Published January 16, 2011 • 2 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

Here we customize the use of the popular jQuery plugin, Cycle. We use HTML5, a customized paging feature and pseudo dual sliders (one is a fade, but still looks cool). Download Files or View Demo The HTML5 Nothing really special here other than the fact that we use the new HTML5 Data- attributes to link [...]

Published January 16, 2011 • 0 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

LivingSocial today just published a great coupon: 50% off an Amazon Gift Card! Pay just $10 and get a $20 gift card to use at Amazon.com, the largest online retailer. Whether you are looking for something usual, like a book, or unusual, like a Borat-style mankini, you’ll find it among the millions of products listed [...]

Published January 6, 2011 • 6 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

Group buy sites have been a hot topic over the last year, and last month I decided to get into the fray by creating a “Local Deal Aggregator” called BuyDeals.in. I am really happy with the way the site turned out, but aI realized early on that there were next to no articles describing any [...]

Published February 10, 2010 • 2 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

This tutorial shows you how to use the little known Google Static Maps feature to outline a specific boundary such a zip code or a city. It requires that you have your own Google Maps API. Above is the output image generated by the code below. This is the PHP code that is needed. The [...]

Published February 1, 2010 • 30 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

This is a list of my GetSimple 2.01+ plugins. Since I am the main developer of GetSimple, you can be assured that these plugins will always work with the latest version. Installation Instructions To install, you just place all the plugin’s files and folders directly into the /plugins/ folder of your GetSimple 2.01+ installation. Any [...]

Published January 18, 2010 • 1 Comment • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

I’m going to try and do something a little different for my business model here: I’m giving my WordPress expertise and service away for free. That’s right, FREE. There is a catch (there always is though, right?). This is only for newcomers to the internet world. The reason for this stipulation is I plan on [...]

Published December 26, 2009 • 6 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

When creating a new project of mine, I needed a way to protect certain page ids from being deleted because I was hard coding them into my WPMU themes. I was using the WPMU Blog Templates plugin, and after figuring out what IDs those new “pre-setup” pages were, I needed a way to protect them [...]

Published October 19, 2009 • 8 Comments • 0 Delicious Bookmarks

Introducing the Silk Companion II Icon Pack. While developing a new CKEditor skin for GetSimple, I had a need for some extra Silk icons developed by Mark James at FamFamFam. Out came 64 new silk-inspired icons. These icons are released under the same Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License as the originals. Damien Guard created the [...]