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Cool Things to do with Border Radius

The Monk — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 23:04:18 +0000

Check out this article that show you a few things that you can do with border radius.

CSS Pre-loading images

The Monk — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 20:24:15 +0000

Here’s a simple way to pre-load images on your site using CSS if you’d like to skip all that javascript.

How to make a favicon.ico on a Mac?

The Monk — Sat, 05 Feb 2011 21:35:26 +0000

Ever wondered how to make those little tiny icons that sit next to the URL in your browser? Well, here is a simple tutorial to creating a favicon on a Mac.

Full Size Background Image jQuery Plugin

The Monk — Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:37:46 +0000

“All you need is an image you want to have as your background. Once you have that and use the plugin, the image will resize to the full width/height of the browser window. Every time the browser window resizes, so will the background image.”

Full Size Background Image jQuery Plugin

Demo

CSS Frameworks

The Monk — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:40:14 +0000

Here’s good link to some insights on CSS Frameworks, it’s pros and cons, and examples that you can use.

“A CSS Framework is meant to provide ready-made solutions for various tasks that we perform on regular basis. In simple terms an ideal CSS framework will provide you with a default style sheet which you should be able to use as a starting point for most of your web design projects.”

HTML Email Templates

The Monk — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 14:45:12 +0000

Here’s an amazing gallery of free HTML email templates that look great and have been tested to work on various email programs such as Hotmail, Yahoo. Gmail, Apple’s Mail, etc.

Creating a centred horizontal navigation

The Monk — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 13:49:07 +0000

Here’s a nice write up on how to create a centered horizontal navigation menu.

There is also a dropdown navigation menu at the above link.

Social Plugins for Facebook Developers

The Monk — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 21:00:36 +0000

How do you add to your website that like button you are seeing on web pages all over the internet? Interested in implementing a Facebook recommendation and comment button? Then check out the Facebook developers page for social plugins.

Creative Music Industry Websites

The Monk — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 16:18:57 +0000

We were recently doing some research online and came across this collection of 35 inspirational web designs from the music industry.

Create rounded corners with CSS

The Monk — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:49:22 +0000

The border-radius option in CSS3 allows you to make nicely rounded corners for your boxes. Both Mozila/Firefox, Safari and Chrome have implemented this function, which allows you to create CSS only rounded corners on box-items.