a nice way to beautify images. There are many articles on them: * CSS Drop Shadows * CSS Drop Shadows II * Easy CSS Drop Shadows * CSS Drop Shadows Test
• More templates to screw up – Basically the worst kinds of all but the good part is that they are not your real site so have fun.
• Tables to Valid XHTML/CSS – In this one I will be teaching you how to take your current website/layout created with tables, tear it apart, and put it back together using valid XHTML and CSS. In this tutorial I will be using an example template to teach you, however you can take the principles I teach here and apply them to your own creations.
• One step above cheesy – and almost functional..
• Templates, Templates,Templates – Unique to say the least
• Templates and CSS Tools – All free and very useful
• Beautiful CSS Layouts – Wonderful layouts completely free.
• Great site that offers new templates – This site offers free CSS website templates, a free web tools list and resources like articles, tutorials, and links that will help you learn the power of CSS, web-standards and tips on how to make a fast, easy to maintain, user-friendly websites.
• A newbie? – 16 years old self taught web designer / developer from Nis, Serbia. I making only static web sites [XHTML & CSS]. Ok if he can do it we all can too.
• Float just about anything you want – Floatutorial takes you through the basics of floating elements such as images, drop caps, next and back buttons, image galleries, inline lists and multi-column layouts.
• CSS Tutorials: An Enormous List – anything and everything that you want to know about css
• The Pinball Effect – Yadda × 3: Preamble It’s quicker and easier to use a bigger link than a smaller one—this is obvious. There’s even a mathematical formula, Fitts’ Law, to calculate just how much quicker. Presented below is a simple way to transform an entire area of a Web page into a link from within it, effectively expanding the link’s size, using Cascading Style Sheets, JavaScript and the Document Object Model. I call this the Pinball Effect because the cursor lights up various areas of the screen sort of like a pinball does zipping around the playfield.

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• All About CSS Drop Shadows
  By: John Gallant , Holly Bergevin
• :BefTer Drop Shadows
  Using :before and :after pseudo elements to create beautiful drop shadow on standard browsers. Use built-in drop-shadow filter for Ie.
• Fun with Drop Shadows
  Drop Shadows are a nice way to beautify images….
• CSS Browser Selector
  Simple trick to help you on CSS hacks!
• CSS filters (css hacks)
  Will the browser apply the rule(s)?
• Image Preloader
  maratz.com – Marko Dugonji
• Link Thumbnail
  Link Thumbnail shows users that are about to leave your site exactly where they’re going
• Pure CSS Popups
  Eric A. Meyer
• Smart Corners
  Using lightweight images, simple markup, and a small amount of CSS, I will demonstrate a method of creating round corners on elastic or liquid boxes
• Spanky Corners 1.1 beta
  Spanky Corners’ is an experimental technique for using only CSS to produce ’round-cornered content boxes’ with semantically pure markup. It does not require JavaScript to work
• “Sliding Doors” Box– Rounded Corners for All
  A Simple, Semantically Correct CSS Box with Clean Code
• Liquid round corners
  Adaptable rounded edges – a multifunctional flexible css-concept with transparency for creating dynamically changing not rectangular borders
• A More Accessible Map
  Is there a way to display text-based data on a map, keeping it accessible, useful and visually attractive?
• CSS-Schieberegler
  A Slider with CSS. Without Java, Javascript, Flash oder animated gifs
• Playing Cards with CSS
  This example demonstrates using CSS to graphically display standard playing cards on a web page…

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Navigation

• Colly’s CSS rollover generator
  CollyLogic CSS Multi-element Rollover Generator
• CSS Tab Designer
  CSS Tab Designer is a unique and easy to use software to help you design css-based lists and tabs visually and without any programming knowledge required!
• Listamatic
  not a tool but very useful! – one list, many options – Using CSS and a simple list to create radically different list
• Listamatic2
  nested list options
• List-O-Matic
  Generate CSS-styled navigation menus based on list items
• List-O-Rama!
  Dreamweaver MX and UltraDev Zone – List-O-Rama will allow you to generate nice CSS inline menus in seconds
• CSS Menu Generator
  CSS Menu Generator will generate both the CSS and the HTML code required to produce a text-based yet appealing set of navigation buttons.

