I finally got some time to create a new web template this weekend. This work was entirely aimed towards schools and educational sites in general.

Demo:

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Download:

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Features:

• Google search form.
• Contact page (PHP form) with spam check.
• Back to top buttons.
• Drop down menu with transparent background.

Installation:

1. Download and unzip the file
2. Copy all the files to your root Directory

Usage:

1. Open each page in your web editor (e.g. Notepad) and locate the search form. Change the value line 84: value=”web-kreation.com”. Put your domain name instead.
2. Open contact.php in your web editor and change the email address line 145:
   $to = 'yourname@domain.com';
3. Remove the Google ads in the sidebar and replace it by your own.

License:

This template is released under Creative Commons Attribution v2.5.

What’s coming next?

First, I will post a new tutorial explaining how to modify the EDU template header in Fireworks. I want to give you the possibility to easily change the header image and colors to match your site.

Second, I am now coding a Wordpress theme based on the EDU template. Here’s a screenshot:

The release is expected before the end of this month or beginning of the next.

LightForm is a free Ajax/PHP contact form. It combines FormCheck2 for fields validation and NiceForms to style text fields and textareas.

Demo:

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Download:

Use of this contact form is free of charge but the copyright notes in the footer must remain intact.
I would appreciate if you send me the URI of your site if you use LightForm.

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Features:

• Form Validation using FormCheck2.
• Spam Check.
• Display user IP, user agent and referrer in the message.
• Display a dialog box when message sent succesfully.
• Inputs and textareas are styled with NiceForms.
• Works in the most recent browsers (IE6+, Firefox, Opera, Safari and Netscape).

Installation:

1. Download and unzip the file
2. Copy all the files to your root Directory

Usage:

Open index.php in your web editor (e.g. Notepad) and change the email address line 55:
$to = 'yourname@domain.com';

License:

The CSS, XHTML, PHP and design is released under Creative Commons Attribution v2.5.

FormCheck2 is released under the MIT license.

NiceForms is released under no specific license. You are free to use and modify but you must provide credits to the author.

Caution

Form validation won’t work anymore if users disable Javascript.

Hi!

Just to let you know I have released a new and improved version of my Wordpress theme Yoghourt (I finally had some spare time to do this).

Few people complained it was not a valid XHTML & CSS Wordpress theme. Now it is done!

You can see the demo or visit my Downloads page to download it.

BambooIncoice is a free opensource invoicing software to help you manage your clients and invoices. It was built by designer and programmer Derek Allard on the great CodeIgniter framework and is a mix of PHP, Javascript and AJAX.

But let’s talk about what you can do with BambooInvoice. Here are some of the features:

• Add new client and edit their personal information.
• Create new invoice.
• Send invoice to your client by email.
• Create a PDF copy.
• Print invoice.
• Keep track of overdue invoices.
• Export your invoice data to Excel or XML.
• Currently available in English, French, German, Dutch, Romanian, Spanish, Portuguese and Bulgarian… and more languages coming soon.
• Released under the GPL.
• …

And the best part of it? BambooInvoice sits on your server so only you know how much you earn and you can be certain that your clients personal info won’t be shared with a third party.

You can see a demo here with the username “info@bambooinvoice.org” and the password “demo“…

BambooInvoice is still very much a beta version but it is a promising application.

“BambooInvoice is still pre 1.0. There are a few bugs and uncompleted features. It is stable for everyday use, and is growing all the time.” Derek Allard.

Derek Allard is now working on the version 1.0 and confirmed me on his forum he will add new functionalities to it. I can’t wait to see it.

Link: BambooInvoice: Free Open-source invoicing software »

NicEdit is a very simple WYSIWYG editor that can be integrated in just few secondes on your website.

This is a textarea without NicEdit:

This is the usual textarea.

… and with NicEdit:

This is <b>rich</b> textarea using NicEdit WYSIWYG editor

All you have to do is to copy the code below anywhere on your page to convert all textareas to a nice WYSIWYG editor:

<script src="http://js.nicedit.com/nicEdit.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
bkLib.onDomLoaded(nicEditors.allTextAreas);
</script>

You can visit NicEdit website for more Examples + Codes Samples.

NicEdit with a PHP contact form

You could possibly use NicEdit with your PHP contact form. However, by default, messages are sent as plain text. If you want to receive rich HTML messages you will need to add this line in your script:

"From: $fromrnContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"

This line specifies that the media type is text and subtype is html.

Try to locate mail($to, $subject, $message); in your PHP form (your variables might be slightly different) and paste the line above into it.

Here is what you should get at the end:

mail($to, $subject, $message, "From: $fromrnContent-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1");

You can see an example on my contact page.

Link:

Visit NicEdit.com for more inforamtion.