Our very own @Tom wrote a slick jQuery plugin for WordPress that you’ve probably seen implemented on more than some of the top websites out there.
You have to check it out. We’re considering using it here throughout the 8BIT Network and it’ll be slick.
Just scroll down the demo and see it pop out – magic!
And then dream of how you might use it for awesomeness.
If you haven’t heard, Mozilla released a new addon called F1. You can share webpages right from your browser via Facebook, Twitter, and email.
Thoughts? I haven’t used it extensively and it’s not a part of my workflow.
We had posted about Blackbird Pie when it first came out and how ugly it was to implement – well, there’s a WordPress plugin that’ll do all that for you!
It’s so simple and easy to do!
It creates a nice button in your top bar in your content dashboard and you’re off and running!
Yes, it can be done.
However, there are a few disclaimers:
I recently oversaw the development and launch of our Internet Campus at Family Life Church. We officially held our first services online on September 7th, 2010 but we did private beta testing for several weeks in July 2010. All in all, from concept to deliverable, it was about 9 months in the making but most of that time was used researching what tools and services we were going to utilize.
Like any web project, it is constantly evolving but we are happy with it for what we put into it and at its current life stage.
You can view it here.
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I was bored so I decided to destroy ChurchCrunch (and make my own sound effects while doing it).
Check it out – I did some serious damage!
jQuery is arguably the web’s most popular JavaScript library. One of the biggest advantages of the library and its community the sheer number of plugins that are available for it.
I was recently talking to the team on the back channel about having a slick way of engaging visitors and readers via notifications, and Tom obliged.
The result? A wickedly-cool sliding notification that we’re going to find a use for across our properties. Check it out:
Although WordPress is a blogging platform at its core, many people have begun to use the application as a CMS of sorts. We’ve seen a number of businesses and churches begin to build out their online presence on top of it.
Of course, the sheer number of plug-ins that are available help to make it easy for many of us to customize our functionality without actually having to write any code.
We try to cover some of the new, more relevant plug-ins and a good friend of mine recently dropped Bing Maps for WordPress in my inbox…
Perhaps you need a little more email management help than the normal email user? Perhaps you’re not interested in using something like Google’s new Priority Email feature?
Perhaps you just need to control the timing of when you send and receive email?
Why not check out something like Boomerang, a Firefox/Chrome extension? Check out this video of usage as well as BETA invite code:
Email. Sometimes I think we’ve created some kind of monster.
On one hand, we’re able to shoot messages across the world in seconds. Aside from the pure social aspects, we’re able to coordinate and manage entire businesses without even leaving the keyboard.
But then you’ve got the issue of inbox management. Some of us literally have to allot time on our calendars so that we can spend time focused on nothing but email.
There are a lot of strategies out there for dealing with this particular problem, but Taskforce (and it’s Gmail integration) is taking a unique approach.
If you’ve been on the fence about switching to Google Chrome then fence-sit no further. I’m about to show you what’s known in the industry as a game-changer. I’ve discovered a plugin that spruces up the design of any web page with the mere click of a button. In fact, with this plugin, the more button clicks, the better.
The extension is called Cornify and I really want you to see this. So lets pick an arbitrary website from the internet to test it upon, shall we?
Here is John Saddington’s super-professional business card. Yawn.
Contrast that with John Saddington’s super-professional business card on Cornify.
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