Navicat, an impressive database admin tool which has versions to manage specific databases is now offering an unique tool named Navicat Premium which can manage:

• MySQL
• PostgreSQL
• Oracle

within a single application with amazing features.

Navicat Premium allows you to control these 3 database types like they are the same & saves you too much time. You can:

• drag’n drop tables from Oracle to MySQL, PostgreSQL to MySQL and vice versa
• schedule operations for different databases such as print report in MySQL, backup data in Oracle and synchronize data in PostgreSQL to run automatically

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Ptwix is an open source web component, that is built with PHP, for displaying tweets in an Ajaxed interface.

It can be configured to show your tweets or the tweets of your friends.

Once a webpage is loaded, the latest tweets are shown & “an update button” can make an Ajax call to get the new ones.

The component comes with 3 ready-to-use themes & new ones can be created by updating the CSS + images used.

Ptwix is so easy to install & it supports caching for faster loading.

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How To Create a Good Looking Form

How To Create a Good Looking Form »
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This tutorial explains how to design a great looking form using a clean CSS design with only the label and input tags to simulate an HTML table structure. You can use all CSS/HTML elements to design your custom form for your web projects.

A Simple Tableless Form

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Similar to the IE6 situation, when using HTML5/CSS3 in our websites, it is a good idea to offer non-problematic outputs to web users with older/non-standard browsers.

Modernizr is a JavaScript library that uses feature detection techniques to determine whether or not the current browser is capable of CSS3 and HTML5 features like rgba(), border-radius, CSS Transitions & more.

It enables you to write pseudo-IF/ELSE statements in your CSS &, if wanted, it is possible to wirite conditional statements in JavaScript with the help of a “Modernizr JavaScript object” created.

Also, Modernizr adds support for styling HTML 5 elements. This allows you to use more semantic, forward-looking elements such as <section>, <header> and <dialog> without having to worry about them not working in Internet Explorer.

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Web Elements Kit is a set of 17 frequently used web design objects that comes in PSD format.

It can be used for easier prototyping or updated easily to create completely unique outputs.

There are 17 elements like:

• tabbed content
• sliders
• newsletter form
• buttons
• & more

which are well organized, labeled & comes with various color variations to choose from.

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