Web 2.0 Themes is giving out 3 copies of 3D Spiral from Flashloaded. The 3D Spiral is a Flash gallery component that displays images on an interactive 3D rotating spiral using the Papervision3D engine.

Obtain different layouts by changing the height and width of the spiral. The viewer can scroll, move up/down and zoom the spiral freely. Includes customizable opening and closing animation styles and a built-in preloader for seamless transitions between thumbs and large images. Available for ActionScript 3.0.

It’s very flexible, easy to use, and is a cool addition to any gallery sites, check out this samples:

 

How To Win Your Free Copy?

- Post your comments about the 3D Spiral in this post.
- One entry per person. Duplicate comments will be voided and deleted.
- You must comment with a legal email. Winers will receive the 3D Spiral by email.

Comment entries will be accepted until November 3, 2008. We will randomly generate 3 winning numbers from the comment list. 3 winners will receive a free copy of the Flashloaded 3D Spiral component.

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As this post is a paid review ordered by RevResponse let’s not just say some nice things about the service. Instead, I’ll focus my attention on facts rather than on vain compliments.

Tough RevResponse is presented like an Adsense-alike service it’s not based on a CPC model, i.e., this guys don’t pay you for clicks. Instead you’re paid for actions (CPA), which means you get a commission for every successful action (subscription, giveaway request, etc.). Payouts have a minimum compensation of $1.50 but payouts range from $2.00 to $20.00 per action being $2.00 the most frequent value.

As an Affiliate you get the chance to chose from 900 offers that include business and trade magazines, white papers, etc. Categories go from agriculture to biotechnology and pharmaceutical in a list that contains more than 30 different categories or business areas. Suppliers list include some very well know players like Macworld, The Economist and eWeek, just to name a few.

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I know there are great examples of excellent web design out there and that every single day a few hundred great websites see daylight, but this period of reflexion I’m having didn’t arose from that. It arose from an extraordinary post I read on Max Web Design last May. By the way a great reference on the delicate relationship between great a blog and design that works. The article talks about “Great Design”. What is it? How do you classify something as good design? What are our references? What are the historical references we can use? I Know we have great technical references and guidelines but what about the subjectivity of the matter?

It’s a great exercise and a great bookmark. Have fun. We’ll get back to this in few days. I’m currently designing a blog dedicated to web design and I’ll ask for your opinion in a few weeks or so. In the meanwhile, please leave your comment, opinion and/or critique.

Image to HTML online conversion services are constantly in the news nowadays. You can find a lot of this services on the web. Probably too many if you ask me! Specially because so many of them are just trying to get the best of you without delivering any added value to you business or project. It’s very, very difficult for us to realize who’s professional and serious about their business so we can the same about ours. Choosing your PSD to HTML conversion service is probably the hardest part of the process of delivering your graphically and technically advanced website.

As in any other area, it’s very important to find a company that delivers personalized support and that you can be sure it’s a reference for their area of business. You’ll need experience and know-how. PSD2HTML.com is the service that I, personally, consider one of the best in their area of expertise. They’re honest and professional. Their around for more than a few months. in fact, they’ve been around since 2005 and their client list in a very long one! A lot of people that, from what I know, is a very long list of satisfied people. I myself, got their contact from a friend’s advice that is more than satisfied with them and their work. I now understand why.

The biggest problem in this kind of services is normally the lack of professionalism and notion of what a client wants and needs, as well as the delicate balance between both things. We need the best professionals for getting the work done. We need the most dedicated ones and by choosing psd to html by PSD2HTML.com you’ll get it. Being the #1 online conversion service offers, most of all, security to their clients.

On PSD2HTML you’ll get an excellent support team, very eager to satisfy your needs and very – and I mean very – concentrated on details. Nothing’s let to chance. All things are considered so that the final product can be close to perfection. PSD2HTML discusses all that is to discuss with you before they get their hands on the job, and they only go forward once everything is covered and decided.

“But for all of this there’s probably a high cost right?” I imagine you’re asking now. Well, the bad news is that it’s not for free, but excellent news is that their prices are far – very far – from being what you may call “expensive”. PSD2HTML delivers high value and quality for a relatively low cost. Their prices start at USD153 which is, let’s face it, very low. Specially if you consider what you get for that amount!

To start the process you should take a look at some of the examples and testimonials as well as reading the “about us” section of their site which is very elucidating about their posture and skills.

Once you decided go to the very comprehensive Order Now Page that contains different markup packages and a full set of all necessary markup options with descriptions. PSD2HTML support team will help to choose all necessary options for each project if required. Get in touch with them. They really love to help!

