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World Builder from BranitVFX on Vimeo.

To learn how I built the jQuery slider on my home page as well as the CPM East site, head over to http://www.serie3.info/s3slider/ and grab the codes. Once you get a hang of it, the s3Slider is ridiculously easy to implement.

Now, there are a lot of flash image galleries out there but you can’t see them on the iPhone and I personally like to be able to tweek the hell out of a gallery with CSS. Here is a killer list of jQuery image galleries that Steve Doll forwarded to me 25 jQuery Image Gallery/Slider Tutorials and Plugins

As a designer, I need to be constantly trying new techniques and reinterpreting my vision of the world around me. Thanks to crucible of information that the internet spews, I am able to find inspiration from other creative folks. I will start posting daily inspiration sources here as a way to share what get’s me in the design’n mood.

Today, Smashing Magazing posted a great article on black and white photography: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/09/09/beautiful-black-and-white-photography-2/

The new version of my website is live and ready to use. I redesigned the site using the 960 grid system, jQuery and php.

small screenshot of the new concrete wind home page

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