Min-height IE 6 hack

November 16th, 2009 No comments

Always useful for making empty pages look right when designing a new site (avoiding the content area being only as high as the content within it), min-height has always worked will in Firefox but been completely ignored by IE.

Behold, a wonderful IE min-height hack:  www.dustindiaz.com/min-height-fast-hack

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Wordpress themes for developing new templates

November 10th, 2009 No comments

Instead of having to strip down the default Wordpress theme, with all its custom classes, simply install one of the following templates:

I’d personally recommend the Starkers theme, as it is completely naked of styling, and therefore perfect for quickly developing your own custom template. Thematic, whilst clinically designed, still carries a number of custom classes that will need to be removed.

The advantage these templates have over the Classic Wordpress theme, is that they incorporate the functionality of sidebar widgets that did not exist when the original theme was developed.

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Create ICO icons and favicon

November 10th, 2009 No comments

Use http://www.icoconverter.com/ to convert a 16×16 image to icon.

Here is the code to add to website.

<link rel="shortcut icon" href="favicon.ico" />
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JavaScript Breadcrumb Links

November 10th, 2009 No comments
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Slimbox 2

October 20th, 2009 No comments

A Jquery version of lightbox. You can edit the CSS to change colours including background colour.

www.digitalia.be/software/slimbox2

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Accordion Content script

October 20th, 2009 No comments

Sticky footer

September 29th, 2009 No comments

Good, cross browser method of fixing a footer to the bottom of the browser window: www.cssstickyfooter.com

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Tiny Scroller — simple div scroll box

September 24th, 2009 No comments
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Wordpress e-Commerce

September 14th, 2009 No comments

Great plug-in that allows online shops to be built through a Wordpress CMS: WordPress e-Commerce Plug-in. A good example of the script in action can be seen here: icondock.com

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Easy Slider

September 11th, 2009 No comments

CSS Globe’s Easyslider 1.7 is a great example of a easy-to-implement, compliant and customisable sliding gallery script.

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