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Developer News
Top 14 jQuery Photo Slideshow / Gallery Plugins
jQuery is becoming present in more Web 2.0 sites. jQuery slideshows or galleries take a grouping of images and turn it into an flash-like image/photo gallery. Here is a list of top options available for your website's photo gallery.
Galleria - Galleria is javascript image gallery written as a plugin of jQuery. It uses simple html list ... Read More »
10 things to do after installing wordpress
After a fresh install of WordPress it is essential to complete the following items. This will not only assist you get your blog up and running but help you get the most out of your blog or website.
1. Change the Admin Password and Manage Your Authors
2. Edit Permalinks
3. Upload Your ... Read More »
Top Twitter WordPress Plugin Roundup
Here at Blueprint Design we have been trying to figure out which WordPress Twitter plugins we should use to integrate our twitter account. Here are the results of our research. Look at the end of this post to see what we picked to use. Please note all of these plugins ... Read More »
Watch The Obama Inauguration From Your iPhone
Live video streaming site Ustream is releasing an iphone app that lets users watch live video streams from their iphone. Video of the product below.
The application will let users watch any Ustream channel, live, directly from their iPhone. And not only that, users will also see and be able to participate in ... Read More »
Why web design & development doesn’t cost $399
Web design in this day and age can be confusing. Who's good? Who's bad? How do I know? What's the difference between going to a web design studio and going to someone that posted an ad on craigslist for $399? Well we will explain some very important facts to let ... Read More »
Cuil.com spams our site to clean Google rep?
Going through and moderating our comments is a normal thing but recently we noticed something very unusual.
If you keep up with tech news you may remember sometime ago some ex employees of Google formed to start a new search engine to compete with Google called Cuil (pronounced "cool"). After some bad press a couple months following ... Read More »
Wordpress 2.7 Released
Last week if you noticed in your WordPress you should see a message saying “WordPress 2.7 is available! Please update now.” That is correct, version 2.7 has been released and you can download it here.
Version 2.7 is a major upgrade to Wordpress. Here is a list of new features:
new interface to ... Read More »
Snow + Bacon, add them your site…
Do you want to see snowing in your wordpress blog too?
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also click here to see our the bacolicious version of our site?! Read More »
WordPress Flash Photo Carousel Plugin
We often develop sites that include static flash galleries, headers, menus, and intros. It's often difficult, then, to explain which parts of the site can be changed within WordPress, and which are hard-coded. This plugin is built to manage the excellent flShow Photo Carousel within the comfort of the WordPress ... Read More »
Google’s New Free Browser, Chrome
Just a few days ago, google announced that they're entering the browser market, with their own webkit-based browser, Chrome:
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Programming Tic Tac Toe: Magic Square
There is an expression, "Form follows function" that is often used with architecture, product, and sometimes software design. It suggests a single solution. Depending on the software implementation, its target and the way the problem is perceived, among other variables, the internal "form" can be radically altered.
Tic-tac-toe (naughts and crosses) ... Read More »
How to move a website from one webhost to another
Most of the time, the first webhost you sign up for, you wind up outgrowing after a year or less. Most people purchasing webhosting don't know what factors to look for, and even if they do, it's difficult to tell the seedy companies from the good ones. On top of ... Read More »
Vulnerable Software and Vindictive Search Engines
Technorati, a blog search engine (as opposed to a search engine that indexes all websites), has started taking the easy way out. They've started removing websites whose WordPress software has not been upgraded to the latest version shows signs of being compromised. For our clients, make sure you've ... Read More »
Browser competition makes the web better
In the browser wars of the early 90's, competition between Netscape and Internet Explorer brought about proprietary HTML extensions (layers, anyone?), and "This site was built for Netscape Navigator" messages.
This time around, there are organizations like W3C, and WaSP to give the competitors a goal to shoot for. The ... Read More »
