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Handycons 2 - another free hand drawn icon set

Janko At Warp Speed — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:02:00 GMT

Four months after releasing Handycons icon set , I am happy to release Handycons 2 - icon set containing 20 more hand drawn icons. This time it is not limited just to socail media related icons. Package contains Facebook, Blinklist, Feedburner, Flickr...(read more)

How to deal with large webforms

Janko At Warp Speed — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:10:00 GMT

When developing/designing business applications you might face long (or large) webforms. You can have tens of fields and it might be a real mess. I know that it's often the client's request (you know, they want the forms to look exactly like paper...(read more)

Best of the web - January 2009

Janko At Warp Speed — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 05:00:00 GMT

I was very busy last month and often without inetrnet connection at home and those are the reasons why I couldn't spend much time online (and why my google reader is soooo full). However, I managed to find several excellent readings which I'm...(read more)

Free Fat Twitters icon pack

Janko At Warp Speed — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 08:00:00 GMT

I like twitter. At first, I thought it's just another time-eater, but it turned out I was wrong. To make it up to twitter, I'm giving you this small Fat Twitters icon pack for free ;-) Pack consist of two icons (those two sitting on the branch...(read more)

Illusions about web application user interfaces

Janko At Warp Speed — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 09:05:00 GMT

I was working on a large number of enterprise web applications and I realize there are some illusions about how UI for such applications should be developed/designed. By "enterprise" apps I mean that huge, megalomaniacal software products with...(read more)

Create Vimeo-like top navigation

Janko At Warp Speed — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:20:00 GMT

I really like the top navigation implemented on Vimeo.com . First time I saw it I wanted to recreate it. And this is exactly what I am going to do in this tutorial. What I like the most is the menu that drops down when you hover search box. It offers...(read more)

5 simple ways to improve links

Janko At Warp Speed — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:20:00 GMT

Changing colors and underline links on hover is something that you would do on every project. This is a common way to style hyperlinks but it could become boring if you use only color and text-decoration styles. Link colors are always going to be a part...(read more)

Alternate way to select ASP.NET server controls using jQuery

Janko At Warp Speed — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 19:22:00 GMT

I guess that you know by now that if you use MasterPages in your applications client ID of controls will differ from "server" ID. That's because ASP.NET creates a new ID for controls on a page. So this is probably very familiar to you: ctl00_cphContent_txtFirstName...(read more)

Best of 2008 (or blogs you should follow in 2009)

Janko At Warp Speed — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 17:16:21 GMT

I read somewhere (really can't remember where) that 2008 was a year without a good quality content when it comes to web development and design. I disagree. There were a plenty of extraordinary articles, tutorials, freebies... you name it. In fact...(read more)

A look back at 2008 and plans for 2009

Janko At Warp Speed — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:00:00 GMT

This year was very stressful but also succesful for me. If you wonder why, let me just tell you major things that happened to me in past twelve months. I got daughter, sleepless nights and jealous older on; changed my job; my wife and I moved (with two...(read more)

BlogEngine.NET Theme Pack released

Janko At Warp Speed — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 08:29:00 GMT

Finally, a new theme pack for BlogEngine.NET has been released. There are 10+ new themes that are designed for BlogEngine 1.4.5 which means they all have a support for great features like widgets. You can download the Theme Pack from Codeplex. Feel free...(read more)

Separate trackbacks and comments (and do it in BlogEngine.NET)

Janko At Warp Speed — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 08:06:00 GMT

It could be really annoyng when you try to read comments on a blog post with large number of trackbacks. To allow your readers better user experience you can separate trackback from your comments. This short tutorial will show you how to do it in Blogengine...(read more)

Animate your message boxes with jQuery

Janko At Warp Speed — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 23:00:00 GMT

A few months ago I posted an article on creating message boxes . No question, you should really take care about it. But this time I want to make fun with it and add some animations using (you guess) jQuery. The idea is more than simple. Let's animate...(read more)

Discussion: Why web designers often use PHP over ASP.NET?

Janko At Warp Speed — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:33:00 GMT

Some time ago my colleague asked me "I like to read blogs about web design, but why are they mostly PHP-oriented?". Huh, really, why? I haven't thought about it seriously before. When you think about web design your first thought might be...(read more)

Best of the web - November 2008

Janko At Warp Speed — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 11:30:00 GMT

Another month full of great articles. But, less talk, more action - here are twenty great articles I really enjoyed reading in November. Web development jQuery Intellisense in VS 2008 and New ASP.NET Charting Control Is Code Coverage Really All That Useful...(read more)