Archive for November, 2011
What is a website today without a photo gallery? If you want to share your photos or artworks, or any other images that you think your audience will want to see, and you want to do it in the most creative way, we would suggest you to browse and explore for our latest Dynamic Flash Photo Galleries 2.0.
From the technical point of view, Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery design includes dynamic flash pages with a gallery section and is coming with a full-fledged Moto CMS engine inside. Its gallery and texts are easy to configure and update since you work with a convenient admin panel (this includes WYSIWYG editor, rich customization options, built-in image editor and much much more). Go ahead and take a quick look at the Flash Photo gallery templates presentation page where more info on the features is presented. Just to know better what’s packed behind the beautiful designs that you’re about to see.
Now you can check the demos of some freshly-crafted templates compiled here by clicking on the links or images below and see them in action. Their galleries combine great performance capabilities and elegant interactivity.
Also don’t forget that TemplateMonster is currently running an awesome promo across all of Flash Photo Gallery Templates. Up to the end of this Friday you save 25% on your Flash gallery template purchase. Choose from the many Flash Photo Gallery 2.0 templates that will help you with your website. There is a variety of styles and layouts that you’ll be happy to see and use for the showcase of your photos and images.
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PhotoPortfolio Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery 2.0
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Mark Smith Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery 2.0
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Miranda Johns Dynamic Flash Photo Gallery 2.0
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“HTTP cookie (also known as a web cookie, or browser cookie) is used for an origin website to send state information to a user’s browser and for the browser to return the state information to the origin site.” (Source: Wikipedia)
Nowadays regular web browsing is hard to imagine without the enabled cookies function. All popular websites use cookies for various identifying procedures and functions. Of course you’ve seen those messages where a website administration is asking you to enable cookies in your web browser for comfortable using their website (in some cases working with certain websites is impossible or at least pointless without having cookies enabled). Cookies have several significant drawbacks, among which are the following ones:
- security – due to the whole idea of storing data, cookies are stored on the user’s hard drive as the plain text and there is a big chance that cookies files could be hacked;
- performance – every HTTP request/response between server / browser decreases website’s performance speed;
- size limit – usually cookies are limited to 4096 bytes in size and 300 maximum cookie count per one domain;
HTML5 Web Storage Instead of Cookies
Considering the drawbacks that we’ve mentioned above it is obvious that web developers have started seeking for a new and efficient solution. Currently this solution is HTML5 web storage, and judging from the popularity of HMTL5 as a technology and HTML5 templates as design solutions for the new web, we definitely can tell that HTML5 web storage has a great future. This new technology or storage has two key features that will make you forget about cookies:
- huge amount of space: now you can store much more useful information on the user’s hard drive including some localization data, temporary storage etc.
- simple API: developers can easily set up key/value pairs on the fly.
According to the W3C specification draft, there are two types of web storage and these are local storage and session storage. HTML5 web storage reduces a huge number of server requests and now personal data will be used only when it is being asked for, instead of being requested with every request to the server as it was with the cookies. It means that you can store large amounts of data without affecting the website’s performance. HTML5 along with Javascript allow to use more of user’s resources without involving server-side programming and databases. Now let’s go deeper with these two types.
Local storage uses technogoly similar to Silverlight isolated storage when all data is stored on the client’s side. Also local storage has no time limit – basically you can access your personal data anytime you want. Local storage is positioned as a cost-effective alternative to HTTP cookies.
We all know that the hottest online sales are found on the Monday after Thanksgiving, and the savviest customers know that TemplateMonster has the best deals in web design. Well, we’re trotting out even sweeter deals this Cyber Monday for our audience. TemplateMonster is now holding a major five-day promotion that begins today and will end on Friday, Dec. 2 2011. This promo guarantees sweet discounts on products from specific categories all week long. Today a huge discount will apply to our Premium Templates category and Extended Package Templates that are our most popular product categories and are today available 40% OFF.
