PaintbrushJS by Dave Shea

August 21st, 2010 - CSS, Javascript, XHTML - No Comments

PaintbrushJS is a lightweight, browser-based image processing library
that can apply various visual filters to images within a web page.

So, who’s into photoshop filters with just a little Javascript, CSS and HTML elements?

Your “thank you” goes to Author of Mezzoblue, David Shea!

Never ending patterns!

August 3rd, 2010 - Design, Patterns - No Comments

In this new, well-designed website you’ll find some packs of  100% Completely Tileable Seamless Patterns, with their source files included just in case you are in the mood of spicing them up!

Right now there are 4 packs of patterns including lines, paper, rust effect and fabric but they promise to add more packs in the future.

Those cool patterns can be used for Personal and Commercial projects and are free!

Design by the law.

July 28th, 2010 - Design - No Comments

Every designer knows that design (and especially web design) has rules and that’s one of the things that separates it  from art.

Here are 10 great laws to follow and design by, written by Mr. Ross Johnson on 3.7 designs blog.

Of course the best and most innovative designers are they who break the laws by expanding them or bring something new and better, but in order to rich this level you have to master them first!

Read the full article

cssigniter.com – Premium WordPress themes. Different

July 19th, 2010 - Design, News - 3 Comments

Last year, i had an idea of launching a small premium WordPress themes shop. So, slowly but steadily i designed a series of templates and integrated them to WordPress. Thing is that as there many really great premium WordPress theme shops out there i had to figure a way and offer, well, something more, something different. And i think, i found it. In September cssigniter.com will see the light of the day. Every month i’ll be providing at least 2 new themes in more than one versions. What do i mean? Well subscribe to the newsletter, follow @cssigniter on Twitter and you’ ll get more and more info about it.

WordPress plugin: Custom CSS stylesheet for posts or pages

June 11th, 2010 - Backend, Wordpress - 18 Comments

Having posts or pages designed a bit different from the rest of the blog/site isn’t something new. Some people i admire follow this technique in a really unique way. A friend of mine is doing it as well in a really interesting way but his site is under construction so i’ll update this bit as soon as he gets online. Note: All of them are using Expression Engine.

So what is it then?

Earlier today i needed this for a client project. Some pages need and some others will need in the future a different style than other pages. So i made this. It’s a tiny plugin that displays a list of custom CSS files stored in a sub directory of your theme and lets you choose which one you want to include in a specific post/page. In other words, no more dealing with code for this. Upload your custom CSS files, select the one that you need in a post or page and you’re done.

How it works?

First, download the Custom CSS plugin, extract and upload it. Activate it and you are good to go. Now all you have to do is create a folder called “custom-css” as a sub folder in your theme’s main directory. Like that:

In there you can now upload all the custom style-sheets that you might need for a page or post in your blog/site. Add or edit a post or a page and you will see a small list of the available style-sheets in the “custom-css” folder. Select it, update your post and that’s it.

Notes

1. The folder name must be “custom-css”. If you don’t like that, just edit the plugin file and change the first line:

define('CCSS_PATH','/custom-css/');

Make sure to add the slashes before and after the folder name.

2. This plug-in relies on wp_head() in order to include the style-sheet in your post / page. Having said that, you should have your main style-sheet ABOVE your wp_head() declaration. Otherwise how useful a set of styles that don’t override your default stylesheet would be? Not at all i guess. I am sure all of you have the wp_head() as the last thing in your header.php but i thought it would be a good idea to mention this before any hair pulling sessions.

Changelog

June 11th, 2010: Initial release v1.0