Design, scripts & blog by Tommie Hansen

Cufon: Fixing the damn flickering

Tommie Hansen — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 14:29:34 +0000

Cufón is a great piece of javascript that easily let us add any font we would like to our webpages but it comes with its own set of quirks and there are plenty of good and bad ways of fixing them. Ok, so how to fix it? Well.. since Cufón has its inbuilt classes for [...]

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Simple CSS buttons

Tommie Hansen — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 23:02:50 +0000

Designing good looking and simple css buttons that work cross browser really isn’t that hard when you’ve done it a couple of times but for newcomers to css/xhtml it can be quite hard to understand the mechanics of css image sprites and all that so here’s a short design tutorial and example of css buttons. [...]

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Addtoany slow loading

Tommie Hansen — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 16:14:07 +0000

When working with a clients site i wanted to the sharing script from AddToAny, i however noticed that the inclusion of their javascript bogged the whole site down and caused extreme delays (3+ seconds). This wasn't acceptable at all so i had to come up with a proper solution which was quite simple with some [...]

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Simple CSS menu

Tommie Hansen — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 11:17:07 +0000

Creating a simple css menu isn't really that hard but it is always good to have a stable design base to begin with even for the more experienced coder so here i'll present a cross browser css menu with simple design but that still works as a sort of base for other menus. XHTML

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jQuery show / hide anything

Tommie Hansen — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 21:39:28 +0000

There are a lot jQuery scripts to do most about anything. However it's always better to create small custom scripts for whatever you might need it for since you that way will in the future be able to do whatever you'd like. So i present to you a simple jQuery script to allow you to [...]

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jQuery simple tabs

Tommie Hansen — Wed, 23 Jun 2010 00:42:31 +0000

I know what you think, "there are lots of jQuery plugins so why care?". Well... haven't you ever wanted something simple that you just made and can control in whatever way you feel or modify to to do anything that requires something to show below (or wherever) when you click a link or just something? [...]

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Crossbrowser text shadow with jQuery

Tommie Hansen — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:41:32 +0000

Have you seen all those nifty text-shadow on so called 'web 2.0' sites and been baffled that there seem to be no simple solution available in order to get it cross browser and working in IE6-IE8? I've searched high and low for a simple solution but in the end decided to create my own via [...]

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CSS3 = Fail

Tommie Hansen — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 11:51:14 +0000

Today Smashing Magazine is writing about not being afraid of using CSS3. As a major publisher where lots of less knowing newbies come to read about the latest and greatest in design this is utterly stupid. Why you say? Here’s why Beginning a sites design with CSS3 in mind is bad because the end result [...]

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Design, scripts & blog by Tommie Hansen

Cufon: Fixing the damn flickering

Simple CSS buttons

Addtoany slow loading

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