Have you ever seen an element on a page with transparent borders? I think Facebook originally popularized it giving birth to lightbox plugins like Facebox. I don’t think Facebook sports the look anymore, but it’s still rather neat. You might think it would be as simple as this:#lightbox { background: white; border: 20px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.3); }Howe …
I guess that’s what kept the Neo Technology — the guys behind Neo4j — busy lately: The Neo4j Spatial project supports the use of geographic data by providing utilities that simplify and support advanced capabilities like: Storage of geographic features like points, lines and polygons as graphs Indexing and querying based on location with R-trees, Q …
Chrome Extension allows 3rd-party developers to add new functionality to the Google Chrome browser. Did you know, all that it takes to develop a Google Chrome Extension is HTML, CSS, JavaScript and an icon. Sounds doable right? Let’s see how easy it is to create a ‘World Clock/Time’ Chrome Extension. …
Steponas Kazakevicius has written up a new tutorial about file uploading and, more specifically, making an upload tool that can handle interruptions. Have you ever been to a website that offers downloads of stuff? And while you are waiting for the download, there are lots of ads around? Sure you have. I have too. The last day I was downloading stuf …
Fonts on the web are essentially vector based graphics. That’s why you can display them at 12px or 120px and they remain crisp and relatively sharp-edged. Vector means that their shape is determined by points and mathematics to describe the shape, rather than actual pixel data. Because they are vector, it would make sense if we could do things that …
We don’t have a lot of details on how Google pulled off their technically very impressive Google Instant release, but in Google Instant behind the scenes, they did share some interesting facts: Google was serving more than a billion searches per day. With Google Instant they served 5-7X more results pages than previously. Typical search results wer …
In object oriented programming, polymorphism is a powerful and fundamental tool. It can be used to create a more organic flow in your application. This tutorial will describe the general concept of polymorphism, and how it can easily be deployed in PHP. What is Polymorphism? Polymorphism is a long word for a very simple concept. Polymorphism descri…
The HTML5 test score is an indication of how well your browser supports the upcoming HTML5 standard and related specifications. Despite these shortcomings they hope that by quantifying the level of support users and web developers will get an idea of how hard the browser manufacturers work on improving their browsers and the web as a development …
Hoy tengo unas cuantas preguntas. El otro día un amigo me preguntaba qué usar para hacer la web de un cliente que le pedía entre otras cosas un foro, blog, eventos, … Mi primer pensamiento fue para Drupal, pero hay un plugin para WordPress que te permite un foro, hay otro para eventos, … Total, que le di unas cuantas vueltas al asunto de hacer webs y pensé que normalmente la gente piensa en WP únicamente para blogs y poca cosa más, pero creo que actualmente se puede usar para la mayoría de las webs que se hacen. Hay que pensar que la mayoría de las webs tienen pocas funcionalidades.
Por eso me pregunto, ¿para que usar Joomla o Drupal? Sinceramente no me gusta nada Joomla, y aunque Drupal es bastante bueno, desarrollar para WordPress me parece más sencillo, me gustan los hooks y la facilidad de los plugins.
¿Qué opináis vosotros?
These are way above and beyond the level of any other “CSS3 buttons” I’ve seen. Multiple backgrounds combining gradients and images, uneven border-radius, pseudo elements, HSL coloring, @font-face icons, transitions, box shadows, text shadows, hover and active states… the list goes on. Every trick in the book masterfully employed.They make my buttons …
