Category Archives: Web Design

How to make a transparent background/selection on an image using GIMP

http://geekswithblogs.net/TimH/archive/2006/03/20/72797.aspx

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CSS Sprite Online Generator

http://spritegen.website-performance.org/ You can’t include animated gifs in the sprite (otherwise they will be still). You can’t include list bullets because if the list item is quiet long, the images under the bullet point icon in the sprite will be shown.

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Minify CSS and Javascript Files With YUI Compressor From Linux Command Line

You can download YUICompressor from here: http://yuilibrary.com/downloads/#yuicompressor Extract the package You need Java to execute it (on Ubuntu): sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jre To use it, you can execute this on the command line: cat jquery-*.min.js library.js common.js lists.js tasks.js contexts-mgmt.js … Continue reading

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Free Icons

http://www.pinvoke.com/ http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/silk/

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Create Nice Web Buttons For Free

http://www.buttonator.com/

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In-CSS IE Hacks

li.filter ul li { margin-top: 5px; } /* any good browser */ * html li.filter ul li { margin-top: 5px; } /* hack for IE6 */ *:first-child+html li.filter ul li { margin-top: 5px; } /* hack for IE7 */

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About Floating Divs Inside a Container (Float)

2 floated elements inside a container. The container doesn’t expand to contain the floats. There are a lot of solutions to this, such as sticking in an element to clear the floats (bleh) before closing the container, using the :after … Continue reading

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Creating a Button Using Gimp

Creating a button with Gimp new image 80×20 select the all image with ‘Select Rectangular Region’ tool Menu > Select > Rounded Rectangle Radius about 40/50 Gradient tool Make a vercial gradient with two colors quite close Text Editor: Sans … Continue reading

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Disabling / Hiding Inner Borders Inside a Table

border-collapse: collapse

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CSS – clear both – clearfix

.floatingDiv:after { content: ‘.’; height: 0; width: 0; clear: both; visibility: hidden; } With this trick, you don’t need to remember to use clear: both on the next div you don’t want it to float.

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