TN3 Gallery is a professional and very flexible jQuery image gallery plugin for displaying and rotating a collection of images in various ways.

It works cross-browser (including mobile), has multiple transition effects, can show captions and present the thumbnails horizontally or vertically.

The plugin can automatically generate these thumbnails with or without resizing them on the server-side (with the help of a PHP file) and enable users to browse the gallery by clicking to these thumbnails.

Thumbnails are not the only way to view the images, there are also prev-next buttons, mouse-wheel + keyboard support, auto-slideshow and, optionally, bullet-type-of-navigation can be used rather than thumbnails.

A lovely feature is the ability to present multiple albums with each album having its own thumbnail and caption to help users better understand "what is inside".

TN3 Gallery can use XML as the data source which is great for integrating the gallery with 3rd party software like CMS applications.

For maximum customization, the API comes to the aid in every point with functions to change everything.

There are also many other features like Flickr integration, skinning, fullscreen display, support for Cufon or @font-face and more.

It comes in 3 flavors;

• Lite: with limited features and free
• Pro: with all the features and licenses to a single site
• Multi-Site: with all the features and licenses to unlimited sites

How to join the giveaway?

In order to win one of the 5 Pro Licenses, just comment to this post and winners will be selected on 20 June 2011 (1 week later) with the query below:

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2300 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 5

Good luck!

Fortune3, an all-in-one shopping cart solution, is giving away "any plan wanted for 6 months" to 3 WRD readers.

There are very few things to do for joining the giveaway (info can be found at the bottom of the article) and here are the most important details about the application:

What is Fortune3?

It is a complete service for creating an e-commerce website of any size and type with the huge list of features offered.

Fortune3 is a hosted application, comes with a 24/7 support and enables users to create their stores from desktop with their "E-Commerce Wizard" software which speeds up the whole process of customizing the stores and adding products (it supports copy-paste and drag 'n' drop on multiple items).

The design of the store can be totally customized with the ready-to-use templates, ability to edit styles, built-in WYSIWYG editor and more.

Using Fortune3, not only B2C but B2B e-commerce can also take place under the same system with different user levels and pricing options.

It is tightly integrated with all major "live shipping" providers (like UPS, FedEx or DHL), payment processors (including PayPal, Google Checkout, Amazon, etc.) and accounting softwares (QuickBooks, PeachTree). Also, the ones that are not in the list can be added on request.

The application has powerful marketing tools like an integrated affiliate system, price/quantity based promotions, gift certificates, promo codes and newsletter system.

There are many other features like an API, import/export of data to Excel, integrated visitor statistics or one-page quick checkout. Here is a little closer view to 2 other features that you will probably love:

Social Shopping:

Fortune3's Social Shopping Cart App is an instant way to add a shopping cart to Facebook pages and reach social media users.

The products to be advertised can be selected/changed easily and this social app integrates with the settings of the system.

Mobile Apps:

Stores can be controlled from iPhone and Android (coming soon) devices with:

• push notifications on orders
• order management
• customer management

Simply, wherever you are, the essentials for controlling the store are under your hand.

How to join the giveaway?

In order to win one of the 3 accounts (which will be free for 6 months) for this ecommerce software, simply comment to this post and winners will be selected with the query below on 15 June 2011 (1 week later):

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2289 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Good luck to everyone.

As you remember, WRD and Moto CMS announced a giveaway of 3 premium Flash CMS templates last week.

The winners are selected today and announced at the bottom of this post.

In case you missed it, Moto CMS allows anyone to create easily editable, professionally looking and SEO-friendly Flash websites with minimum efforts.

It comes as a standalone product (which will attract developers) or with premium templates which doesn't require any coding.

These premium Flash templates are complete Flash websites with Moto CMS integrated that can easily be customized and then managed via the mostly intuitive control panel.

Some of the features include a WYSIWYG editor, MP3 and media player components, image editor, contact for module and much more.