Fonts

• CSS Font and Text Style Wizard
  Use this wizard to experiment with font and text styles and generate sample CSS style source code.
• Em Calculator
  Tool for calculating pixel font sizes to ems.
• korhoen typeviewer
  css typeviewer
• text sizing – up the garden path
  264 Screenshots
• Typetester
  Compare fonts for the screen

Forms

• Accessible Form Builder
  Generate XHTML-compliant accessible forms quicky and easily
• CSS Form Code Maker
  Generates ‘Colorful Box Layout’ For Forms
• JotForm
  Web Based WYSIWYG Form Builder

Layout

• CSS Creator
  Live CSS Cascading Style Sheet Layout generator for your web site
• CSS HTML PHP Website Template Maker
  This PHP – HTML – CSS template generator creates a two column layout with both a header and a footer….
• CSS Rounded Box Generator
  generates html and css for rounded corner boxes
• Firdamatic
  Firdamatic is an online tableless layout generator that allows you to create and customise layouts easily…
• Free CSS Template Code Generator
  Maker for 3 Column Layout (tableless)
• Layout-o-Matic
  Generates tableless CSS layouts at the touch of a button
• Page Maker – The Generator Form v2.90
  CSS Source Ordered Variable Border 1-3 Columned Page Maker
• QrONE CSS Designer
  Online CSS Generator
• Scriptomizers
  A CSS stylesheet generator

Misc Tools

• CSS Love Child
  The Man in Blue Experiment – I want the body of Site […] with the face of site […]
• CSSVista
  CSSVista is a free Windows application for web developers which lets you edit your CSS code live in both Internet Explorer and Firefox simultaneously……
• HTML and CSS Table Border Style Wizard
  Use this wizard to experiment with table border styles and generate style source code.
• I Like Your Colors!
  Use this tool to extract the colors from the HTML and CSS of any web site. Compare the colors easily using hue groups.
• Online CSS Scrollbar Color Changer
  Change the scrollbar colors in an HTML page
• S5Easy: Create S5 Slideshows Easy Online
  Create your slideshow in only 3 steps
• Selectoracle
  English and Spanish translations of CSS3 selectors
• Spanky Corners
  ‘Spanky Corners’ is an experimental technique for using only CSS to produce ’round-cornered content boxes’ with semantically pure markup. It does not require JavaScript to work

Formatters and Optimizers

• CSS Compressor
  Use this utility to compress your CSS to increase loading speed and save on bandwidth as well….
• CSS Formatierer und Optimierer
  CSS optimize
• CSSTidy
  CSSTidy is an opensource CSS parser and optimiser…..
• CSS Tweak – Web Based CSS Tweaker!
  CSS Tweak will take your CSS and optimize it so that file sizes and download times are reduced…..Mac
• Clean CSS – Optmize and Format your CSS
  CSS Formatter and Optimiser, CSS Formatierer und Optimierer
• Format CSS Online
  Automatically format your CSS (cascading style sheets) so they are easy to read and edit…..
• Icey CSS Compressor
  Removes everything useless from stylesheets.
• Online CSS Optimizer
  CSS Optimizer optimizes and reduces the file size of the Cascading Style Sheets
• Online CSS Optimiser/Optimizer
  This tool is used to optimise CSS code. Enter either a URL or Copy & Paste the stylesheet into the box, and click Go
• Pretty Printer for PHP, Java, C++, C, Perl, JavaScript, CSS
  This is a source code beautifier (source code formatter), similiar to indent
• Tabifier
  HTML and CSS code beautifier
• Webucator
  A CSS reference that allows you to test your CSS code.

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Below you’ll find a list of resources which offer free, gorgeous and valid CSS-based templates – usually with images and full layout structure, such as headers, navigation bars, content containers, sidebars and footers.

Usually developers require a link to the site where the template was downloaded from. So before using these templates it might be useful to take a look at the license agreement the developer provides.

