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Siêu đạo chích Kid (sinh ngày 21 tháng 6 như tác giả) là một tên trộm nổi tiếng chuyên ăn cắp ngọc ngà và châu báu. Anh được biết đến cái tên Kaitou Kid hay Tội phạm quốc tế 1412. Kid là tên bắt nguồn từ số “1412″ do một nhà báo tạo ra và được Yusaku Kudo (bố của Shinichi Kudo) đọc thành “KID” (14 = KI, 12 = D)^[1]. “Kaitou” trong ngôn ngữ Nhật nghĩa là “Tên trộm bí ẩn”. Chính vì vậy mà trong các bản tiếng Anh, Kaitou Kid còn được gọi là Phantom Thief Kid hay Kid the Phantom Thief.

Thân phận thật của siêu đạo chích Kid đó là một nhà ảo thuật nổi tiếng thế giới Kuroba Toichi (黒羽 盗一). Câu chuyện bắt đầu từ 8 năm trước, Toichi được thuê bởi một ^[2] tổ chức tội phạm^[3] (tổ chức này được các fan hâm mộ cho là “tổ chức Áo đen” trong series truyện Thám tử lừng danh Conan, mặc dù những thành viên trong tổ chức này không mặc quần áo đen) để tìm và đánh cắp một viên đá quý giá. Viên đá này được xem là chiết xuất từ những giọt nước mắt của sao chổi có tên là “ngọc Pandora”, sẽ mang đến sự bất tử cho người nuốt được nó. Sau khi nhận ra mình đang hợp tác với kẻ xấu, Toichi đã quyết định từ chối. Do đó tổ chức tội phạm này đã mưu sát ông trong một màn ảo thuật, nhưng cái chết ấy được nhận định là một tai nạn.

Kaitou Kid hiện tại chính là con trai của Toichi, Kuroba Kaitou (黒羽 快斗), một học sinh trung học cũng như một nhà ảo thuật tài ba, người học được ảo thuật và nghệ thuật cải trang từ cha của mình. Ngoài Kaito, Toichi Kuroba cũng dạy cho Kudo Yukiko (工藤 有希子), (mẹ của Kudo Shinichi) khả năng cải trang cho nghề diễn xuất của cô^[4]. Chris Vineyard (Vermouth) cũng là học trò của ông, người đang mang tên Sharon hiện tại^[5].

Thanh tra Ginzo Nakamori luôn luôn nỗ lực truy bắt Kid, ông xác nhận rằng bạn ấu thơ của con gái mình , chính là siêu đạo chích. Nakamori Aoko là một nhân vật trong truyện tranh Magic Kaito và cũng xuất hiện trong bộ truyện tranh Thám tử lừng danh Conan. Saguru Hakuba, con trai của quan chức cảnh sát cao cấp, thám tử tài ba trong bộ truyện tranh cùng tên cũng đồng thời truy bắt Kid. Hakuba tin rằng Kaito là Kaitou Kid, nhưng anh vẫn chưa thể chứng minh giả thuyết của mình. Ngoài Nakamori và Hakuba, Akako Koizumi, một phù thủy người luôn cố sử dụng phép thuật của mình để đoạt lấy tình yêu của Kaito nhưng luôn luôn thất bại.

Kaitou Kid luôn sử dụng những công cụ hiện đại để phục vụ mục đích trộm cắp của mình. Đáng chú ý nhất là khẩu súng bắn ra những lá bài kim loại mỏng và sắc, một cái áo choàng có thể tung ra thành “cánh bay”, những quả bom khói tím, và hình nộm nổ tung đóng vai trò đánh lạc hướng lực lượng cảnh sát. Kaitou Kid còn biết đến với tài leo dây và nhào lộn (nhảy qua các căn nhà, leo và bò trong những lỗ thông ống khói và cống rảnh, etc) và khả năng bắt chước bất cứ giọng nói nào mà không cân thiết bị hỗ trợ (giống như thiết bị của Conan). Anh còn có một phụ tá, người mà đã làm cho cha của anh– một người đàn ông lớn tuổi tên Jii.

Thân phận thực của Kid không phải dẽ dàng mà có thể khám phá ra được, ngay cả Edogawa Conan. Sau khi phát hiện ra cha mình là Kid, Kaito cải trang và tự nhận mình là Kid để điều tra về cái chết của cha mình. Anh phát hiện ra rằng cha anh bị mưu sát bởi tổ chức tội ác bí ẩn sau khi ông từ chối đánh đánh cắp viên đá Pandora. Sau đó Kaito đã tìm mọi cách đánh cắp và hủy diệt viên đá đó để chứng tỏ với kẻ sát nhân đã cướp đi sự sống của cha anh rằng trên thế giới này không tồn tại sự bất tử. Ngoài ra, anh đã dụ bọn chúng lộ mặt bằng cách thông báo cho tất cả mọi người, bao gồm lực lượng cảnh sát, về mục tiêu đánh cắp kế tiếp của mình, và mục tiêu của anh thường trùng với mục tiêu mà tổ chức tội ác bí ẩn củng nhắm tới, vì một trong số những viên đá chúng muốn lấy cắp có thể là Pandora.

