I released my new Plugin to showcase your Facebook photo albums to WordPress, with a nice animated interface using jQuery, not flash, so your get rid of another bag of flash 
Here’s a Live demo which looks like the image below:
Here’s the official page for Darkroom facebook photo gallery where you can comment and get help:
Re-designing your website could be the beginning of the end of its fair PageRank!
The scenario: You’ve got a new cooler design.
That’s ok, so far. Now sit down and think carefully whether your designer is as good SEO or social media specialist as designer.
There are a lot of reasons why your PageRank (value of your site on search engines, the holly tablets) could be lost, and Re-designing a website brings most of them up. I’m not a professional SEO as my partner is, but I can tell you a few of them, but most important (more…)
Web 2.0 style is taking over the new standards for web development, and complex buttons are difficult to create. When the button has reflections, refraction, shadows, glow, lighting… composing new shapes and rollover states is very time comsuming.
The big “how” here is “downloading the native files linked below”.
Fortunately Adobe Illustartor can handle multiple fills and outlines with their mutiple effects for each on them, all for the same path. So you’ve just got to move one node, one path, to change all the fills, all the effects, at the same time.
That, combined with multiple path effects (exclusion, subtraction, etc.) that allow new effects applied on top and so on… makes possible the Siamese button.
Here’s a video that shows you how easy is to change the button’s shape, with one single stroke (I used nudges at first, so you can see it with antialiased rendering. Ai doesn’t refresh the preview while dragging a curve, until it’s released)
There are many CSS techniques to get specific features on a submit button, but here is one that uses a single image, and no extra markup (like b or i tags) for a transparent (no opaque patches) elastic css button. I named this version:
