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Want that "web 2.0" stripe-y background look? Slave no more in photoshop! Well, if nothing else, it's a fun little tool. Stripe Generator. [via TheWebDesignBlog] This one isn't news, I've already seen a number of blogs talking about it – but you can say you saw it here 20th! A WordPress Theme Generator. [via many [...]

(Found via CreativeBits) Instead of hotlinking images and stealing the original host's bandwidth, you can use imgred.com to cache the image (you can even have it make a thumbnail) and use that link instead. While, for a blog post you would probably take the extra steps to download the file to your own server (providing [...]

I was recently asked by one of our clients to evaluate how hard it would be to redesign their website to work on mobile browsers (phones, pda, blackberry's). One of the first things I thought about was being able to test what I would be working on. I found a few things to do the [...]

Found a very cool tutorial to make swirling text in photoshop. There's more tutorials on that site too, like this one for smoke. (found via Creativebits)

Here's a new fun little colortool someone sent me a link to yesterday: Genopal. There are a bunch of pre-made "themes", or you can play around with the controls to create a new one. Click on any of the colors in the theme will reveal what HEX value it is.

I was recently asked to embed a map into a web site. Basically, the client wanted a map, with a marker, indicating where their business was, and an easy way for the user to get directions to where they were located. The first thing you need to do is get a Google Map API key. [...]

I'm just curious… is there a fancy way to do something like this in CSS: Introduction …………… Page 1 Information ……………. Page 2 More Info ……………… Page 3 … where the "Page" text lines up and the "….." just fills in until it reaches the "Page" text… kind of like you'd see in a table [...]

It seems like a lifetime ago I first saw that javascript that does the neat "show/hide" trick. Recently I did a search to see what the latest version of that script was and there must have been a dozen different varieties. I think I liked this one the best which is a million times simpler [...]

How to force a file to download (without having to zip it up). $filename = "secure/writeToFile.doc"; header("Content-Length: " . filesize($filename)); header('Content-Type: application/msword'); header('Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=writeToFile.doc'); readfile($filename); a few other content types – lots more at the above link… "pdf": "application/pdf" "zip": "application/zip" "xls": "application/vnd.ms-excel" "ppt": "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint" "gif": "image/gif" "png": "image/png" "jpg": "image/jpg" "mp3": "audio/mpeg" "mp3": [...]

Another "tired of hunting for the exact syntax" things… Here's shorthand for an "if" statement: echo isset($var) ? $var : "sorry, nothing here";