• Open Source Templates15 impressive templates
• OSWD
  Hundreds of templates and layouts of all possible kinds.
• OSWT
  A huge collections with search and sort functions. With annoying advertisement.
• Maxdesign
  23 layouts and design solutions
• CSSplay
  Stu Nicolls presents dozens of free professional layouts. Sometimes a permission to use layouts is required.
• Tinderbox
  One layout in many variations
• Changingman
  Beautiful liquid 3-col-layout.
• Mollio
  Seven variations of one template, incl. style guides as .pdf-files.
• Six Shooter Media15 Templates
• Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS
  A complex solution for many problems you might ever have: grid design is a principle well-known from image editors and layout tools.
• CSS Design Templates
  12 Templates
• ThreeColumnLayouts, by CSS Discuss
  Collection of 3-column-templates, gathered from a dozen of sources on the Web.
• CSS Intensivstation
  15 Layouts
• CSSFILL
  Small collection for personal web-sites
• CSS Frames Layouts
  Frames are also possible with CSS
• CSS Template Gallery
  The site includes a search function, however it includes only 32 templates.
• Ex-Designz
  98 (X)HTML-based CSS-templates
• Code-Sucks
  6 templates and various layouts with 2-4 columns.
• Jimmy Lin
  8 simple templates
• Layout Gala
  40 professional Layouts for fresh and serious online-presentations.
• Little Boxes
  16 Layouts, classic.
• Solucija
  19 Templates

Even more freebies!

• 25 CSS Template Resources
  A comprehensive list in the Web Developer’s Handbook.
• An extensive collection of css-templates
  List of resources with free css-layouts, by Manuela Hoffmann (in German!).

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Many times with a web site or weblog ( blog ), there comes a time when you will want to start generating money from all your hard work of maintaining your site. One form of monetizing is selling advertising on your site, such as in the form of selling text links on your site.

You have a few options to chose from, but by far the most popular services are Google Adsense, Adbrite, and Text Link Ads. All three services have a large following of use, and provide excellent documentation to get you started in the process of signing up, adding your code, and collecting your revenue. These are excellent choices for those of you that write niche content that people love to read, and want nothing more than a 1..2..3 approach to making some passive income from your site with no real thought to your future.

Now, don’t get me wrong.. I think all these services are great. They are run by some fantastic people, have loyal advertisers, have a great reputation, and provide an excellent service to those looking to make easy some money with their site traffic.

The real money comes from NOT using these services.. I know I will get flamed for this, but hear me out for a minute.

Just like you, these services are looking to make money. Many of these services are set up to take away a percentage of what your earning with the click-throughs you generate. These click-through happen because of YOU and your site, not because of Adsense or anyone else.. so why should you share your income with them?

Plus, do you pay attention to those ads as a reader when you visit a site? I think just about everyone has seen the many models of Google Adsense and how they are displayed. When I visit a site with Adwords, I don’t even look at them. I am almost immune to them by now. Studies with eye tracking software have shown this to be true as well on Google’s own search site. Don’t get me wrong, I think you can make money with Adsense, but you can make a lot more money with out them as well.

Simply put, if your getting 100 clicks a day on an ad or text link you set up with a service like Adsense, Adbrite, or Text Link Ads.. you could be losing up to half of your revenue for their share of the pie. Say those 100
clicks a day were making you $450 a month.. if your only getting the $450 from those clicks and are losing half to a service that brokers the links for you.. you could have actually made up to $900 ( at half ) for the same ad spot with the same clicks during that same time period.

Sure those services find the buyers for you, set up the transaction, and even keep stats for you and the buyer.. but who says you can’t do the same thing? What happens when their service goes down for XYZ reason and ads stop displaying on your site? You wanted to make money from you site, so you need to start thinking like a business… and sometimes the greater return comes to those willing to put a little effort into their ‘business’.

You spent a lot of time making/building your site, getting it perfect.. then you spent a lot of time marketing your site to get all that traffic that clicks on your site and returns daily to view your site, and you spend a lot of time writing your content or getting the content right.. you may even spend a good deal of time staying on top of your subject matter to make sure your content is good…. so why spend just 20 minutes on monetizing your site to make yourself only half the revenue you should be getting?

