No Gray Calendar is a simple, easy to use and highly configurable calendar widget built on the mootools framework. The calendar is built dynamically from an <a> element it  modifies specified input fields and is attached to a specified container element. 

Features:

• Create any numbers of months per calendar.
• Set the weekend, days off, holidays (dates off), start day of the week.
• Start and end date.
• Multi selection with limits or without.
• Skinnable (using CSS).
• Can have any number of calendars in any page.
• Optimized for best performance.

You can find it online at: http://nogray.com/calendar.php

Usage Examples After the Jump:

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Fat Free Cart’s got a lot going for it. It’s a quick & easy way to add a cart without any real server support. It’s free & remotely hosted to boot.

Some Features:

1. Handles shipping, handling, tax.
2. Handles up-to 3 option variables.
3. Can handle all currencies supported by PayPal (16) and Google Checkout (2).
4. Passed your site’s Google Analytics data to Google Checkout
5. Simply set the product price to 0.00 to let buyer enter her own amount!

This is obviously a tool designed to encourage you to upgrade to the premium version, but It’s a pretty impressive and straightforward tool to start with.

E2 Gallery is a beautiful and easy to use photo gallery widget from (E)2 interactive.
Some Key Features:

• Smooth Image Transitions
• Quick change between 4 designs
• Thumbnail Viewer
• Automatic Photo Detection
• Image Uploader Included
• Four Design Viewer Options
• No Database Needed
• Automatic Adjustment to Image Sizes
• Reads in Photo Meta Data (IPTC Info)  (title, description, author, copyright info)
• Dynamically Built using PHP
• Easily Maintained
• Hide/Show Thumbnails

Check It Out Here:

http://www.e2interactive.com/e2_photo_gallery/

From Thinkweb2.com comes Proto.Menu.  A fast and simple context menu based on javascript

Features:

• Lightweight: ~2 KB (~1.5 KB minified)
• Unobtrusive: Plays nice with JS turned off, uses its own namespace
• Cross-browser: Full A-Graded browsers support (Opera is supported through Ctrl + Left Click)
• Fully customizable: Menu styling can (and is intended to) be easily defined in external stylesheet
• Fast: Menu container is rendered on page load, and only changes position on click

Proto.Menu 

Created By: kangax

CSS Play offers an excellent gallery of CSS menu wedgets to use in your next project. All of the menus are licensed under a CC license and based solely on CSS, no javascript.

You can find them at CSS Play 

When you’re using a robust toolkit like jQuery, there’s usually a date picker of some kind.  With jQuery it’s a widget plugin.

Originally Written by Marc Grabanski & Extended by Keith Wood.  The jQuery Calendar v2.7 is a powerful and useful tool to add to your jQuery arsenal.

You can find it online here:

http://marcgrabanski.com/code/jquery-calendar/

Earlier this month I posted on a powerful ExtJS extension for handling multiple file uploads. Today we will delve deeper into this widget and explore handling the uploads on the server end.

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YUI provides for the creation of forms dynamically without the need for pre-existing markup through the Button object.

Despite its name, the button is a rich widget that supports the creation of:

• Push Buttons
• Link Buttons
• Submit Buttons
• Reset Button
• Checkboxes
• Radios
• Menus
• Split button (hybrid button menus)

Today we are exploring the creation of buttons dynamically from javascript.   Creation itself is simple. 

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Rich, powerful AJAX tables provide a greater impact in usability to web applications than just about any other widget.  One of the best of these is the extJS table. Some highlights:

• Inline editing based on data type (calendar for date, spinner for numeric etc)
• Validation of inline edits
• Custom sorts
• Able to utilize existing tables, XML data files & JSON data
• Paging & Remote data support

More information on ExtJS table will be coming in part 3 of the extJS POG tutorial

phatfusion has developed an awesome image based menu using mootools. Similar to the menu located at http://www.mootools.com; this Image Menu delivers a beautiful user experience.

Some Key Features

• onClick event keeps selected item open.
• Click open item to close.
• Specify a function for the onClick event.
• Auto open when the page loads

See it in action at: http://www.phatfusion.net/imagemenu/index.htm