Archive for April, 2011
jQuery sliders have been spotted to be commonly used in portfolio sites, corporate websites, blogs and any other type of websites to display the images in different impressive ways. And it’s now indeed a very popular functional widget, since apart from showing large amount of core site content in a limited space on a website, any jQuery slider also has a great capability to engage the viewers and trigger their interest towards what is being shown to them. With the help of jQuery you can easily create neat, elegant and versatile site components with dynamic effects, and therefore jQuery is now probably one of the most used JavaScript libraries around.
So if you’ve been wondering how jQuery content sliders are accomplished and want to try implementing some of them on your website, here go the techniques that will help you with that. These in-depth resources provide you with a good experience on how to make viewing images or other site content more comforting and intuitive. We also have an awesome post showing 50 Slider Templates where you can spot creative methods using sliders in TemplateMonster’s web designs. Now let’s have a look at all jQuery sliders tutorials we’ve gathered so far.
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Create a Slick and Accessible Slideshow Using jQuery
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Simple jQuery Image Slide Show with Semi-Transparent Caption
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Such small details as icons often play very important role in web design by adding some uniqueness and charisma to website’s design. You’ll agree that design aesthetics consists of various factors and well-designed web icons is one of these. The great thing about icons is their versatility because by adding some original navigation icons you can kill two birds with one stone – improve visual appearance of the website and of course make it more user-friendly. In fact, navigation icons are negotiators between your website and visitors and it is vitally important for your project to have effective icons that would be simple, clear and attractive for the same time.
Today we’ve collected a bunch of navigation icon sets that are various by their design and also we want to remind that you can get our latest 200 icon sets (including these ones) absolutely for free! All you have to do is just purchase any product on TemplateMonster until May 10th 2011 and you’ll receive free 2400 professional web icons as an extra bonus. More information about this promo is available on our Free Icon Sets Pack presentation page.
Circular Buttons Navigation Icon Set
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Reflection-Based Navigation Icon Set
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RSS-based Navigation Icon Set
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Today we’d like to explore some top alternatives to the default commenting system on WordPress. These are the solutions which will let you change the commenting module in your WordPress blog by disabling your default system and replacing it with a new one. So if you’re not satisfied with your current system of comments why not try to migrate from the ordinary to more powerful new ones that will enhance your blog comment interface with many advanced features? The only question is which one to choose. We will now hash out this issue, so you could pick the solution that you think perfectly matches with your objective and WordPress blog style.
Though we might not mention all the features to each comment solution, you should pay attention to such important aspects as a tracking system for comments, comments moderation, the option to receive email when people post a comment in your entries, the presence of an archive feature, IP or keywords blacklisting, spam filters, multiple admins and many more. We are also interested in hearing your opinions. How do you like these systems? What other commenting options can you suggest? Please don’t hesitate to share your thoughts, we’d highly appreciate that.
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Disqus
Disqus is probably the first to consider comments platform that helps you build an active community from your website’s audience. This service has an automated installation for WordPress, but of course, you can insert its JavaScript code on any platform. Having a Disqus commenter profile you can take back control of what you’ve written by tracking and managing your comments all in one place. You can also use Disqus profile to follow and reply to what people are talking about, on and across different sites having Disqus installed. This comment system also provides the features like real-time comment system, notification and reply system, gravatar support, comment threading and pagination, mobile commenting, plus you can define a custom CSS for it. Disqus service as well lets you have full integration with Facebook, Twitter and other social networks, and media services such as Youtube, Flickr, and more.
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Intense Debate
What about IntenseDebate it’s a feature-rich comment system with automated installation for WordPress and many other blogging/CMS platforms. IntenseDebate offers numerous features that improves the commenting experience, like the reply by email functionality, open-id support, hardcore moderation and blacklisting, RSS readers and tracking, email notifications, an ability to integrate Facebook and Twitter accounts with your comments so that you can send your comments to your Facebook and Twitter profiles letting your followers know you commented on a post. In addition, IntenseDebate has recently added a few plugins such as Seesmic for video comments, smileys, embedding YouTube videos and enabling PollDaddy plugin to create polls in comments.
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Today’s web treat is a totally new promo for each and every of our customers! Now TemplateMonster brings a whole lot of 2,400 premium web icons for absolutely free download with every purchase made at TemplateMonster during a period starting April 26th until May 10th 2011.