Tuy thanh tra Ginzo Nakamori luôn luôn nỗ lực bắt siêu đạo chích, nhưng bên trong ông luôn dành một sự tôn trọng chi Kid. Bất ngờ là thanh tra và Toichi lại là bạn tốt của nhau, nhưng Nakamor vẫn chưa biết về cái chết của bạn mình, một siêu đạo chích thật sự.

Manh mối duy nhất về viên đá quý mà Kid muốn đánh cắp là nó luôn chuyển thành màu đỏ và sẽ lộ ra một viên đá quí khác bên trong (viên đá Pandora này bao gồm hai viên đá hợp lại tạo thành) nếu như được tiếp xúc với ánh sáng của vầng trăng tròn. Vì vậy, chủ nhân của viên đá này đã đặt nó ở một nơi mà ánh trăng không rọi tới được. Đó là tại sao Kid luôn trả lại nhưng viên đá mà anh đã cướp sau những đêm trăng tròn bởi vì đó không phải là viên Pandora mà anh đang tìm.

Kaito là một người rất thông minh và nổi tiếng vời những trò đùa tai quái của mình. Anh thích chọc phá người khác vời tài năng ảo thuật của mình. Mỗi lần Kaito chêu trọc Aoko, một người bạn từ thởi ấu thơ, cô luôn đuổi theo để trả thù với bất cứ cái gì cô vớ được như cái chổi, giẻ chùi sàn. Nhưng cô đã âm thâm thích Kaito, và nghĩ luôn nghĩ rằng anh là một người tốt. Cô ấy không biết rằng Kaitou chính là “Kaitou Kid” mà cô ghét, bởi vì Kid không chỉ ăn trộm đồ, mà còn khiến cha cô (thanh tra Nakamura) luôn luôn cố gắng truy bắt nên không có thời gian bên con gái mình.

Có thể so sánh Kudo Shinichi với Sherlock Holmes và Kuroba Kaitou với Arsène Lupin. Xuyên suốt bộ truyện cũng như trong phim hoạt hình, Kaitou Kid và Conan luôn đối mặt với nhau như Yusaku (cha của Shinichi) và Toichi (cha của Kaito) trong quá khứ. Kaito đã phát hiện ra rằng Conan thật sự là Shinichi sau bộ phim movie thứ 3 Thám tử lừng danh Conan, mặc dù trong truyện tranh không nhắc đến. Tuy họ luôn đối đầu nhau, nhưng họ không nhận ra rằng cả hai đang điều tra tung tích của cùng một tổ chức. Một điều đáng chú ý khác là nhân vật Kudo Shinichi có ngoại hình khá giống với Kuroba Kaitou, sự giống nhau này cùng lặp lại với Mori Ran, bạn gái của Shinichi và Nakamori Aoko, bạn gái của Kaitou.

Đồng minh và đối thủ của Kid

Người ủng hộ Kid bao gồm Sonoko Suzuki, Akako Koizumi, Jii (người đã phục vụ cha của Kid), một lượng lớn học sinh nữ ở Ekoda High School, Miwako Satou, chủ yếu là những người anh cướp đồ, học sinh và công chúng…

Đối thủ của Kid bao gồm Aoko Nakamori, Ginzo Nakamori, Saguru Hakuba, Snake và Tổ chức Áo đen, Lực lượng cảnh sát, Shinichi Kudo, Heiji Hattori, Mori Kogoro, Takagi Wataru, và Yaiba.

Nỗi sợ

Siêu đạo chích Kid mắc chứng sợ cá mặc dù anh lại chẳng sợ phải vào tù như các tội phạm khác. Anh đã khẳng định rằng anh chằng thể bị bắt nhưng hầu như trong mọi vụ án có mặt của Shinichi thì anh đều bi phát hiện và thất bại. Ngoài ra anh còn sợ thân phận của mình bị phát hiện, nhất là đối với thanh tra Nakamori.

Tài năng

Siêu đạo chích Kid là một tên trộm tài ba, không bao giớ bị bắt. Anh trượt tuyết rất tốt nhưng lại không thể trượt băng. Anh rất có năng khiếu trong việc biểu diễn ảo thuật và ảo ảnh. Anh cũng rất giỏi đột nhập và leo dây bỏ trốn, giả giọng của bất cứ ai mà không cần thiết bị hỗ trợ. Trong đó nổi bật nhất là tài cải trang. Bằng cách đó anh đã làm cho nhiều người tin rằng anh là chồng con hay một thành viên trong gia đình ^[6]. Tuy nhiên, không giống như Mori Kogoro, anh rất tệ trong việc nói đùa và tất nhiên là không biết hút thuốc. ^[7]

Chú thích

Liên kết khác

• Icka’s Kaitou Kid’s Reference Page – A definitive reference page for the Kaitou Kid and all his appearances in manga and anime

Nguồn: http://vi.wikipedia.org/

In this post we present an ultimate collection of resources, tools and tips to help you make the most out of Google AdSense. Among other things, this post covers various Google AdSense tools, Firefox-extensions, WordPress-plugins and related resources.

