Twenty Ten

To start, we finally have a new default theme. Its called Twenty Ten and is a  two column layout with support for custom background and header images, a widgetized sidebar, and a horizontal drop down menu. Matt Thomas says this: “Our goal with Twenty Ten was to create something stylish, customizable, simple, and most of all,readable. Since every new WordPress user will be seeing Twenty Ten, we wanted to design an example of what a WordPress theme can do.”

Custom Menus

We’ve been playing with these a bit over here at Blueprint Design Studio and let me tell you, this is one of the most useful features WordPress 3 has to offer theme developers. This will allow you to register any number of menus and display them in your themes template files using a simple function call. For the user this simply means you’ll get a new page with some tools on it to help you add, delete, and arrange.

Custom Post Types & Taxonomies

This is my personal favorite of the mix thus far as it enables developers to easily create a more robust CMS, meeting criteria we may not have been able to do before. Custom taxonomies were brought into WordPress with release 2.8 and had some improvements made with the release of 2.9 but WordPress 3 improves this greatly by including hierarchical (category-style) taxonomies, and giving users a custom UI for pages as well as for posts.

Multiple Sites With Single WordPress Install

Another great update is the merging of Wordpress MU into the standalone. If you don’t already know what that means, WordPress MU makes it possible for those with a website to host their own blogging community, as well as control and moderate all the blogs from a single dashboard. This is a good thing because your install can work with sub-domains or sub-directories. The multisite feature in is disabled by default so you will need to enable it.

To do this navigate to Tools > Network under WordPress admin menu and specify Network settings. Create “blogs.dir” in wp-content folder and add the following line in your wp-config.php file:

define(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);

You may also need to modify your .htaccess file.

When your done with that, you will see a new menu section called “Super Admin”. This will allow adding and managing of the additional sites in your network with your install now being the ‘controller’.

In Conclusion

Hopefully we’ll be able to see the official release sooner than later. As always, for more information on this and other WordPress related news, consult the Codex.

image courtesy of robcubbon.com

All pages showcase easy navigation.

JQuery is used to show featured stories, events, and news.

All pages provide multiple options for contact and tools for recovery.

Homepage features pages for Juniors, Amateurs, and Professionals.

Goals are laid out for golfers to visually see what level they are playing in, and what level they need to be in to complete their objectives.

Quick links provide more resources to help golfers in their careers.

One of the biggest problems facing mobile internet surfing is Flash based content. However, this is soon to change. Flash CS5 (code name “viper”) is now under development with features that will enable it to create applications for mobile devices using action script 3. According to Adobe Labs, new features will include:

• Applications for iPhone — Publish ActionScript 3® projects in Adobe Flash Professional to run as applications for iPhone. Learn more.
• New text capabilities via the Text Layout Framework (TLF) — Get unprecedented text control and creativity with projects created in Flash. Advanced styling and layout, including right to left text, columns, and threaded text blocks, let you work with text in Flash like never before.
• XML based FLA files — Manage and modify project assets using source control systems and enable teams to easily collaborate on files.
• Code Snippets panel — Choose prebuilt code that can be injected into
• projects to increase interactivity and also reduce the ActionScript 3 learning curve.
• Flash Builder™ integration — Use Adobe Flash Builder software as your ActionScript editor within projects in Flash.
• Improved ActionScript editor — Improve productivity with custom class code hinting and completion.

Here are some screen shots:

for more information on Flash Cs5 please visit http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashcs5/

Additional Info:
Adobe Flash Professional CS5: Applications for iPhone
Flash CS5 and the iPhone – David’s Tech Heap
iPhone Dev and Flash CS5 – Arthur Lockman’s Blog
Flash CS5 to feature iPhone support | Gareth Jones @ Quak Multimedia
Adobe Flash CS5 Professional Revealed!!
Twitter Trackbacks for Adobe CS5
Building iPhone applications with Flash CS5
Adobe Flash CS5 will be able to output native iPhone apps

1) Tabbed side menu:

Many websites such as WordPress use tabbed navigation to easily sort through a site’s content while saving space.

Tutorial: (http://www.queness.com/post/106/jquery-tabbed-interfacetabbed-structure-menu-tutorial

Demo: (http://www.queness.com/resources/html/tabmenu/jquery-tabbed-menu-queness.html)

This mac style navigation menu provides the user a clean, organized and animated interface for surfing a site’s content.

