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Happy birthday, show me your grid

Today, May 21st 2008. – the Ezadar team is celebrating the first year of their online presence! Same time last year, web.burza crew ran for another winner, and now – one year later – it turns out that...

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Backup2Mail v0.15

Important: This article is outdated. Backup2Mail is moved to its own web site — www.backup2mail.com. Quick intro for the first-timers: Backup2Mail automagically creates backup of your database and...

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Episode One: Prepare your content and interface copy

This is the first part of the series, “Environmental friendly CSS” We want to keep this simple. The example scenery is a fictitious blog with jokes and funny videos. Furthermore, the build part of the...

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Episode Two: Visually design information elements and user interface

This is the second part of the series, “Environmental friendly CSS” In the previous episode we’ve created a creative/technical brief. In this article we are going to use that document to design the...

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Episode Three: Mark it up!

This is the third part of the series, “Environmental friendly CSS” In the previous episodes we’ve created a creative/technical brief and then mocked-up design in Photoshop. The next step in a process...

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Episode Four: Create bullet-proof, eco-friendly CSS

This is the fourth part of the series, “Environmental friendly CSS” In the previous episodes we’ve created a creative/technical brief, mocked-up design in Photoshop and decided on proper markup for...

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Backup2Mail v.0.16

Backup2Mail is automatic MySQL database backup web application. It is now upgraded and supports different host names. Download v.0.16. Media Temple and some other hosting providers are using internal...

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First look at the CSS support in Internet Explorer 8

Internet Explorer 8 is released last week. The IE team promised the browser will be more standards aware, similar to it’s major competition Firefox, Opera and Safari. The trouble is — designers and...

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Definition list for article comments or IM dialogue

HTML5 is the buzzword this season. Leading people in the industry are using appropriate class names for what will hopefully once become fully supported structural elements. Fully supported = fully...

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WordPress related articles by tags and/or categories

Here is a quick code snippet for displaying any given number of articles, related first by tags and optionally from the same category. This is by no means definitive solution, but might come in handy...

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ImageMagick with MAMP

Many web designers and front-end developers are using MAMP for its ease of use. However, MAMP doesn’t come with a very popular and wide spread image manipulation library ImageMagick. Just recently my...

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Backup2Mail v.0.17

Backup2Mail is an automatic MySQL database backup web application. The latest upgrade solves permissions and file path problems on various commercial web servers. The new .htaccess fix removes the need...

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SeekandHit realign

Creative Nights was re-hired by an internet marketing agency SeekandHit to realign their web site. The previous redesign was back in April 2009. and it was a big success, but there is always a room for...

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Export your PHP based prototype to HTML

PHP is quite handy for creating local interface prototypes and for easier template management with regular backs and forths that are a part of every project. Having your prototype built with a...

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A few Mobile First tips

There has been a lot of talk about mobile first web design last year (2011). We had many great presentations and books by industry leaders about the core concepts and the big picture on the web. I’ll...

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iFrame auto-resize with jQuery

Inline frames are not the prettiest of HTML elements, but they can make your life a hell of a lot easier, especially with branching web application control panels, full of modals and cross-referenced...

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The Mobile Book review

I had a fortune to be among the first readers of The Mobile Book, published by Smashing Media and I enjoyed reading it. If you are serious about building either strictly mobile or mobile first...

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Bookmarks for January 2014

William James’s Habit — Now free book from 1914. about establishing habits and improving life via @brainpickings One Stop English — my all-time favorite resource of English lessons. Typeconnection —...

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A guide to accessing local websites from other computers and mobile devices

Disclaimer: This guide is intended for web designers running a local web server on a Mac, but the general concept should be very similar on other systems. Based on web designer’s typical needs: we...

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Sibling selectors with Sass

Have you ever wanted to just automatically generate sibling selectors automatically increasing the CSS property value. Instead of writing multiple selectors by hand, to get something like the following...

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