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IE6 no more. And IE7 and IE8…
08.18.09 | Permalink | 4 Comments

UPDATE: now with new Opera icon You may have heard about the IE 6 no more initiative. It asks webmasters to put a banner on their page, which detects Internet Explorer 6 and suggests to download ‘a modern browser’ instead. While I generally support the initiative, the banners are unusable for me. One of the [...]
webdesign
CSS positioning with vertical spacers
07.08.09 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Making layouts in CSS is a real pain. To me it’s like cleaning toilet with a toothbrush – it can be done, you can even achieve great results, but you would probably choose different tool if you could… The community, including Eric Meyer and Shaun Inman obviously longs for a real layout system. Before we [...]
user interface, webdesign
MooTools Rabid Ratings with stars
11.27.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I used Michelle Steigerwalt’s rating system in a recent project, but wanted to have simple stars with no effects instead of hearts. This is an easy exercise in Photoshop, but for those of you who don’t have Photoshop and/or don’t know how to do their version, here is the star version for download (or use [...]
webdesign
Auto-fit background image in CSS
11.23.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

I was trying to implement a background image which automatically resizes with the browser window. I was inspired by this lovely site: http://www.ringvemedia.com/. I googled out some solutions, however, none of them seemed to work just right. After few experiments, I arrived to this solution, which seems to be working so far: UPDATE: also removed [...]