Customers will be saving today from $25 to $110 on each deal. But the prices will only stay that low on Cyber Monday 2011, as starting Tuesday and till the end of Friday the templates from the above-mentioned two categories will be offered 25% OFF for those who won’t be able to make their 40% off purchases on Monday, November 28th. We take the savings further – so don’t miss these great specials!
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Shop TemplateMonster now for current discounts and kick-off to the greatest part of the templates shopping frenzy! Go ahead and browse our premium templates and extended package templates categories and get the hugely discounted products. Remember that all these templates that you can now purchase up to 40% OFF are designed for maximum efficiency and comfort, besides they’re favored for their professional ergonomic design and ease of usage. Choose from Cyber Monday specials today!
Good news, everyone! There is no doubt that many of you, our fellow WordPress users, have heard that the major update of WordPress is coming – WordPress ver. 3.3. Yes, the current release doesn’t have such significant meaning comparing to what WordPress 3.0 was, but still it does have few very important features that cause huge impact on both simple users and WordPress developers. It means that WordPress team is planning to improve their product’s user experience for all categories of users. Now that’s that we call a smart content management system. Also, seeing our favorite CMS evolving is really a pleasant thing to do. Now if we get back to its latest release the first thing that stands out is a well-defined visual improvement of the dashboard. Also some major changes have been made in the under-the-hood sector which is primarily interesting for WordPress developers.
By the way, we’ve tested our WordPress 3.x themes with this new version of a platform and they’re perfectly compatible. Truly a match made in heaven. Now back to those new features.
We’ve collected five of most interesting (according to our opinion) new features that have been presented in WordPress 3.3 and we are going to share them with you. So, if you haven’t updated your WordPress version maybe this list will convince you to do that.
Finally this day has come – you know we’re happy to say thanks to all of you pretty much every day, but today is the only day that our habit of giving thanks doesn’t look like a sick obsession. So yes, today we’re setting our Thanksgiving spirit free and roaring our monstrous gratefulness to our worldwide audience!
Seriously, we would like to thank every single one of our customers and friends today, because you all are what makes us keep going and striving to be even better than we are now. We really appreciate the honor to be close to you, your businesses and all of your brilliant ideas. We thank you all for making us the happiest templates provider in the world.
Also, don’t forget that our gratefulness is not just words. Today starting at 6AM EST on our Facebook page we’ll start revealing our today’s special discounts – 10x promocodes, each giving you an opportunity to get a template from us at a 50% discount. Also, for those who won’t get one of ten 50% discounts there will be a 20% discount that’s active all day today (and today only), for every single TemplateMonster order. So please go ahead and join our Facebook community if you still haven’t, and watch our feed closely as new discounts will be published each hour. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Instead of having the website that changes the elements instantly, you can stream your presentation and transition the content with the help of some spectacular transition effects. Such effects can in fact take the otherwise boring and flat transitioning to a smooth and continuous dynamic sequence that will enhance the viewer interest. Transitions effects greatly help the flow between images, text blocks, and graphics as they bridge the gap between such sliding elements. In the featured examples you’ll be able to see some of these interesting Flash effects including blinds, shatter, slide, 3D rotate, cover, page flip, and many more. Keep in mind that whatever content you have to represent you can introduce it in a more interactive way using any of the mentioned Flash templates with some special transition effects. Your website content then will flow nicely from one scene to another and have the most distinctive and professional look. If you however want to take the makings of some great image transition effects, you may also check out one of our previous posts dedicated to best image transition effect tutorials.
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PicStorm Flash CMS Template
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Buzzns Flash Site Template
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Colex Flash Site Template
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Being released in July 2004, Ruby on Rails has quickly gained popularity among the web developer community. Of course Ruby is no rival for such huge players as PHP and Java, and it would be insane to compare them as it was created to be an alternative for Python and Perl. However Ruby on Rails does have its share and for some tasks this framework is pretty good. So, if you have heard about Python and Perl or create applications using these programming languages than you know what we’re talking about here.