Tutorial: http://www.ndesign-studio.com/blog/design/css-dock-menu/

Demo:  http://www.ndesign-studio.com/demo/css-dock-menu/css-dock.html

This menu was created using a combination of XHTML, CSS and Javascript:

Tutorial: http://www.shopdev.co.uk/blog/animated-menus-using-jquery/

Demo: http://www.shopdev.co.uk/blog/menuDemo.html

This animated menu provides flash-like movements to the page-links. The menu was created using a combination of JQuery and CSS.

Tutorial:  http://net.tutsplus.com/javascript-ajax/create-a-cool-animated-navigation-with-css-and-jquery/

Demo: http://nettuts.s3.amazonaws.com/009_jQueryMenu/sm/result/index.html

The Sliding Nav menu allows multiple links to be contained within one button. This is especially useful for websites with large amounts of content.

Tutorial: http://hv-designs.co.uk/2009/02/17/sliding-jquery-menu/

Demo: http://www.hv-designs.co.uk/tutorials/sliding_menu/sliding_menu.html

The Fading menu is an example of how to use CSS with JQuery to create a clean and simple navigation for Web 2.0.

Tutorial: http://css-tricks.com/learning-jquery-fading-menu-replacing-content/

Demo: http://css-tricks.com/examples/MenuFader/

This animated menu provides flash-like movement and interactivity to your navigation using the “easing” function of JQuery.

Tutorial: http://buildinternet.com/2009/01/how-to-make-a-smooth-animated-menu-with-jquery/

Demo: http://buildinternet.com/live/smoothmenu/animated-menu.html

The Jquery MB menu is another good example of a drop menu capable of organizing a large number of sub-categories. Categories can be multi-level or contextual (right click).

Tutorial: http://pupunzi.open-lab.com/2009/01/18/mbmenu/

Demo: http://www.open-lab.com/mb.ideas/index.html#mbMenu

The Lavalamp menu is a simple navigation with an animated, flash-like slider.

Tutorial: http://www.gmarwaha.com/blog/2007/08/23/lavalamp-for-jquery-lovers/

Demo: http://www.gmarwaha.com/blog/2007/08/23/lavalamp-for-jquery-lovers/

This drop-down menu uses a combination of JQuery and CSS to neatly organize multiple sub-sections. This is convenient for organizing large amounts of content on a site.

Tutorial: http://www.clarklab.net/blog/posts/animated-drop-down-menu-with-jquery/

Demo: http://clarklab.net/blog/articles/dropdown/example.html

This attractive JQuery effect slides the navigation bar onto the page on load.

Tutorial: http://net.tutsplus.com/html-css-techniques/how-to-create-a-mootools-homepage-inspired-navigation-effect-using-jquery/

Demo: http://net.tutsplus.com/html-css-techniques/how-to-create-a-mootools-homepage-inspired-navigation-effect-using-jquery/

MenuMatic is a MooTools 1.2 class that takes a sematic ordered or unordered list of links and turns it into a dynamic drop down menu system. Created by Patrick Griffiths and Dan Webb.

Tutorial: http://greengeckodesign.com/?q=menumatic

Demo: http://greengeckodesign.com/projects/menumatic/examples/horizontal/

The Garage style menu uses JQuery to animate each button revealing information to the user when passed over with the mouse.

Tutorial: http://www.gayadesign.com/diy/jquery-convertion-garagedoor-effect-using-javascript/

Demo: http://www.gayadesign.com/scripts/jquerygaragedoor/

The sliding navigation adds a flash-like movement to the menu with a highlight which follows the users movement. This menu can be easily customized using CSS.

Tutorial: http://www.leigeber.com/2008/05/sliding-javascript-menu-highlight-1kb/

Demo: http://www.leigeber.com/2008/05/sliding-javascript-menu-highlight-1kb/

This menu is simple to create yet powerful when organizing sub-menus and categories. The drop-down is created with JQuery and styled with CSS.

Tutorial: http://designreviver.com/tutorials/jquery-css-example-dropdown-menu/

Demo: http://designreviver.com/tutorials/jquery-css-example-dropdown-menu/

The JQuery floating menu moves over content as the user scrolls up or down the page.

Tutorial: http://net.tutsplus.com/html-css-techniques/creating-a-floating-html-menu-using-jquery-and-css/

Demo: https://nettuts.s3.amazonaws.com/018_Floating_Menu/demo/dhtml_float_menu_final_nettut.html

The JQuery Top Nav Menu is a navigation bar which shows it’s sub-categories on the top when rolled over.

