Recently while working on VictoriasCreativeDesigns.com for an interior designer here in Vegas, I needed to create an elegant yet simple drop down menu for the main navigation.  The menu I had created was utilizing jQuery for a very “flash-like” effect, so I wanted to find a jQuery solution for the dropdown effect.

I stumbled upon Droppy after a few google searches.  It was fast to implemet and yet still looked great without too many tweaks.  If your looking for a good jQuery drop down menu, take a look at Droppy and take it for a spin.

A huge selling point for clients is to give them the ability to manage their own websites.  With CMS solutions like Drupal, Joomla!, and WordPress, its easy for clients to manage their large sites on their own.  However, often times I develop small 4 or 5 page websites that will remain mostly static.  In these cases, it really seems like overkill to have a database driven site just to give the client an option to update their site at some point in the future.  For one, these content management systems can be overwhelming to the casual updater and secondly, it adds more time, and therefore money, to development costs.

So the other day I was looking for a solution to this problem, and I stumbled upon editEase.  It easily takes a once static site, and creates “ajaxified” clickable content areas.  What was once a block of text, now becomes an editable text area.  Its intuitive, easy to use, and fast at making site updates.

EditEase obviously isn’t an ideal solution for larger sites, but it sure seems to do the trick for those small, once static, web sites.

UPDATE

I only meant to bring this script to the attention of others.  However, some people have felt that it is some how my fault that it doesn’t work as easily as one might hope.  If I was taking credit for editease, that would be understandable.  BUT, just to be a helpful web developer, Im going to be posting some better instructions in the next week (I hope) than what editease itself offers.