Brochures are designed to perform two main functions: the first is to attract the attention of new customers, and the second is to provide more extensive information to an interested market. The first type of brochure usually has a louder design and speaks of the product or service in broad strokes. The second type contains [...]
Our featured WordPress tutorial for today may be a long-time classic trick. It comes from renowned CSS guru Chris Coyier of CSS-tricks, and it’s about replacing the ellipsis (…) from the excerpt with a permalink to the post. It is a pretty short snippet and so it’s very easy to implement on your site. All [...]
jQuery Super Box is a script that lets you show windows with a subtle lightbox effect. It is a plugin for jQuery (1.3.x) that shows images, galleries, external pages, page element and AJAX loaded content. Below are its features that set it apart from the rest: Accessibilty. In launching its script, rel attribute is used. [...]
Today’s feature is GoalSmashers’ node.js library called clean-css. It’s a nice and very simple utility for minifying and concatenating CSS files. It strips unnecessary whitespace, removes comments, deletes the last semicolon of every selector, and more. Basically, it does the same job as YUI Compressor’s CSS minifier but much faster. Using the clean-css library is [...]
Check out this pretty neat barcode generator created by Rex Feng using CSS and JavaScript! The JavaScript is used solely for the automation of the HTML/CSS while the CSS takes care of the divs to conform to UPC-A details. Test runs were done using the RedLaser mobile app and the results were positive (i.e. the [...]
Although using the Lightbox plugin can be a nice way of giving your readers a great experience in viewing your images in your blog, it can also become a bit tedious adding the rel=”lightbox” attribute to each image that you want to open with it. But thanks to Tyler Longren‘s code snippet, you won’t have [...]
Today I’m featuring a cool design tutorial that I’ve found, which can be very useful in designing prints such as posters, brochures, flyers, etc. This tutorial is by the guys at Adobe Tutorialz and they show you how to create a colorful abstract photo manipulation using Photoshop CS5. Some of the basic Photo Manipulation techniques [...]
By default, WordPress’ built-in media manager only has filter support for three types of media: image, audio, and video. But what about other file types like PDF? Well, thanks to a nifty trick from WP Tuts, it won’t have to be limited to just three anymore. I’m certain that this trick will be very helpful [...]
Mochikit is a highly documented lightweight Javascript library that will easily help you with your Javascript projects. It is well-tested and reliable, building real applications that make platform compatibility issues resolve easily. The creators of Mochikit make it a point to maintain 100% documentation coverage so you won’t have any trouble finding out how the [...]
Here’s a cool lightbox I’ve found that can be useful in displaying images in your site. Christophe Beyls introduces you the Slimbox2, a 4KB visual clone of Lightbox 2 script by Lokesh Dhakar that is written with jQuery javascript library. It is designed to be more convenient and compatible with the Lightbox 2 as well [...]
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