Mary Lou

Mary Lou (Manoela Ilic) is a freelance web designer and developer with a passion for interaction design. She studied Cognitive Science and Computational Logic and has a weakness for the smell of freshly grounded peppercorns.

Website: http://tympanus.net/

Manoela's Articles (174)

Checking Network Reachability on the iPhone

In Tutorials September 14, 2009 5 Comments

In some iPhone apps you need to check if there is a connection to the outside world. If the application depends on a connection to the internet, we will want to warn... read more

Codrops’ New Style: Lessons learned from applying CSS3

In Web Design September 13, 2009 3 Comments

… or why your Mozilla could be slow when scrolling As you can see, we changed the style of our beloved site. The original WordPress theme can be found here: ht... read more

CSS3: Creating Web Site Banners

In Tutorials September 6, 2009 1 Comment

Inspired by Tamsin Baker’s beautiful Photoshop brushes “Urban Scrawl” 1 and 2, I was trying to create some shadowed banners using some CSS3 propert... read more

9 Valuable and Working iPhone Programming Tutorials

In Development September 3, 2009 Comments Off

Here is a list of some highly valueable and functioning iPhone programming tutorials (list is open): iPhone View Switching Tutorial iPhone Coding – Learning About ... read more

32 free arrow icons for your web page

In Web Design September 2, 2009 1 Comment

Here is a very neat set of arrow icons in 8 colors and png format (18 x 18 px):... read more

20 fresh and colorful CSS3 buttons

In Tutorials September 2, 2009 Comments Off

Here is the result of an experiment with fonts and css3 properties like text-shadow and box-shadow: Click here to download the ZIP file with the two overlay images: ... read more

CSS3 big style fieldset registration form

In Tutorials September 1, 2009 4 Comments

Experimenting with CSS3, I created a big style registration form with rounded borders and shadow effects. The only image used is not the button, but the pen that ser... read more

Solving PHP MySQL UTF-8 issues

In Development August 31, 2009 3 Comments

Heres a list of actions you should do in order to get PHP + MySQL working with UTF-8: 1. Database: CREATE DATABASE db_name CHARACTER SET utf8 DEFAULT CHARACTER SET u... read more

CSS button with hover effect

In Tutorials August 31, 2009 1 Comment

Inspired by the nice download button on the jquery homepage I created this button with a hover effect. It uses opacity options for all browsers. You can see a demo h... read more

Free Web 2.0 style glossy buttons

In Web Design August 30, 2009 Comments Off

Here is a set of some colorful glossy web 2.0 style buttons in png format (size: 203 px wide, 71 px high). You can use them as you like!... read more

JavaScript browser detection

In Development August 30, 2009 Comments Off

Here is some very useful javascript for detecting the browser that is accessing a page:... read more

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