Please feel free to suggest related tools in the comments to this post. You may also be interested in our post Google AdSense: Facts, FAQs and Tools that was published two years ago.

1. Google AdSense Tools

iPhone AdSense Statistics Application
SenseApp is a program that lets you track your Google Adsense earnings on your Apple iPhone.

AdSense Earnings Tool
Free and fast tool to monitor adsense earnings in realtime. This tool posts all the correct post fields to Googles universal Account Services login and collects information about your earnings. You’ll able to see today, yesterday, this month and since last payment earnings. You don’t need to log in to Google anymore.

Google AdSense Toolbox
Type any web page URL (e.g. cnn.com) or keywords (e.g. web development), select a country (optional) and hit Enter to see the latest Google Ads that are contextual and geo-targeted.

Google AdSense Preview Tool
an addition to the right-click menu for Windows Internet Explorer 6.x, allowing you to preview the ads that may show on any webpage. With just a few clicks, you can see what ads may appear on your new webpages, or make an educated decision on whether to add AdSense to your existing site pages.

Google Search-Based Keyword Tool
The search-based keyword tool allows you to find high-paying keywords to target, based on the domain name you specify.

Google Traffic Estimator
The Google Traffic Estimator is an easy way to determine the search volume of certain keywords, and it shows related keywords and their volumes as well.

SpyFu
SpyFu allows you to look up any website and see how much it is spending on AdSense, how it ranks for each keyword, and which keywords it buys. The tool is quite useful for researching competitors.

adsblacklist
Identify and block low-paying advertisers and increase ROI with AdSense.

2. Google AdSense Online Tools

Contextual Ads Preview/Comparison Tool
This comparison tools comes in handy when you compare AdSense ads to those of other advertisement services (Chitika, Yahoo). You also have the ability to customize the colors and view what ads a certain URL would be likely to display.

Google AdSense Calculator
This AdSense Calculator is designed to help you to predict changes in your earnings depending on improvement (or deterioration) of Page Impressions, Click Through Rate and Cost Per Click. You can download further calculators here.

WordTracker
During the search, people use different keywords. Using this tool, you can find the most effective words before deciding what content to include on your page. Not free, but the free trial is available.

Traffic Estimator Sandbox
To use this tool, you need an AdWords account. This traffic estimator helps you to figure out what keywords result in the highest paying AdSense ads (more details on uphook).

Pubmatic
While Pubmatic isn’t strictly an AdSense tool, it will definitely help you earn more money from your website by optimizing your ads. With each page view, Pubmatic determines whether showing an AdSense ad or an ad from a different network would be best, based on the CPM.

AlterNut Ad
Instead of earning nothing from the PSA ads that Google fills the page with when it has no ads to show, earn a set fee by giving AlterNut Ad your unused PSA ads.

3. Google AdSense Firefox Extensions

AdSense Notifier
This extension displays your AdSense earnings in the status bar.

AdSense Preview
Check what Google ads would be displayed if they were shown on a particular page with this preview tool.

Money Quake
Money Quake allows you to see your real-time earnings for many popular advertising programs, including AdSense.

GraphSense
GraphSense gives you a visual look at your AdSense reports by adding graphs to the interface. As of this post, the extension is still classified as “experimental,” so you’ll have to log in to Mozilla to install it.

4. Official AdSense Resources

Google has provided some official tools and resources to help publishers get started with AdSense.

Google AdSense Help Center
A database of questions and answers about the AdSense program.

Inside AdSense Blog
The official AdSense blog. Find news, tips and other features about the ad system here.

AdSense Community Forum
Have an AdSense question? Ask a community of publishers and the AdSense team.

Official Optimization Tips
A collection of tips provided by the AdSense team.

Official AdSense Channel on YouTube
Instructional videos and interviews by successful AdSense publishers.

Interest-based advertising with Google AdSense
Just recently Google announced the launch of interest-based advertising. This help section addresses the new mechanism and explains how you can benefit from it.

5. Getting Started with AdSense

Because of the popularity of AdSense, many so-called “experts” out there try to give “inside information” or sell their secrets in the form of ebooks. If you’re truly a beginner to AdSense, use the official AdSense help database that Google provides.

Here are some “getting started” articles by a few trusted authors.

Problogger’s AdSense Tips for Bloggers
Darren Rowse’s excellent eight-part series will get you well on your way to making money from AdSense.

The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Effective AdSense Link Units Optimization
A great rundown of the different types of link units and how they’re best used in a website layout.

Where Should I Place Google Ads on my Page?
The Google AdSense team has made a helpful map showing the different regions of a website layout where AdSense units perform the best.

6. Optimization Tips

Like any ad system, AdSense can be optimized to generate more clicks and revenue. Here are some tips to help boost AdSense performance.

Adsense Success Stories
Several examples of websites that increased their earnings significantly with Adsense. The success stories talk a lot about ad optimization, etc.

Google AdSense Tips
Google Blogscoped provides an excellent collection of AdSense tips based on its experience with implementing Google ads.

