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As you very well know by now, I have created quite a few image / photo galleries and the ultimate goal was to allow them to be as unobtrusive as possible. Well, the other day I got into a discussion with a co-worker and the questions he asked were, “How is that unobtrusive?”, referring to my gallery plugins, “The images are in list elements?” My answer to that was, “They can be styled to have each list element float and punched up a bit.” His rebuttal, “But what if styles were off also?” I hesitated for a second and he know he had won this conversation and silently walked away.

If you are getting a hanging error when trying to add a gallery, please use the code at the following link [http://pastebin.com/f5a51e4b3] and overwrite all the code in the /photoxhibit/common/inc/px.php file. There is an issue with some servers with a php function that helps with foreign characters and this code helps

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In an earlier post I wrote about what are the fastest basic selectors and found out some interesting stuff with regards to speed for some basic selectors. In this post I am going to go over some not-so-basic selectors. I am going to try not to repeat what Karl has said in his [...]

Update 12/07/2007: per Brian Cherne comments, I decided to run these test again in Firefox with firebug lite instead of firebug and the execution times were dreastically different. So, to "level the playing field" I would suggest that you turn off firebug or disable it for the page and refresh, you will get the [...]

When building my first real plugin for Wordpress, I wanted to utilize some Ajax approaches that would use JSON and which would make for a speedy process, but quickly found that 1) PHP4 does not support the "json_decode" function, 2) the classes that json.org recommended were too hard to put into play, and 3) once [...]

It's not jQuery but it does a nice job of taking a problem and fixing. The VerticalFillJs script was written by Dan Drinkard over at displayawesome.com, head over to his blog post to see it in action.
Basically what this code snippet does, is that it takes an element that has a set high and [...]

Here we have yet another photo / image gallery, except at this point it is only a proof of concept. I see a ton of photo galleries in Flash and see a lot of effects that just can't be done in JavaScript, but a ton of effects that can be achieved. This one is nothing fancy and not fully tested, but when I have more time I may take is some other features that are present in my other plugins in to this one.

With the success of the jqGalView Plugin I've decided to release the jQuery jqGalViewII (beta) Plugin which allows you to take a grouping of images and turn it into an flash-like image/photo gallery, much like what the jqGalView Plugin does for you. It allows you to style it how ever you want and add as many images at you want.

The jQuery jqAlbumParser Plugin takes a link linking to your Flickr or Picasa photo album and parses it into your current layout as is or hook in another plugin like the jqGalView Plugin, the jqGalScroll Plugin, the jqGalViewII Plugin or the jqShuffle Plugin to create your photo gallery on the fly and with very little [...]

The jQuery jsGalScroll Plugin allows you to take a grouping of images and turn them into an scrolling photo gallery with pagination.