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png 8’s and alpha transparency

( CSS and Design and pageup )

Firstly, PageUp People has a new website and it’s pretty sexy. The menu’s took some work to get right in IE6< - but nothing unusual there.
I have an interesting challenge at work at the moment, we are creating a new application that will act as a kind of portal for all the different applications […]

yellowshoe - redesign

( Design and yellowshoe )

Hey chaps,
After seeing Xavier’s shiny new website I found a spare moment this afternoon to think about another design for yellowshoe.
What do you think of the new look?
I’m thinking of making the layout a two column layout based on the divine ratio, pimaster - that φ prounced phi…

Mac Style Windows & new sexy menus

( CSS and Javascript and Design )

Check out my Mac Style Windows, I thought it might give the mac fans out there a few laughs. Complete with maximise, minimise and close functionality.
In other news, the New Swinburne Menus are in place(Both top and left navigation) and haven’t had any real problems with them so far.. I took into consideration […]

Software Binge

( Usability and Design )

Well, I just spent many $$$ on Software.

Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium UPGRADE Academic (Windows)
Adobe CS3 Design Premium Education (Windows)

Adobe InDesign® CS3
Adobe Photoshop® CS3 Extended
Adobe Illustrator® CS3
Adobe Flash® CS3 Professional
Adobe Dreamweaver® CS3
Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional

Whooaa aaahhhh!!
Only 3 days delivery, I may be all up cs3′n by the weekend. Some new tools for my design/developments […]

ByteClub Registration

( CSS and Design and PHP )

I promised Clinton I would make this a long time ago so here it is..
Byteclub Registration Page
It has some basic error checking and emails Clinton the registration details..
Nothing too fancy but it works
The PHP:
<?php
$keys = array(’student_id’, ‘name’,‘email’,‘blog’,‘blogaddress’,‘wiki’, ‘comments’);
$mandatory = array(’student_id’, ‘name’,‘email’,‘blog’,‘wiki’);
$values = array();
$errs = array();
$values[‘blogaddress’] = “http://”;
if (isset($_POST[’submit’]) && $_POST[’submit’] == “Register Now”) {
foreach($keys […]

ByteClub new face?

( CSS and Design )

Hi,
As much as we all love byte club - it’s pretty ugly - ByteClub
A splash of color(besides gray) can help.. so I thought i’d make a suggestion that we can work upon together and perhaps make ByteClub a little prettier
ByteClub re-design
It uses a 100% height template, uses a good accessible image replacement for the logo […]

My Swinburne Template Endeavours

( Usability and CSS and Javascript and Design )

Early on in the year I was asked to attend a usability lecture - where a site I had recently built was picked apart and it’s flaws revealled to all. I knew it was coming, so I fixed a couple of things just before the lecture
I learnt about semantic markup - a […]