Avatar movie artwork that you may not have seen before

I just watched the Avatar movie yet again and got lost in the amazing world of Pandora. After seeing the visual feast of colours, special effects and amazing characters I found myself still wanting more. Now, I’ve already seen most of the Avatar movie desktop wallpapers and movie posters out there, so I decided to explore the digital art world to see what it had to offer. To my surprise I came across some amazing Avatar movie artwork that you may not have seen before. I have included the artwork below with links through to the original artworks along with the very talented artists that created them.

By Adham Dannaway date Sunday March 7, 2010

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CSS background image stretch

Sometimes when creating a website you will need the background image of the site to stretch to fill the whole browser window. Below is a simple CSS based method to achieve a 100% stretched background image that fills the browser window and also dynamically re-sizes when the browser window is re-sized. The background image won’t maintain its aspect ratio, but it will fill the browser window at all times. It works in IE6 along with the other main browsers.

By Adham Dannaway Thursday February 18, 2010

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Avatarize yourself! Create your own Avatar movie character

I’m sure that by now you have all seen the amazing Avatar movie and have at some stage considered packing your things and getting a one way ticket to Pandora to have the adventure of a lifetime. I know I have. But of course this may not be possible for all of us, so here’s the next best thing. Avatarize your face! You can actually create your own Avatar movie character in 3D and I’ll show you how.

By Adham Dannaway date Saturday February 13, 2010

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Compare Lightbox, Shadowbox, Slimbox and many more JavaScript pop up windows

So you want to add a JavaScript pop up window effect to your website, but which one do you choose? There are many different modal window pop ups which have different levels of functionality. Some only support the display of single images while others support the display of image sets, movies, flash files, iframes and inline elements. In this post we’ll go through a few things you should consider when deciding which JavaScript modal pop up window script to use.

By Adham Dannaway date Sunday December 13, 2009

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Celebrities endorse Windows 7 in latest advertisements

The recent launch of Windows 7 and the popular “I’m a PC and Windows 7 was my idea” advertisements have caught everyone’s attention including some famous celebrities and well-known faces. These celebrities have even endorsed the Windows 7 Operating System in these latest ads below. Well, not really, I just put these ads together for a bit of fun but I hope you enjoy them anyway. It would be great to hear any other ideas anyone has.

By Adham Dannaway date Friday December 11, 2009

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SEO Tool that all Webmasters should have

SeoQuake is a great SEO tool which basically allows you to view a large amount of Search Engine data on the fly as you are browsing through websites. It’s a free Firefox plugin that takes seconds to install but it provides a wealth of SEO statistics.

By Adham Dannaway Monday November 23, 2009

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Add Gravatar support to your blog comments

A Gravatar is a Globally Recognised Avatar and it is quite simple to add Gravatar support to your blog comments. I will show you how to do it in a few simple steps using PHP. I’ll also list some tutorials on how to add Gravatar support to your blog in other ways by using JavaScript, .Net and Java.

By Adham Dannaway Monday November 2, 2009

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Get paid for all of your logo designs. Don’t throw them away!

Do you have any spare, unused logo designs lying around on your computer? I know I do. I was surfing the net last night and came across a great idea that allows designers to sell their unused logo designs and make pretty good money from doing so. The idea I’m talking about is called Brandstack and it is basically a brand marketplace.

By Adham Dannaway date Tuesday October 27, 2009

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Open source grammar and spell checker – After The Deadline

The inventors of WordPress, Automattic, have just released an open source grammar and spell checker called After The Deadline. This new spell check and grammar correction technology is free to use and it even plugs into WordPress and TinyMCE.

By Adham Dannaway date Monday October 12, 2009

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CSS Sticky Footer – Keep your footer at the bottom of the page

On larger monitors or web pages with a small amount of content you often find that the footer is floating halfway up the page. When really it should be stuck nicely to the bottom of the page at all times. There is a very simple way to keep your footer at the bottom of the page and it’s called CSS Sticky Footer.