30 Sep, 2008
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...
19 Sep, 2008
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...
18 Sep, 2008
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...
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...
11 Sep, 2008
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...
