Checking Network Reachability on the iPhone
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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
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… 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 Styled jQuery Dropdown
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I found a really nice and simple jQuery dropdown menu on CSS Tricks and I thought, let’s add some neat style to it. You can find the original here: http://css-... read more
CSS3: Creating Web Site Banners
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Here is some very useful javascript for detecting the browser that is accessing a page:... read more
PHP function that returns the exact age
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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
CSS Gmail style labels
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Ever wondered how to generate some cool gmail labels in css? Here is an attempt to imitate the little labels used in gmail. Three tiny colorless images are used to c... read more
Cool CSS-only registration form
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Here is a very simple and cool registration form. A lot of times I was searching for some registration or login form that is easy to adapt. Here comes my contributio... read more
Simple CSS chart for dynamic content
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This is an example of a very simple CSS + one tiny image chart. The result will look like this: Insert the follwoing style into the head of your html (or add it to y... read more
Simple CSS: Update box for category or posts
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Let’s create a simple and clean box that shows the updates in a category (or anything you might like it to use for). The result looks like this: Starting with ... read more
JavaScript: Changing location or stylesheet according to device or browser
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Developing web applications for mobile phones sometimes brings the need to just create separate content for different devices. Some time ago I had to create a web... read more