My top 5 tips for increasing adsense earnings (without increasing traffic)
Experiment with color and position, use different adverts for different dates, use content targeting, referrals and take care of the SEO.

Eye-Tracking Studies by Jakob Nielsen
Great eye-tracking examples that show where users’ eyes start and end up on a page.

Adsense Tips, Layout Optimization Tricks for Higher CTR
A collection of excellent do’s and don’ts for new publishers, as well as advice for more advanced AdSense users.

Rotate Google AdSense Ad Colors : Reduce Ad Blindness
One of the many enemies of publishers who rely on ads is banner blindness. Rotating ad colors is a good way to combat banner blindness, resulting in more clicks on ads.

Google AdSense Tips, Tricks and Secrets
Popular SEO blogger Michael Gray has an extensive post on various AdSense tips and performance boosters.

How to Display Ads Only to Search Visitors
Click-through ratios are much higher if you show your AdSense units only to visitors who were referred by search engines. Here’s an article on how to implement that functionality on your website.

Using the Competitive Ad Filter to Increase AdSense Earnings
Learn how to block made-for-AdSense websites as competitors, allowing only the best and most relevant ads to show on your units.

100 Google AdSense Tips
While this article is a few years old, it still has some very valuable tips on how to optimize Google AdSense. Perfect for the beginner.

20+ Practical and Ethical Tips to Earn More Revenue from Google AdSense
eTechBuzz shows us some useful and ethical AdSense tips.

Blogmitize!
The Official AdSense Blog has a post on how to make the most money from your blog layout.

Little Known ‘Boring’ Websites that Make Incredible Money with AdSense
An article highlighting that nearly anyone with a niche website can make money from AdSense.

7. AdSense WordPress Themes

WordPress is the most popular blogging platform, so it’s no surprise that a few themes come AdSense-ready, with ad placements already determined.

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CognoBlue

TechBlue

Elite Circle

Amazing Grace

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8. AdSense WordPress Plug-Ins

If you want to integrate AdSense in your existing website, here are some plug-ins to help display your ads.

AdSense Manager
The AdSense Manager widget allows for the automatic creation of AdSense ad zones on your WordPress blog. The plug-in also supports other ad networks, such as YPN, AdBrite and Commission Junction.

Easy AdSenser
Easy AdSenser is a feature-filled plug-in that allows you to easily insert AdSense into your posts and layout. It has an extremely user-friendly interface, with lots of features that make adding AdSense much easier than it is with other plug-ins.

AdSense Revenue Sharing
Share AdSense earnings with co-authors using the AdSense Revenue Sharing plug-in.

All in One AdSense and YPN
Use the All in One AdSense and YPN plug-in to automatically insert YPN and AdSense ads into your existing blog posts.

AdSense Under Image
If a post has an image, this plug-in automatically inserts an AdSense block under the image.

AdSense Deluxe 2
Another plug-in to automatically insert AdSense ad units into blog posts.

Google AdSense for Feeds
A simple plug-in that places AdSense in your blog’s feed.

Ozh’ Who Sees Ads
Determines what type of visitor will see ads on your website. This plug-in allows publishers to hide ads from regular visitors and show them only to search visitors.

9. AdSense Books

If you’re looking for an entire collection of tips and advice on making the most out of AdSense, you might want to try a print book instead. Plenty of excellent AdSense articles are available online, but on the whole, it is easier to find more accurate information in print media. Here are some of the most popular books on AdSense.

The Best Damn Google AdSense Book

Google Advertising Tools: Cashing in with AdSense, AdWords and the Google APIs

The AdSense Code

Google AdSense Secrets

The Google AdSense Millionaire

10. AdSense Forums and Communities

Webmaster World AdSense Forum
The WMW forum is by far the best forum for getting expert advice on AdSense. A member of the Google AdSense team actually reviews all the threads and answers questions, so the information is legitimate.

Digital Point AdSense Forum
Digital Point’s AdSense forum isn’t as strict as the Webmaster World forum, so there is a lot of engagement but less experienced users and less informed advice.

Jowl Comm’s AdSense Chat

SEOChat
SEOChat doesn’t have an entire forum dedicated to Google AdSense, but it does have a thriving forum for affiliate marketing in which many AdSense topics come up on a regular basis.

11. Those Against AdSense

It’s always a good practice to hear the other side of the story when rounding up resources on a topic, especially one as controversial as AdSense. Many experts argue that AdSense isn’t the best choice for publishers to monetize their content. Here are a few articles that criticize AdSense.

Dear AdSense, You Broke My Heart
Problogger Darren Rowse’s open letter to AdSense about why he was disappointed in its decision to change the referral policy for publishers outside the US.

Have You Weaned Your Blog from AdSense Yet?
A convincing argument for moving from AdSense’s cost-per-click structure to CPM ads and other affiliate programs.

Why You Can’t Make Money Blogging
Copyblogger’s Brian Clark provides some compelling reasons to ditch AdSense and sell products that solve real-world problems.

10 Reasons Why People Hate Google AdSense
A round-up of thought-provoking reasons as to why Google ads repel publishers. Some of the reasons include: the ads are ugly, Adsense is everywhere, poor email support with the Google team and many others.

