I’m not so mad on the available skins however – in particular, the Aqua theme takes on the look and feel of the first few releases of Mac OS X when those white and grey background stripes were not-so-subtle and not-so-attractive. No, I wanted a skin that was a little more up-to-date for a project I’ve been working on, so after a few hours in the lab here is the Minium skin (also based on a theme name I’m using for said project).

Yep, it’s heavily inspired by Mac OS X, and in particular, Apple’s “pro” look and feel, which probably stuck in my head when I checked out Numbers the day it was released Hopefully this will be just the ticket for polishing up your web application too!

Download Minium for jscalendar.

To use the skin with jscalendar, place the minium folder contained in the zip file inside the skins folder in your jscalendar install, and add a link tag to the theme.css file inside.

Far from being the next great JavaScript effects library (that domain is pretty well covered) JEL is focused on the utilitarian, and was borne out of me being sick of writing the same old date-handling, string-handling or form validation code over and over again. Which means you’ll have more time to pimp your site up with JavaScript FX! Hooray!(?)

The JEL site contains full API Documentation built with NaturalDocs, inspired by the MooTools documentation which is one of the best documentation sites I have ever seen (thanks Greg for NaturalDocs, and Mad4Milk for pointing me toward a brilliant way to document JavaScript code). And for those who don’t like reading reference docs, I have written up some Manual pages to help you get started.

And yes, I know my site looks pretty much like the default WordPress template (“lame!” as John Dorian would surely say), but I’m tired of lurking and content is king right? Now that the first release of JEL is done, I’ll have more time to devote to a pretty template of my very own!

I’ve got a lot more to say about things I’ve picked up while developing JEL so stay tuned…