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Free Slide Gallery Plugin To Showcase Your Images

Steven Finch — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:55:05 +0000

slideGallery is a MooTools plugin for creating customizable image carousels easily & quickly.

It converts any given unordered list into a slider & can be styled with CSS.

The plugin can display any defined number of images horizontally or vertically, auto-play them, have prev-next buttons and these functions can be configured more with:

setting the class of prev-next elements
speed and duration of slides
transition to be used
direction of the transitions
& more..

slideGallery works in all major browsers including IE6.

b5media Restructure and Sack All Blogger and even Problogger, All in Favour of Glam Partnership

Steven Finch — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 06:26:37 +0000

b5media have been is the news a lot lately but for all the wrong reasons. It seems as though b5media has dropped all of its women bloggers from contracts.

Inquisitr also reported that b5media has also dropped their most popular sites owned by Darren Rowse (b5media co-founder) Problogger and Digital Photography School.

The new b5media strategy seems to be with former Gaweker editor Elizabeth Spiers and it seems to be focused around celeb/fashion with Crushable and The Gloss. After inspecting both sites it seems as though b5media has partnered with Glam for advertising, which based around the fashion industry will bring in decent eCPM rates. These new fashion eCPM rates are going to be a lot higher than their current sites, so in theory they only need to receive lower traffic numbers.

Three Widgets Every Professional Should Have On Their Blogger Blog

Dean Sherwin — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 22:32:34 +0000

It’s a well-known fact that employers tend to Google prospective job candidates’ names before they hire them. This is in an effort to weed out people who they may no want affiliated with their company. For instance, say you tweet all the time about how you’re out getting wasted and you’re hung-over every Monday. Do you think you’ll get the job then? No. So many professionally (especially web workers) are pimping out their online presence to make themselves look better. One of the most basic ways to do this is to spice up you blog and combine it with other areas of your social media.

Here are three widgets every professional should have on their blog:

1. A Twitter Feed. A real-time widget featuring your personal twitter account is definitely a good idea; it shows employers that you lead a good, lawful life (if you only tweet the good things, that is!). You can download one here.

2. A Summary Widget. These can be created using the text input features. While they’re not the most flashy – employers always read them. Details listed in a casual manner such as your previous employment, interests and personality are all great topics to summarize here.

3. LinkedInABox. LinkedIn is the professional social networking site which many use to house the best-of-the-best of their portfolios. So why not spread some of that love to your blog? Here is a link to the widget.

So do you think it’s time you gave your online presence a makeover?

Stop Dreaming – Start Doing With VOIS

Craig Agranoff — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:10:54 +0000

Why Did I Start VOIS? Why Did We Launch The First Social Sourcing Site Now?

There are a lot of bad websites out there. A lot.

Websites with 8-bit graphics seemingly ripped from Atari games, with laughable copy errors that immediately diminish credibility, and with such awful usability that you need a Dr. Phil intervention to calm down after surfing through the third-rate portals.

This is one reason I co-founded VOIS.com (pronounced VOICE), or Virtual Outsourcing is Social. Not only can VOIS’ collaborative approach to completing projects produce superior results – from slickly branded and intuitive websites to fun, traffic-churning widgets – but it can also make it more affordable for businesses.

Don’t get me wrong; this is not the business owners’ faults. As a blogger for a major food website, I can say first hand that these are good people with the best of intentions. But just because someone knows how to make donuts, pizza or surfboards, it doesn’t mean they should know how to create a compelling online storefront. And hiring expensive firms on retainer often isn’t a workable business model for small and medium-sized businesses, or even larger firms that don’t have the bandwidth to handle their current business needs.

That’s why VOIS seeks to connect clients with expert Web professionals – from designers to developers and copywriters – to work on a project basis. What separates us from other business match-making platforms is that we allow and encourage the clients and talent to get to know each other first by exploring robust online profiles and messaging back and forth.

Click-and-mortar, web-driven start-ups have also had to change their game plan, and VOIS was developed for these businesses, too. With start-up capital tougher and tougher to attract, it’s no longer feasible for someone to hire developer and a CTO, build an infrastructure from scratch, then roll out and ramp up a product. I’ve met many people who have burned through $500,000 before looking at a more cost-efficient way of doing things.

And I really feel VOIS is that new way of doing things. We’re keeping VOIS wide open in terms of the scope of projects we accommodate – no niche focus or specialized tunnel vision. This will help us attract more users and offer truly turnkey solutions for our users.

So as the VOIS community grows, fueled by this added interpersonal dimension, I look forward at seeing some truly amazing work forged through the power of online collaboration. In other words, no more bad websites, or half-completed start-ups that could have been the next big thing.

In fact, I think VOIS is the next big thing.