Archive for the ‘design’ Category

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 would like keep all questions in the forums so that they can help others.
Read my posts, [...]

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.
Now, when I code, I’m all about speed of page loads with our reducing quality of [...]

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 the life of US, we couldn’t figure out why? it’s not in the [...]

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 via email when the next version is released, send me an email [...]

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

< ?php $messages = SQL(‘QUERY TO GET MY MESSAGES’); ?>
< ?php $style [...]

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 and an Introduction Movie.
I rewrote it using less code and working out heights and sizes [...]

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),
/* Icon */ url(./icon.png),
/* Gradient */ url(./gradient.png);
 
background-position:
/* Upper-left */ 0% 0%,
/* Upper-right */ 100% 0%,
/* Lower-left */ 0% 100%,
/* Lower-right */ 100% 100%,
/* Icon */ 0.6em 0.6em,
/* Gradient */ 0% 100%;
 
background-repeat:
/* Upper-left */ no-repeat,
/* Upper-right */ no-repeat,
/* Lower-left */ no-repeat,
/* Lower-right */ no-repeat,
/* Icon */ no-repeat,
/* Gradient */ repeat-x;
}

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 cool customisable messenger.
Today I looked at writing my own Message Theme as a quick [...]