When it comes to PSD to HTML online conversion I have my mind made up: PSD2HTML is my choice from now on. But don’t just take my word for it. Take a look at some other reviews from independent sources like CSS Tricks, Snook, DesignShack or Blog DeLaranja.

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Yes, you got that right! To keep things simple, they charge you by the page and you’ll be completely in charge of the ordering process by making use of W3 <markup> truly amazing order form. These guys developed a very functional and practical form so you can decide each and everything about you website and control your order from start to finish. I must tell something: I fell in love with that form.

So everything you need to place your order is:

* An unflattened source file (Photoshop or Fireworks);
* Any project-specific notes in the space provided on the submission form or in your Photoshop file itself.
* Font files if you’re using something custom or special.

Any special request or additional question? Get in touch with W3 <markup> through their contact page or chat with the team.

When you are writing a post you have to go to Custom Fields and insert a new one.

The Key is Thumbnail and the Value is the URL for you picture.

The thumbnail will automatically resize to the perfect size but try to don’t use pictures too big to keep the good quality.

How to insert Video Posts ?

Once again when you are writing a post you have to go to Custom Fields and insert a new one.

The Key is Video and the Value is the URL for you video. For example to insert this video from youtube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivdhpdqCQAA&feature=dir , you must go to embedded area where you have this code:

<object width=”425″ height=”355″><param name=”movie” value=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ivdhpdqCQAA&hl=en”></param><param name=”wmode” value=”transparent”></param><embed src=”http://www.youtube.com/v/ivdhpdqCQAA&hl=en” type=”application/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=”transparent” width=”425″ height=”355″></embed></object>

http://www.youtube.com/v/ivdhpdqCQAA is the URL that you have to intert, is the value for the key Video.

How to insert a featured post ?

You have to go to your Magazine Theme Control Panel in Admin Area and fill the categories area (insert the category id + category name).

These categories will in the bar of important categories, this one:

The first four categories will automatically be the featured categories. So you just have to publish a post in on of these categories and it will be considered as featured.

It’s obviously a magazine style theme fully of features.

Most important features:

- 5 colors : Orange, Blue, Red, Green and Pink

- Administration panel in admin area where’s possible to configure your theme withoung editing any file. You can configure: banners (468×60 , 4 x 125×125, 3 widget blocks, 1 banner after every post), feeds url’s, feedburner counter, feedburner form, featured catogies, choose the colors…

- Feature posts area, where’s possible to show featured posts from different categories using tabs

- Thumbnail’s for any post

- An easy way to introduce videos in posts from youtube, metacafe and so on

- 1 widget that shows last posts, last comments, popular posts and tags

- 1 widget for your video posts

- 1 widget for feed’s

- Compatible with wordpress 2.5

- Built-in Gravatar support

- Built-in Related Posts (using Contextual Related Posts Plugin)

- Built-in css style for NextGEN Gallery Plugin

- Built-in css style and funcion code for WP-PageNavi Plugin

Price: 100 $

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WordPress Theme (extraordinary domain name by the way) is a WP showcase website created by Mike Little by making use of a very flexible and CMS style theme designed by the same Mike Little. Wordpress Theme most important objective, is to be the number one source for WordPress themes by gathering in just one website everything (or almost) that similar (yet too many) websites gather together.

The site presents all the themes in a very simple and straightforward way by listing them with a reasonable size screenshot. No sub-sub-subpage screenshot or new window demonstration. In just one page from WordPress Theme you can take a good look at 10 themes without clicking a dozen links before it.

The site has listed more than 250 themes until now, half the objective they have proposed themselves. Tough almost everything is close to excellent and well planned – besides being of great use for bloggers -, I guess there’s one more thing I’s like to see at WordPress Theme and that I think that could be of good use to everyone that has WordPress Theme as a reference for WP themes: categories. 2-columns, 3-columns, dark, light or whatever categories you might find useful, would be a great way to look for a specific theme that you have in mind. Presently it’s not a problem but if this guys get to post 5 times their objective I think it will be very difficult for the users to find anything at all. Still and for the moment, WordPress Theme is probably one of the best resources for good and practical WP themes and it is, for sure, a certain bookmark on my browser.

Happy blogging!

Their not a top company on the web design business. Their not giants and that’s probably their biggest strength. Relationship between Stylish WebDesign and their clients is swift and very personal. Prices are great and development time-frames are reduced.

Another Stylish WebDesign bet is their design directory. It’s a paid directory, so some fees are applied. (USD 9.95 for a normal review / USD 19.95 for an express review). This kind of directory normally results on a high-standard content delivery and it will be a great investment for those who like to be in good company.

The only thing that I think needs improvement is the contact information and details. Customers like to see people behind a business and by people I mean a face, a name, a telephone number and a physical address. Everything else is just plain great.