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Today I was pointed at the Amazon Mp3 Download page for U2’s newest: No Line on the Horizon. $3.99!!!! That is an AMAZING price for an album! It’s an introductory price for the release day. Probably U2 willing to take a bit of an economic hit to post big numbers on the first day. Also […]
Rogie King tweeted this awesome resource earlier today. I am a huge Coda fan. HTML/CSS/JavaScript/PHP IDE, Terminal, FTP, Site Management, and resources in one great package. One of the cooler features is it’s one-click code clips. I’ve always wanted more, but never bother to create them. Enter Coda Clips. Find and install (with a click!) […]
Doug Hill released 115 background tiles for free use. There are some really good ones. I prefer minimalist, small tiling patterns, he has a few of those, but most are fairly elaborate.
Good looking set of 200 free icons. Gives fam fam fam a bit of a run for it’s money! Pinvoke: Icons and Pixel fonts
CSS Sprite Generator automatically created a single source image file from your css files. niiiiice
Handy handy: Iconfinder – icon search engine.
Any Web developer who codes CSS on a regular basis likely has conventions, official, or ad hoc, that they’ve created for themselves to save themselves time and effort. Standard style declarations for common layout or typography needs are found in many places on the Internet. Mark pointed me to blueprintcss, a framework for css coding. […]
Yahoo developers have put out a really handy add-on for firebug called “YSlow”. Based on the Thirteen Simple Rules for Speeding Up Your Site, this little widget will help you determine what you can do to your Web site to increase it’s performance. It has interesting suggestions. Looks very useful. (hat tip: @lisamac)
Free Website Ribbon Generator creates a neat little “ribbon” for the corner of your blog or site. A la “makepovertyhistory.org” that were going around awhile back. Neat little service.
InnerFade is a small plugin for the jQuery-JavaScript-Library. It’s designed to fade you any element inside a container in and out.
I just put together a new site for a client/friend of mine who wanted to have their photos stored in a flickr account, but also wanted them displayed on their site with as a slide show. Of course the obvious tool of choice was SlideShowPro which is a cinch to set up, and not to […]
Crude title, but, isnoop.net CSS Superdouche can significantly reduce the size and complexity of your CSS by programmatically stripping unneeded content, stripping redundant calls, and intelligently grouping the remaining element names.