Archive for the 'Design' Category

Dice Sprites in GIF format

After spending about 20 minutes trying to find a good set of graphics for a dice rolling script I was working on I decided it was faster to just create my own. 5 minutes in Photoshop and I was done. There are individual files for each of the 6 die faces, an animated [...]

How important is design to the success of a forum?

How important do you think design is to the success of a forum?  It’s an extremely popular topic on web design forums.  Content or design?  Which has the bigger effect on the success of a forum?
I don’t think anyone would argue that a forum can succeed without good content, but how big of a part [...]

Quick CSS to hide disabled scroll bars in Internet Explorer

The scroll bars in Internet Explorer never go away. If they’re not needed, they just disable. To me this is an incorrect behavior, and it was really causing problems on a site I’m working on where I’m handling the scroll bars inside of a wrapper div anyway so I didn’t want two scroll [...]

Content aware image resizing

The technology seems pretty slick, although I don’t really understand everything that’s said. This video explains a technique where an image is resized based on what’s in the image rather than simply cropping or scaling.

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The importance of small web pages

With broadband connections and fast computer gaining more and more ground, it is often forgotten that small page size is still important. You have to be able to walk a fine line between what you’re willing to sacrifice to allow your pages to load faster against making sure that the image you project is [...]