I’m constantly trying to improve my design skills, as I’m not a graphic designer. Not really at least. I’m sure there’s lots out there who claim to be graphic designers, but shouldn’t bother.

I recently came across css-tricks.com. It’s a really nice site. I like his design choices, especially. Browsing around, I stumbled upon one of his articles on css sprites. I’ve heard of sprites, but I didn’t really dig too much into them. My impression of sprites was–exactly as Chris says–that they’re just some little images.

If you’re new to CakePHP, Code Igniter, or MVC frameworks in general, then no doubt you’ve done some research already. In this post I’ll discuss a little about choosing the right framework, and I’ll avoid getting into a battle over which one’s a better framework. Truth is that both frameworks are great and offer a [...]

Smart Folders aren’t very bright. Sorting by date or name doesn’t help either. Using another program (or collection of programs) to better organize email threads and collections is wasteful, time consuming, and requires too much manual effort for the workflow.

A friend of mine recently started working on building a php calendar class. Sure, it’s been done before. About a trillion times. But he needed one and felt like exploring it anyway. I’m posting this as a reference to learn a bit more about correctly writing and styling html tables. A calendar is really just [...]

Here’s a quick tutorial going over how to get a simple tooltip working using the jQuery library and the Tooltip plugin. We’ll set up the help text to be displayed when a user mouses-over a question mark next to a form element.

Often designers won’t budge on allowing you to use text for primary navigation menus. In the past images were embedded directly into the HTML and awful javascript functions were used for displaying multiple states. Nowadays, though, you can use images and text to please designers and search engines by doing a bit of simple math [...]

Take a couple hundred pictures of one thing, altering only the lighting and shading for each one, then combine them into one picture using tiny variably-colored hexagons. Now move around a light source behind it, and you’ve got yourself a photograph with moving shadows. Pretty cool! Take a look at the video below: