The Perfect Fanpage Profile Picture (+ FREE PSD) - WP4FB [message_box type="note" icon="yes" close="Hide"]When this post was post was published, WP4FB was only a simple WordPress theme that is not comparable to the current WP4FB WordPress plugin. The current plugin is a completely new product with many new features. Therefore, this post may be outdated.[/message_box]I don’t have to tell you how extremely powerful Facebook Fan Pages can be. It’s massive, and many people have generated thousands of dollars using them. But did you know how important a good profile picture is for your fan page? In this post I want to give away some tips on how to make the perfect fan page profile picture, as well as a FREE profile picture which you can use however you like, so keep on reading! Make use of the size The maximum size of a profile picture is 180 x 540 pixels. Include core benefits As mentioned, the profile picture is the first thing users will see when they visit your fan page. Create a striking thumbnail Include social proof
Custom Scrollbars in WebKit Way back in the day, you could customize scrollbars in IE (5.5) with non-standard CSS properties like scrollbar-base-color which you would use on the element that scrolls (like the <body>) and do totally rad things. IE dropped that. These days, customizing scrollbars is back, but it's WebKit this time. It's a bit better now, because the properties are vendor-prefixed (e.g. ::-webkit-scrollbar) and use the "Shadow DOM". This has been around for a couple of years. The Goods The Different Pieces These are the pseudo elements themselves. The Different States These are the pseudo class selectors. :horizontal :vertical :decrement :increment :start :end :double-button :single-button :no-button :corner-present :window-inactive I'm going to steal this whole section from David's blog post on the WebKit blog because it explains each part well: :horizontal – The horizontal pseudo-class applies to any scrollbar pieces that have a horizontal orientation. All together now Very Simple Example In The Wild
FFFFALLBACK - A simple tool for bulletproof web typography. Mega Web Buttons Pack #1 Today we want to share our first set of easy-to-implement buttons called ‘Mega Web Buttons Pack’. In this set you will find 42 buttons which you can use easily on your website. We are using the WooFunction icon set released under the GNU General Public License. Our first step is to add […] View demoDownload source Today we want to share our first set of easy-to-implement buttons called ‘Mega Web Buttons Pack’. Our first step is to add the following line of jQuery: This means that we will create a new ‘span’ element which is the holder for the button icon. If, for example, you want to add the ‘Chart’ button you need to add markup to your website: or the ‘Search’ button: In the CSS you can change the looks by, for example, changing the background color: and markup will be: etc. :) We hope you like our experiment.
CSS drop-shadows without images Drop-shadows are easy enough to create using pseudo-elements. It’s a nice and robust way to progressively enhance a design. This post is a summary of the technique and some of the possible appearances. Demo: CSS drop-shadows without images Known support: Firefox 3.5+, Chrome 5+, Safari 5+, Opera 10.6+, IE 9+ I’ll be looking mainly at a few details involved in making this effect more robust. After a bit of back-and-forth on Twitter with Simurai, and proposing a couple of additions to Divya’s and Matt’s demos using jsbin, I felt like documenting and explaining the parts that make up this technique. The basic technique There is no need for extra markup, the effect can be applied to a single element. The pseudo-elements need to be positioned and given explicit or implicit dimensions. The next step is to add a CSS3 box-shadow and apply CSS3 transforms. One of the pseudo-elements then needs to be positioned on the other side of the element and rotated in the opposite direction.
The Top 8 Placeholder Services for Web Designers In the last year, there's been a wave of helpful placeholder services. What's a placeholder? Well, when you're working on a new website, isn't it a waste of time to use stock images, cropped to the right dimensions? A placeholder service allows you to automatically use a random image at the desired dimensions with minimal effort. In the last week, I've compiled a list - in no particular order - of what I consider to be the most useful and flexible placeholder services on the web. 1 - PlaceKitten A quick and simple service for getting pictures of kittens for use as placeholders in your designs or code. Usage Follow the placekitten.com url with your desired dimensions. 2 - Placehold.it A quick and simple image placeholder service. Note that, with this service, you set your dimensions more traditionally, rather than separating the widths and heights into segments. 3 - SheenHolders Add some Sheen to your designs and prototypes with Charlie Sheen placeholder pictures. 4 - FlickHoldr 5 - LoremPixum
Circular Discography Template with jQuery Today we want to share a simple website template with you. The template will show some discography or music albums in a rounded fashion, rotating the albums when clicking on next or previous. When clicking on an album, we will open the album details view which contains a music player (jPlayer) and […] View demoDownload source Today we want to share a simple website template with you. The template will show some discography or music albums in a rounded fashion, rotating the albums when clicking on next or previous. We will be using the following jQuery plugins and scripts that will help us with the effects and the functionality: We’ve added some nice music samples from the following artists: Audiotechnica – Testing by audiotechnica Coffeeeurope -Arena Blanca by Hektor Thillet Ramblinglibrarian – Our Resolve by Ivan Chew Syenta – Emerging Cry by Syenta Thanks to the artists for releasing their music under the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) Licence!
Patternify | CSS Pattern Generator WhatFont Bookmarklet « Chengyin Liu ← Back to Chengyin's main page What is the easiest way to find out the fonts used in a webpage? Firebug or Webkit Inspector? No, that's too complicated. It should be just a click away. Hence I wrote WhatFont, with which you can easily get font information about the text you are hovering on. To embrace the new web font era, WhatFont also detects services used for serving the font. Font name? Want to know more? Want the font? Want to share your discovery? ← Drag this to your bookmark bar to install On any webpage, click your WhatFont bookmark to use the tool. Full support: Firefox 3.6+, Chrome 9+, Safari 4+, Internet Explorer 9. Limited support: Internet Explorer 8. ↑Install the extension from Chrome Web Store. On any webpage, click WhatFont button to use the tool. Download Now After downloading, open the extension file to install. The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Email chengyin.liu@gmail.com Twitter @chengyinliu The tool should auto-update itself. Hosted on Github