You could even be getting your money upfront, not waiting up to 3 months to get a check cut to you.. or meeting some minimum payment for a check to be sent out. Get your money upfront and stop waiting for a deadline or minimum payout.

You can set up an advertising kit on your site that explains you sell advertising on your site, where you sell it, what advertising you take, your traffic stats, your pricing, and other relevant information an advertiser would want to know before buying from your site. You need to be honest here, no making up false stats on your site or claiming you have several thousand visitors a day when you just have a handful. You can ask around at other sites that sell advertising like the BlogHerald and download a marketing kit to see what kind of information advertisers are looking for

For those already using Adsense, Adbrite, or Text Link Ads, you have an edge on what you could be charging as these services can give you a clue on what the relevant ads on your site would be making you. Text Link Ads even offers a free tool here on what you can expect for payment on text links in your site. The only real way to know though, would be see how many clicks you are currently generating from your ads and the revenue you make from those clicks and then double that because many services that broker your advertising are getting half before you even see your cut.

Being on your own ( not using a brokering service ) may not get you as many ‘clients’ for your advertising, but since your charging more ( which would be close to the same price advertisers would pay for the broker on their end ) you would still be coming out even if you got only half of the number of clients you had with a brokering service. Plus you get full discretion of who you actually work with, what kind of ads go on your site ( concerning what you want to do with them and how they are displayed ), full control of packaging ’specials’ on your site, not worrying about the broker’s service being down or when they will sent their check, and many of the other hassles that may come with using a broker service.

As soon as word spreads you are taking on advertising, your client list should grow each month as more and more people see that advertisers are spending money with you. Even if you reach the number of potential clients you once had with a broker service, you will be making up to double your income without having to rely on the brokering service and their rules.

If your advertising clients demand stats on their ad campaigns, don’t worry.. you can always swing a few dollars to a custom programmer to fix something up for you, or you can grab phpAdsNew and have it installed and manage your ads with that. Its free and one of the best open source ad management scripts around.

Need someone to process the payment? Well, there is always Paypal and many other online merchant services like 2checkout and Worldpay that will easily walk you through taking online payments. Paypal almost does all the work for you and you can be set up in less than an hour.

If you need a way to find clients for your advertising, you can always promote yourself on your site, RSS feeds, networking with others, and good old fashion word of mouth. A lot of brokering services got their start this way and rely on search engines, word of mouth, and postings on forums, blogs, and other sites for their traffic and clients.. again why can’t you do the same?

Putting some extra time into making money with your blog can yield great results. You already put a lot of time into building a great site, put the same effort into building a revenue stream you have full control of.

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As promised here is Part III of the Web 2.0 Experience Post

DarkEye – Living Design Showcase

DarkEye is a new breed of ‘living’ web design showcase. You’re in control: you rate, review and submit sites that instantly appear in front of thousands potential users. DarkEye is what you make it so start experimenting today.

orTubes-Coppermine

orTubes-Coppermine is a multi-purpose fully-featured and integrated web video gallery script written in PHP using GD or ImageMagick as image library with a MySQL backend.

Riya

Face recognition technology

RunFatBoy

RunFatBoy is an easy to use workout site that aims to give beginners a simple starting point for getting in shape.

CrazyEgg

Crazy Egg will help you improve the design of your site by showing you where people are clicking and where they are not. Crazy Egg – Improve the design of your web pages and web site.

TODO LIST : ajax todolist in php/mysql

TodoList is an open-source project providing a simple to-do list system write in Php/Mysql, ajax, css.

SocialCookBook — Recipes for the people, By the people

Brand spankin’ new user-based recipes website with Web2.0 Goodness.

Protopage

Customized homepages that display multiple widgets.

introPLAY

Exercise community where users can (a) track workouts, (b) play in competitive exercise leagues (like fantasysports) and (c) participate in cooperative teams.

Listal

Listal is a social website where you can list all the movies, books, music and games you own and want!

gumshoo – Simply Safer eBay Shopping

gumshoo offers specialized search filters and risk analysis tools for eBay auctions. Filter out junk, accessories, foreign items and more. Analyze auctions for signs of potential fraud. Find misspelled auctions and save money.

