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25 BEST jQuery Slider/Image Gallery Plugins and Tutorials

Posted on October 21, 2010 by admin

jQuery is a free, open-source, lightweight JavaScript library which is designed to simplify the client-side scripting of HTML. jQuery has overpowered the use of Flash in modern web design because of its lesser size, faster load time and isn’t very hard to understand. Lately, a lot of websites are making use of jQuery powered image slide shows/sliders as it is an excellent way to promote their featured posts or images to the readers.
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Posted in jQuery, Web Design | Tagged jQuery sliders | 4 Comments

Carbon 12 | Free Premium Blogger Template

Posted on October 5, 2010 by admin

Once again, I’m here with another free premium Blogger template, Carbon 12. The template was named after the most abundant isotope (¹²C) of element Carbon. “Carbon 12″ is a template with dark background, right sidebar, and fixed width. It is a fast-loading template which uses no graphics or images (except for the icons). All the effects such as the rounded corners, box shadow,text shadow and more were achieved using CSS3 techniques.

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Here are some unique features of this template:

Fast loading template (tested using only three widgets shown in the demo)
Two navigation bars
Stylish social share icons at the bottom of post
Stylish post header
Post image thumbnail

This template is best viewed in CSS3 supporting browsers.

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Posted in Templates | Tagged Blogger Templates, Blogspot | 12 Comments

Dimenzion Free Premium Blogger Template

Posted on September 24, 2010 by admin

Dimenzion is a mini magazine wordpress theme created by Simplywp.net. I’ve converted it into a blogger template. According to the original author, Dimenzion wordpress theme was designed with dimensional view in mind and combination of yellow tangerine, brown, light teal as color scheme.

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Features:

- Feature Posts slider
- Auto posts thumbnail generated
- Auto excerpt posts
- Twitter account button ready
- Popular Social bookmark ready in posts
- Related Post ready ( thanks to Bloggerplugins.org )
- 3 column footer
- Custom font for Blog Title

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Posted in Templates | Tagged Blogger Templates, Premium, Wordpress to Blogger | 11 Comments

35+ Excellent CSS and jQuery-based Navigation Menu Tutorials and Techniques Collection

Posted on September 22, 2010 by admin

Navigation menu is the most vital element in web design. It guides users to navigate around your blog/website and able to find needed information easily.

Here, I’ve made an ultimate collection containing 38 jQuery and CSS navigation menu tutorials and techniques which you can implement into your blog/website. Some of them made up of pure CSS3 without involving any javascripts.
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Posted in Web Design | Tagged blog design, CSS, Tutorial, Web Design | 3 Comments

Symphonic | Free Blogger Template

Posted on September 19, 2010 by admin

Symphonic is a unique CSS template by freecsstemplates.org. It is a fixed width, right sidebar, purple, clean and simple template which is suitable for personal blogs. Less images are used in this cool template.

Screenshot of the template

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Posted in Templates | Tagged Blogger Templates | 2 Comments

Spanning | Free Blogger Tempate

Posted on September 17, 2010 by admin

Spanning is a free lightweight CSS template by freecsstemplates.org. I’ve converted it into a blogger template. It is a minimal and fast loading template with no images involved.

Spanning blogger template comes with a gallery where you can show your photos as a slideshow to your blog readers. The gallery is only visible in home page. It is powered by Gallerax (a jQuery plugin by NodeThirtyThree). You’re free to use/modify this template as you wish for anything as long as you link back to our site.

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Posted in Templates | Tagged Blogger, Blogger Templates, Blogspot | 4 Comments

Blueyo | Free Blogger Template

Posted on September 13, 2010 by admin

Blueyo is another free HTML template which was originally designed by Jesper from jayj.dk. I’ve converted it into Blogger template.

It is a professional-looking blogger template with right sidebar, ad slots ready, social icons (Twitter, RSS, Subscribe) ready and more. This template is cross-browser compatible.

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Floral Glow | Free Blogger Template

Posted on September 10, 2010 by admin

Floral Glow is a free blogger template created by me. It is a 2 columns, abstract, floral, glowing, black, and right sidebar template with custom navigation menu. I’ve used a lot of CSS3 features in this template such as border-radius, transform, box shadow, RGBA colour, transition effects, text shadow and more.

The menu links, sidebar, posts, and comments are leaf-shaped (made with css3) which suit the name of this template, Floral Glow. Use Webkit browsers like Safari and Chrome to view the transition effect of menu links. They glow and zoom in when hovered.

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Posted in Templates | Tagged Abstract, Blogger, Blogger Templates, Blogspot, CSS3 | 6 Comments

Add Animated Image Captions on Hover with CSS3 (No Javascript)

Posted on September 8, 2010 by admin

We have been using Javascripts to add animated captions on hover for images before this. But, inspired by Wibiya’s toolbar Smart Share for post images, I managed to create almost the same effect using CSS3 without using any Javascripts. This effect can be used by both WordPress and Blogger users. The transition effect of the caption only visible in Webkit browser like Google Chrome.

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Posted in Blogger Hacks, CSS3, Wordpress | Tagged Blogger, CSS3, Tutorial, Wordpress | 3 Comments

Cloudy Sky | Free Blogger Template

Posted on September 7, 2010 by admin

Today, I’m releasing another great free blogger template, Cloudy Sky. It is a simple template with minimal design, clean, inspiring, fluid, right sidebar, and carefully coded. This template uses a lot of CSS3 features like box shadow, border radius, linear gradient and more.