Are you searching for high quality free stock photography websites and resources? There is a reason why imagery today accounts for over 60% of the page size and high-quality photos are needed in all aspects of design, for web or print. It’s true that websites like iStock or Shutterstock can be relatively inexpensive, but nothing beats free. Some of these require attribution but many others are in the Public Domain and good for commercial use. These photos without watermarks are a perfect way to upgrade your blog or website for free.
Here is a list of the best resources, websites, and search engines for amazing free stock photography.
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As more APIs allow CORS, we can create some really cool integrations without any server side code. Google Maps API is an obvious one but I was surprised to see successful Ajax calls to the FaceBook Graph API which made me think about building and integrating these services. I was scraping FaceBook for Places, or geo locations, so it only makes sense to start with a world map where you can search, click, or drag markers to retrieve any latitude and longitude coordinates for your geo search.
Next, these geo coords are sent to my facebook function that initiates a graph search for places near the provided geo location. The response drops markers on the Google Map, similar to Google’s own Places API and examples. But, I also wanted to visualize this dataset in more details and used the jQuery DataTables plugin to make the API data available for easy viewing, searching, and filtering. You can get more data for a specific place by clicking on an id, which initiates another place API call and drops the JSON response in a modal window with code highlighting.
Google and Facebook for Geo Places on a Map and Table
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Here is a list of the top jQuery plugins for alerts and messages and the best JavaScript notification libraries. Some are enhancements to console log messages or alert messages and some are full JS notification systems. There are many options: you have plain JS solutions, jQuery alert plugins, BootStrap versions, alert modules for Angular, BackBone alert systems, and other notification frameworks for ReactJS, Meteor, UI Kits, etc. Here are the top 50 alerts and notification libraries with a some organization:
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