Most developers know that you can take a single image and making sure it scales to 100% width and 100% height of the window size. But things get complicated once that image needs to be a CSS background image, ... Read more
Archive for March, 2012
Backstretch, the jQuery dynamically-resized background image plugin
Mac OS X Lion – Setting up Django, pip, virtualenv, and homebrew
We over here at TLS Web Solutions snagged ourselves yet another productive and time-saving piece of machinery — a MacBook Pro. While it ran smooth, we wanted to setup a Django dev enviroment pretty quickly and had a couple issues ... Read more
CSS3 Hyphens / Word Wrapping
Kenneth Auchenberg solved a great CSS3 mystery for me — using hyphens to automatically break words to a new line. “When you have an element with a dynamic width word-wrap: break-word, isn’t having any effect. Today’s browsers don’t use the ... Read more
Raven Tools – SEO and Social Media Tool for Professionals
Reasons why we think Raven Tools rock: 1. Their interface is smooth and easy on the eyes. 2. You can view and track your Search Engine Optimization efforts, Social Media insights, and Google Adwords stats all in one place. 3. ... Read more
Stunning Data Visualization Tool (You’ll forget what PowerPoint is) – Visual.ly
Visual.ly is a free data visualization tool which helps create quick, easy, and most importantly fun ways to chart all kinds of data. Remember those sleek data presentations you see all the time? Visual.ly will help you build one in ... Read more
Gist > Pastebin
I’m a fan of the free paste & go service Pastebin.com has offered while pushing out code snippets and error log entries to other developers. The only problem is… it’s not alone. If you’re not using it already, GitHub has ... Read more
Are you ready to develop a Mobile App?
Developing a mobile site is one thing, but developing a mobile application which targets specific business needs is another. David Tucker over at Mashable wrote a great article for ten simple things you should note and plan before sailing the ... Read more
OK-Studios, wicked parallax and 3-D design
I could’ve sworn I was watching an animated comic as I slowly scrolled down the page on OK-Studio’s beautifully designed and architected website. They utilize modern JavaScript libraries to give a 3-D illusion to their one-page site. Clicking any one ... Read more
Kodingen – Socially Program In A Cloud
Managing developers, developer files, servers, version controls, databases, and just overall the deployment process (zip, unzip, upload to FTP, restart server, export database & import dev database, change URL’s, etc) can be a humongous pain. Kodigen has developed a heavy-duty ... Read more
Aresio Web UI Kit – Free Sleek Orange UI Graphics
WebDesignerDepot‘s done it again, they’ve worked their web UI magic to produce another set of free high-quality web 2.0 graphics available to the world at no charge. “The kit called “Aresio” has a clean, elegant and modern look. You will ... Read more