February 2010
3 posts
Vintage Ad Browser →
Browse by subject, decade and even color.
Feb 14th
“The internet may be the perfect outlet for expressing yourself, but remember...”
– Mirza (via mirza)
Feb 14th
Non flash based image galleries
Two different image gallery techniques caught my eye while searching for ways to present a gallery without the use of flash. Slideshow 2 is a javascript class for Mootools 1.2. Check out the demos and options (my fav is the Ken Burns show)… very snazzy! Fancybox was built using the jQuery library . Displays content in a Mac style “lightbox” that floats over the web page. Both...
Feb 14th
January 2010
2 posts
1 tag
The Myth of the Page Fold →
Good article on page folds with user testing evidence that shows not everything needs to be crammed into the top 450 or so pixels.
Jan 31st
3 tags
Image Galleries
I had a friend recently ask me what he would need to do to get an image gallery up and running rather quickly (and cheaply). After doing a bit of searching, I came across these two goodies. Both are flash based galleries (but don’t require you to even own/open flash), customized via XML - and both are free. SimpleViewer SimpleViewer.net is home to a collection of excellent image viewers....
Jan 29th