Archive for the ‘tutorials’ Category

IE6 google maps fix - no map but grey box!

Tuesday, May 5th, 2009

When you use some kind of png fix in IE6 your google maps will not display a map but a grey area.
The markers are displayed as normal and so are the controls load fine.
Solution:
This is easy to fix: just clear the behaviour on your images inside the google maps element.
add this to your IE6 css [...]

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Prevent browser window scroll to anchor

Friday, March 27th, 2009

Today I was working on a contact page with three contact forms, each in a differrent tab (with jquery’s UI Tabs). When a user posts a form and there are validation errors, you want the page to show the tab with the form that was submitted.
I used an anchor in the url to accomplish that, [...]

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Retro tutorials

Thursday, March 19th, 2009

I’ve collected some great vintage tutorials for you:

Design a vintage car poster with grunge texture font and brushset in photoshop (PSD vault)
Designing a typographic concept poster (psdtuts)
Create a wicked worn vintage pop art design (psdtuts)
Create a vintage film style video using photoshop cs3 extended (psdtuts)
Craft a vintage fifties letter (psdtuts)
Vintage photo corners (pshero)
Create a constructivist [...]

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