Ruby on Rails is not the new kid on the block and currently it has a huge army of fans. The aim of this introduction is to give general information about Ruby on Rails and maybe persuade some young developers to try out their skills in creating web products and apps using this web development framework. Due to a very clear and friendly syntax Ruby can become a real treasure for young developers that prefer clean code instead of a messy one. Some time ago we’ve posted a roundup of Ruby on Rails tutorials for beginners that we think you also should check out in case you’re interested in this topic.
Ruby
Ruby is a high level object-oriented programming language similar to Perl or Python as we’ve mentioned. The motherland of Ruby programming language is Japan but now it is popular in USA and Europe. Among its main advantages are its open source status, simplicity, fast-growing community as well as the fact that you’ll need less coding to make it work. Of course all these features create a great background for web developers. Ruby allows them to save tons of time and human resources.
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There are plenty of ways to get your potential clients know about your project. Professionally done web presence is one of them, and perhaps one of the most efficient. Throughout its design concept you can easily effect your visitors and make them interested in your ideas. This post will introduce you to the new cool freebie from the professional designers’ team who seem to know everything about the design. So, here it is – Free Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Music Site, the ready-made solution that can be used as the solid background for your successful online project.
As you see, we continue producing stylish black free website templates, and this time it is the third one from the November collection. Besides the visually attractive layout this goodie features the jQuery gallery for you to present all the photos and cool jQuery in the header of the main page. The stylish arrangement of the design elements plus the thought-out execution make this template a good starting point for your project. Try its free template live demo and feel free to download this goodie for your creative designs!
Free Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Music Site:
Feel free to get this free website template in two ways: with PSD source files included and without them. Follow the link below and download HTML source files. To download this theme with PSD source files, visit the Free Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Music Site 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 Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Music Site with PSD files (103 MB)
Download Free Website Template with jQuery Gallery for Music Site without PSD (8,47 MB)
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.
Here we go with a new portion of tutorial stuff. Do you want to take the makings of some great image transition effects? Well, today you can easily create and use a different kind of transition to animate between image slides. Following image transition tutorial series show how to use Flash, jQuery, ActionScript, and other tools to achieve dynamic effects like shuffling image transition, fading square, triple scroll, flying tiles, diagonal opening blinds, and more. Such techniques could instantly produce a very attractive and interactive image slideshow and fully immerse the viewer into the performance. Besides, you may also discover other uses for these transition effects, check out. We’d also recommend you to look through the most spectacular transition effects being integrated in our Flash templates. There might be designs to your fancy!
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How to Make the Discovery Channel Rebrand Cube Transition Effect with Cinema 4D
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How to Create a Diagonal Opening Blinds Transition Effect for Images in Flash
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For those of you who know our good friends and partners from MotoCMS, here is a good news: last Friday, November 11, 2011 Moto Flash CMS has been updated to version 1.6. This major release includes a bunch of new features (as well as the significant improvements to the existing ones) which were implemented to make your website development process better and easier. Of course all of the Flash CMS templates and Facebook Flash CMS templates that were previously available on TemplateMonster will also include the latest version of Moto CMS.
So what are the updates about? Basically, from now on it will be much easier to maintain fully-functional websites based on MotoCMS. Here are several of the most important features which come with the update.
1. Create password protected pages/popups
An ability to protect pages and popups with a password has been added as a response to numerous customers’ requests. Now it’s finally here. It’s a good way to diverse your content for different groups of customers.
Password protected pages and popups will still be visible on your website menu but only vip visitors will be able to view their content.
Also there are some changes made to the ‘Preferences’ window. Due to the new options and design improvements, it becomes easier to adjust website settings and activate password protection to website pages and popups.
2. Contact Form widget improved
Within this update the ‘Advanced Contact Form’ widget has become even more advanced then before. Radio button and text area items will add the real communication experience to your website. It is the next step to more convenient and efficient communication between website owners and potential customers.
3. Search widget added
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