mooSlide – cool slide up effect

August 29, 2008

If you’re looking for an alternative to light box then check out mooSlide. Rather than popup a new overlay in the middle of the page, the popup comes straight from the bottom. I could see this coming in handy when linking to external sites and you want to show a thumbnail and addition information.

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Greybox – Nice Lightbox Window for External Content or Image Galleries

August 27, 2008

Greybox is a nice little AJAX effect for pop up windows. If you want a nice image gallery or an alternate way to display external links on your own site, give greybox some serious consideration.

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Some Nice Free CSS Based Templates

August 26, 2008

Six Shooter Media offer 11 free CSS based templates. These are very nice and only require you keep a backlink in the footer. If you’re new to web design it might help to have a decent html editor like Dreamweaver to edit these templates.

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Web Hosting with PowWeb

August 26, 2008

PowWeb is probably not the best choice for a high traffic site (10,000 visitors or so a day). If you own a small business and want to start small with some affordable hosting, then PowWeb might be worth looking into. I have a client that runs a small poetry magazine and they receive about 200 [...]

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Versatile AJAX Carousel

August 26, 2008

JCarousel Lite is an AJAX script used to create that neat scrolling effect you see on so many web 2.0ish websites. what I really like about this script is it can be used for more than just images. You can create text based content and even mix images and text. Other features include using external [...]

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Rounded Corner Generator

August 25, 2008

Looking to make a rounded corner box or button? Go to http://www.roundedcornr.com and use their rounded corner generator. Four image files are created and the necessary HTML and CSS code for a basic box or button is all generated for you. Be sure the background color matches the background color of your web page.

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Test Your Design in All Browsers

August 22, 2008

Designing sites for IE and Fiefox can be a royal pain you know where some times. Throw in Opera and other lesser known browsers and it’s almost impossible to test your site in all of them. That’s where BrowserShots can help. simpley type in the URL and select the browsers you want to use to [...]

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ThemePress – Your Design to WordPress Theme in a Few Clicks

August 21, 2008

Themepress is a cool tool for web designers that want to use WordPress to power their site or blog. Simply design your site in the editor of your choice (or hand code) then use Themepress to do the rest. It only costs $10 and themes are widget ready. I was on a WordPress kick last [...]

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$6.95 Domain name offer at Godaddy.com

August 21, 2008

Godaddy is offering a good deal on multi year domain name registrations. Register your domain name for 2 years or more and get that domain for just $6.95 per year. This is a  limited time offer. I’ve used Godaddy for years and have never experienced any issues. If your new to buying domain names then [...]

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A Must Have Resource for WordPress Users

August 21, 2008

If you use WordPress then you should try to visit Weblog Tools Collection every couple of days. The site owner posts daily updates linking to the latest plugins, issues and templates available for WordPress.

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