Category Archives: design

Webkit custom scroll bars

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Sheldon Lendrum

Webkit browsers such as Safari and Chrome support some superb CSS3 styling. They are ( even thought I use firefox as my primary browser ) the most advanced browsers. For a while now I have created custom scroll bars using … Continue reading →

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Mootools Gallery ZoomBox Plugin

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Sheldon Lendrum

I needed a simple lightweight Mootools Gallery Lightbox, and after a few googles, I found nothing that suited my needs with out all the extra ‘captions’ and grouping and bloat. This is a simple zoom from start position type lightbox … Continue reading →

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Use PHP and the GD Library to make CSS Sprites

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

I came across some neat free Icons a couple of day’s ago. I found 178 free icons by WooThemes. They suited my needs for some navigation icons I was after, so after a quick download, I have them all. Great. … Continue reading →

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Non-Ascii charactors in my AJAX responses !?

Posted on April 28, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

A while ago, I co-wrote a large site with Ryan while I was working at Zipline Interactive, this site uses Mootools 0.98 as we found to be getting a lot of �������� all through the JAX requested response code. For … Continue reading →

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New Version of 'MiniShowCase Administration' coming – any enhancement requests

Posted on March 9, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

I am working on adding some features to the MiniShowCase Administration, like better user management, better image scaling options and better description management. If anyone has any ideas or enhancement requests, please post a comment below, or to be notified … Continue reading →

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Alternating row styles with Javascript

Posted on March 5, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

I am writing a list that outputs a large amount of data in a vertical structure, with many rows the list gets hard to tell which entry is which. Now, normally I would do this via PHP, something like < … Continue reading →

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‘BounceBox’ Mootools Effects Class

Posted on February 17, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

I sat down to further my Javascript skills a couple of weeks ago and re-wrote a small peice of code that I used on DreamCatcher, A School Careers Application to create ‘Slide Down’ boxes for the Contact Form, Login Form … Continue reading →

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Safari's CSS Support for multiple backgrounds on the same Style

Posted on February 16, 2009 by Sheldon Lendrum

I was browsing just now and fond something pretty interesting, Safari supports multiple background image declarations for the same style tag. .box {   background: /* Upper-left */ url(./corners_01.png), /* Upper-right */ url(./corners_02.png), /* Lower-left */ url(./corners_03.png), /* Lower-right */ … Continue reading →

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