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FaceBox
Posted in I Like, Web Bling, Web Development
On Thu 3 July (Permalink, 1 Comment)Recently, since using 1Mb of JavaScript on every website has become acceptable practice, I’ve noticed an increase in the use of light/thickbox. I don’t this is neccessarily a bad thing - it does, however, become a problem when you start introducing functionlity within those windows (baskets, forms etc).
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Kwicks!
Posted in Try This!, Web Development
On Mon 30 June (Permalink, 1 Comment)Following a chat I just had, I thought I’d write a bit of a techie post about JavaScript animation. If we had to display a large body of information on a homepage a year or two ago, the design would have looked fairly messy – but since this whole JavaScript ‘movement’, we can use carousels [...]
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Firefox 3
Posted in I Like, Mac, Try This!
On Wed 18 June (Permalink, No Comments)Firefox 3 has been released (available for download here)! Why should you bother downloading it? I’ll tell you a few good reasons why I downloaded it, plain and simple.
Up until recently I’d been using Camino, a slick-looking browser which works pretty similar to Firefox 2. Actually, it works a little bit better - in the [...] -
‘Real’ Shadows
Posted in Web Development
On Thu 29 May (Permalink, No Comments)A couple of weeks ago I was looking through some really old bookmarks when I came across this. The visuals are honestly quite terrible, but bear with me – because the technology is really quite cool. Basically, Markus Svilans has developed a way to pretty accurately emulate shadows. In the example he’s used an eagle, [...]
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Web 2.0 Generators
Posted in Reference Tools, Web Design
On Thu 29 May (Permalink, No Comments)There’s got to be thousands of these completely horrible generators of things. Most of them are nasty – but a few of them can be really useful. You’ll find 25 of them listed here.
I personally use the loading icons here (www.ajaxload.info) and the striped background generator here (www.stripegenerator.com).
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Buzz is a sailor, skier, extreme sports enthusiast and designer living in London. He enjoys loud music, trying new things and talking crap. He doesn't really like reading though!
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