Warren Diggles Photography and Design

Fellow photographer, Photoshelter user, and website customization customer Dave Pattinson asked me to help him add a new widget to his website that he read about while visiting the Photoshelter forum.

NiO RSS Thumbnail Gallery ← Free download and instructions available, a widget created for Photoshelter users by Johan Peijnenburg of Nio Photography.

This widget is free, incredibly flexible, and in my opinion a must for photographers with a website. Once installed it automatically creates a thumbnail slideshow from Photoshelter gallery RSS feeds. You can add multiple galleries per page, and the code uses CSS for styling so you have unlimited flexibility when designing the look of your galleries. This will allow you to match your current website design. For example the Joomla website for Pattinson Photography has two separate rss thumbnail galleries on the home page, New Images and Western Canada. We also installed the NiO RSS Gallery on his Wordpress for Joomla blog.

For my website the rss galleries are going to be an incredible time saver. I am using the thumbnail gallerie’s dynamic ability for the Commercial Photographer Colorado Photography portfolio page on my website. Previous to NiO RSS Gallery I was using a LightBox script which demanded that I create thumbnail size and large size images for each photo in my portfolio. Very time consuming, which kept me from updating my portfolio often. Now that I am using NiO RSS I can update my portfolio galleries easily using my current Photoshelter workflow.

Two features I would love to see in NiO RSS Gallery is the ability to randomize the thumbnail results so a different set of thumbnails is shown each time the page is viewed, not sure if this is possible with a RSS feed. The other feature is the ability to view an image in a slideshow directly from the thumbnails, instead of opening in the gallery image display page, this will give more of a gallery feel..

Joomla - Add CSS style to Tinymce Text Editor drop down menu.

The main purpose of creating a Joomla CMS website for Miracles of Health is to give them the tools they need to add new content without having to call the web designer, me. Joomla comes with a WYSIWYG editor that is designed just for this. Sounds easy, but in practice it took some trial and error to get things to fit their needs and work smoothly for the customer.

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Colorado State University’s College of Business Dedicates Rockwell Hall-West, Holds Open House and Hosts Retired Gen. Colin Powell April 30. Colin Powell’s talk reaches out to the northern Colorado attendees with a message emphasizing leadership and local community…

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Astragalus Root Slices, Cloves, Thyme, Garlic, Sage, Yellow Powder 599, Peppermint, Hibiscus, cinnamon sticks, Psyllium, Pumpkin Seeds, Cayanne Pepper, Alfalfa, Root, Ginger photographed in studio white background.

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Herbal supplement capsule broken open photographed in studio white background.

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A young woman’s hands holding hibiscus in the shape of a heart photographed in studio bamboo background.

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Warren Diggles Photography: Eye Center of Northern Colorado, optometric equipment used for eye exams.

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Dr. Wendy Austin, cardiologist at Heart Center of the Rockies for the cover of Northern Colorado Medical + Wellness at Edora Park, Fort Collins, Colorado. Providing a good example for the people of northern Colorado, Wendy wants you to know the importance of exercise for your heart health.

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Warren Diggles Photography: Nicole M. Ferrara, D.D.S., P.C. - image for northern Colorado Medical+Wellness magazine spotlight piece on local female dental professionals. Dr. Nicole Ferrara performing a dental exam on a patient.

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Warren Diggles Photography: Dr Steven Roberts of Animal Eye Center, PC examining a dog that underwent cataract surgery only hours earlier in the day.

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