Makes extensive use of the Jquery Slider ui and Datatables plugin. Feeding off my first Mysql database, that in turn is populated by an xml file. All ive got to do now is tie the rest of the site into the new pricing database.

Sadly not for a while, if your riding the crest of the latest and greatest in web the commercial applications are not going to being cutting edge. Luckily neither HTML5 or CSS3 are going to be full implemented for a long time. Considering its only supported by minimal browsers.

Your best bet is cracking open you text editer and getting freindly with the source.
My weapon of choice is Smultron its a great little mac text editor with syntax highlighting. A Good place to start to learn HTML 5 would be here.

I highly recomend the Pikachoose gallery simple for its amazing simplicity and ease of use. Easy to style and adapt to my own needs, including a inbuilt carousel feature utilizing slider.js. I’ll post a link to an example lightbox gallery soon.

List images from a folder automatically via PHP

Heres a little code snippet I used to list all the images in a folder.

// the directory, where your images are stored
$imgdir = '/images/'; 

// list of filetypes you
$allowed_types = array('png','jpg','jpeg','gif'); want to show

$dimg = opendir($imgdir);
while($imgfile = readdir($dimg))
{
 if(in_array(strtolower(substr($imgfile,-3)),$allowed_types))
 {
  $a_img[] = $imgfile;
  sort($a_img);
  reset ($a_img);
 }
}
// total image number
$totimg = count($a_img); 

for($x=0; $x < $totimg; $x++)
{
 $size = getimagesize($imgdir.'/'.$a_img[$x]);

 // do whatever
 $halfwidth = ceil($size[0]/2);
 $halfheight = ceil($size[1]/2);
 echo '


';
}

Recently on a new project a great piece of work was brought to my attention. A great javascript based text replacement solution called Cufon. Simply put, its great. Very little effort to intergrate, even less effort to control. Not even that much slow down on page load.

Visit here to get the lowdown

As its javascript and kicks after the page loads, it degrades gracefully if not supported. As well as leaving all the juicy web text for the web spiders to nibble on.

The only thing to be wary of is licensing issues, but hey check out this great example of Cufon in action.

Take a look howcasing Bay Central, at the heart of Dubai Marina. Completed late 2007 for the launch of this iconic development for Select Property. Initial concept by Andy Monks, Custom Javascript by Colin Rotherham, Design & Code by Benjamin Ashcroft.
Development by Select Property.

Please click here to find the archived version of the Bay Central Website.

For all the latest information on properties in Dubai Marina visit www.selectproperty.com.

This is a great example of a WordPress powered design portfolio. WPESP Portfolio is fully integrated into WordPress along with a great “Coda style” featured work pane. Aesthetically the theme is minimal and visually appealing. Overall i find it a bit grey for my liking, the rounded corners on the images also take away from the design. Yet with a bit of tweaking this theme could be turned into a design portfolio with a lot of personality.

More: WPESP Portfolio WordPress Theme

Viewport Example Viewport Design Portfolio

http://paulicio.us/2008/11/05/viewport-a-free-wordpress-theme/

Sharpfolio 2 Example Sharpfolio Design Portfolio

http://www.indexhibit.org/