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This a fairly new script (commercial - $25) out for OsCommerce users. Ajax Search Suggest for OsCommerce adds a nice pop-out suggestions box (sort of like Google) to your usual search box.

A few features…

• Search is performed while customer types in the product using first letters
• The customers typing will be ‘auto-completed’ with symbols of the first founded occurrence
• The first found letter occurrences will be highlighted with bold
• The dropdown pop-out is scrollable but only if search match exceeds the pop-out window
• Key recognition is available, press up, down or ‘enter’ inside the suggest dropdown
• Multi language support
• Works in all modern browsers

Remember this is a commercial script. I am not affiliated with this company at all, I just thought it may be a helpful add-on for those using OsCommmerce.

Dynamic Drive has a great script for your picking that allows you to use Ajax and PHP to display RSS feeds on your site within DIV containers.

Description: Using Ajax, this script makes it easy to display RSS feeds from other sites inside DIV containers. Each RSS box can be independently tailored, from the RSS feed to fetch, how many items to show (and whether to paginate them), to what portions of each entry (just the “title”, or “title” plus “description” etc) to display. All this is done on the client side via the script’s exposed methods.

On the server side, RSS Display Box relies on a simple yet versatile PHP RSS parser called SimplePie to fetch the RSS feeds first. This is required as JavaScript cannot access nor parse remote files. The script then uses Ajax to manipulate the feed and provide simple JavaScript methods for customizing the output and on the fly. The feed as a result can also be added to any page on your site, not just PHP pages.

To run the script you need the ability to run PHP on your server.

Here’s a short list of features for both client and server side.

Client Side:

• Specify which RSS feed to fetch based on the list you provide in the script
• Specify how many items will display
• Choose how many items to show per “page” with pagination links automatically or semi-automatically created to cycle through pages using Ajax
• Each display box generates a unique CSS ID attribute and classname, so it’s easy to style the box to your design.

Server Side:

• Uses SimplePie to fetch the RSS feeds with support for caching, error handling, int’l encoding and more.
• Format the body of the RSS item and limit the portion that is shown using all the functions available with SimplePie and also the custom function “outputbody.php”

If you’re looking to display RSS feeds on your site in a no fuss yet flexible manner, RSS Display Boxes is your script!

Here is a great tutorial on understanding the relationship between RGB and Hexadecimal.

A lot of times when coding in CSS we use color codes to set things like font color, backgrounds, borders and more. If you jump in to someone elses style sheet that uses RGB codes and you are used to Hex color codes you might find yourself in a pickel.

This tutorial covers the relationship between RGB and Hex color values. They both work the same way by creating a color based on the RGB scale. An example of this is Hex: #FF0000 = Red = rgb(255,0,0).

Head on over and get yourself some knowledge!