This promo campaign is purely intended to give you a taste of our professional style. On the download the customers will get 200 icon sets with PSD sources of every single icon to be able to mix and match their manifold styles. Keep in mind that these icons represent business, sport, travel, music, real estate, etc. related issues so they will fit perfectly the brand you are designing for.
Apart from offering this bonus icons pack, the customers will be as well offered all the previously available bonuses including free hosting and domain name from JustHost.com. To get the bonus icons pack, the customers should simply follow the link they receive in their delivery email and on a subsequent page containing the order details and bonuses information they will find the section with the free icons package and the download link for it. So in case you are looking for free downloadable premium quality icons, browse TemplateMonster products now and get this huge bonus right away!
All designers are faced with a number of questions regarding web design concept when deciding which way to choose to create the top-notch project. It is important to know what trends are popular today, which of them are interesting to the target audience and what kind of design concept will definitely become noticeable among others. Of course, there are dozens of variants, but we offer you the sure-fire way – Free Business Website Template with Accordion Navigation.
The type of navigation that is used in this template helps to navigate among a website’s sections quickly and intuitively. The layout in green color palette is the very thing your online project need to attract attention of its visitors. Well, feel free to use this free website template for your future great plans, but at first check out free template live demo!
Free Business Website Template with Accordion Navigation:
As usual, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. Just click on the image above and download HTML source files from this post. To download this theme with PSD source files, visit the Free Business Website Template with Accordion Navigation download page at TemplateMonster and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (don’t forget to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed, otherwise you may not be able to download the zip file). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you cannot resell it as a template.
Download Free Business Website Template with Accordion Navigation with PSD files (2,75MB)
Download Free Business Website Template with Accordion Navigation without PSD (333KB)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: TemplateMonster does not provide support services on free templates – including this one. We only provide support for the products that are being purchased from TemplateMonster. Our free templates are produced according to the latest web standards and we’ve been trying to make the process of working with them as easy as possible, so for people with minimum web development experience it should be easy to work with them. However, if you don’t have any experience, we recommend you to refer to the tutorials or community forums on how to work with platforms that each respective template is made with, or to hire someone to do the job for you.
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It’s been a while since we’ve published our post devoted to jQuery templates and today we are going to continue this topic by presenting you some catching fresh templates from this category. As it’s known jQuery is a very popular, high-performance, and compact JavaScript library/framework that considerably facilitates building interactive components for a website. So whether you’re looking for a particular design style built on Query or simply want to work with this library and have an engaging website with some spectacular dynamic effects – you should be able to find something here for you.
- Facebook jQuery Templates
- eCommerce jQuery Templates
- WordPress jQuery Templates
- JS Animated jQuery Templates
Each and every of our jQuery Templates is light-weight and so much easy to customize, plus they include different functionality plugins that can basically enliven your site with fascinating Flash-like animations. Go ahead and start working with some of our expertly developed jQuery Templates and ascertain the real quality you have invested in.
Desire Night Club
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Photo Shot
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DK2
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Technologies change and develop and so does TemplateMonster. We crave for ever better web experience and now are extremely agitated to present you our brand new Facebook HTML Templates which are ready-made Facebook designs able to make fan page establishment really simple.
With Facebook fan pages having become a standard in social media lately, lots of companies аrе boarding this lucrative marketing platform since it’s now one of the best ways to flaunt the business, product or service. It’s quite clear that even the basic custom fan page can dramatically increase the conversions and generate leads, so our professional Facebook HTML Templates will work for you more effectively. Check out the list of the features which can help you do that.
- HTML Facebook Template are fully customizable and can be easily edited by anyone having basic coding knowledge;
- enable high level of interactivity and various spectacular Flash-like animations done with jQuery;
- fast to load;
- compatible with all major browser environments and operating systems;
- available in multiple categories to solve the purposes of various online projects and enable the customers to make their choice more easily and quickly.