But you have a ton of other options for displaying ads on your website, from using other ad networks to selling and managing banner ads yourself. There are plug-ins for virtually every CMS and blogging platform out there that allow you to rotate banner ads or insert blocks of ad code.

This post is a collection of ad management plug-ins for WordPress, Movable Type, Drupal and Joomla! to get your started. At the end are a few tutorials for creating your own banner ad rotation scripts in PHP and ASP (so that even if a plug-in is not available for your CMS of choice, you’ll likely be able to build your own).

You might also want to check out our article on AdSense, 100% Google AdSense: Tools, Tips and Resources.

1. Plug-Ins For WordPress

Who Sees Ads?
Control which visitors see ads on your website, based on where they came from, whether they’re logged in, how old the post is and more.

AdRotate
A simple tool that lets you manage banner ads (even for multiple sizes and different placement) on your website.

Ads For Old Posts
This plug-in automatically inserts an ad block in your posts once they’re past a certain age.

OIO Publisher
An ad manager that focuses on maximising your revenue, saving you time, and keeping you in complete control of your ad space. The php-script can be used to sell and serve ads and it is also available as a ready-to-be-used WordPress plugin.

OpenX Manager
Lets you integrate the open-source ad server OpenX, along with the ability to import data from an existing OpenX server.

WP125
Manage 125×125 pixel ads without having to edit your template or keep track of when advertisements need to be removed.

Advertising Manager
A plug-in to manage Google AdSense or other ad network ads.

Twitter Brand Sponsors
Allows up to 10 different brands to syndicate their most recent tweets on your blog’s sidebar.

All in One AdSense and YPN
A plug-in to integrate AdSense and Yahoo! Publisher Network ads into your blog.

WordPress Classifieds Plug-In
Another plug-in to create a classifieds section on your blog.

OmniAds – WordPress Ads Plug-In
An ad plug-in that allows you to post HTML or PHP units within your code.

Post Layout WordPress Plug-In
A plug-in to let you control where your AdSense ads appear within a post.

Feed Layout
Add advertisements or other items into your RSS feed.

Smart Ads WordPress Plug-In
A plug-in to automatically insert ads at the beginning and/or end of each post, depending on the post’s length, age or category or the blog member’s status.

Another WordPress Classifieds Plug-In
An easy-to-use plug-in for creating a classifieds ad page on your blog.

AdSense Revenue Sharing
A great plug-in if you want to share your AdSense revenue with multiple authors on a single blog.

WP-banner
A plug-in that allows you to put banner ads in a widget or a DIV anywhere on your website.

Random/Rotating Ads
Show any kind of ad on your website, either in widgets or in your template.

Clickbank Hop Ad Plug-In for WordPress
Lets you add Clickbank ads to your website through a configurable widget.

2. Plug-Ins For Joomla!

Featured Entries and Ads
This plug-in lets visitors to your website purchase a featured entry or ad, and it completely automates the process, with PayPal payment included.

MultiAds
Lets you insert any type of ad in your website’s articles.

Adsense and YPN Inserter
A plug-in to insert your Google AdSense or Yahoo! Publisher Networks ads into your website automatically, with full control over position and display.

YOS Ads with pop-in and inject features
Lets you insert ads on your website via either a pop-in (separate window) or inject page (between two other pages).

Hide GoogleAds in PDF
If you let users create PDFs of your website content, this plug-in will hide AdSense ads in those PDFs.

Text Link Ads Module
An easy-to-use plug-in that handles all the technical aspects of managing Text Link Ads.

Hide Google Ads in RSS Feed
This plug-in prevents AdSense ads from showing up in your website’s RSS feeds.

Chitika eMiniMalls Mambot 1.0
Automatic integration of Chitika eMiniMalls in your website, including automatic placement of ads, selection of a default ad channel and color adjustment of ads.

Phoca – Google AdSense Easy
A very quick and easy plug-in for adding AdSense ads to your website by just copying and pasting in your AdSense code.

Page Peel Banner
A plug-in that manages page peel banner ads for your website, including impression and click statistics. It supports JPG and Flash ads.

AdSense Deluxe Module
AdSense management plug-in that includes a complete set of ad formats.

AdSense Easy Insert
Allows insertion of two AdSense ads around your content (one before and one after).

3. Plug-Ins For Drupal

Advertisement Module
A module for displaying ads (graphical or text) in a random order anywhere on your website. Ads can be automatically or manually inserted into your website.

ad_flash
An add-on that allows Flash advertisements to be displayed with the Drupal ad module.

Affiliate
Allows you to set up your own affiliate network and issue affiliate links to partners.

Classified Ads
A module that allows you to create a text-based classified ads section on your website.

Click-Thru Tracking
Allows website owners and admins to track click-through rates on their websites, for ads or any other links.

Pay2Publish
Allow visitors to your website to publish free listings (content) on your website and then upgrade to paid versions at any time.

Rotor Banner
A plug-in for creating blocks of rotating content on your website, where you can place banner ads or anything else you want.

Slidebox
Create ad boxes of any size that float into your page from above.

