The Notepad
Welcome to the notepad. Scribblings found here may relate to coding practices or tripping monkeys.
The Google team recently took some time to address a common question. How can I improve my search engine rankings? To wit they created several small, concise guides about search engine optimization for you to download. These guides are easy to understand, and include lots of images for us visual-minded folks. I suggest downloading and [...]
The Problem
As usual, a new problem arose when I was developing this site. I didn’t want the featured slider to appear on every page, as it was located in the header. You too, may want to display page-specific headers on your site. Well, it’s not that hard.
The Fix
First, open your header.php file and copy and [...]
I recently came across a few interesting sites that offer tips and tricks on how to tweak Firefox; if you’re like me and want your nine tabs of data-heavy websites to run at hyper speed, check out these links. Most notable were the speed tweaks, which I can say increased this things effectiveness. Having used [...]
In case you have been wishing and looking for a way to nicely flip and slide objects to reveal content using jQuery, here are two options. The first lets you flip an object up, down, left and right and it can contain HTML content as well. I can think of several cool things to do [...]
Many premium themes feature cool featured content sliding areas, where the latest posts appear. There is one such plugin, built around the Mootools library, but I wanted to use jQuery, as I prefer it over the other libraries. I also wanted it to automatically scroll. Of course, this can easily be modified to use the [...]
Since I’ve started using Wordpress as my choice platform for web development, I’ve been “modularizing” my development system. What does this mean? In the past, I would haphazardly make a half-cocked plan of action and get to work immediately.
Now I load the chamber with strategic bullets that allow me to get going…faster.
Frameworks and Modules
Modularize [...]
I find jQuery to be the best javascript toolbox out there, and will focus on galleries built around that framework, however some listed do not rely on jQuery.
Gallerific
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Step Carousel Viewer
From the folks at Dynamic Drive comes this slick carousel viewer.
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jQGalScroll - A scrolling image gallery
Simple and clean gallery where the images scroll using [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]