http://www.komodomedia.com blog, webdesign, illustration & newsk00l javascript Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:22:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Alright folks, It appears I'm back from the grave with a post! Finally! I wish that I could give you something substantial, but alas, I have been far too busy with life, my 6-month old baby boy, work and various other time-filling activities. Let's get to the goods I'm giving away 3 ... http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/10/cloudapp-invites/ Introducing 80+ ridiculously rad social networking icons, made by deft-fingered Haitian refugees, not really… but really. I've developed over 80 refined, amazing social networking icons for the top networks around. They're all the rage with you crazy newsk00l intarweb kids. Use them on your blogs. Put them on t-shirts, ... http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/06/social-network-icon-pack/ I want to talk about a fix I found for Safari 3 and 4 for it's issues with bad text-rendering with text, especially light text on a dark background. Previously, web developers have been using a text-shadow hack explained here. I learned of this technique through Bryan Veloso, who was using ... http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/03/safari-text-shadow-anti-aliasing-css-hack/ Resources Download Sample File Download PNG overlays Preview Show Mass Love It's the social web now. We share everything, from our musical tastes, to the bacon avocado burger we ate for breakfast , to the very funny things we say and do. With amazing APIs such as the ones offered by Last.fm, Twitter, Flickr and ... http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2009/03/sexy-music-album-overlays/ Download Example Preview/CodeTested in:Safari 2/3 Mac/PCFirefox 2/3 Mac/PCOpera 9 MacInternet Explorer 7/8Google ChromeNo Support For:Internet Explorer 6If you are feelin' the love, spot me a coffee! When feeds became popular, it worked to have one icon on your site to point your readers to your RSS or Atom feeds. As feeds are ... http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2008/10/jquery-feed-menus/ Ok. Simple and sweet. I wish I would have known about this a few years ago. I'm talking about the idea of a JavaScript function that can be used like a class. Here's what I want: Simple class interface that I can instantiate with new Classname Public functions/members ... http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2008/09/javascript-classes-for-n00bs/ Download Example Preview/Code I want to share a CSS technique I've used alot. I'm sure that you have seen CSS sprite techniques that utilize changing background position on hover to change a link's state. Also, they have the added benefit of keeping from loading images on hover, limiting lag. This technique ... http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2008/09/css-sliding-sprite-windows/ Ok, so I have a few loves in my life. In web technologies, my love rests in design, jQuery programming and JavaScript, CSS and XHTML. I love playing around with interfaces and front-end UI design and website design. Today, I'm gonna bust out a short post on ... http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2008/07/using-jquery-to-save-form-details/ We've all seen them, the hoards of PNG fixes for IE6. That is because IE6 is a bag of smashed buttholes. I'm serious. It is. That is why we (web designers of the new world) have to continually come up with creative ways to solve the PNG ... http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2007/11/css-png-image-fix-for-ie/ Test it Download it Tested in: Firefox 2 PC/Mac Netscape 7 PC/Mac IE 5.5 IE 6.0 IE 7 Safari 2 OmniWeb 5 Opera 9 PC/Mac First, a quick preview for the over-caffeinated and impatient (try clicking on a rating): Classic Rater: Currently 3/5 Stars. 1 2 3 4 5 Inline Rater:This Currently 1.5/5 Stars. 1 2 3 4 5 and Currently 4/5 Stars. 1 2 3 4 5 Small Rater Currently 2.5/5 Stars. 1 2 3 4 5 Quite awhile back, I wrote and article entitled Creating a Star ... http://www.komodomedia.com/blog/2007/01/css-star-rating-redux/