Simple Ad Block
A very simple ad management plug-in that places an ad block onto your website in which you can paste code from AdSense or any other ad network.

4. Plug-Ins For Movable Type

Page Layout Plug-In
Allows you to create and use page layout templates, which facilitate the hiding and showing of ads and other content on certain pages.

Google AdSense Widget
This widget allows you to view your Google AdSense daily earnings in your Movable Type dashboard.

5. Ad Management Tutorials And Articles

Which Ad Manager Plug-In Makes Managing Ads Easiest?
This article provides a great comparison of ad management plug-ins for WordPress, listing the pros and cons of each.

Blogtalks.net
A collection of articles about managing ads on your blog, including “How to track clicks” and “Tips for using OpenAds with WordPress.”

How to Integrate Advertising into Your Blog
A great overview of things to consider when integrating advertising in your blog, as well as some practical how-to information.

How to Set Up Google Ad Manager on Your Blog/Website
Comprehensive overview and set-up instructions for using Google Ad Manager on your website or blog.

Banner Rotator
Another PHP tutorial on showing rotating banner ads on your website. This one stores information about the ads and the views that each ad gets in a MySQL database.

Rotating Banner Ads Using a Database
An ASP tutorial on creating a database-driven banner-ad rotation script.

Dynamic Banner Administration
A comprehensive ASP tutorial on putting rotating banner ads on your website.

Interactive solutions for lightboxes, form validation, navigation, upload, auto-complete, image cropping, slideshows, tool tips, sliders and tables are being developed that use nifty JavaScript and AJAX scripts.

When using these, developers have to carefully consider many subtle techniques to help users get things done. In this article, we present 70 new and useful JavaScript and AJAX techniques, all of which are of the highest quality and are more or less easy to configure. You will also find some very useful but better known techniques to use on almost any project you work on.

jQuery, MooTools, Prototype and script.aculo.us are used in these examples, so every taste gets its due.

1. Calendars and Timelines: Examples and Demos

Timeframe
A click-and-drag timeframe, with a function for defining ranges. A better calendar. Check out the demo here.

Create astonishing iCal-like calendars with jQuery
Similar to the iPhone Calendar application, with event description that shows up on mouse hover. The trickiest part is making your images seamless and using a single image for all the graphics whenever possible to decrease download time. Check out the demo here.

Dateslider
This element enables you to pick dates with a simple slider bar. By dragging the bar over the timeline, the dates change instantly. And when the user decides to manually change dates, the bar is automatically adjusted to the corresponding dates. Check out the demo here.

Elegant animated weekly timeline
This tutorial explains how to design an elegant and animated weekly timeline, with daily annotations, that you can customize and reuse quickly in your Web projects. Check out the demo here.

Unobtrusive datePicker widget
This unobtrusive datePicker (calendar), which is accessible using the keyboard, requires no embedded JavaScript blocks, uses no pop-up windows and is suitable for use within documents served as application/XHTML+XML. Check out the demo here.

Date Picker
Date Picker jQuery plug-in allows users to select a date or range of dates easily. It includes a lot of options: multiple calendars; single, multiple and range selection; marking of special, weekend and special dates; an easy-to-customize look via CSS; custom day to start the week, a fit with the viewport.

2. Navigation Examples and Demos

auto-scrolling page navigation
Learn how to create auto-scrolling page navigation using script.aculo.us. Check out the demo here.

Creating a “filterable” portfolio with jQuery
In this tutorial, you will learn how to make “filtering by category” a little more interesting with just a bit of jQuery.

Create a simple, powerful product highlighter with MooTools
Learn how to create a flexible tool to highlight your website products and services using the MooTools JavaScript framework. Check out the demo here.

Ext Accordion
The Accordion widget and its InfoPanel are components that use the Ext JS Library. It can be used for page navigation, tool windows, hide-able details, log-in forms, options dialogs, sticky notes and more.

jQuery ListNav Plug-In
This jQuery plug-in provides an easy way to unobtrusively add a letter-based navigation widget to any <ul> or <ol> list. An easily stylable (via CSS) nav bar appears above the list, showing the letters A through Z. Clicking one of the letters filters the list to show only the items starting with that letter. Hovering over a letter (optionally) shows a count above the letter, indicating how many items are contained in that list. Check out the demo here.

3. Tool Tip Examples and Demos

Duplicate the jQuery home page tool tips using MooTools
The jQuery home page has a pretty suave tool tip-like effect, as seen above. Here’s how to accomplish the same effect using MooTools.

Prototip
Prototip allows you to easily create both simple and complex tool tips using the Prototype JavaScript framework. You can easily customize it, control the tool tip position and get configurable rounded corners (with no PNG images required).

Simpletip
Simpletip is a plug-in for the popular jQuery JavaScript library. It allows you to create tool tips with ease for any element on the page using the power of jQuery’s selectors and event management. The tool tips can be static, dynamic or even loaded through AJAX with a variety of different visual effects.

Coda pop-up bubbles
Re-create Coda’s ‘puff’ pop-up bubbles, shown when you mouse over a downloadable image.