CL2

Google new calendar in early private beta.

Fleck.com Beta Program

Fleck.com is “patent pending, world changing, paradigm shifting and user experience enhancing technology. Tagging, search, blog, AJAX and social networking, every WEB2.0 hype is covered” Nobody (expect the founders) knows what Fleck REALLY is but the beta should start in March/April 2006 and you can learn a lot from the Blog too.

Stylehive

Visual bookmarking for the product and shopping obsessed. In addition to being very visual, it has some great features like the “sendto” tag, “wish list” tag and multi currency “price” tag.

LibrayThing

Catalog your books online and show everyone your library, or keep it private. Find people with the same books as you. Get recommendations from readers like you.

StreetEasy

StreetEasy provides easy ways to search for all of the apartments for sale in New York City. Plus info about the apartment buildings, school districts, condo/co-op boards, communities, price trends, etc.

ProductWiki

A wiki for product information that allows users to add products, start discussions and compile personal lists.

isolatr

Finally, a web 2.0 service worth using. “Helping you find where other people aren’t.”

Zooomr

Social photo sharing. You can tag, geotag (via GoogleMaps), peopletag (linked to other people’s accounts), attach audio commentary, etc. Available in 15 languages.

BlockRocker.com

Geographically listed, IP localized, fully tagable classifieds with presence awareness for Skype and AIM – and more to come!

Carbonmade

Carbonmade is a set of easy to use management tools to publish your design portfolio online.

CoComment

This attempts to bring all your comments on blogs in a centralized page. I love this because I never lose tracks of blogs where I left a note.

CrispyNews.com

They provide the software and hosting for you to build your own community news site (like digg) for free AND they let you earn money from your own ads.

mag.nolia

Social bookmarking site.

Fon

FON is a Global Community of people who share WiFi. Share your WiFi broadband access at home/work and enjoy FREE WiFi Access all over the world!

You need hardware to participate here, how cool is that!

Memotoo.com

Centralize and share your personal datas (bookmarks, address book, calendar, files, …) with Memotoo.com to find from any computer connected to Internet !

putfwd.com – Free file storage with a twist

Unique free file storage service (1GB free space) which combines social networking, file sharing, and easy publishing (photo galleries, podcasts, blogs), creating new ways of sharing and using files online.

Google Mars

Have a view of mars through Google maps

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As promised here is Part II of the Web 2.0 Experience Post

TrendyFriendy.com

Revenue sharing community. 50% of all ad space spreads between users.

YouMe.Us

Don’t Decide Alone. Relationship decision-making made fun and easy.

Social Search

Social Search app where you trade the results like a stock market

Suggest and Share Local Places for your Meetings, Events and Parties

On SuggestLocal.com, you can suggest and share local places for our meetings, events and parties. No more emailing back and forth about where to go on Friday night with all our friends! Just one site where you can list all the options and see all recipients’ responses automatically updated on the page without a page refresh!

Xufe Bets

Web 2.0 social sports betting, odds comparison and bookmaker stats.

Webmunism

Mashup combining photos, videos, albums and knowledge, united into self-organizing categories. Sign up to join webmunes and blog about the webmunes that matter to you.

GagMag.net

Event Listing on Phone – New York, San Francisco, London and the whole WORLD. Check all the upcoming events in your town from a cell phone.

PiXPO

Broadcast an online video site in minutes

GotuitSceneMaker – Social Video Tagger

Find, tag and share the best online videos with this free YouTube and Metacafe social video bookmarking site.

RadarSync

RadarSync offers a database of over 80,000 device drivers and software updates for your computer. Try the free scan there now.

Bubble Share

Very easy to use Web 2.0 photosharing site, with some really innovate features.

SurfNinja.com

SurfNinja.com is a graphical, fully interactive, AJAX based homepage, with all of your favorite websites in one place. You can drag and drop your favorite icons in and out of your personal start page.

