I was searching the internet lately for a lightbox that is lightweight and easily customizable along with being able to group images together. I came across ColorBox which is a lightweight lightbox solution with alot of customization.

One of the main things I liked about this is that it is themable and you can use one of the already built ones which work nicely with IE6 since it doesn’t require PNG Fix because there is no transparency. The developer also take advantage of CSS Sprites to reduce HTTP Server requests, the plugin also loads ajax, inline and iframed content. For the more savy Javascript User it has few event hooks so you can manipulate the core to certain extent.

We have updated The Compressor with the missing YUI Compressor features. Now you can minify, preserve semi-colons and disable optimisation on the Javascript files that you want to compress. For the future we will be adding in more features one of which is preserving uploaded files to create a zip file with the uncompressed and compressed file.

We hope you enjoy using this tool and recommend it to friends.

We have launched our Javascript and CSS compression tool based on YUI Compressor called The Compressor. We have made it easy for you as a end user to compress a list of files and have less HTTP requests. The tool also lists all the uploaded files at the begining of the compressed file. You have the option to request a zip version of the file if you preffer this format. This tool is built upon our own framework called Simple Engine which is a fork of Green Framework.

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jQuery has been around for some time now and it has become the javascript framework of my choice, It allows me to now worry too much about writing a bunch of code to meet my target goal. Less is more and solutions that allow you to work faster, better and more productively is definately a good solution.

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The Firebug console log tool is a really good tool to have and use when debugging javascript, but it becomes a problem when you forget to take out the console.log function and decide to run your site in Internet Explorer. Since Internet Explorer doesn’t have a copy of Firebug you end up with a nasty error that causes some of the functions inside your javascript code to not work.

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