And, the template package includes:

• professional Flash design
• MotoCMS License
• lifetime Tech-Support
• inVersion software updates

The winners

Here are the winners of Moto CMS templates:

• Tomas Varil (comment #345501)
• Matt (comment #346829)
• Jeebeez (comment #348482)

Congratulations and thanks to everyone for commenting and giving their chance a chance : ).

Awwwards, a popular website which recognizes and promotes the best web designs, has published the winners of 2010 as a book with the name: Awwwards: The best 365 css websites around the world.

The book is a very handy resource of inspiration and they are giving away 30 digital copies of this book to WRD readers.

Every site-of-the-day in the book is selected from a list of submitted websites by a jury of designers, bloggers + internet agencies and scored for their design, creativity, usability + content.

How to join the giveaway?

Just comment to this post and winners will be announced on 09 June 2011 (1 week later) inside this post using the query below:

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2281 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 30

Good luck.

And, the winners:

• Asa Carter (comment #347092)
• Ronald (comment 346945)
• Nic (comment #350818)
• Franz (comment #348636)
• aidoru (comment 347142)
• Matiss janis Aboltins (comment 347076)
• Jonathan Hindi (comment #349170)
• guri (comment #349094)
• Emanuel Felipe (comment #349727)
• Benny De Vrieze (comment #348991)
• jc (comment #347633)
• João Dias (comment #346944)
• Prasaanth (comment #347564)
• Karl (comment #347101)
• Indra (comment #347122)
• Real (comment #347703)
• Ted (comment #347961)
• Shawn (comment #347147)
• Niju mohan (comment #346943)
• Matt (comment #347387)
• colourTVset (comment #346956)
• Nick Shvelidze (comment #348433)
• Jesus (comment #347248)
• Pablo Mendoza (comment #347497)
• Marin Alcaraz Córdova (comment #349095)
• Don Wilson (comment #347356)
• bets (comment #352124)
• Omar Sabet (comment #347889)
• Jon Warner (comment #348365)
• Hassan (comment #347261)

Congratulations to the winners and thanks to everyone for trying your chances.

Moto CMS, one of the leading Flash CMS and Flash template providers, is giving away 3 premium Flash CMS templates (at the price of $220 to $275 each) from their collection to WRD readers for free.

Moto Flash content management system is a powerful application that allows its users to create easily editable, professionally looking and SEO-friendly Flash websites with minimum efforts.

Moto CMS is available as a standalone version (for developers mostly) and along with a Flash CMS template (for both developers and the users with no programming knowledge).

The premium Flash templates are complete Flash websites with Moto CMS integrated that can easily be customized and then managed via the mostly intuitive control panel.

Each Moto CMS template is equipped with the set of built-in components and tools including:

• WYSIWYG Editor
• MP3 and media player components
• video and image gallery components
• the convenient image editor (that allows the users to edit images right within the control panel)
• news widget
• RSS module
• Google Maps widget
• contact form module
• and many more.

The template package includes:

• professional Flash design
• MotoCMS License
• lifetime Tech-Support
• inVersion software updates

and requires PHP 5.2+ with Zend Optimizer 3.3+ to run..

How to Win?

For joining the giveaway to win one of the premium Flash CMS templates, just comment to this post mentioning "why you would like to win".

For increasing your chances, you can tweet about this giveaway with:

• Giveaway of 3 @motocms Flash CMS Templates at WRD – RT this message & comment to participate! Details: http://bit.ly/mgCGiM (click to tweet easily)
• and post a new comment with the link of your tweet

The winners will be selected randomly on 7 June 2011 (1 week later) with the query below:

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2276 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 3

Good luck everyone!

BundleHunt, the bundle of quality design apps and resources, is now presenting its 4th bundle which is only available for the next 2 weeks.

It includes 13 Mac OS X apps and design resources for a price of $49.99 (rather than $780). Every item in the bundle is very handy and designers/developers will easily make use of them.