Facebook HTML Templates will be developed for various purposes to fit any niche, therewith all of them will possess stylish designs able to fully captivate the onlookers. Apart from premium-class styles enhanced by Flash-like animations and interactivity, these templates will simplify your efforts with editing the graphics, texts and images, and adding your own content. You’ll have all functions to run your fan page properly and better interact with the new fans of your business. Now we’ve also picked up some of Facebook HTML newcomer designs for you to take a look at:
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Just yesterday we’ve published a free website template with a single page layout and this topic appeared to be very interesting, which is why we’ve decided to dig a little deeper. Single page layouts can be a perfect way to give your website an upper hand comparing to all those customary tailored designs seen on the net. Though they’re usually simple sites, single pages have proven to be fully functional and engaging. Such websites have rich functionality since they’re usually clutter free (however some designs manage to cram the same amount of content onto one page as a multi-page website), they often have truly unconventional navigation solutions and instead of using a simple navigation bar may offer other user-friendly content options with for instance a comforting jump down the same page for a smooth downward or upward scrolling.
If designed with intense creativity, single pages feature captivating and vivid imagery allied with beautiful effects. And unlike fully featured large scale websites, it’s rather cost-effective to invest for a single page design and give an immediate identity for your project to the web world. If you want to add this awesome approach to your brand, you can do it now even cost-free with the free single-page layout website template we’ve already mentioned.
And now let’s prompt the creativity and help you expand our thinking level regarding single page website designs. Close to the end of this round-up you’ll see excellent Single Page Website Designs from TemplateMonster professionals.
Ambermiro.com
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Iwantedrock.com
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Hey guys! Today we’re happy to offer you this top-notch freebie that will provide your online project with high-quality design concept and the desired functionality. It’s always pleasant to produce something fresh, and this time it is a Free Website Template with Single Page Layout from our designers’ team. It is really very important for us to offer our dear readers a useful stuff of the excellent quality, and we’ll try not to stop on this one.
Design is the obvious part of your future project, and our free website template offers you the very concept you need to become noticeable in the online world. This ready-made solution can ideally suit your business purposes, and it will certainly help you present them in the most attractive and memorable way. Feel free to download this Free Website Template with Single Page Layout and make your project expressive with the help of it! And don’t forget to check out this free template live demo.
Free Website Template with Single Page Layout:
As you remember, you can get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. If you need only HTML source files, download them from this post (just click on the image above and save the ZIP file). To get the full package with PSD source files included visit the TemplateMonster Free Website Template with Single Page Layout download page and type an email address that you want the free template package to be delivered to (make sure to uncheck the newsletter subscription checkbox in case you’re already subscribed). Feel free to use this template for your business, but you are not allowed to resell it.
Download Free Website Template with Single Page Layout with PSD files (6,4MB)
Download Free Website Template with Single Page Layout without PSD (592KB)
IMPORTANT NOTICE: TemplateMonster does not provide support services on free templates – including this one. We only provide support for the products that are being purchased from TemplateMonster. Our free templates are produced according to the latest web standards and we’ve been trying to make the process of working with them as easy as possible, so for people with minimum web development experience it should be easy to work with them. However, if you don’t have any experience, we recommend you to refer to the tutorials or community forums on how to work with platforms that each respective template is made with, or to hire someone to do the job for you.
Check out the whole collection of Business Web Templates and Business Flash Templates from TemplateMonster.com!
Displaying code snippets in WordPress can be a real challenge. Anyone who has ever tried to include a line of code or any program code samples into WordPress post knows how tricky and frustrating it can be to get it display correctly. However, there are some very simple and effective ways to do this – with a range of WordPress code snippet plugins available you can maintain the original formatting of any code being inserted in WordPress and make your blog a lot more appealing to the readers. That’s especially essential for programming blogs and tutorial related projects since they deal with huge blocks of codes. In this case preventing WordPress modification and retaining original characters and symbols is vitally important. So, the plugins of choice right now are the following:
Snipplr
This plugin is basically a code pasting/sharing site on the surface. You will need to register an account to receive an API key, which is however very quick to do. After that, it is necessary to navigate to the bottom of the settings page and copy the API key to your clipboard.
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Preserve Code Formatting
With Preserve Code Formatting you can just paste code into code, and this plugin will prevent WordPress from HTML-encoding and modifying your code. The whitespace will be optionally preserved. This plugin does not make any claims about working when you create posts with the visual editor enabled. Yet the use of the visual text editor will pose problems as it can mangle your intent in terms of “‘ characters.
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