Monthly Archives: August 2009

GetSimple – XML based lite Content Management System

Posted on 9/Aug/2009 by Vel

GetSimple is an XML based lite Content Management System. To go along with it’s best-in-class user interface, we have loaded it with features that every website needs, but with nothing it doesn’t. GetSimple is truly the simplest way to manage … Continue reading →

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IE not interpreting text-indent on submit buttons ?

Posted on 9/Aug/2009 by Vel

I’ve worked on many projects where in I had to style the form/input buttons using custom background images. That is, I had to hide the default text of the button. It’s not a big deal, I know. But it is, … Continue reading →

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CSS Opacity That Doesn’t Affect Child Elements

Posted on 9/Aug/2009 by Vel

This is a quick tip to demonstrate a way to work around the problem of child elements in your HTML inheriting the “alpha” settings of their parent. This tip is not necessarily recommended, because it creates extra markup and is … Continue reading →

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50 Free RSS Icon Packs

Posted on 9/Aug/2009 by Vel

RSS subscribers are one of the most important parts of a blog. After all it doesn’t matter if you have exceptional content on your blog if nobody reads it. You could write books about ways to get more subscribers to … Continue reading →

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Better CSS Font Stacks

Posted on 2/Aug/2009 by Vel

One aspect of designing for the web that almost immediately offends designers is the lack of fonts that are considered safe to use. While it is true that there are only a handful of web safe fonts, the ones we … Continue reading →

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