• Snippets: a powerful Mac OS X app that for storing your code pieces.
• ColorSchemer Studio 2: a pro color-matching application for Mac OS X & WIN OS.
• Layers: an outstanding screen capture app for Mac OS X. Layers captures every Item as a PSD layered image.
• ShoveBox: a Mac OS X app that catches all those little scraps of information that you can't act on now but would rather not forget.
• WPBundle is offering 3 WordPress themes, built on top of the WooThemes Framework, of your choice.
• SmashingMagazine's newest 3 e-books in their store: Mastering Photoshop for Web Design, Volume 2, Professional Web Design Vol. 2 and Getting the Hang of Web Typography. The 3 e-books are available as PDF, ePUB, Mobipocket.
• Symbolicons: a family of 465 royalty-free vector icons and symbols for most any use.
• Decompose: a Mac OS X app allowing an easy extraction of elements from pictures to use them to make composite images.
• Tapptics: a collection of design files & step-by-step training created to help designers, developers & anyone to save time and money creating mobile apps.
• Picons's all 440 icons: Basic 1 and 2 are brand new icons that contain 440 hand-crafted vector items, built on a grid and sharing the same visual language.
• ThemeFuse: 3 WordPress themes of your choice with Standard license.
• WeGraphics: 30 of their high quality design element sets such as vector art, textures, fonts and brushes.
• IconJar: 211 hand crafted icons for UI designers.

The 4th BundleHunt is only available until the end of May 2011 and every purchase comes with a chance of winning an iPad2.

The giveaway for HelpOnClick, the lovely live chat/support application, is ended today and winners of 10 Lifetime Basic Accounts ($19/month) with free Desktop Application ($59) are selected.

!! The WRD-exclusive offers below still continue:

• free plan upgrade (from Basic to Pro or from Pro to Deluxe) + free desktop application (normally $59) once you purchase the service by visiting their website from the links in this post.
• partners (resellers or affiliates) who sign-up by visiting their website from the links in this post will get 40% lifetime commissions instead of 30%.

What is HelpOnClick?

It is a web-based live support chat application that can be integrated into any website within minutes with just a copy-paste of an HTML code.

The application shows visitors in real-time, presents detailed info about them and enables them to start a conversation with you or you can choose to push a conversation with them.

Multiple support staff can use it at the same time, transfer chats between each other and use tools like "canned responses" for a faster communication.

HelpOnClick has an advanced reports and statistics system for analyzing the support department easily (number of support requests/day, operator statistics, etc.).

Its look and feel can be changed with theming support to reflect your website's identity and every text or icon can be customized.

And the winners

The winners are selected randomly from the commenters and here they are:

• ionut (comment #333022)
• gecko (comment #333499)
• Jonathan Hindi (comment #333761)
• ConspiracyTheory (comment #333000)
• stiggi (comment #333218)
• k19s (comment #333261)
• Roger (comment #333078)
• Izzy Rebel (comment #332993)
• Chuck Lasker (comment #333249)
• Jason (comment #332919)

Congratulations and thanks to everyone for trying your chances.

TemplateMonster, one of the biggest and popular website template brands that has a huge database of HTML, Flash and CMS-specific templates, is giving away some cool stuff to WRD readers totally free (which is valid for a very short period of time):

Get a icon set of your choice for totally free:

From a list of 400+ icon sets in the TemplateMonster Icon Sets gallery page, you can:

• select the one you want the most
• add it to your shopping cart (either from a gallery page or from a product preview page) and go to the "shopping cart" page
• in the "Promotional Code" field, enter the promo code "webresourcesdepot"
  and press the "Apply" button
• that's it, the set will be priced as "free"

The code is valid only for today and tomorrow (May 5-6 2011).

2400 premium icons for free with every template purchase:

The giveaway above is a part of the "huge icon sets promo" that TemplateMonster is currently running.

