Category Archives: design

New Design & Forum for Sheldon Lendrum

For the last ‘ages’ I have been meaning to update my wordpress theme and add a forum. I get a bunch of emails and comments on various posts about script help, which I am happy to help, but now I … Continue reading

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Use PHP and the GD Library to make CSS Sprites

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 !?

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

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

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

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

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 */ url(./corners_04.png), … Continue reading

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Adium Chat Client Message Theme – Kermit the Frog

I use Adium for Chatting on my Mac. It is a great little App that allows you to connected with multiple Account types like MSN, Yahoo, Google Chat ( or gmail ), MySpace, Facebook and more… all in the one … Continue reading

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