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Halloween 2008 - vote for your favourite pumpkin

By frog on October 31st, 2008 at 23:59 GMT | 20 Comments »

The Floating Frog and Piggynap had a competition to see who could make the best pumpkin. We won’t say who made which at this stage to make it fair, just drop in a comment below with either pumpkin1 or pumpkin2. I’ll count the votes from this, and my other sources then reveal the winner, get voting!

The Global Credit Crunch - it’s not all bad news

By frog on October 31st, 2008 at 11:59 GMT | 1 Comment »

Ok so the Credit Crunch will throw the financial sector into turmoil for the next few years but lets look at some positives that have come out of this.

I’ll start things of:

1) My mortgage is cheaper (interest rates have gone down)

2) House prices have gone down - this is fine even for home owners like me. I may have to sell low but I also can buy low too, only there will be more first time buyers on the market, good news for the housing market.

3) Petrol Prices - I’m now paying 25p a litre less than I was 2 months ago.

4) Gas & Electric - going down hopefully soon.

Ignore the negatives for now, what good has this Global Credit Crunch thrown your way?

Budgeting for Christmas

Retailers will be hard hit this year thanks to the Credit Crunch as consumers, you and I, tighten our purses in the lead up to the big man’s big day. I myself have set strict budgets this Christmas so I now how much I’m willing to spend and who’ll get what.

Moneysavingexpert have a very useful free automated budget planner that you can use to organise your finances.

CSS Box Model Hierarchi

By frog on October 30th, 2008 at 12:05 GMT | 1 Comment »

Yep the good old CSS box model, explained once more. The CSS box model is a fundamental element of modern web design that all web designers need to master. This CSS box model controls and details the behaviour of many HTML elements, such as DIV, P, ul, so understanding this is a firm step forwards to better web design.

3D CSS Box Model

Jon Hicks, who’s a leading figure in web standards and userbility, has created this brilliant 3D CSS Box Model diagram and kindly supplied the original Illustrator file for me to modify and put on the site for you to look at, so a big thanks goes out to him.

CSS for ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS - shaping up with CSS

By frog on October 30th, 2008 at 00:08 GMT | 7 Comments »

Learning CSS from the beginning

CSS is an abbreviation for Cascading Style Sheets. Web designers use a CSS file to control the visual layout of a web page, grouping all styling declarations into one reference document while removing them from the HTML code that lies beneath the website.

If you’re an absolute newcomer to the scary world of web design and wish to start learning things from scratch then this is the place to be. Over the next few weeks I’ll be posting walk-through slideshows that explain CSS and XHTML visually, in an easy to digest format. This week it’s…

CSS help for absolute beginners

Shaping up with CSS

Credit: All copyright and materials Slideshare.net.

Index

What’s covered in this slideshow presentation:

  • Block Level Elements
  • Inline Elements
  • Rules
  • Element Symmetry - opening and closing XHTML tags
  • Styling elements
  • Sizing defaults
  • Setting heights and widths
  • Units of measurement
  • Fixed Block-Level Sizing
  • Browser Behaviour
  • Other occurances
  • Overflow Hidden
  • Positioning Elements
  • Full CSS Layout
  • Layout options
  • Positioning Block-Level Elements
  • Easiest Positioning Method
  • Position:Absolute
  • Top, Right, Bottom, Left
  • Handy tips

Think you’re a CSS Guru?

Well I guess your too good for this, it’s like child’s play, right? Well have a look at this, 10 CSS shorthand techniques you’ll use everyday, it will be more up your street.

Yearly events like Halloween, Christmas and Bonfire night gives photographers the perfect chance to experiment with their photography and capture some memorable moments on camera. To inspire us all to get our cameras out this year I have put together 20 fantastic photographs to inspire and excite even the most experienced photographer. Take inspiration, then get creative as you only get one chance a year to get this right.

Halloween inspirational photographs
It started with a kiss…

Halloween inspirational photographs
A dread spread

Halloween inspirational photographs
Tonight’s Moon

Halloween inspirational photographs
“Horned Hamster”

Halloween inspirational photographs
Welcome hoooome

Halloween inspirational photographs
Pumpkin Pile

Halloween inspirational photographs
The Awakening

Halloween inspirational photographs
Dead Dolls

Halloween inspirational photographs
Ghost Train

Halloween inspirational photographs
Have a happy pumpkin day

Halloween inspirational photographs
The Grudge

Halloween inspirational photographs
The Children

Halloween inspirational photographs
Zombies on the orange line

Halloween inspirational photographs
Drunken pumpkin

Halloween inspirational photographs
Pumpkin lamps

Halloween inspirational photographs
Bee

Halloween inspirational photographs
Nightmare Before Christmas

Halloween inspirational photographs
Busting at the Seams

Halloween inspirational photographs
Teschio

Halloween inspirational photographs
Creepy

Have fun this Halloween

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