jQuery image carousel – Agile Carousel
Agile jQuery sliding content plugin I found this awesome jQuery script for a carousel. It’s sort of a combination of the “smoothgallery” by Jondesign and the “Featured Content Glider” from DHTML. I like it better. It has some great features, like the hover arrows to direct scrolling, visual indicators in the top portion of the display that allow you to scroll, and...
Read MoreCreate multiple single page templates by category in Wordpress
When I was creating this site, I had to figure out a way to display the single post page of my portfolio differently from a single page of a notebook entry. I wanted each to contain some different structure, and using one single.php page was not going to cut it. What if I wanted a different sidebar on the notebook page? After all, it’s content would not relate well with my front page...
Read MoreFree Grunge Textures
Both of my parents enjoy taking photos and when I came across these pictures, taken by my mother, I thought they’d be perfect to offer up. These are pictures of old floors, taken at various locations in Maine. They are grungy in nature, and display a great mix of colors and textures. The download includes nine full-size images. Download the set...
Read MoreGallerific – jQuery Image Gallery
The Galleriffic jQuery gallery Lately I have been using jQuery a lot more; handling image fades, transitions, and galleries. Today, I came across this plugin that can be used to display a photo gallery with jQuery. It’s highly configurable, and is built very well. It features Smart Image Preloading after the page is loaded Thumbnail Navigation (with pagination) Bookmark-friendly...
Read MoreInsert image thumbnails in Wordpress posts
I have found that one of the simplest ways to manage images in wordpress is to use the custom fields. By simply inserting a “key” to identify the image, and the image path, you can easily manage and incorporate a variety of images into your site. Step One Decide what kind of image you want to use. In this case, we are going to insert a square thumbnail image next to each post, like...
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