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I’ve always found that sending creative mockups for web sites and slideshows to clients is a huge pain. Most people settle for bundling up a PDF and emailing it over to their client. This is absolutely not an acceptable practice. Instead, I’d like to propose a solution: WebSlide.

The Problem

PDFs of design mockups are often poorly scaled, pixelated, and create more confusion than they’re worth (unless we’re talking about logo & print design). Often times, designers will even include an image of a browser wrapped around their mockups.

What? Seriously? Stop it!

And what about sending an email with images as an attachment? Again, this isn’t showing designs for a web site in its natural environment. Why can’t we just show our clients how it will look in their own browser?

The Solution

Why not have an environment that can display your mockups from within the actual intended medium?

Enter WebSlide, a jQuery-based, user-configurable, and user-themeable application that has no server requirements (other than it being a web server, of course).

View the WebSlide Demo

Features

• Display images as slides in your browser
• No server-side requirements
• User-configurable
• Create custom themes with CSS
• Keyboard navigation
• Zoom images in & out
• Optional password protection
• And more!

Okay, now that you definitely want it, hop over to the WebSlide project page and download WebSlide!

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Hey! This weekend is Umber Studios' 2^nd birthday. I'll have a few pieces up as well as many other talented artists and great friends. Stop by, say hi, enjoy great art and great people.

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This morning's presentation was a success. I had a great time presenting and am now enjoying the rest of the presentations throughout the day. As I promised, I've put my slideshow up on Slideshare for everyone to view. Notes and links are available on the Slideshare site.

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I’ll be speaking at the second MinneWebCon at the University of Minnesota next Monday, April 6th, 2009. There's a great lineup of speakers focusing on a range of topics, from user experience design, to social media privacy, to site security and hacker tricks. I attended MinneWebCon ’08 and had a blast. I'm more excited this year to have the honor of presenting a session entitled “It’s the Little Things”.

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This is my biggest peeve in when trying to design a web site using Photoshop: text objects can't be forced to whole pixels. They always seem to render their start point from a sub-pixel location. In the following image, you can see two separate text objects that I created, each with the exact same text, but each is rendered slightly different because of its sub-pixel starting location.

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