New Image Magnifier Stack
Wed, Jul 21 2010 12:35
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Image Magnifier is a brand new Stack for Stacks 1.3. What it enables you to do is to display an image within a Stacks page. When a user hovers their mouse over the image, they can zoom in to see parts of the image in detail. The mouse cursor becomes a crosshair, and enables users to pan around on an image. This makes it a great stack for use in a variety of different projects. For example, on a shopping
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Introducing System7
Thu, Jul 8 2010 08:28
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Drop-down menu navigation layouts have become a popular trend in modern web design. Although they are sometimes criticised by accessibility experts, generally they are favoured by both developers and site visitors and mimic navigation layouts found in common desktop software. However integrating drop-downs into websites is still a very challenging process. Many methods exist relying on a broad range
Build Your Online Reputation - Follow These Ethical Practices
A little while has past since I last blogged. It's not that I'm not interested any more, but time just hasn't really permitted lately. Any spare writing time I have had has been diverted to support emails or user guides! I thought I would comment on an excellent article which appeared on the E-Junkie blog a short while ago, entitled "Build Your Online Reputation - Follow These Ethical Practices". Normally
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Putting a "Share This" button in a blog post
Mon, Jan 18 2010 05:25
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Social networking icons and buttons have become a common feature in blogs. This in turn makes it easier to promote blog posts organically, improve SEO (search engine optimisation) and generally make your blog a more friendly place for regular readers. There are a number of different social networking icons which can be added to a page. Some authors prefer to use their own custom icons, whereas other prefer to use a widget or module. This post will focus on a ready-made module of buttons, but the same procedure can be applied to custom buttons as well.
Create a simple stripe background in Pixelmator
Sat, Dec 5 2009 02:22
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Stripe backgrounds and gradient backgrounds have become a popular trait in modern web design. Although there are quite a number of online services for rolling out your own stripe background, using an application like Pixelmator gives you a bit more control over colours and some users may find it easier. Now that Pixelmator supports the export of images to the web, the process is even easier. This tutorial will show you how to create a basic stripe background which can be tiled across a website background.