17
Oct
TRE
Author:
Chocksy
0
7 amazing maps

As you might see on our blog, I’m very passionate about finding great images. So i was surfing the web and i kept seeing this statistics maps that really amazed me. So i decided that you should see them too, that in case you haven’t seen them yet.
Web trend map 4
This one shows information according to popularity and influenza of every website.
World map of social networks
This one shows every country [...]

01
Oct
TUT
Author:
Chocksy
0
Play with CSS3

If you saw our “ImageRoll” page and you used Firefox, Chrome or Safari then you saw the images being rotated in different angles well the way i did that is by using CSS3. I guess you already figured that out from the title. :)

CSS3 implements a lot of new features that can make your life easier of course you will not be able to use them quite yet. IE is not supporting like more than 90% of them so it’s useless if you want to make this for a client. The ones that we used on our blog are: box-shadow, border-radius and text-shadow. [...]

29
Sep
TUT
Author:
Chocksy
1
Cache Pic

As I said in my last post, I wanted from the first time to make a cacheing system for my imageroll page. Because i take the images from vi.sualize.us servers and we don’t want to make to much trafic and make stuff worse for them.

So what i did is simple, i made a class that extracts the rss data from theirs servers and get the images to display them. I do this every time someone visits the page.

24
Sep
GEN
Author:
Chocksy
0
Super WordPress

Hello guys since we were working on a lot of WordPress based websites we decided is time to convert our blog into one since is such a great CMS.
So why am i writing this post to let you know? Because I think it would be a nice thing to share with you the problems we run into and the plugins we are using right now for our blog.

Our list of [...]

23
Sep
TUT
Author:
Chocksy
4
Write Better CSS

When writing your CSS, it is possible to write neater, more readable code by making use of CSS shortcuts. A shortcut is a feature of CSS that allows the developer to specify a number of related properties on a single line rather than specify them all separately. Lets look at the following example:

.header {
padding-top:5px;
padding-right:10px;
padding-bottom:5px;
[...]

23
Sep
TRE
Author:
Chocksy
0
iCondom Poster

I couldn’t stand not showing you this. It’s so hilarious.
The design is done by Mauricio Estrella . Here is the link

Youtube Presentation:

22
Sep
GEN
Author:
Chocksy
1
Dutch Footbal Team

Unless you haven’t seen Erwin Olaf’s work well i decided that you should see it. It’s one of the most amazing digital work i’ve seen.
A part of his biography

ERWIN OLAF

BORN IN HILVERSUM IN THE NETHERLANDS IN 1959, ERWIN OLAF LIVES AND WORKES IN AMSTERDAM SINCE THE EARLY 80′S. HIS CURRENT STUDIO IS SITUATED IN A FORMER CHURCH HALL.

MIXING PHOTO-JOURNALISM WITH STUDIO PHOTOGRAPHY, OLAF EMERGED IN THE INTERNATIONAL ART SCENE IN [...]

22
Sep
TUT
Author:
Chocksy
0
JQUERY upload plugin

Sometimes we come into a problem that is a little harder to do when it comes to customizing and that is the file upload input. Well Andris Valums helps us with a plugin he created for jQuery.
The plugin requires jQuery 1.2 or above and allows users to upload multiple files without refreshing the page.
To make the plugin work you have to include jQuery and the plugin in your websites [...]

22
Sep
TUT
Author:
Chocksy
15
jQuery pagination

Description
When you have a a large list of items (e.g. search results or news articles), you can display them grouped in pages and present navigational elements to move from one page to another. This plugin creates these navigational elements.
Usage
Include the pagination plugin script and the pagination.css file in your HTML page. In your HTML body create a container tag pair that will hold the link elements. Give it an id [...]

22
Sep
TUT
Author:
Chocksy
1
PNG Fix for IE6

Last night i was working on a site that uses a lot of transparent .png’s . As we all know, our dear MS IE 6 doesn’t know how to handle the transparency of PNG files.
For quite a while, i was using a Javascript png fix called SUPERSLEIGHT and i was very happy about how it worked.
But last night i came into a problem. I needed to make some rollover images [...]