Beginner article coming up, it’s time to get to know the wonderful world of CSS! Cascading Style Sheets, or css, is the standard method of styling a webpage. In fact, you should have no styling in HTML whatsoever. HTML was not designed to be a presentation language, it’s more of a structural-semantic language. In other [...]
Create awesome photo effects with BeFunky
I haven’t really gotten myself into online photo editing and effects software because they usually fall behind photoshop, but I tried one which is worthy of not just trying out, but of actual use. The effects are fun, and can be used to create wallpaper, images for your girlfriend/spouse, but can be of real use [...]
Creating a simple multi-lingual website
If you want to create a simple webpage for yourself, listing who you are, how you can be contected and what you do, you might want to add a few languages in there. You could use Google Translate, but that does not yield the best (and professional) results, so it would be best to translate [...]
The beta is back for Google Chrome
Yesterday marked a new release of Google Chrome, the new version is yet again in beta (Google like its beta stuff). They are implementing some new features, we’ve even gotten to a point where there’s a pretty neat one not available in other browsers by default. In their own words: The first thing you might [...]
Web development roundup
Last week was a bit less active in web development terms, but here’s a roundup of what you can find on Scriptastique if you haven’t been taking a look recently. We had a look at how a mysql query basically works, which will come in handy if you’re just learning about MySQL and PHP. The [...]
How do you use your media player?
Following up on last week’s much commented article about how you guys use your Firefox, I decided to also take a look at how you use your media player applications. This is perhaps a bit more complex than last week’s question, since we are covering multiple applications. Nevertheless, which media player do you use, and [...]
The difference between wordpress.org and wordpress.com
This might be very obvious to some, but about 70% of the clients I work with do not know the difference and spend money on something they could be getting for free! If you have a blog or would like a blog it is essential that you know the difference between WordPress, wordpress.com and wordpress.org. [...]
Identifying each page using body tags and CSS
If you are building a large website, chances are you have a great little CSS stylesheet linked to every document which governs all the pages. But what do you do if you want just one of the pages to be completely different? You could of course go into your code and ad separate id-s and [...]
Rearragning and making any website print friendly
I felt weird all day today so I spent an hour stumbling around the web, which yielded some quite cool results. One of them is Print What You Like, a truly awesome service designed to help you print only what you need, and to save the environment, nice combination! If you want to print a [...]