So here is the video with the test side by side, get amazed!

It’s on github you can fork it there or download it!

Fork on github!

DEMO

flash-gallery-logo

Hi there. So i was surfing the web and i stumbled on this great website: CU3ER, and i wanted to show it to you too.

CU3ER \kju:bər\, an image slider initially conceived to create 3D transitions between slides, turned out to be a convenient and multifunction solution that can be applied in a range of website building areas, from content slider to feature slider and image & banner rotator. Consider using it when you want to grab the user’s attention, and you’ll be delighted by the results!

CU3ER’s main features are:

1. FREE
2. EASY to set up
3. CUSTOMIZABLE via XML
4. TAILORED to provide a UNIQUE look & feel
5. INSPIRING
6. FUN-to-USE

There are no special requirements for setting it up and running other than a limited knowledge of web authoring:

1. Flash Player 9+,
2. XML Basics,
3. SWFObject (embedding .swf files into web pages),
4. Applications for image editing (especially for creating & exporting slides).

To set it up just to go on their site and click the quick start button, they have a nice basic tutorial there that will help you set it up. See you next time.

Super WordPress

Hello guys since we were working on a lot of WordPress based websites we decided is time to convert our blog into one since is such a great CMS.

So why am i writing this post to let you know? Because I think it would be a nice thing to share with you the problems we run into and the plugins we are using right now for our blog.

We use the following plugins for our blog and I think you might think about using them too.

• Smart 404

  I modified this plugin so that it can fit our needs. The idea of it is that will search for the term you enter in the url and find the post or page that you might be looking for. But we had a very crazy url at our old blog so i had to do something about it. So here is the code i added to the plugin:

          if($search=='post.htm'){
              $search = preg_match('/year\/(.*)\/month\/(.*)\/title\/(.*)\/post.htm/', $_SERVER["REQUEST_URI"], $matches);
              $search = $matches[3];
          }
  

  This will just check and see if the string that the plugin came up with is ‘post.hm’ because that was the case in our url format. So what i just use is a regex and get the title and correct the great plugin by giving him a hand in that particular case. So you can try that out by clicking this link and see. Pretty cool right?

• Google Analyticator

  This one is a fancy thing. I like it because it shows stats of google analytics in your blog dashboard and it will place your analytics code in the footer without you modifying any file.

• All in One SEO Pack

  One of the most famous plugins of wordpress. It helps you blog by making it more SEO friendly and get up in the search engines.

• AntiVirus

  Antivirus is a plugin that checks posts and comments for spam injections or attacks from hackers. A very nice plugin that i think you should try. As you know if you are reading this blog for some time we had some problems with our blog.

• DB Cache

  I find this plugin better than super cache or WP cache because instead of making html files or your blog and load those up this one saves your queries and when you load a page it will load them from tose files. It’s the same idea “memcache” used by YouTube.com, Wikipedia.com etc.

• Google XML Sitemaps

  This plugin is a must in my opinion since it creates sitemaps for YAHOO, GOOGLE and BING so that your blog is indexed the right way.

• underConstruction

  If you visited our blog while we were making the transition to WP then you saw our “Coming soon” page. That was created with this plugin. Well the page was made by me but the plugin just gives you the option to make your visitors see that page and you see the blog. So if you are loged in then you see the blog. Very useful in my opinion especially when you make major changes to your blog.

• Wordpress Popular Posts

  Ion found this plugin when i told him we should place some featured posts at the top for users to see some of the most important posts. This one is better since it will let you chose the criteria of sorting the posts. You have by most viewed post, most commented or average daily views. Very nice plugin i think you should try it. PS: don’t do like me! I installed the plugin and tried to see if it works, well it didn’t since i was logged in and it only records data when you are not logged in.

Ok let’s wrap it up this is a list of the plugins we used for our blog. I will create a new post with some of the functions we created for our blog. And maybe come up with a plugin too for “imageROLL”, by the way we have that on our blog right now but is not a plugin yet. The image roll is based on vi.sualize.us.

A part of his biography

ERWIN OLAF

BORN IN HILVERSUM IN THE NETHERLANDS IN 1959, ERWIN OLAF LIVES AND WORKES IN AMSTERDAM SINCE THE EARLY 80′S. HIS CURRENT STUDIO IS SITUATED IN A FORMER CHURCH HALL.

MIXING PHOTO-JOURNALISM WITH STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY, OLAF EMERGED IN THE INTERNATIONAL ART SCENE IN 1988 WHEN HIS SERIES ‘CHESSMEN’ WAS AWARDED THE FIRST PRIZE IN THE YOUNG EUROPEAN PHOTOGRAPHER COMPETITION. THIS AWARD WAS FOLLOWED BY AN EXHIBITION AT THE LUDWIG MUSEUM IN COLOGNE, GERMANY. SINCE THEN OLAF HAS CONTINUED TO EXPLORE ISSUES OF GENDER, SENSUALITY, HUMOR, DESPAIR AND GRACE IN EACH SUCCESSIVE SERIES.

PRINTING HIS EARLY WORK IN DOCUMENTARY-STYLE BLACK-AND-WHITE, HE FIRST GRADUALLY INTRODUCED COLOR AND THEN DIGITAL MANIPULATION. THERE IS GREAT CONTRAST BETWEEN EACH SERIES. MATURE (1999): GOLDEN-HUED PORTRAITS OF ELDERLY WOMEN IN THE POSES OF KITTENISH SUPERMODELS; FASHION VICTIMS (2000): A LEWD COMMENTARY ON THE CONSUMERISM OF SEX AND DESIGNER LABELS; ROYAL BLOOD (2000): MINIMALIST WHITE-ON-WHITE PORTRAITS, DEPICTING THE VENGEFUL NATURE OF MEMBERS OF THE ARISTOCRACY WHO HAVE SUFFERED UNSAVORY DEATHS; PARADISE (2001): PICTURING A DARK AND BAROQUE UNDERWORLD OF GLEEFUL CLOWNING AND LUNACY; SEPARATION (2003) PORTRAYING AN ICE COLD AND INTROVERTED FAMILY IN A STERILE LIVING ROOM. IN HIS FOUR MOST RECENT SERIES RAIN, HOPE, GRIEF AND FALL, ERWIN OLAF RETURNS TO CLASSIC IMAGERY WITH MINIMAL COMPUTER RETOUCHING.

Here are some of his works

Work done for the Dutch National Soccer Team

Dutch Footbal Team

Dutch Football Team

Dutch Football Team

Royal Blood

Princess

Take heart out

Work done for NICORETTE AGENCY

Nicorette Agency 1

Nicorette Agency 2

Nicorette Agency 3

Work done for New York Times

New York Times

New York Times

Now he has more work like this so if you wanna see more go visit his website: www.erwinolaf.com.