5 Sources for Free and Legal Images Everyone knows that almost any blog post is better with images. However, getting them can be a difficult matter. With a maze of licensing and fair use issues making it hard to decide what is and is not legal to use, many bloggers don’t wish to use images that they have not taken themselves. But while using your own images is always the best way to go, there are several great sources to help you find and locate images that you can use as part of your blog posts. The best part of all is that these tools are free. Photo Dropper Photo Dropper is hands down one of my favorite WordPress plugins. Photo Dropper is extremely simple to use. From there, you’ll be able to search for keywords related to your post. Photo Dropper may take some fiddling to get relevant images and you might have to tweak the HTML to get it to fit well in your posts. Zemanta The drawback to Zemanta is that it can make modifications to the post beyond what is selected. GumGum This use of ads is what may upset many. PicApp
JavaScript Keywords Reference Index Below is a listing of all JavaScript Keywords language. Click on an item to visit its documentation. Use to add a single line comment, or comment out a single line of code. Use to add a multi-line comment, or comment out multiple lines of code. Adds two values together or concatenates two strings into a single string. Subtracts the value of a number from another number. Multiples the values of two numbers. Divides a number by another number. Divides a number by another number and returns the remainder. Increments the value of a number by 1. Decrements the value of a number by 1. - (unary) Changes the sign of a signed integer. Assigns a value to a variable or other object. Adds the value of the first item to the second item and assigns the total to the first item as a new value. Subtracts the value of the second item from the first item and assigns the total to the first item as a new value. Divides the value of the first item by the second item and assigns the total to the first item as a new value.
How to Create an Awesome Scrolling Navigation using jQuery - thebeebs I was looking over the .net award nominees this week and stumbled across the flipboard.com website. I loved the scrolling navigation so much I just had to open up visual studio and try and recreate it myself. DemoView Demo The main thing flipboard do differently is to have the logo and logo background elements move at different animation speeds from each other and the main content. This effect is is similar to Parallex scrolling and gives the website more interest, depth and flair. I’ve documented the main steps to recreate my demo below: Step 1 First we need to make reference to the jQuery Library as we are going to use it alot. Step 2 Next we will want to add our HTML to the page this HTML will hold all of the layers and links that we will need to get the example running. The background triangle moves at a slightly different speed to the logo and so needs it’s own <div>. I have added the nav layer and placed 4 links into it so that the user can navigate between the different contentItems.
70 Excellent Logo Design Tutorials and Resources By Jacob Gube An effective logo sets the tone and public perception of your brand, and therefore careful thought and creativity must be put into constructing it. In this article, you’ll find a large collection of tutorials and resources on the topic of designing logos by some of the most well-respected logo designers in the industry. Logo Design Tutorials Step-by-step logo Designer/Author Chuck Green shows us the general process he takes when designing a logo. Big Bocca – Illustrative Logo This downloadable tutorial goes through the process of designing an illustrative logo. Piranha’s Revenge – Illustrative Logo Artist Von. Logo Frustration Take a peak into a real-world project to see an actual logo designer in action. Creating the Logo / Identity for “Blackberry Creek Community Church” You’ll see, from start to finish, the creation of a logo for the "Blackberry Creek Community Church". Drawing a Good Logo UX Developer Nathan Smith discusses his method for creating an iconic logo design. LogoPond
14 jQuery Plugins for Enhanced Content Viewing | Web Design Ledger Whether you need to display content within a limited amount of space or you just want to make a section of your website more engaging, jQuery is an excellent solution. With jQuery you can easily create accordion style content boxes, image galleries, and content sliders. Here are 14 excellent jQuery plugins for adding this type of functionality to your site. Accordion Coda-Slider Easy Slider ThickBox AnythingSlider jQuery Plugin Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery jCarousel jQuery.ScrollTo Easiest Tooltip and Image Preview toggleElements jQuery virtual tour Featured Content Glider InnerFade About the Author Henry Jones is a web developer, designer, and entrepreneur with over 14 years of experience. Related Posts 629 shares 8 jQuery Plugins Worth Checking Out jQuery plugins certainly exist to make our life easier, and it’s always great to discover new ones that make it easy to add cool functionality to our projects. Read More 852 shares 6 jQuery Plugins for Scrolling Effects
70 Tutorials Using Photoshop To Design A Website This article features a huge amount of Photoshop web design tutorials, which will teach you simple effects which can be combined together in order to create a great website design. Theses tutorials are perfect for first time Photoshop users because there short and sweet. I hope you enjoy the article and feel free to leave a comment below. 1) Carbon Fiber Layout you’ll learn how to make this sleek layout with a carbon fiber background that would look great as a landing page for a website. 2) Design Studio Layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a layout for your design studio website. 3) Create a web 2.0 layout in photoshop In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a very fancy “Web 2.0″ website layout in Adobe Photoshop using beginners skills. 4) Watercolored design studio blog layout In this tutorial you will learn how to make a clean and simple watercolor design studio layout for a blog. 5) Corporate Business Layout 6) How to create a worn paper layout 7) Arhitecture layout
Mike Davidson: How To Keep Widgets From Slowing Down Sites: WEDJ The whole world is going to widgets. This overused, overhyped term refers to third-party code one places on their website or blog in order to display such things as Flickr photos, Twitter status, or iTunes playlists. Everybody and their mom is putting out widgets these days, and although only about 1% of them are useful or interesting, they are an important new distribution mechanism that is changing the way companies think about syndication. But there is a big problem with widgets: they slow down the sites that use them . In the best case, you have a company like Flickr whose servers are almost always snappy, and in the worst case, you have a young startup that is constantly struggling against increasing demand and occasionally can’t serve up any code at all. The problem is that in either of these cases, the completion of your site’s loading and rendering depends on someone else’s code living on someone else’s server. Following is a breakdown: Root Causes The Solution: WEDJE Caveats 1. 2.
20 jQuery Image and Multimedia Gallery Plugins There are a multitude of options and technologies available, not only to developers but also regular users, for displaying a large volume of images on your website. The first that may spring to your mind are content and image sliders, which are currently very fashionable, or you would maybe be thinking of the simpler method of using a lightbox attached to your images, or it could be the more advanced option of using a dedicated gallery CMS. With all of these new technologies and fresh ideas it seems to be very easy to forget about the always reliable, traditional and timeless grid style image gallery. In this post we take a look at 20 of the best jQuery plugins that will allow you to easily build a feature-rich jQuery image and multimedia gallery plugins. TN3 Gallery TN3 Gallery is a fully responsive image gallery which also comes available as a WordPress plugin. TN3 GalleryDemosDocs Galleriffic jPhotoGrid Galleria jQuery.popeye 2.0 jQuery.popeye 2.0 is an advanced image gallery script.
23 of The Hottest Gadgets and Technologies from 2008 » The Hotte 23 of The Hottest Gadgets and Technologies from 2008 The 20th century has been all about one thing: innovation. Every year we have new technologies and new advancements that further progress our society. 2008 was no different and offered its own assortment of technological innovations and hot gadgets. Below is a listing of some of the most beneficial, and some of the most popular gadgets and gear to come out of 2008. Slingbox SOLO The Slingbox SOLO is a media unit that allows you to watch your TV from anywhere, either on your laptop or on your cell phone. The Toyota Prius has been the leader in the hybrid vehicle market thus far, but in 2008 Honda introduced their plans for the second generation of the Honda Insight.