April 15th 2010 by Peter · 7 comments
Create a Cool Messy List with CSS3 and nth-child
While working on a design recently, I stumbled upon Chris Coyier’s article How nth-child Works. Chris shows us the basics of the nth-child pseudo-selector in CSS. It can be used for so many things, but in this short tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a cool messy list.
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November 9th 2009 by Peter · 15 comments
How to Use Directions with Google Maps API V3
Google Maps are more fun when you can get directions. And now you can! The recent release of the Google Maps API adds two new classes in order to enable directions. In this article I will show you how to add an input field in an infobox and use that to render a route.
October 13th 2009 by Peter · 162 comments
Adding Custom Google Maps to Your Website
Maps are often placed on a company website to help customers find their way there. For that, Google Maps is excellent. But wouldn’t it be nice to add your company logo, parking lots, train stations, etc. to the map, to help the customer even more? It is very simple, and in this article I am going to show you how.
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July 3rd 2009 by Peter · 7 comments
Enhancing Your Site with WebKit
WebKit is an open source browser engine. Apple uses WebKit in Safari, Mail, and other applications. Google’s Chrome browser, along with the S60 browser and the iPhone browser, is also built on WebKit. Some of the cool features of WebKit is transitions and transforms. With purely CSS you can create stunning animations. Your site will still work in other browsers, but the users with WebKit browsers will just get a slightly better experience.
July 3rd 2009 by Andreas · 7 comments
Lights and Shadows in Photoshop
This tutorial is not too advanced but mostly to help to understand the power of shadow and light in short terms! There’s no “boring” text here. So if you are not used to Photoshop, do yourself a favor and read it all before continuing to the next step! You might learn something!
January 7th 2009 by Peter · 18 comments
Changing the Size of the Avatar in WordPress 2.7
The default size of an avatar is 32x32px, which I think is a bit small. Therefore, I’d like to change it to 60x60px instead. But back in the good ol’ 2.6 days, and of course also earlier, changing the size of an avatar (the little picture shown e.g. in comments) was a pain. Now, with WordPress 2.7 it’s easier than ever!
January 4th 2009 by Peter · 14 comments
No More Invalid RSS
When I made this site, I spend hours figuring out why my feed wasn’t working. There are several examples in the WordPress Support Forums telling, that feeds aren’t working because of a blank line in the beginning of the feed before the XML declaration. Some feedreaders have no problem with this, but Feedburner does. And Feedburner is very important.
December 30th 2008 by Peter · 32 comments
Installing Concrete5 locally on Mac OS X
If you don’t have your own webserver, or if you don’t want to waste your traffic on uploading your files everytime you make a small edit, you should consider running it all locally, and then when you’re done uploading it to your server.
It’s no secret that I’m a big fan of WordPress, and I have been using it for ages. But for some clients, WordPress is overkill. There’s a lot of Content Management Systems out there, and a lot of them suck, lack features, or have too many features. But then I found Concrete5, which is absolutely amazing.