It is very straightforward:

• purchase any template from TemplateMonster
• get this giant set of icons (worth $5000) totally free (PSD sources of every icon is included)

This promo is also available for a short time (May 10th 2011), so, if you want any of them, act fast!

For any website who is selling products/services and would like to provide a quick support to their visitors, live support chat systems are very useful as they are simple-to-use, return questions into sales better, analyzed easily and can be used by distributed support teams.

HelpOnClick, a feature-rich live support chat service, is giving away "10 Lifetime Basic Accounts ($19/month) with free Desktop Application ($59)" to WRD readers and also offers:

• free plan upgrade (from Basic to Pro or from Pro to Deluxe) + free desktop application (normally $59) once you purchase the service by visiting their website from the links in this post.
• partners (resellers or affiliates) who sign-up by visiting their website from the links in this post will get 40% lifetime commissions instead of 30%.

What is HelpOnClick?

It is a web-based and real-time live support chat service where visitors can instantly start chatting with you or leave a message when you are offline.

The application provides real-time traffic data, notifies you when a visitor is browsing your web pages and even enables you to start the conversation by "pushing a chat invitation" before the visitor asks for it (which can be a good method if you think the visitor is trying to decide between the products).

It is possible to chat with multiple visitors at the same time, thanks to features like "canned responses" and "seeing what the visitor types before the message is sent",  you can respond much faster.

If there are multiple support operators, the application can assign the chat requests randomly and also, chats can be transferred between operators (like forwarding an expert question to a senior).

HelpOnClick has an advanced reports and statistics feature where you can analyze your support departments easily (number of support requests/day, operator statistics, etc.). And, you can search inside or display the past conversations anytime.

The interface of this chat support system can be customized with theming support and the ability to change every text + icons.

For the installation, all this functionality starts working by a one time copy-pasting of an HTML code.

How to join the giveaway?

In order to win one of the "10 Lifetime Basic Accounts", just comment to this post and winners will be selected randomly with the query below on 09 May 2011 (one week later).

SELECT * FROM wp_comments WHERE comment_post_id=2224 AND comment_approved=1 AND comment_type='' GROUP BY comment_author_email ORDER BY RAND() LIMIT 10

Good luck to all.

Avactis, an e-commerce application with lots of handy features, was running a giveaway of 3 owned licenses for their application to celebrate the launch of their hosted services and hosting bonuses.

Winners are selected today and announced at the bottom of this post.

If you are not one of the lucky winners and/or prefer not to host the application yourself, here is a snapshot of what Avactis offers with their new services:

First of all, the best thing about hosted services is: you know that the application is setup in the best possible way. So you make sure it functions correctly.

The second advantage is "not dealing with any hosting-related issues" as Avactis handles that in a pro and secure way with PCI compatible servers, daily backups and an experienced team.

In addition to those, the hosted services include free forever-support and updates (updates are handled by Avactis automatically).

And, until 28th of April, there are some bonuses offered:

• Standard plan, 1 month
  • Bonus: Free Setup
• Standard plan, 6 months pre-pay
  • Bonus: 3 extensions pre-installed for free* (worth $82.85)
• Standard plan, 1 year pre-pay
  • Bonus: SSL Certificate pre-installed for free (worth $149.00)
  • Bonus: 3 extensions pre-installed for free* (worth $82.85)
• Professional plan, 1 month
  • Bonus: Free Setup
• Professional plan, 6 months pre-pay
  • Bonus: SSL Certificate pre-installed for free (worth $149.00)
  • Bonus: 5 extensions pre-installed for free** (worth $118.75)

Simply, if you already tried the application and liked it, this can be the right time to get it. Otherwise, you can always give it a try for free and find out if the functionality fits your needs.

And, the winners

Here are the 3 winners of Avactis Owned licenses:

• gediminas (comment #322672)
• Jeff Szucs (comment #327078)
• Caner (comment #321414)

Congratulations to the winners and thanks very much to every WRD reader for joining the giveaway.