Tutorial: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/a-different-top-navigation/

Demo: http://nettuts.s3.amazonaws.com/386_navigation/top-nav-demo/index.html

The Apple Style Menu tutorial takes you step-by-step into the creation of a sliding “leopard flavor” navigation.

Tutorial: http://www.kriesi.at/archives/apple-menu-improved-with-jquery

Demo: http://www.kriesi.at/wp-content/extra_data/kwicks_tutorial/kwicks_final.html

The JQuery Fancy rollover displays a subtle flash like ease motion when the menu item is selected.

Tutorial: http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/animate-navigation-with-css-jquery/

Demo: http://www.sohtanaka.com/web-design/examples/fancy-navigation/

Demo: http://www.jeremymartin.name/examples/kwicks.php?example=1

Tutorial: http://www.jeremymartin.name/projects.php?project=kwicks

Demo: http://www.queness.com/resources/html/scrollmenu/index.html

Tutorial: http://www.queness.com/post/256/horizontal-scroll-menu-with-jquery-tutorial

Demo: http://www.distinctcorp.com.au/jquery/spritemenu.html

Tutorial: http://www.distinctcorp.com.au/jquery/spritemenu.html

Demo: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/31/make-a-mega-drop-down-menu-with-jquery/

Tutorial: http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/03/31/make-a-mega-drop-down-menu-with-jquery/

Demo: http://www.queness.com/resources/html/floatmenu/index.html

Tutorial: http://www.queness.com/post/762/create-a-nice-looking-floating-menu-with-jquery-easing

Demo: http://css-tricks.com/examples/ColorFadingMenu/

Tutorial: http://css-tricks.com/color-fading-menu-with-jquery/

Demo: http://nettuts.s3.amazonaws.com/013_keypress/demo/demo.html#about

Tutorial: http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/javascript-ajax/how-to-create-a-keypress-navigation-using-jquery/

Demo: http://css-tricks.com/examples/DiggHeader/#

Tutorial: http://css-tricks.com/designing-the-digg-header-how-to-download/

Demo: http://demo.marcofolio.net/slick_jquery_css3_menu/default.html

tutorial: http://www.marcofolio.net/webdesign/jslickmenu_a_jquery_plugin_for_slick_css3_menus.html

Demo: http://www.jampmark.com/html+css-techniques-demos/pure-css-fish-eye-menu-demo.html

Tutorial: http://www.jampmark.com/html+css-techniques/pure-css-fish-eye-menu.html

Tutorial: http://www.alohatechsupport.net/webdesignmaui/maui-web-site-design/create_image_menu_with_jquery.html

Demo: http://www.alohatechsupport.net/examples/image-menu-1.html

32) SuckerFish Style Menu

Demo: http://be.twixt.us/jquery/suckerFish.php

Tutorial: http://be.twixt.us/jquery/suckerFish.php

Demo: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/ddaccordionmenu-bullet.htm

Tutorial: http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex17/ddaccordionmenu-bullet.htm

Demo: http://stilbuero.de/jquery/tabs_3/

Tutorial:http://stilbuero.de/jquery/tabs_3/

Demo: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/bdc-ddmenu

Tutorial: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/bdc-ddmenu

Demo: http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jBreadCrumb

Tutorial:http://plugins.jquery.com/project/jBreadCrumb

Demo: http://jdsharp.us/jQuery/plugins/jdMenu/

Tutorial: http://jdsharp.us/jQuery/plugins/jdMenu/

Demo: http://labs.activespotlight.net/jQuery/menu_demo.html

Tutorial: http://labs.activespotlight.net/jQuery/menu_demo.html

demo: http://www.ndoherty.biz/demos/coda-slider/1.1.1/

Tutorial: http://www.ndoherty.biz/demos/coda-slider/1.1.1/

Demo: http://uvumitools.com/dropdown.html

Tutorial:http://uvumitools.com/dropdown.html

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Editing: Crop, Rotate, Flip.
Color Manipulation: Exposure, Saturation, Tint, Black and White.
Filters: Sketch, Soft Focus.
Effects: Vibrant, Pop, Border, Vignetter Blue, Warm Vintage, Rainbow, White Glow, Soft Black and White.

As sales of Apple’s popular iPhone have steadily risen, so have the development of numerous applications for everything from map directions to tip calculators. Though Photoshop’s more advanced features such as 3D modeling are a few years in the works, Adobe has stepped in the right direction entering the mobile marketplace.

for more information please visit: www.adobe.com or