January 3rd, 2009 |
Tutorials |
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If you’ like to learn how to create ITunes like CSS tables then follow this tutorial. Using alternating row colors in tables has become a well-recognized design feature. It provides structure to long tables and let viewer scan table rows easily. If you will add a hover effect to highlight the row under the mouse pointer, it can produce an attractive and functional look. The code used for this ITunes style CSS table with hover effect is quite simple. Try to hover your mouse over this table, it’s working example.
3 best Web books of 2008
| Name |
Authour |
Publisher |
Date of release |
| What Would Google Do? |
Jeff Jarvis |
Collins Business |
January 2009 |
| The Numerati |
Stephen Baker |
Houghton Mifflin |
August, 2008 |
| Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies |
Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff |
Harvard Business School Press |
April 2008 |
Let’s focus on the details. First of all, you’re setting each of the two row classes (.odd and .even) background:
table tbody tr.odd {background-color: #eff7ff;}
table tbody tr.even {background-color: #fff;}
Next, you set a rule that changes the background color of a row when the user’s mouse hovers over it:
table tbody tr:hover {background-color: #3d84d2;}
And finally, you change the color of the text contained within the row that is being hovered over, making it lighter to stand out against its new darker background color:
table tbody tr:hover td {color: #fff;}
Here’s the the CSS needed to style the table rows.
table {
background-color: #fff;
border: 1px solid #ddd;
empty-cells: show;
font-size: 90%;
margin: 0 0 20px 0;
padding: 4px;
text-align: left;
width: 500px;
}
table caption {
color: #777;
margin: 0 0 5px 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: center;
text-transform: uppercase;
}
table thead th {
border: 0;
border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
color: #777;
font-size: 90%;
padding: 3px 0;
margin: 0 0 5px 0;
text-align: left;
}
table tbody tr.odd {
background-color: #eff7ff;
}
table tbody tr.even {
background-color: #fff;
}
table tbody tr:hover {
background-color: #3d84d2;
}
table tbody td {
color: #888;
padding: 2px;
border: 0;
}
table tbody tr:hover td {
color: #fff;
}
December 29th, 2008 |
Tools |
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Adobe Configurator is a prerelease of an open source utility for easy creation of panels (palettes) in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Now you can create custom panels in Photoshop CS4 without knowledge of Flash/Flex/ActionScript. Just drag and drop tools, menu items, scripts, actions, audio, video, images, and SWF objects into a panel design, then export the results for use inside Photoshop.
Adobe Configurator lets you not only create panels that make Photoshop easier to use but share those panels with others on Adobe Exchange. Configurator requires Adobe Air installed. If you have not installed Adobe Air during Photoshop CS4 installation than download and install it separately. To Install and launch Configurator double-click the .AIR file on your desktop. After you have exported your panel, it can be accessed within Photoshop CS4 under the Window > Extensions menu.
December 16th, 2008 |
Tips |
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Web design process play a great positive role in web designer professional life if it is simple and organized. What are the top priorities for web designer? What should you take care of if you work as freelancer? This post touches up organizational web design project topics as well as creative workflow and process. I describe typical web design process used by me today. I can’t say that I got the ideal web design process but its efficiency is proved by trial-and-error method. (more…)
December 15th, 2008 |
Reviews |
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Google SketchUp is intuitive, flexible and easy to use 3d software with short learning curve (a few minutes for most people). You can use Google SketchUp to create 3D models of anything you like. Starting from your living room redecorating and modeling your city for Google Earth up to sketching quickly your design masterpieces, making 3D drafts for advertising projects instead of drawing sketches with pen or pencil. (more…)
December 5th, 2008 |
Freebies |
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Christmas is coming, the goose is getting fat and it’s time to spice up your Christmas by decorating your desktop with one of these fresh and stylish handpicked Christmas wallpapers. There’s enough to change your desktop wallpaper every day until Christmas and get some inspiration on the way. You can choose to download wallpapers one by one or download this Christmas wallpaper pack which includes all Christmas wallpapers featured in this list. (more…)
November 26th, 2008 |
Software |
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Picasa 3 Windows/Linux easy to use and feature rich photo management software from Google got number of new and improved features besides faster performance, increased stability, improved RAW support and a faster scanning engine. Picasa 3 adds basic movie editing, fuller syncing to Web Albums, new quick view app, Retouch tool for basic photo improvements, easy watermark adding and text tool add as well as new collage styles and number of other goodies. (more…)
November 20th, 2008 |
Tools |
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You can create fake HDR photo online for free. Create HDR is a new web service which make process of fake HDR photo creation from 1 JPG easy as pie. You can upload source photo from local computer, from Flickr or using any web URL. After upload (JPG format only, 6MB max) you have only two HDR settings to adjust and have some fun: Radius and Contrast. Click “Apply Changes” after you changed them to see the result. After you finish you have option to download full size HDR image or to save it to gallery for up to 12 hours.
Just now Create HDR is using one JPG to HDR conversion technique but they are promising to roll out Pro version soon. It will include more options, settings and will convert multiple images with various exposures into a single HDR.