All posts tagged Graphics

Create nice image caption with CSS

Create a nice image caption with cssTraditionally, image captions are displayed next to, or below a image. However if you have limited space, or want to increase the visibility of the caption, displaying the image caption as part of the image can be interesting.

In this post you’ll learn a  simple CSS trick, that makes it easy to ad a image caption as a overlay on your images.

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Spice up your site with Google font API

Google font apiWith the new Google Font API you can easily create nice text effect on your site without using graphics. Making nice text effects on the web, normally requires creation of graphical images that contains the text, since only a few fonts are universally supported across different browsers and operating systems.

Text as images has the advantage of great control over the end result in the users browser, but also the problems with potentially slower download times due to the size of the image containing the text effect, and less flexibility in maintenance since changes to the text means creating a new image.

In this post we’ll take a look at the Google Font API, that offers a new solution to nice fonts on the web.

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New great jQuery plugins for your page

One of the best ways of improving your productivity, is to use  prebuilt components like jQuery for adding advanced functionality to your website, instead of reinventing the wheel yourself.

In this post you’ll see some of the most interresting jQuery plugins from march 2010.
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11 great resources for free icons

Selecting the right icons for your website or blog can be a time consuming and sometimes frustrating task.

In this post  we’ll give you 11 great resources where you can search, browse and download high quality icons for free.

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