Gimp 2.8 Released
Last week, on the 3rd of May 2012 the GNU Image Manipulation Program, also known as the GIMP, released version 2.8 of their cross-platform software. It supports many new features, the most notable of which is the long awaited single-window mode as well as many other user interface tweaks which make this version more attractive and intuitive to use.
It is available to download from the gimp.org.
Read More »Windows 8 Consumer Preview Review
As you may, or may not, already know on the 29th of February, Microsoft released the Consumer Preview of its new operating system, Windows 8. It is available at the moment for anyone to try from their website (ISO). Windows 8 harbours many new features and changes which will be looked at in this review.
Read More »CSS Speech Bubbles & Triangles
You may have seen various types of speech bubbles across the web, some use images and others use pure CSS to create this effect. In this article we will be looking at how you can create a triangle with CSS and how you can use this triangle to then create simple speech bubbles.
Photo by StreetFly JZ.
Read More »First-look at WordPress 3.3 Beta
Yesterday, the 20th of October 2011, WordPress 3.3 Beta 2 was released. With an array of minor and major changes, this is still just a Beta copy but gives great incite into what’s to come. An in-depth list of changes are available for Beta 1 and Beta 2 on their blog. The WordPress development team are aiming to release the full version of version 3.3 by the end of November.
Read More »Preview Gmail’s New Interface
Google accidentally released a video earlier this month showing the new Gmail interface which is on its way soon. In my personal option it is about time and it looks amazing (from watching the video).
Read More »CSS Text Multi-Columns
Columns are lovely things. They allow you to read text easier, make chunks of text look nicer and now with the power and beauty of CSS3 you can make columns dynamically – yey! No more table columns and splitting of paragraphs to achieve the same effect.
Read More »Stop CSS Caching After a Change in WordPress
If you’re in the process of developing a WordPress theme, browser caching isn’t necessary and it can be a pain because your theme won’t always update after you have made a change. On the other hand caching plays a crucial role in the speed and download times of websites. So what are we to do? In WordPress it’s actually very simple, if you know what you’re doing, to set up a function to force the browser cache into re-downloading the CSS file again. Depending on your level of PHP knowledge, there is a plugin already built for this task called CSS Cache Buster, or you can write your own function.
Read More »CSS3 Transitions : The Basics
JavaScript libraries, such as jQuery, make easy work of animations and effects when working with websites. They allow you to move, change and fade different DOM elements in your web page, which can improve your website visually and sometimes make it more usable. There are, however, disadvantages to using jQuery, for example, most modern web browsers have the ability to turn JavaScript off and Firefox has a popular addons called ‘NoScript‘ which will also disable JavaScript – and your effects too. CSS, with version three of its specification, has CSS transitions which allow you to do very similar animations and effects as jQuery.
Read More »Load jQuery from Google CDN in WordPress
WordPress, by default, includes a local copy of jQuery which gets loaded up on your website and also used by the WordPress Admin Dashboard. This is great because it makes life easier but wouldn’t it be even greater if WordPress used a copy of jQuery which was stored on Google’s CDN (or jQuery’s CDN for that matter). Well, with a tiny bit of theme editing this is possible.
Read More »Smooth Page Scroll with jQuery
Many popular websites have the ‘Back to Top’ same-page links, which allow you to get back to the top of the page quickly. Some websites even scroll upwards smoothly. This jQuery code, written by LearningjQuery, allows you to do just that. Just include this code in your $(document).ready() function and it enables itself on all same-page hash links.
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