TN3 Gallery has offered to give 3 DesignMag Inc readers a free PRO license to check out their awesome jquery slideshow product.
To enter this contest you must comment on the post. 3 winners will be selected at Random on June 15, 2011. One entry per person.
With TN3 Gallery you can easily create amazing photo galleries and slideshows with slick transition effects, as well as multiple albums, CSS skinning, XML and Flickr support with a host of additional features. No browser plugins required.
JQuery Image Gallery
TN3 Gallery is a new HTML-based customizable image gallery with slideshow, transitions and multiple album options. It’s powered by jQuery to give your image galleries and sliders fantastic appearance and usability. They have kindly offered to give three readers of the Vandelay Design blog the Pro License for free. All you have to do to enter the contest is leave a comment on this post. TN3 Gallery comes from the talented people behind Webdesigner Depot, Mighty Deals, and Brush Lovers.
You don’t need any special software or even JavaScript/jQuery knowledge to use TN3 Gallery. You’ll have a lot of different options to choose from, including thumbnails, slideshow, and full screen (take a tour to see examples.). You can set transitions to fade, slide, blinds, grid, or none. All you have to do is copy and paste the code.
Image pre-loading, cross-browser support, and cufon and @font-face compatibility make it easy to use for designers and visitors alike. The full version includes 3 alternate skins (or you can code your own), dynamic image sizing, XML support, Flickr support, and more.
Photoshop users can save time during the design process by making use of layer styles. Whether you are saving your own custom style to be used multiple times throughout your design (such as with a button), or using pre-made styles created by other designers, taking advantage of this feature in Photoshop can greatly speed up your workflow.
In this post we’ll link out to a number of useful Photoshop layer styles that can be downloaded for free. Many of them have been created especially for text, others for buttons, and some are more general. Download the styles and apply them to your layers for instant results.
Glossy Text Styles
JavaScript sliders, jQuery in particular, are a very commonly used element in web design. There are countless different ways that sliders can be used and displayed. In this post we’ll feature 30 websites that make excellent use of JavaScript sliders. These sites will give you plenty of ideas and inspiration that can be applied in your own work.
For more on the subject please see: 25 jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Tutorials and Plugins 25 Excellent jQuery Slider Tutorials and Plugins
Elevate
(Image by Jem Stone)
Album covers are a great source of fresh inspiration for your graphic design work. Not only are well-designed album covers artistic, but they’re effective at marketing as well.
The best designed album covers: Give you a clear representation of what the content will be Sell you on the content by looking great itself
In other words, what a great visual design should be.
Every website owner or marketer needs to know what is going on with their website and visitors in order to know how to improve and get better results. Website analytics tools can provide data and show trends that will help you to know what to do to see the results improve over time.
When it comes to analytics you have a lot of options from which to chose. In this post we’ll show 11 of the leading free options (of course, there are other options that are not free) and give a brief description of each.
Google Analytics is leader among free analytics tools, and with good reason. Analytics is free to use on any website with no limits on pageviews that can be tracked or reports that can be generated. Basic users can get info on how many visitors and pageviews their site is receiving, what sources are sending the traffic, what search phrases are resulting in visitors, and other basic information like bounce rate. More advanced users can set up goal tracking, create custom reports, set up pivot tables and more. For new users Analytics can be a little intimidating because of how much data is available, but the basic reports are easy to find and understand.
By using textures in web design you can turn your websites into a masterpiece. Today’s article will showcase some amazing designs that utilize textures. Enjoy!!
WPSubscribers is a premium WordPress plugin that will help you to attract loads of new subscribers to your mailing list or blog. It has many different features and functions to give you a lot of versitility and control over how you promote your list. The developers of WPSubscribers have offered to give 3 of our readers a free triple license for the plugin, which will allow you to install the plugin on up to 3 different sites, plus free lifetime updates. This license normally sells for $47, and an unlimited license is also available for $97.
WPSubscribers will allow you to integrate your opt-in code very easily, and then you can create several different types of forms to encourage signups. I’ve been testing the plugin and getting integrated with a MailChimp sign up form was simple. Just copy the form code provided by MailChimp (or another list manager like AWeber, GetResponse, etc.) and WPSubscribers will auto detect the fields and integrate.
Once you have your opt-in code set up you can choose from several different types of forms that you would like to use, including: a pop up, a header bar, a footer bar, in-post forms, and exit popups. In addition, you can use Facebook connect, you can include a checkbox in your comment form to opt in, and you can set it up to subscribe users when they register at your WordPress-based site.
Read this tutorial to learn how to create a jar illustration with a splashy, purple text effect. You’ll work with paths and the Pathfinder tools to enhance the text, give it dimension, and style.
In this tutorial you’ll use Adobe Fireworks to create a sharp, pixel perfect login box.
Search Engine Optimization
