Archive | September, 2008

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 [...]

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Create 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 [...]

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Free 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 [...]

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Gallerific – 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 [...]

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Insert image thumbnails in WordPress posts

An image next to a post

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 [...]

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Style a
background image with CSS

When we think of the horizontal rule, other cliche 90′s era design items come to mind; however the <hr> has made quite a comeback lately. A recent post at Smashing Magazine shows some fresh and creative uses for the once forgotten HTML tag. Now that you have it in mind that you want to use [...]

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New Path Energy

New Path Energy

New Path Energy is a small business located in MA. They wanted to increase exposure, and together we created a basic website. From conception to completed took only one week.

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Where did my template drop down go?

Recent users of WordPress 2.6 have noticed a peculiar problem. When creating a new template, you would think you could select the new template from the drop-down menu. But sometimes, it doesn’t appear. To remedy this, you must temporarily switch to a different theme, and then deactivate it and activate your real one. The templates [...]

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Second Generation Renewables

renewable energy startup

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