Does your website have a habit of loading slowly? Sure you could blame it on your web server, but there is actually quite a lot you can do yourself to improve the loading time and performance of your website. YSlow is a Firefox add-on that integrates with Firebug to analyze a website and suggest ways of improving the performance of that site.
We are all bored of using the same small set of web safe fonts in our websites. Do Arial, Verdana, and Times New Roman sound painfully familiar? Luckily there are quite a few different ways to embed fonts in a website including Cufon, sIFR, FLIR, PIR, Font Jazz and Dynamic Text Replacement. Most of these methods involve using JavaScript and Flash to display the custom font and some of these font embedding methods can be quite tricky to set up. There is one very simple way to embed a font in your site which doesn’t require any JavaScript or Flash. It’s called @font-face and it’s great!
There seems to be new website building tools appearing all over the internet these days. Some of them allow you to create your own blog, while others allow you to quickly and easily create a business website or shopping site with only a few clicks of your mouse. Many of these website builders are quite cheap to use or even free and pretty much all of them require little or no technical knowledge. Flavors.me is a free personal homepage builder that pulls all your online presences into one place. Here are some of the reasons why it caught my eye.
As web and graphic designers we often need to fill our mock-ups with dummy text such as Lorem Ipsum. Now, I don’t know about you, but I have seen just about as much Lorem Ipsum text as I can handle. Don’t get me wrong, Lorem Ipsum text is great and it has served me well over the years. But once you get to the stage that you can speak “Lipsum”, it’s time for a change. Luckily there are quite a few alternatives to Lorem Ipsum dummy text and I will go through them in this post. So if you’re looking for a bit of a change then check out these dummy text generators.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Tuesday February 3, 2015
Now that you have a great business idea, how do you make it into reality in a highly competitive world? The answer lies in the internet revolution, which will enable you tap into a 2.4 billion customer-market. To operate an eCommerce website, you need a reliable content management system (CMS) and this is where WordPress […]
Tuesday February 3, 2015
Contrary to popular misconception, intelligent and successful web design is not about having really witty content and some stunning graphics. There is a lot more to it than that and it concerns strategy. The foremost point about web design is that the designers have to understand what it is that the website needs to achieve […]
Tuesday February 3, 2015
Bootstrap is offering progress bar feature we will discuss about that in this article. The function of bootstrap progress bars is to show that how much the process has been done and how in progress.
Tuesday February 3, 2015
This tutorial is about Bootstrap Panels. While not always necessary, sometimes you need to put your DOM in a box. For those situations, try the panel component.
Tuesday February 3, 2015
Medicio is a free Bootstrap landing page template designed for medical & health industry such as doctors, clinics, dentists and another medical & health service company.
Tuesday February 3, 2015
You know why each planner says Adobe Photoshop is extreme device for each sort of outline assignments and a large portion of the architects think about making configuration library and this gathering committed for those as “Photoshop is presently Pretty Easy Using Sparkle Brushes” Photoshop gets to be to distillate on brushes there could be […]
Tuesday February 3, 2015
A Bit Scary, today we are going to work on Photoshop Tutorial about Text Effect. In this Photoshop Tutorial you will learn how to give Cold Blooded Text Effect in Photoshop. Very nice and useful Tutorial for those who are learning Photoshop and need some techniques about Text Effects. So you will be working on […]
Tuesday February 3, 2015
In today’s reality, computers and mobiles are not simply advanced gadgets any longer. They have turned into a part and bundle of our lifestyles and have their impact in all that we do. Like we embellish and outfit our homes or rooms as stated by our decision and taste, we have a tendency to do […]