MessengerFX

Ajax based MSN Web Messenger

Boompa.com

Boompa is a car/vehicle community for users to upload their rides and share knowledge of aftermarket parts.

Fanpop

A network of social portals around topics of interest created by fans

social surveys – for everyone who creates anything.

a super easy way for you to get feedback on all your creative efforts. photographers, artists, web designers, whoever. Also a cool way for you to pay people for their input if you want.

CellSwapper.com: Get Out of Any cellphone Contract

CellSwapper matches individuals who are currently locked into a cell phone contract, with those who are would jump at the prospect of a short-term contract (as low as 1 month), a free phone and no activation fees. CellSwapper.com provides an online marketplace for wireless plans and also offers some of the hottest phones at heavily discounted prices.

CellSwapper takes things one step further by actually providing the online technology to make the transfer process as seamless as possible.

Ajax Write

The look, feel, and functionality of Microsoft Word, in a completely web-based AJAX platform.

Collaboration Tool for Research

A social Networking site to expand research among students, teachers around the world. Just register and share, search articles, lectures, papers, events, bookmarks. etc.

workmagnet – new jobsite

It’s new, looks good, feels different. The only problem is the lack of jobs and features, but they promise to add new things every week… Definitely one to keep an eye on – no AJAX as far as I can see, does that count as 2.0?

Picato- Share pictures of cats or kittens

Picato is a site for sharing pictures of your cat. You can browse pictures of other cats or view their profiles. Pictures can be categorized, organized and sorted by tags.

TalentSpy

TalentSpy is a service that provides job seekers and employers a quick and easy way to find the jobs and the staff they’re looking for. Was lucky enough to get a preview – looks great!

Zigtag

A Personal Knowledge Library allowing you to search, save and share your important information, ideas and knowledge.

Pageflakes

I like Pageflakes because the modules it has are more intelligent than other start pages like My Yahoo! or Windows Live. Pageflakes has great modules to Flickr, Gmail, del.icio.us to-do list… and RSS reader, of course. Just my prefer start page!

Platial

DIY map mash-ups for non-programmers. Super fun.

Free CSS Shopping Cart

freeCSScart.com – Free CSS Shopping Cart, css2, web standards, xhtml, web 2.0.

Tractis

Online Transnational Justice

Politics 2.0

Political news website for the new Web 2.0

Touchstone

Client-side dashboard for Web 2.0 Apps

Remember The Milk

Never forget the milk (or anything else) again. Remember The Milk is the easiest and best way to manage your to-do lists online.

YourSpins

Interactive music which allows you to mix, share your mix, make custom ringtones, vote on mixes, etc. etc. Great software, couple of big name artists already, should fly…

Cingo

Cingo is a simple, easy and powerful new way to experience the internet and organize your family in one great location! From the clean, uncluttered home page to feature-rich sections such as News, Movie Listings, and Shared Calendar and To-Do Lists, Cingo helps your family to easily stay connected online. And best of all, Cingo is free!

Shout Central

Beta version of a new Social Community site featuring real time AJAX chat.

Isolatr

Helping you find where other people aren’t

Litepost.us

“Easily, the world’s fastest email.” Nice interface. I hope this releases by the summer.

FlexDirectory

FlexDirectory is an ultra-lightweight directory web application, designed for use in small groups/organizations with lots of turnover/change of roles. It isn’t currently in ‘beta’, but its new, its AJAX based, and its listening to user comments.

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Part I of the Web 2.0 Experience

Listible

Where are we now?

Flickr

The best photo-sharing website in the world!

Digg

Digg is a technology news website that combines social bookmarking, blogging, RSS, and non-hierarchical editorial control. With digg, users submit stories for review, but rather than allow an editor to decide which stories go on the homepage, the users do.

del.icio.us

The foremost social bookmarking site.

Yedda-People. Sharing. Knowledge.

Yedda connects people looking for knowledge with people who have the knowledge.

Ask, Answer, Explore!

