I’ve been thinking of making a games website for a while. I’ve finally decided to go ahead and do a website with Flash games.
The truth is, that lately I’ve been really busy with lots of things that have nothing to do with games, but this Saturday I needed to disconnect and work on something totally [...]
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New web for playing Flash games
Click effect for jQuery
Today I’ve been playing for a while with javascript. The truth is that I haven’t found what I was looking for, but let’s assume that this is because I’m a programmer and not a designer.
Anyway, what I was trying to do is to create some kind of click effect. Ok, let me try again. What [...]
Writing clean and semantically correct HTML
Web Designer Wall people has writen a post titled Coding Clean and Semantic Templates that basically gives some advices on how to write proper HTML code for templates.
Briefly, the list of advices that they give are:
Minimize the use of <div>
Use the <div> tag only for the layout: header, content, sidebar, and footer
Use semantic HTML for [...]
Free menus for your web
I’ve just found some menu designs and I thought it was a good idea to share them, not only because most of them are beautiful, but because on this crisis time, free things are alwasy welcome ;p
These menus have been designed by Ian Main from e-lusion.com, you can have a look to this page of [...]
Should I use tables for layout?
After getting almost crazy doing some web designs, I’ve concluded that tables simplify the design and reduce the development time en LOTS of cases. So it makes no sense to use DIVs for everything anymore. That does not mean that I’m going to use tables for everything, it means that one has to know when [...]
Where is the cursor in a input or textarea?
I’ve just found a website with an interesting example forwhere is the cursor and which text is selected (if any) in an input and textarea.
The truth is this code is not for daily use, but it’s quite interesting to see the possibilities of javascript (well in fact I was looking for this because I need [...]
Time Pickers in javascript
Truth be told, from a usability point of view, a date picker has much more sense than a time picker. Anyway I like to to explore the different implementations out there
The objective for a time picker is to let the user set the time in hours and minutes, in 24-hour format, or even [...]
Rounding corners: the javascript way
After taking a look on how round corners on some browsers, I think it’s worth exploring other methods, like doing this with javascript.
Rounding corners is not difficult, in general, the problem is that you should use some “hacks”, it is not the same rounding corners using a style on a unique DIV, than using 3 [...]
CSS3 rounded corners
CSS3 support for rounded corners is not news, what I haven’t realized yet, was that some browsers support rounded corners natively (in fact, the support has been added long time ago).
According to the CSS3 spec, it should be enough to use the style “border-radius” to set the rounding, unfortunatelly, browsers do not support this style [...]
WordPress 2.7 and multi-language support
I started writing this blog in Spanish, around one month ago, and I was thinking somehow that it would be great to write some of the articles in both Spanish and English, so I decided to do my move on this, and add support for multiple languages.
Apart from the multi-language thing, I was also [...]
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