I was asked to include a gallery when I was designing a website for a client. Instead of writing it from scratch, I tried to find a ready-made one which can allow me to easily upload and manage photos without too much hard coding. I found a great gallery using ImgBrowz0r and prettyPhoto jQuery plugin made by Chris Coyier. A really fantastic job. He actually showed how he combined these two and made the gallery. I think it is worthwhile to watch this step-to-step tutorial.

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Below is how the gallery looks like:

I also found a cool slider: anythingSlider. Photos or any content including hyperlinks can be featured in the slides and they move right or left. According to its creators, it has the following features:

# Slides are HTML Content (can be anything)
# Next Slide / Previous Slide Arrows
# Navigation tabs are built and added dynamically (any number of slides)
# Optional custom function for formatting navigation text
# Auto-playing (optional feature, can start playing or stopped)
# Each slide has a hashtag (can link directly to specific slides)
# Infinite/Continuous sliding (always slides in the direction you are going, even at “last” slide)
# Multiple sliders allowable per-page (hashtags only work on first)
# Pauses autoPlay on hover (option)
# Link to specific slides from static text links

I definitely will use it in the future. Here is a screenshot of how it looks like:

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Have you seen “Advertise Here” logos? They serve as an effective way to attract advertisers to your site. 125×125 pixel square ads are now the most popular size. According to tutorialblog, the following ad logo is not a good one. Why? You’d better read the explanation at this post.

Instead, the following 8 free logos are much better. Best of all, you can simply paste them on your site or blog. So, why don’t you download them now?

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DfGallery delivered dfGallery 2.0! dfGallery 1.0 has been a very successful cool free gallery with 200,000+ downloads.

According to dfGallery, “The reason for this gallery to be cool is not just its UI but the way it is built and architected. We have an amazing theme engine built to support custom themes with multiple skins for each. The administration console built on CodeIginter lets you manage multiple galleries and albums of different types.”

Some key features I want to emphasize here：

– you can embed the gallery anywhere (website, blog, facebook, myspace…)

– you can change the skin

– you can make the gallery full screen

– Picasa – Load any picasa album by just configuring the URL

– AJAX & Multiple Image Uploads

– Customize the background music of the gallery

A very nice addition to your website and blog. We can definitely use it for our business purpose.

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Here are a series of videos showing how to use JQuery for absolute beginners. If you are interested, they are great tutorials.

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Have you realized that colors can reveal the content of your site and the message is more subtle. For example, red is “warm, vivid, heat, energy, young …”, blue is “professional, cool, rational, relaxing, slightly sad, distance from crowd…”, black is “mysterious, dark, …” and lots more.

Here is a wonderful site you can play with the colors, the combinations of colors, and patterns from colors. You can find trend colors, palettes, patterns — Colourlovers.com.

Who are they? 

According to the self introduction, Colourlovers is a community

“that monitors and influences color trends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use color – whether for ad campaigns, product design, or even in architectural specification – a place to check out a world of color, compare color palettes, submit news and comments, and read color related articles and interviews.  “

You have to use colors, no matter it is for your web designs, for your office layout, or for advertising. It is also good to develop a taste in recognizing trends in the world of colors so to ensure your products always attractive. So, why don’t you take a look at the site and take some sips of the colorful richness?

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Google trends has extended its function into comparing web traffic. This means, you can capture the traffic data of any websites on the internet. Below is a screenshot of a comparison of 3 websites.

As you can see, it shows the trend of each site over time. It even picks the traffic spikes Flickr.com received around 2006. It is a great tool to sense the websites trends. Don’t you think so?

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I use different graphics programs such as Photoshop to edit images. But there are many occasions that requires a quick fix on a photo while I am away from my laptop. Luckily there are some online photo editing programs. The best one I have tried so far is Picnik.

How to use it? Really simple:

1.  upload  an image. You can upload an image from your computer or from flickr, myspace, picasa album, facebook etc.

2.  Now you are ready to work on it. You can change the size, color scheme, sharpness, contrast, and so on.

3. Next, you can apply different effect to the image, add text, use different stamps or forms, add frames, or go for more advanced editing tools by adjusting the curves.

4. Ready to save the final image. Well done!

Try it, and you will like it.

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It is cool to set a picture or a phrase reflect itself . ReflectionMaker is a free online tool for this very task. You simply upload a photo from your local disk or a webspace, specify how big you want it reflected shadow is and the work is done. So simply, isn’t it?

Here is a photo I made. Quite neat, I think you would agree.

Another tool is Speech Bubble tool. You add some word, click enter, the word is placed in a speech bubble. Fast and easy.

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Blogging can help grow business, it can become a serious business itself. So knowing wordpress is definitely useful for all the business owners to get on the new social media track.

Here is a collection of wordpress tutorials from ithems.com.

WORDPRESS BASICS

* WordPress Overview – How it works
* How WordPress Themes work
* How to install WordPress via Godaddy
* How to install WordPress via cPanel using Fantastico
* How to login to WP Dashboard
* How to upload and activate Themes and Plugins
* How to customize a Theme (overview)
* How to select different inside Page Templates
* How widgets work
* How to change header images/text
* How to setup a blog feed via Feedburner
* The difference between a Page and Post
* How to create a new Page or Post
* How to edit Pages/Posts
* How to set up new Users
* How to install Google Analytics stats
* How to put photos in a Post or Page
* How to change the default Favicon

ESSENCE THEME

* Essence Introduction
* How to change from text header to graphical header
* How to change the default photos
* How to select different inside Page Templates
* How to edit the sidebars using Widgets and the Theme Editor
* How to edit the default Home page

If you are interested in them, you can visit the site for more details.

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Easter is around the corner. It is time to start another round of promotion. How about a change to your website’s appearance? yes, Easter bunny is a good choice. Here is a list of cute Easter bunny icons I love a lot and I believe that you will like too.

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