Famundo

Famundo is a new concept in family and organizational management that helps families and organizations concentrate on the important things, by removing the barriers to scheduling and communication within the family and the community they belong to. The service is FREE for organizations.

writely

A word processor with all one needs to have online (sharing, collaboration, multiple formats in/out, blogging interface etc). Too bad they’re now closed because of takeover by Google

30 Boxes

web 2.0 calendar with lots of social networking features

Vote Sexy

User powered sexy videos filter

PDFescape

A Web 2.0 application to open, edit, form fill, and create PDF forms, online without downloading or installing any software.

Nenest Web Application Framework

With this online framework, you are able to effortlessly build full featured web 2.0 websites, including BLOG, FORUM, article database, comments, RSS feeds, Digg/del.icio.us button etc.

PicFindr: search the free-stock-photosphere

Search the popular (and not-so-popular) free stock photo sites for images you can use commercially. PicFindr literally searches several sites simultaneously and compiles the results into a single page.

Best Stuff in the World

Large resource of the best of everything. Easy and fun.

GeoCaster – Images and Videos of My World

Publishes geocoded images and videos. Registration, usage and upload of files is free.

DigaList

Digalist is a global personal lists website. We all have kinds of lists, about life, work, dreams etc. Have you ever wished to dig out all these treasure and share them with others? In digalist, you can dig your lists out and share with the whole world, or dig on your favorite lists posted by others.

Netvibes

A must, starting page for every user! (Ajaxed RSS reader, gmail login, news and much more… )

Meebo

User your IM via web, from everywhere. Google Talk/Jabber, MSN, AIM, ICQ and Yahoo are possible. At the same time.

Rollyo

Create personal search engines using only the sources you trust. Relevant. Reliable. Rollyo.

Otavo

A social community a bit like listible but with more, for quests. and a lot of AJAX. Very nice.

EditGrid – spreadsheet on-the-web

Users works together and see updates in real-time. Import/export in common spreadsheet formats, html, csv. Very good permalink support!

Vox

Vox is like a myspace with better templates and more media features, but it is still in beta so you have to be invited!

Web 2.0 Search Engine – 10,000 Links

Simply search for a keyword of what your wish to make or work with to see the tools available (example search links: mashups, blogging, viral videos, clipart, designing, social tagging, AJAX apps, file storage/sharing, RSS feeds, anti-spam tools, CSS layout generators, image editors, webmaster tools, calculators, file conversions, blog (URL) submits, web APIs, tutorials, etc).

Hirlapom

Hungarian Flash based RSS Reader, Gmail notifier, Search, daily Weather information opml support. Very young web 2.0 page, but will powerful.

Stuff aBlog

This webapp makes it easy for a blogger to create content-rich blog posts. Just type in your keywords, select your content, and get the HTML in a snap. So, you can enrich your plain vanilla blog-post with relevant content available in the net.

Web2.0 Search Engine

Links to top web based software solutions (no installation). Add URLs to missing applications.

Web 2.0 Banner Maker

Make custom buttons online from simple to use templates.

glorum

tag-based message board.

The Web 2.0 Toolbar

All of the best search, bookmarking and news from one toolbar – every web 2.0 junkie must have this.

DotSpirit

Online file storage and sharing powered by phpNavigator featuring: 10GB disk space, multi-users, drag & drop multiple files/folders. Available in English and French. Free trial available.

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Join us as we countdown 100 90 WordPress Themes you probably haven’t seen yet. All themes offer quality, elegance and a user-friendly interface. Each day we will showcase 10 random themes free for you to download and use with your own WordPress blog.

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Join us as we countdown 100 90 WordPress Themes you probably haven’t seen yet. All themes offer quality, elegance and a user-friendly interface. Each day we will showcase 10 random themes free for you to download and use with your own WordPress blog.

90. PlainBox V1.0 [ Preview ]

89. Hemingway [ Preview ]

88. Hemingway for WordPress [ Preview ]

87. Hemingway Reloaded [ Preview ]

86. Hemingway Pearled [ Preview, currently offline ]

85. U4 [ Preview ]

84. Rounded Blue V2 [ Preview ]

83. Freshy 1.0 [ Preview ]

82. Fresh 1.0 [ WP 2.0, Preview ]

81. Wave link [ Preview ]

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