Different Photo Galleries

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1) http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net/
2)http://imago.codeboje.de/ 

3)  http://www.e2interactive.com/e2_photo_gallery/

I was trying to find some new, simple, and elegant ways of displaying photo galleries.  These are all very simple and easy to navigate. I also like that they have thumbnails and allow you to quickly scroll through the different images. I think I may try to implement one of these for my website. The photo gallery I currently have seems like it doesn't always work properly. I kind of like the second one shown here. http://imago.codeboje.de/ I think I may try to implement that one.

Testing website on the iPhone and the iPad

http://ipadpeek.com/

http://testiphone.com/

When you are trying to develop a web site that is meant to be seen on multiple platforms, it is smart to view the website using different browsers and different operating systems. It is very easy to view the website on browser like Safari, Firefox, and Google Chrome because these are available across platforms. Internet Explorer, on the other hand, is purely just for Windows. You will have to try to find a PC to view the website on, but this shouldn't be too hard. Many libraries have Windows PCs so they can easily be found. Seeing how your website displays on an iPhone or an iPad can be much more difficult. This would require you to buy or borrow and iPhone or an iPad. I found these sites which shows you how a website is viewed on an iPad and an iPhone.

40 iPad tips for designers

This website gives 40 sites that can help web designers design their web sites to be iPad compatible.
http://garmahis.com/reviews/ipad-tools-tips-design/
Since all web browser are different and there is not a standard on web browsers, a website can look very different on different browsers. Sometimes a website might work fine on one browser but not work at all on another browser. All the browser have different padding and margins defaults, so the web designer must use scripts to be able to change those defaults on the different browsers. The script can also find out if the viewer is on a mobile phone or an iPad. This website gives the script on how to see if the viewer is displaying the website on the iPad and can direct the user to another site made for the iPad. http://davidwalsh.name/detect-ipad

I am getting pretty excited about HTML 5

If you haven't figured out from my other blogs yet I have not researched HTML 5 yet and what HTML 5 can do. Web videos have become very popular since youtube deputed. The problem is that some movies could require a flash player, in which the iPhone can use. Some computers could not have the flash player plug in installed which would prevent the person from seeing the video. HTML 5 integrates movies directly into the HTML 5 coding. No plugins are necessary. Putting movies on the web is nothing new but you can do direct manipulations to the movie with the HTML 5 code. With just the HTML 5 code, no javascript, you can enlarge the playing movie and have it playing in the background while the actual video is playing. You can also go through every pixel in a movie that is playing and have the the movie images duplicated in black and white. The black and white 'movie' is not actually a movie.  It is a duplication of the images of the movie not the actual movie but it plays along with the movie.


http://html5doctor.com/video-canvas-magic/

Interactive Backgrounds with HTML 5

http://html5demos.com/canvas-grad

HTML 5 seems that it is taking away a lot of the stuff that previously relied on javascript and other scripting languages. This HTML 5 example shows that HTML 5 can find the position of the cursor on the page. Before if you wanted to find where the cursor is on the page you would have had to use javascript or have made a Flash website. This website changes the color of the background dependent on where you have your mouse inside the web page. This uses a canvas to change the background color. The canvas is a new feature in HTML 5. You can create a radial gradient as easy as createRadialGradient(0,0,0,0,0,600);

HTML 5 is Amazing but yet kind of creepy

HTML 5 has a lot of new features. Most of them are really cool and can be used really creatively. I think HTML 5 is going to allow more graphic designers and web designers to be able to create well design and interactive websites without much help from programmers. It seems like most of the code is kind of straight forward. One of the new features is called geolocation. This allows the user to allow or deny sharing their location with the website. Sharing the location can give you a GPS map of your location, like Google Maps does. The only thing I wonder is if people could get past the security feature of having the user actually allow the use of geolocation and be able to find your location.

I found this website that uses the HTML 5's geolocation to find your current location and finds the current star patterns that can be seen from your location. http://www.nakshart.com/ I have tried the website with Safari but it didn't seem to work. If you try it with Firefox it works well.

HTML 5 is amazing!!!

I wanted to learn what is new in HTML 5. I thought that HTML 5 would just allow tags for videos and normal stuff like that. HTML 5 can do a lot of different that would have otherwise been done in flash or with javascript. As I was searching for sites that use HTML 5, I saw this site that shows a lot of different demos for HTML 5. In HTML 5, they have implemented a really simplistic but effective chat client. It show both the HTML 5 code and gives you the server side Code.  This could be easily implemented on any site,