jQuery, released in January 2006 at BarCamp NYC by John Resig, it’s a lightweight cross-browser JavaScript library emphasising the interaction between JavaScript and HTML. It’s now used by millions and is used at about 20% of the 10,000 biggest websites. jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today!

Its popularity has been greatly because of its flexibility, and because it is fast and easy to use. Over this past year, there has been tremendous growth in the jQuery community with 100’s of existing plugins available to choose from, all enhancing the users online experience.

We’ve gathered 10 of our favourite jQuery plugins for your enjoyment!

jQuery Cycle

The jQuery Cycle Plugin is a slideshow plugin that supports many different types of transition effects. It supports pause-on-hover, auto-stop, auto-fit, before/after callbacks, click triggers and much more.

jParallax

jParallax turns a selected element into a ‘window’, or viewport, and all its children into absolutely positioned layers that can be seen through the viewport. These layers move in response to the mouse, and, depending on their dimensions (and options for layer initialisation), they move by different amounts, in a parallaxy kind of way.

JQZoom

JQZoom is a javascript image magnifier built at the top of the popular jQuery javascript framework. JQzoom is a great and a really easy to use script to magnify what you want.

prettyPhoto

prettyPhoto is a jQuery based lightbox clone. Not only does it support images, it also add support for videos, flash, YouTube, iFrames. It’s a full blown media lightbox. The setup is easy and quick, plus the script is compatible in every major browser.

jQuiry Countdown

(with Background and Overlay)

AnythingSlider

AnythingSlider is an attempt at bringing brings together the functionality of all of those previous sliders and adding new features.

Ajax Fancy Capcha

Ajax Fancy Captcha is a jQuery plugin that helps you protect your web pages from bots and spammers.

JQuery Modal

jqModal is a plugin for jQuery to help you display notices, dialogs, and modal windows in a web browser. It is flexible and tiny, akin to a “Swiss Army Knife”, and makes a great base as a general purpose windowing framework.

Image By: Simon Howden / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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Choosing the right colour combination for your website is key when communicating with your users and ensuring they perceive your design in the correct way.

So today we have listed 10 of what we consider to be the best, free colour tools that will help you choose the right colour palettes for your designs.

Toucan Color Palettes

Used alone or in conjunction with our other creation tools, Toucan gives you the features you need to inject colour into your creative process.

Pictaculous

Ever wonder what colours to use with an image? Upload your image – get a colour palette.

ColorExplorer

A brand new way of working with digital colours! With the colourful toolbox at ColorExplorer you can easily create, manage, and explore colour palettes for use in web designs, desktop publishing, or any other graphic design process.

Color Scheme Designer

Color Scheme Designer is a brand new interface, as well as the engine, all rewritten from the scratch. Rapidly increased precision and colour space conversions, better preview, enhanced scheme creation system, unique scheme IDs and permanent URL of the scheme.

Kuler

The web-hosted application for generating colour themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you’re creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with colour variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.

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We’ve just launched the Pixel Internet Wheel Of Fortune game!

Have a go today by visiting the Pixel Internet homepage and grab yourself a free Pro hosting plan, Reseller hosting plan, .uk domain name, web builder software and even an Ipod Touch! We’ll be running the game throughout February and everyone is invited to have a go and please feel free to have a go every day (limited to one play per day).

(Terms & Conditions apply)

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We’ve recently upgraded all of our free one click install scripts that we provide to all our web hosting customers…

The following scripts have all been updated…

Crafty Syntax: v2.16.3
Drupal: v6.14
Elgg: v1.6.1
MediaWiki: v1.15.1
Nucleus: v3.51
Osticket: v1.6RC5
PHPcoin: v1.6.5
Roundcube: v0.3.1
Typo3: v4.3.0
Wordpress: v2.8.6

This now completes our latest updates and all scripts provided via the Host control panel are on the latest versions!

Enjoy

Image By: Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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I’m happy to announce we have just upgrade the Pixel Internet mailbox quotas (for pop3 and IMAP) to an impressive 400MB!

In an ongoing effort to ensure all Pixel Internet customers can enjoy managing all their emails and large attachments without having to worry about filling up their mailboxes or having to deleting old emails.

Over the last 6 months we have been working hard to make our webmail features some of the best in the industry, which has seen our webmail quota rise form 100MB to 250MB and now up to 400MB.

Just take a look at how we compare with some other well known hosting providers:

You can login to your webmail at the bottom of this page, or via your control panel.

Image By: Salvatore Vuono / FreeDigitalPhotos.net

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Backing up your website is a lot like buying insurance, you know you should but it’s one of those things you put off because nothing has happened yet which surely means you don’t need it, right?. Wrong… Don’t wait for something to happen, if the unlikely was to happen and your site was to have a critical failure and you lose some or all of your data, you’ll soon wish you had taken a few minutes our of your day to make a backup!

Backing up your website is completely free at Pixel Internet, and can be completed really quickly and easy via your Host control panel. To make sure you always have the latest version of your site we strongly recommend you back up your website using this facility whenever you make a change to your website.

Backing up your website files:
- Log in to your Host control panel
- In ‘files’ click on ‘backup/ restore’
- Follow the on screen instructions

Backing up your database:
As with our web files back up service through your Host control panel, you can also back up your MySQL databases with just one click!

- Log in to your Host control pane
- In ‘Web tools’ click on ‘MySQL Databases’
- In ‘Manage MySQL Databases’ choose which databases you want to back up and click ‘Now’

You can also download and store a local copy of your database through phpMyAdmin using the ‘Export’ function.

Backing up your website and databases literally takes a couple of clicks of the mouse and can save a lot of pain and heartache down the line!  Why not setup a reminder on your phone or in Outlook so you don’t forget to run a backup.

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Control your web hosting on the move with the all-new Pixel Internet mobile phone control panel!

Available for both the iPhone and all Android powered phones, Pixel Internet is proud to announce the launch of our Customer Control Panel and Host Control Panel for the iPhone and Android phone.

To access the new control panel from your phone, simply login as normal via our website and the new mobile control panel will automatically be displayed.

Manage Features:

* Manage your domain names
* Manage all your web hosting accounts
* Log in to your webmail
* View the system status updates
* View your Webalizer analytics statistics
* One click installs such as WordPress
* View your invoices
* Backup & restore your website
* Set up scheduled tasks
* Manage all Host Control Panel features
* …and much more!

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Were are pleased to announce two brand new one click-install scripts for all our customers to enjoy!

Wordpress MU (multi user) and BuddyPress. Both scripts offer a great opportunity for you to add a new social element to your existing website or to create a brand new standalone social networking website.

We’ve taken the headache out of installing them too, with our quick and easy one-click-install feature!

You can find out more about Wordpress Mu here: http://mu.wordpress.org/ and Buddypress here: http://buddypress.org/

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There are 1000’s of free fonts availabe for web designers to use.

Over the next few months we’re going to be bringing you some of the best free fonts available on the internet to use on your websutes or other design projects.

In this series we have 5 awesome fonts for you…. enjoy! 

Libel Suit

Old Sans Black

Nordic Round

Neighbourhood

Cibreo Regular

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Just a quick shout about our web hosting sale, you can still grab yourself a whopping 20% discount on any of our Window or Linux Hosting plans, but hurry, this amazing offer ends on the 31st November, so grab yourself a quick and order your web hosting plan today!

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