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CSS3 PIE: A Web Designers New Best Friend

Leon Poole — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 14:23:41 +0000

CSS3 is a very exciting stage for anyone in the web design industry as it adds some new crazy-powerful styling features to your web design toolkit. In a nut shell, CSS3 PIE makes properties such as border-radius, box-shadow, border-image, multiple background images, linear-gradient as background image display correctly in Internet Explorer web browsers.

PIE stands for Progressive Internet Explorer. It is an IE attached behavior ... Read more » No related posts.

How to remove the “Page Title” from your WordPress Homepage

Leon Poole — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 08:20:11 +0000

A common question people ask when designing a WordPress theme is “How to remove/hide the “Page Title” on my homepage?”. This is often asked in situations where a static page is being used for the Home Page. The following is three four easy methods you can use to solve this problem:

1) Hide the Page Title with CSS

This is the most common method I ... Read more » Related posts:

HTML5

Leon Poole — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 06:25:52 +0000

So it certainly seems that HTML5 is starting to take centre stage as its popularity goes from strength to strength. More and more I’m hearing of websites developed in HTML5, but is it really the future of web design? And are we ready for it?

Semantically, it’s a Winner

HTML5 is being sold mainly for its new semantic abilities, and I have to agree it’s great ... Read more » Related posts:

Adding HTML5 tags to Dreamweaver CS4

Creating a WebClip Bookmark Icon

Leon Poole — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 07:22:07 +0000

Remember the excitement you had when you realised you could customise that little 16×16 icon next to your web address in the browser? (called a favicon) – Well today I’ve re-experienced that feeling with the discovery that we can customise the icon used when you add a bookmark to the homescreen on the iPhone or iPod Touch!

Adding a favicon to your website is simple, ... Read more » No related posts.

Everything You Know About Web Design Is Wrong!

Leon Poole — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 03:50:36 +0000

Recently I listed to a great talk by Dan Willis from Sapient on how “Everything you know about web design is wrong”. Presented at a 2009 SXSWi, he talks about how web design is much more than just creating “pretty pictures”, and if designers are to be successful we need to try new things.

… what does ... Read more » Related posts:

Access 1.1 Released

Leon Poole — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 04:19:10 +0000

After only 3 days of the Access 1.0 release we got a message from Brandon that we had completely missed stylings for the “Compare Versions” page in the Pages module – how embarrassing after all that web designing and beta testing!

In light of this, we decided to quickly edited the theme and release Access 1.1 to addresses this issue. View the ... Read more » Related posts:

Access 1.0 Final

Leon Poole — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:26:25 +0000

Since March this year, Access 1.0 for activecollab has endured 2 tough rounds of beta versions (Beta 1 and Beta 2) that were developed to work with the new advancements in ActiveCollab 2.0+. From these betas, the feedback we received has been fantastic. Thank you to everyone who reported bugs, suggested ideas and supported us throughout the development process!

We’re now ... Read more » Related posts:

Access 1.0 Beta 2 Released

Leon Poole — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:54:15 +0000

Finally a more up-to-date version of Access theme for activecollab that integrates better with the new enhancements since the release of activeCollab 2.1!

What’s new? Re-think of the panel based layout on the Project Overview page New styling for buttons (mainly change/edit/add types) Colours have been tweaked sitewide – including background, links, highlights and hovers Improved styling for category tabs Overhaul of the ‘action’ links for on the detail pages Plus lots ... Read more » Related posts:

Access iPhone – Theme for activeCollab

Leon Poole — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 11:22:30 +0000

People that step up and contribute something that a community will find invaluable – all without being asked – are truly amazing. Joe Hana is one of these amazing people. Joe has converted the Access theme for iPhone, and he’s done a superb job of it too.

If you’re using the Access theme for activeCollab, you can now ... Read more » Related posts:

Access theme for activeCollab

Leon Poole — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:14:58 +0000

Here at Creative World we use activeCollab to manage and collaborate with client projects every day. It’s a great application and I don't know where we'd be without it. Over the last few weeks I've been working on a new theme for it which I've decided to make available to the aC community.

This theme is called Access. Related posts:

The most bizarre Dreamweaver CS3 bug

Leon Poole — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 03:01:36 +0000

If Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 is crashing for an unknown reason, it might be worth checking your CSS file sizes. Over the last 4 days I have been pulling my hair out over why Dreamweaver CS3 suddenly crashed, and stopped working, period. Here’s what happened, the problem and the solution: What happened: I was working away for a client and between my regular ‘saving and testing’ ... Read more » Related posts:

Adding HTML5 tags to Dreamweaver CS4

Top 10 Websites for March 2008

Leon Poole — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:15:36 +0000

It’s with great pleasure to introduce our new monthly post on our favourite top 10 websites!

The internet is big, and we come across so many great websites everyday that we often forget all too quickly. If they’re bookmarked they can often become hidden in a our browsers bookmarks.

So what criteria do we look for when deciding the monthly top 10 websites? The websites that ... Read more » Related posts: