scriptygoddess

I’ve been posting more links than scripts these days :-\ Oh well…

Fun with forms
Style forms with CSS
[via Donna]

A couple of links found via Jennifer’s ETC blog:

Drop in moveable type styles: Movable Styles
(I am TOTALLY loving this!!)
[via ETC]

Movable Type Templates explained (as well as some basics on CSS)
[via ETC]

I can’t believe I don’t already have this linked. This is a great application for previewing fonts - they don’t even have to be installed. You can have it scan an entire folder or even CD and show you previews for everything it finds. You can even change the “sample” it uses to show you previews… just too freakin’ cool for words.

FontLister

Graphic Design’s Logo Trends

(I can’t remember who found this link - I originally saw it on someone’s blog maybe 4 or 5 months ago!)

Here’s a few sites that have galleries of cool web designs

Cool Homepages
CWD.dk
misspato (previously linked in another post)
Design Interact’s Site of the week (click archive for more)
Media Inspiration

Feel free to add more in the comments if you got ‘em
(personal note: but if you’re looking for inspiration to design a site that needs to fit within a 800×600 monitor that’s compatible with NS 4+ - just shoot yourself now, and end your misery. Nothing zaps creativity like hearing the words “Netscape 4 compatible and fits within 800×600″)

A tutorial on how to make a dotted line with a brush using Photoshop.

Or use these brushes from Ordinary-Life.net (whose site helped inspire the current scriptygoddess design)

Not related to dotted lines…

this post also from Ordinary-life - which had these links to faking a lomo look.

As well as this post which links to a free utility that will let you preview pixel patterns. (Note to self - check out squidfingers when I get home. Would you believe my work actually blocks that URL?!! I don’t even want to guess why.)

…this concludes my homage to ordinary-life.net

I was browsing around looking for a way to add smilies to my edit entry screen in MT. I found a few variations but none totally fit the bill. One of them was a modification of the lazyman smilies palette that worked on the edit entry screen.

But, it was not, unfortunately, xhtml compliant and it still pointed to the comments form - which meant it didn’t work.

So, I fixed it up and wrote up a tutorial on my site. I thought people here might be interested. The in depth explanation is in my post on my new/modified smilies hack

This one only requires a one line addition to edit_entry.tmpl; so while it is a hack, it’s pretty minor. Hope it helps someone out there! =)

While you generally have a great deal of control over how a webpage should be presented, basic CSS doesn?t provide many options for the style of underlines below the links on a page. Here’s a technique for adding your own custom underlines, including ones that use animated .gif files!

One of the domains associated with this site went offline for a few hours today - so if you tried to leave a comment, search, trackback, or even email me - it didn’t work. However, the good news is that everything is back to normal again. If you did try to email me, please resend. Anything sent in the last 24 hours will not have reached me. (Probably got bounced - but I’m not sure). Sorry about that! :-\

I’m going to start implementing the new design, but will have to do so in stages… So, some pages may be updated before others. Unfortunately, I don’t have a ton of continous time to do it - so it will have to happen over the course of several days. Things could get a little ugly around here until then… Hope it doesn’t drive anyone nutty.
update Yeah, I know the page has a few issues… it’s going to take a little while to do all this… all the fun scripts on the page just make a re-design take a LOOONG time to implement :-\