Flickr Gallery ~ Fall in the Rockies 2011
This is showing off the Awesome Flickr Gallery. Many website choose to use Flickr to manage their images This gives them the SEO advantage of having their images on a site that is extremely popular with Google (though not as popular as Picasa, ahem). Additionally, the bandwidth is handled by Flickr, instead of your own website. This keeps things humming along. Hey, isn’t this Cloud Computing?! Uh, apparently it isn’t anything new. The Photos Jan Baby suggested a hike near Estes Park. After spending ten minutes Googling Rocky Mountain National Park hiking trails, arming ourselves...
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I recently embarked on a mission to find a way to mimic a image carousel (see below). It is a widget that advertises Amazon books. This all started when a client of mine decided he needed some similar eye candy on his real estate website. The problem with the Amazon wiget was clicking the images took visitors to the Amazon website. My guy wanted his clicked images to open enlargements in a new window. Amazon.com Widgets What I found was a pretty cludgey array of jQuery and or Flash components or scripts that interpreted ‘carousel’ in varying ways. Very few did what my client...
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