Create a CSS drop-down menu with persistent active state

Yesterday at work I stumbled upon an idea that I haven’t seen before when dealing with pure CSS drop-down menus. The general premise is to use an unordered list within an unordered list activated on hover of the parent li. This is pretty standard (but won’t work in IE6 due to hovers only being available… Read more →

WordPress, TimThumb & jQuery: Image Hover Effect

This post is about using TimThumb to create an on-the-fly, greyscale image thumbnail of the first image in a post and use jQuery to fade in a colour version on top creating a nice effect. Let me also say that this is not in-depth and is not for beginners as I’m not going to walk… Read more →

I Love Brushes

Something I cooked up following a tutorial from abduzeedo.com Download the 1920 x 1200 file here.

Speed Up Firefox

For those of you who I have not told about this. Here is what to do to speed up browsing in Firefox. This will only work on broadband connections. 1. Open a new tab in firefox and type in about:config 2. In filter type pipe and you should have 3 results. Double click the top… Read more →