Mary Lou

ML 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 ground peppercorns.

Website: http://www.codrops.com

Manoela's Articles (404)

Free Glossy Icons: The jFeedback Icon Set with Source

In Articles November 25, 2009 2 Comments

For our last post Cody asked me to create these two glossy icons for the jFeedback jQuery plugin. We thought, we could post the icons as well with the Photoshop file... read more

The “new” design of IMDb

In Articles October 27, 2009 7 Comments

Some time ago the incredible happened: our beloved movie database site IMDb finally realized that it was not 1996 anymore and dared to hire some designers in order t... read more

33 JavaScript Solutions for Sorting Tables

In Playground October 3, 2009 5 Comments

Here is a list of 33 JavaScript table sorting scripts and their sources. Enjoy it! 1. jQuery tablesorter http://tablesorter.com/docs/... read more

Google API Showcase: The Live Translator

In Playground September 30, 2009 5 Comments

The API of Google has a lot of useful usage examples. This showcase demonstrates how we can use the Google AJAX Language API to build a live translator that allows u... read more

Styling Forms with CSS: Sophisticated Registration Form

In Articles September 28, 2009 13 Comments

Here is a pretty complete registration form, nicely juiced up with some neat CSS. Here you can see a DEMO Download the ZIP file from here: CSS Registration ZIP Enjoy... read more

21 Free CAPTCHA Sources

In Playground September 22, 2009 7 Comments

Here is a collection of free CAPTCHA scripts and services than you can easily integrate into your website using PHP or JavaScript: 1. PHP CAPTCHA Library for reCAPTC... read more

42 Famous Login and Registration Forms

In Articles September 20, 2009 8 Comments

Today, I want to showcase some of the most famous login and registration forms on the web. As a web developer you might be interested in having a compact overview of... read more

How To Play Looping Sound In Your iPhone App

In Tutorials September 15, 2009 1 Comment

Here is a very useful code snippet for playing your own sound file continuously in your iPhone application. The example uses a .caf file and is based on the AVAudioP... read more

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 Articles 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 Playground September 3, 2009 Comments Off on 9 Valuable and Working iPhone Programming Tutorials

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 Articles 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 on 20 fresh and colorful CSS3 buttons

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 Playground 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 Articles August 30, 2009 Comments Off on Free Web 2.0 style glossy buttons

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 Playground August 30, 2009 Comments Off on JavaScript browser detection

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

PHP function that returns the exact age

In Playground August 30, 2009 3 Comments

Here is a simple PHP function that returns the exact age of a person given his/her birthdate: function age($month, $day, $year){ $y = gmstrftime("%Y"); $m = gmstrfti... read more

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