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Facebook style Faces CSS Image Map

Written on 06/26 • 0 Comments

The popular social networking site Facebook allows tagging of people in photographs, this example does not provide the mechanism to add and drag tags to images but is a simple example of how a similar effect can be achieved using only style sheets and XHTML. This method may be useful for creating clickable faces on images on static webpages or as a basis from something more complex.

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CSS ASCII Art Digg & DesignFloat Logos

Written on 06/19 • 0 Comments

ASCII art has been around for ages and I have played around with it in the past, see the CSS file for this site, but combine CSS and ASCII art and you've got a whole new form of art. The interesting thing about using text and CSS to make images is how it behaves when you change the text size in your browser. Fonts are vector shapes - that means these drawings can be scaled without any effect on the file size.

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Remove index.php from ExpressionEngine URL’s

Written on 06/12 • 1 Comments

By default, ExpressionEngine adds 'index.php' into URLs before the name of any template groups. This results in a nice clean URL like mysite.com/about becoming mysite.com/index.php/about. A minor annoyance it may be but I have been used to Textpattern handling URI's in a much more elegant manner. Luckily there are a few solutions.

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What is iTunes “grouping” tag for?

Written on 06/05 • 0 Comments

When tagging music in iTunes, I have often wondered what the “Grouping” column was for. I rarely, if ever, saw any data in this column after importing CD’s, but it seemed like it would be useful to “group” music by some other criteria. After some digging in the AppleScript dictionary for iTunes I found the official use:

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