4. Menu Examples and Demos

Smooth animated menu with jQuery
Nice jQuery menu with a smooth transition animation effect. Check out the demo here.

Fading Menu – Replacing Content
The example page below has three menu items for three content areas: “Home,” “About” and “Contact.” When a menu item is selected, its menu graphic is shown at full opacity and its corresponding content area is shown, while the other menu items are faded and their content areas hidden. With jQuery, you can fade in the menu item being clicked, fade out all other menu items, display the corresponding content area and hide all other content areas. Check out the demo here.

jQuery Context Menu plug-in
jQuery Context Menu is a context menu plug-in for jQuery. It is designed to make implementing context menu functionality easy, and it requires minimal effort to configure. Check out the demo here.

e24TabMenu – AJAX drop-down tab menu
e24TabMenu is a plug-in written for script.aculo.us. It is a tab menu that expands and collapses smoothly. Check out the demo here.

5. Slider Examples and Demos

MooTools Slider with two knobs
This is the MooTools Slider with two knobs (i.e. a double-pinned slider), with range indicator. Check out the demo here.

MooTools CSS-styled scroll bar
A small piece of JavaScript that creates a CSS-styled scroll bar from the MooTools “slider” class. Check out the demo here.

Ultra-versatile slider for websites
A simple step-by-step tutorial for implementing an ultra-versatile slider with horizontal scrolling and animated effects using MooTools. Check out the demo here.

A better Pagination
A little script that can turn ugly-looking pagination numbers into a nice-looking slider using MooTools. Check out the demo here.

6. Slideshow Examples and Demos

noobSlide
Another slider plug-in created using MooTools.

Easy Slider
Easy Slider enables images or any content to slide horizontally or vertically on click. Features include: auto-slide, continuous sliding, “Go to first” and “Go to last” buttons, hiding controls, optional wrapping markup for control buttons, vertical sliding, multiple sliders on one page. Check out the demo here.

Supersized – full-screen background/slideshow jQuery plug-in
Supersized is a jQuery plug-in that automatically resizes (background) images to the size of the browser and runs them as a slideshow. It is lightweight and plays nice with all browsers. Check out the demo here.

Animated JavaScript slideshow
New features for this dynamic JavaScript slideshow include description support, link support, no naming restrictions, portrait image support, graceful degradation and active thumbnail status. Check out the demo here.

Moving Boxes
A jQuery slider with buttons to change panels, and the panels zoom in and out. Check out the demo here.

Prototype Carousel with script.aculo.us
A Prototype-based carousel that allows for n-item paging. Items within the carousel can be extracted from the HTML itself and so can be indexed by search engines. It also allows for vertical, horizontal and grouped paging. Check out the demo here.

7. Image Cropping Examples and Demos

UvumiTools Crop
This simple tool gives your users the ability to create a selection area that can be used to crop an image live on your website. You can set a minimum size for the selection, real-time preview, support for HTML resizing, on and off toggles, CSS styling and more.

Kroppr
Unobtrusive script that allows users to rotate, resize and crop your images, with minor changes to your website.

Jcrop
Jcrop is the quick and easy way to add image-cropping functionality to your Web application. It combines the ease of use of a typical jQuery plug-in with a powerful cross-platform DHTML cropping engine that is faithful to familiar desktop graphics applications.

8. Image Previewing Examples and Demos

imgPreview
The imgPreview plug-in allows users to preview an image before clicking it and preloads the image so that when a user does click it there is no waiting time. The image preview displays in a tool tip-like box on hover. Check out the demo here.

FancyZoom meets Prototype
Orderedlist rewrote FancyZoom in Prototype with some small changes. It now uses Apple’s rounded corners and supports pretty much any HTML you can throw in a <div> (images, text, Flash, etc.). It was built using Prototype and script.aculo.us; AJAX was not used, so it now works with any HTML already included on the page. Check out the demo here.

Dojo Zoomer
A fully featured demo showing the power of the Dojo toolkit. The markup is valid, with two external “script” tags that load progressive enhancements to an otherwise plain list of anchors and thumbnails. Check out the demo here.

9. File Upload Examples and Demos

Multiple file uploader
Allows you to create a form in which users can upload more than one file using MooTools. Check out the demo here.

Fancy Upload
FancyUpload is a file-input replacement tool that features an unobtrusive multiple-file selection menu and queued upload, with an animated progress bar. It is easy to set up, server-independent and completely styleable via CSS and XHTML. It uses MooTools, so it works in all modern browsers. Check out the demo here.

Extension:UploadForm
The Extension:UploadForm is an Ext.form.BasicForm extension that allows you to easily upload multiple files to a server. The files are added to a queue first and then uploaded to the server. Check out the demo here.

10. Auto-Complete Examples and Demos

AutoComplete Control
A stand-alone widget for putting an auto-complete feature on your website. Check out the demo here.

AutoComplete Control
Create a Google Suggest-style filter with AutoComplete Control. Check out the demo here.

Autocomplete
Autocomplete is an input field that enables users to quickly find and select a value, leveraging searching and filtering. Check out the demo here.

