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Wetfloor: Shiny surfaces for WordPress
by Ryan Carter Jul 14th 2006
Apple started a trend with FrontRow by introducing the suave effect called wet floor. Everyone and their dog are using on their website now, but so what? It is cool. Siuyee Presents a free plugin for WordPress that allows you to use the wet floor effect on images. The only downside to this neat plugin is that it can't be used in the rich editing mode, only in plain editor mode. Of course the easier way to avoid this is to just use a bit of simple code to "wet-floor" any image. The plugin even offers customized height and opacity. This example code is all you need: <img class="reflect rheight80 ropacity40" src="abc.jpg" /> I know from experience that this code works in both posts and in theme template files, so you can easily "wet-floor" your banner or footer image as well as little Susie's picture in your post. I know there are a ton of similar scripts out there, but I found this one particularly useful and easy. Who knew eye-candy was so simple?
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
