To use the rotating div block in your webpage you have to follow three steps

1. HTML Section
2. CSS Section
3. jQuery Section

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Write less , do more. the slogan of the jquery proves its significance. According to jquery.com .”jQuery is a fast and concise JavaScript Library that simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development. jQuery is designed to change the way that you write JavaScript.” I am always fascinated by the jquery plugins.In this article , i have compiled some jquery plugins which i have used in my projects and hope it will be useful to other’s too.The jquery plugins, here i am discussing are specially focused for handling the images.

1.Slick Auto-Playing Featured Content Slider

Click here for demo and download.

2.Sliding Boxes and Captions with jQuery

Click here for demo and download.

3.jqFancyTransitions slideshow with strip effects

Click here for demo and download.

4.zoomer gallery

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5.Panning Slideshow

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Iphone, one of the best selling product nowdays. Here , i have collected some unique websites which provides the application for the iphone. The design is unique and interesting and i hope this will be inspiration to all of us.

1.ecoki.com

2.cookmateapp.com

3.hybridworks.jp

4.oldbooth.com

5.taptapas.com

Whenever i had a free time , i always look for the ebooks in the web.Here i have collected some ebooks which are specially focused for the web designer . Being a designer you always have to keep the idea about the current trends . Some of these books are online books and some can be downloaded in the pdf format.Reading books is one of the best habit.

1.The Webbook

If you are a new beginner for web, you can start with this book. This Book contains all the information that is needed to create a Web site , registering a domain name and renting some hosting space, creating your first HTML page, building full online database applications with PHP and MySQL. It also tells about CSS and Javascript.

2.Designing for the web

This book contains five sections, : Getting Started, Research, Typography, Colour, and Layout. Learn solid graphic design theory that you can simply apply to your designs, making the difference from a good design to a great one. and it covers a core aspect of graphic design.

3.Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites – 3rd Edition

This book contains 12 sections which covers the basic design principles and most of the aspect of the webdesign. The form designs and applications,multimedia,typography are clearly explained.

4.Dive into HTML 5

This book is written by MARK PILGRIM.If you can get to the idea about the HTML 5 , this book can be one of the good option.It starts with the history of HTML 5 to the all the standard .

5.Taking your talent to the web

This book was written in 2001 and was rated top five book by amazon.com.This book was written for print designers whose clients want websites, print art directors who’d like to move into full–time web and interaction design, homepage creators who are ready to turn pro, and professionals who seek to deepen their web skills and understanding.

These all books are yours,Enjoy it.

Skeptical themes is free wordpress theme provided by woothemes.com. This theme is primarily targeted for personal homepage.You can add your events, activites , and photos. This theme have got Custom topography, alternative sidebars, customized widget and foot area.
The color combination of the page is smooth and looks cool.The feature of the flickr stream at the base of the page looks great.

Click here to download the skeptical wordpress theme.

Step 1:
We will create a PHP file; lets say follower_count.php or whatever you’d like to name it. Then simply put following contents in that page.

<?php
$twitter_username	=	'designgala';	// please replace it with your twitter username
$tw	=	get_option("total_twitter_followers");
if ($tw['lastcheck'] < ( mktime() – 3600 ) ) { 	$xml	=	file_get_contents('http://twitter.com/users/show.xml?screen_name='. $twitter_username); 	if (preg_match('/followers_count>(.*)

Explanation:
I used 2 PHP functions file_get_contents() and preg_match() here. file_get_contents fetches twitter xml file and stores in buffere while preg_match searches followers_count for a match in the buffer returned by earlier function.

Step 2:
Now you can include above file using PHP include like below in any template file.

<?php include("follower_count.php"); ?>

Thats it. It will show twitter follower count.

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I am making a list of plugins that I use frequently in my most of the projects and recommend buyers to use.

1. Akismet
Do you often hit by spam? No worries Akismet is a saviour. Akismet protects your site against comment spam. Activate this plugin and you won’t need to moderate or captcha your comment submissions. Akismet does 99% of the work for you. In order to make this plugin work, you need Akismet Key which is easily available.

2. All-in-One SEO for Search Engine Optimization

Permalink feature of WordPress makes itself SEO friendly platform. Similarly most WordPress themes are built in SEO friendly manner. But again it is better to use AIOSEO which gives complete control over meta tags and title of the page.

3. Cforms
Almost all project needs contact forms, survey, input from reader; CForms makes life easier to integrate forms.

CformsII offers unparalleled flexibility in deploying contact forms across your blog. Features include: comprehensive SPAM protection, Ajax support, Backup & Restore, Multi-Recipients, Role Manager support, Database tracking and many more.

4. WP125

If you need to put advertisement widgets in your page then WP125 is an option for you. It supports an image ad of 125×125 px. The interface to manage ads is very clean and easy to understand. Further statistics about ads clicks can also be viewed. Its only drawback is; there’s no support for text ads and ads with other sizes.

5. WP-DBManager
DB is always the most important asset of your website. This little gem is amazing for backing up your website. It actually has quite a few functions that it can perform but perhaps it’s most impressive feature is it’s ability to email the entire WordPress databse to me every day.

6. WP Super Cache
This plugin generates static html files from your WordPress powered website. After a html file is generated then webserver will will serve that static file instead of processing the comparatively more heavier and expensive WordPress scripts. It reduces database connection overhead as well. So if you’re getting heavy traffic to your site; consider using this.

7. YARPP Related Posts – to increase Pageviews and guide readers for possible suggestion
Yet Another Related Posts Plugin (YARPP) automatically scout out other posts on your site that are related to the post being read. YARPP lists related posts at the end of the post being read.

There are many other plugins which are as better than the plugin I listed above.

Pricing:
Genesis Theme Framework Package: $59.95 | Demo
Executive Child Theme: $24.95 | Demo
Mocha Child Theme: $24.95 | Demo
Executive + Genesis Theme Package: $79.95
Mocha + Genesis Theme Package:

Hightlighs:
6 Layout Options – selectable site wide or for individual post/page
30 + hooks
Theme Options Panel
Dynamic Text / Image Logo option
Navigation menu controls
Custom Widgets
My Tweets
User Profile
eNews & Updates
Featured Posts
Featured Page

Demo | Release Page | Buy

Price:

• Standard Package: $19.95
• All Theme Package: $49.95

Features

• Powerful & Easy-to-use Theme Options
• Image/Text Logo Switcher
• Featured Content Slider
• Automatic Thumbnail Creation (No Custom Fields)
• Thumbnail Dimensions Configuration via Theme Options
• Advertisement Management for various banner sizes
• Site Tracking Management (Google Analytics, StatCounter etc)
• Built-in FeedBurner Support
• Custom Page Templates (Full Width, Archives, Links)
• Custom Breadcrumb (No Plugins Needed!)
• Threaded Comments
• Widget and Gravatar Ready
• Dropdown Menu Navigation
• Cross-Browsers Compatibility (IE6/7/8, Firefox, Safari)
• Email & Forum Support
• Lifetime Upgrade

Demo | Release Page | Buy

Basically I used help of CSS ‘display:none’ to achieve it. I created a function ‘hide_wp_tags_from_admin’ and then I added this filter to to admin head using add_action. You must either create a plugin and add it to plugins folder or you can use a quick dirty hack by adding below function to function.php of your active theme.

function hide_wp_tags_from_admin() {
    echo '<!--
#commentsdiv, #tagsdiv-post_tag { display:none; }
-->';
}
add_action('admin_head', 'hide_wp_tags_from_admin');

Very simple; isn’t it? Have your say.