The coolest Google Map icons

There’s no reason for our Google Maps to look ugly because of  the icons Google used to offer. Now have become available a huge number of icons offered by Nico Mollet under the Creative Commons 3.0 license. The cherry on the cake is that they give away everything related to these icons so everybody can [...]

Website of the day: sequelpro.com

Why:

Because it’s design is sleek and beautiful,

the information on it is very well structured,

because is about mac

and because they offer for FREE the best mysql admin tool for OsX.

iPhone grayscale icons

We’ll try today to bring some icons to be used for the UI of the iPhone. Like the ones below:

The icons should be grayscaled, as the operating system will take care of all the graphic effects –  like the nice aqua gradient, or the background of the button.
Some of the resources presented are free and [...]

Website of the day: minimalmac.com

We’re starting  a new category today called website of the day.
We’ll try to add here the sites we encounter in our daily surfing on the net  and catch our attention somehow: by beauty, weirdness, the useful information it has, etc.
Today site is  minimalmac.com
The site tries to gather resources on how to create a minimal mac [...]

Twitter on your site via javascript

Twitter needs no presentation, and the fact that many webmasters include their posts on their sites either. This can be done in may ways, using  the Twitter API. One easy way is javascript. Thanks to some libraries you need few lines of code, and, because all is client-side you have  zero load on the server.
The [...]

Graph scripts – part 1 – javascript

Today I will try to add more resources on the Javascript graphs utilities to create attractive and more intuitive data sets presentations( graphs ).
RGraph
HTML5 – graph library – yes HTML5 so IE users – change your browser, or use google frame. The library uses the latest CANVAS features and is fully documented on the site. It has [...]

Microsoft makes peace with EU

Today was a great day for Microsoft…or not.  The company finally reached a deal with the European Commision in the never ending fight concerning Microsoft attempts to impose IE as a unique browser for Windows and not willing to help the developers build compatible software with MS products. The measures that Microsoft will take are [...]

Web development on a mac – tools I use

It’s been a year and a half  since I moved on OsX.  Coming from the Linux world it wasn’t that hard  to get used to the new operating system. At that time I had some issues to make the perfect selection of softwares and tools I need for my work.
My expertise is PHP, JS  [...]

Using CSS3 to style forms written in HTML5

Styling a form is never an easy thing to do, but adding CSS3 on a HTML5 form is a task that shows a large variety of results when it comes to testing on different browsers. Check the test link.
When it comes to CSS3 not much can be done: but adding rounded corners, gradients and dropshadows [...]

CSS Typography – Text replacement techniques

Due the limited number of fonts available for web we need to make use of other techniques to make our design look the way we want.
Most of the time we simply cut the image from the psd file and place it in the html/css. But this has impact over the accessbility of the site and [...]