Link: Orangoo.com

4mir Salihefendic got an idea on how to make a nice pop-up window. Normal JavaScript pop-up windows are hard to “control”, i.e. you can’t force focus on a pop-up window. To solve this he developed GreyBox!

Inspired by the Mac OS X way of handle pop-ups. The pop-up is launched in the top of the application window.

Link: AListApart.com

It’s time to take back control over the tabs which are continually growing in popularity as a primary means of site navigation. Now that CSS is widely supported, we can crank up the quality and appearance of the tabs on our sites.

Well. I guess I have finally reached superstardom. The Design Coalition is being featured on the front page of Platt’s communication resource site for the students and teachers, the Platt Portal (designed by Melissa Cabral). Ha. Awesome.

Go check it out! www.myplatt.com

Cat from Designers-Who-Blog.com turned me on to a site called NO!SPEC which sums up so many sickening feelings I get when I am talking to new customers or browsing ridiculous ads on craigslist. The point of the site is to encourage designers to know their self worth. It is simply not fair for someone to say “show me what you can do” and then say “no I think I’ll pass” with no regard for designer’s time. Everyone, even beginning designers, deserve to be paid something for their time.

Cat and I were debating whether or not unpaid internships fit into this catergory as well. In my opinion it is total crap and basically the same slap in the face as spec work. It’s not too cool of these big bourjois design firms to act like they are giving you the opportunity of a lifetime by “letting” you do their clients work for free, while they reap the $cash money$. All the while hanging the threat of not hiring you over your head.

What do you think?

Link: DynamicDrive.com

This tab content script uses Ajax to let you display a selection of external content on your page inside a DIV and via CSS tabs!

This Ajax Tabs Content script was designed to be much more than look pretty, but usable.

Link: MochiKit.com

Want fancy looking HTML elements with rounded corners, but don’t want to do any weird image hacks? Do it in JavaScript! MochiKit.Visual makes it completely painless, and this example shows it off.

Link: Cow.NeonDragon.net

Reflection.js 1.5 allows you to add reflections to images on your webpages. It uses unobtrusive javascript to keep your code clean.

It works in all the major browsers - Internet Explorer 5.5+, Mozilla Firefox 1.5+, Opera 9+ and Safari. On older browsers, it’ll degrade and your visitors won’t notice a thing. Best of all, it’s under 5KB.

Link: Xilinus.com

This javascript class allows you to add window in a HTML page.

This class is based on Prototype. The code is inspired by the powerful script.aculo.us library. You can even use all script.aculo.us effects to show and hide windows if you include effects.js file , but it’s not mandatory.

It has been tested on Safari, Camino, Firefox and IE6.

Many sleepless nights later… TheDesignCoalition.com is finally complete. Well… I wouldn’t say complete, but presentable I guess. I am gonna keep tweaking with some stuff and try to pretty it up a little but more than anything I am gonna attempt to keep it current and provide awesome links for everyone to be checking out. On that note please send me links to cool stuff you find as far as web stuff goes. I am always looking for new stuff to integrate and test out. Don’t be a stranger!

Link: HuddleTogether.com

Lightbox JS is a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.