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Collection of WordPress Resources, Tips, Tricks & Themes

By Shehzad Mehmood in Design, Development, Extenshion, wordpress July 30, 2009 0 Comment

Hello all! Hope your week is going well. Me and the wife just got back from a relaxing vacation in New Orleans (Which was the reason there was no post this weekend 😉 ), and now I’m back to it! Today I’m bringing you a bunch of WordPress resources. As I’m sure your aware, WordPress is my tool of choice. The wonderful thing about WordPress, i

s you can do just about anything with it. So I’ve compiled this list in hopes of showing you some cool things you can do with your WordPress site that you might not have known. This list includes general resources, inspiration, quality themes, along with a bunch of tips & tricks (from beginner to more advanced) Enjoy! (If you have some really cool resource you feel I’ve missed, leave it in the comments so others can check it out.)

General WordPress Resources:

Easily Expand table rows with jQuery – jExpand plugin

By Shehzad Mehmood in CSS, JavaScripts, Jquery July 30, 2009 0 Comment

jExpand is ultra lightweight jQuery plugin that will make your tables expandable. Typical for line of business applications, this feature can help you organize tables better. This way, tables can hold more information such as images, lists, diagrams and other elements.

Best Collection of Incredible Digital Sunrise Wallpapers Viewed from Space

By Shehzad Mehmood in Art Directing, Images, Photography, Wallpapers July 30, 2009 0 Comment

Viewing the sunrise from Earth is a beautiful site,but viewing the sunrise from space is an almost moving experience. With the Sun approximately 150 million kilometers away, and with its light taking about eight and half minutes to reach us, it all adds up to a beautiful site.
This is a guest article from Lilian Ostropel.

A New Dawn

Artist: Burning-Liquid

Terra Nova

Artist: Burning-Liquid

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Collection of Essential Javascript Framework Supported Navigation Techniques

By Shehzad Mehmood in CSS, Design, Development, Navigation July 29, 2009 11 Comments

Navigation is key to any web site or blog. Good and user friendly navigation making it easy for your visitors to get around fast is simply one of the most elemental elements of web design and development. It is possible to create user-friendly horizontal or vertical navigation menus using CSS and there are hundreds of scripts and tutorials available online to learn this technique. By adding Javascript it possible to create more interactive, more dynamic and more flexible navigation but even if you find working with both CSS and Javascript pretty simple you’re facing the never ending browser compatibility issue.

Multi Level and (Multi Direction)

CSS Drop-Down Menu Framework

This is a very flexible and good looking menu. Can be transformed by changing CSS class name only. Available transformations: horizontal, vertical left-to-right, vertical right-to-left, horizontal linear, horizontal upwards.

jquery navigation

Open Source, MultiUser, iGoogle-Like Start Pages For Intranets: Picok

By Shehzad Mehmood in Design, Development, Layouts, Open Source July 29, 2009 0 Comment

Picok (personal information cockpit) is an open source, multi-user script where users can create their own iGoogle-like start pages.

It is ideal for intranets as an admin account can pre-define the available components like feed addresses & users can select items from that list.

Similar to iGoogle, the items can be:

drag’n dropped
minimized
configured

The script has integration support for Lotus Notes, Doodle, Wikipedia, Google Maps & more. Also, users can create post-it notes.

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