Proto! Textbox list meets auto-completion

11. Lightbox Examples and Demos

Lightview
Lightview was built to change the way you overlay content on a website. Designed to complement your content, it has the following features: smart image preloading, customization without CSS, adjustable rounded corners, no PNG required, resizing to always fit the screen and one-click slideshow.

Sexy LightBox 2
SexyLightBox is a more lightweight clone of the classic Lightbox. It supports all kinds of images and different sizes. Large images are automatically resized to fit the browser.

FancyBox
A jQuery Lightbox clone with some great features: automatic resizing to fit large images in the window; a nice drop shadow under zoomed items; grouping of related items with navigation; inline and iframe content displays; customization through settings and CSS.

LightWindow
A Lightbox clone that renders to many media formats correctly, with some nice animation effects.

12. Form Examples and Demos

FancyForm
FancyForm is a powerful checkbox-replacement script that provides ultimate flexibility in changing the appearance and function of HTML form elements. It’s accessible, easy to use and degrades gracefully on all older, non-supported browsers.

Changing form input styles on focus with jQuery
This tutorial will help spice up your form with CSS classes and default values that change according to which form item is selected. All with just a splash of jQuery. Check out the demo here.

Form.Check
FormCheck is a MooTools class that allows you to validate a form by performing different tests before submission. Check out the demo here.

fValidator
fValidator is a free, open-source and unobtrusive JavaScript tool for handling form validation easily.

Using input values as hints
Give users hints on what to input in textfields. Each field auto-clears when the user clicks or tabs to it. If nothing is entered, the hint reappears once the user moves away.

Custom Form Elements
This script enhances form elements including checkboxes, radio buttons, file upload, textfield, textarea, images and the select, submit and reset buttons. Check out the demo here.

13. Table Examples and Demos

TableGear
Built in MooTools, TableGear gets your data onto a Web page. It handles submitted data both from AJAX calls and a standard post, and it returns data to the application. Check out the demo here.

JavaScript table sorter
This JavaScript table-sorting script is easy to use, fast and lightweight at only 1.7 KB. It includes alternate-row formatting, header-class toggling, auto-data-type recognition and selective column sorting. It can currently sort strings, numbers and currencies. Check out the demo here.

DrasticGrid
DrasticGrid is an AJAX-based data grid with editing support. It uses MySQL as a data source and supports pagination, sorting, as well as editing, adding and removing records.

Sorttable
A good and simple way to sort data in a table with a simple click on table headers.

14. Worth Checking Out: Examples and Demos

typeface.js
Instead of using images or Flash to show your website’s text in the font you want, you can use typeface.js and just write in plain HTML and CSS, as if your visitors had the font installed locally.

Drag and Drop Sortable Lists

Starbox
Starbox allows you to easily create all kinds of rating boxes using just one PNG image. The library is build on the Prototype JavaScript framework. For some extra effects, you can add script.aculo.us as well.

jQuery alert dialogs
This jQuery plug-in aims to replace the basic functionality of the standard JavaScript alert(), confirm() and prompt() functions. Check out the demo here.

Building an interactive map with jQuery instead of Flash
This map was made to be as engaging as possible by using smooth animations and crisp graphics. Check out the final map here.

jQuery Fade In.Fade Out
This effect fades an element to 30% upon page load, then brings it to full opacity when hovered over. The effect can be assigned to virtually anything on a website, whether an image, text, link or even a div. Check out the demo here.

Opacity change using script.aculo.us
This tutorial explains how to use script.aculo.us to implement a nice “change opacity” effect for a layer and its contents.

Morph effect on mouseenter/mouseleave
In this tutorial, you’ll see how to add some amazing effects to an unordered list on mouseover with the element Method: morph and how to make a whole list item region clickable with Mootools 1.2. The goal is to turn a boring unordered list into something fun to click on. Check out the demo here.

Editable
This is a customizable, editable jQuery plug-in. Currently, it can convert any tag (span, div, p, etc.) to text input, password, textarea or drop-down list. You can easily extend it by adding your own input type using the “editableFactory” object.

15. AJAX Examples and Demos

AJAX username availability checker using MooTools
Why make users submit forms when you can use AJAX to let them know right away if their chosen usernames are available? Here’s how to implement a username availability checker using MooTools 1.2. Check out the demo here.

Ajaxify
Ajaxify is a jQuery plug-in that can convert all links on a Web page into an AJAX load and submit requests. Check out the demo here.

AJAX file upload
This plug-in, for both jQuery and Prototype, allows users to easily upload multiple files without having to refresh the page. And any element can be used to open the file selection window. Check out the demo here.

AJAX page loads using MooTools Fx.Explode
A nice MooTools effect: click on any Fx.Explode element, and it “explodes” off the screen. Click it again, and it magically reappears. Check out the demo here.

Animated AJAX Record Deletion Using MooTools
Learn how to create the effect seen in WordPress, where you click to delete an article, the menu item changes to red and then disappears. Here’s how to achieve that functionality with MooTools JavaScript. Check out the demo here.

About the author

Noura Yehia is a Web designer and blogger who can be found at Noupe and Devsnippets. If you want to connect with the author, you can follow her on Twitter.

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