Archive for March, 2008
CSS: Swooshy Curly Quotes Without Images

The problem
Take a quote and render it within blockquote tags, applying big, funky and stylish curly quotes both at the beginning and the end without using any images – at all.
The traditional way
Feint background images under the text, or an image in the markup housed in a little float. Often designers only use the opening curly quote as it’s just too difficult to float a closing one. Simon Collison explains his solution!
Photos: 69 commercial stock image libraries
Thats all to say about it. This is a huge list of many commercial stock photo sites.
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CSS: Perfect pagination style using CSS

This tutorial explains how to design a pagination for search results or more in general to split a long list of records in more pages. It’s a question I often receive, so Antonio Lupetti decided to publish a very simple post which explains how to design a perfect pagination style using some lines of HTML and CSS code.
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Photos: Free Stock Images from Stockvault
Stockvault.net is a stock photo sharing website where designers and photographers can meet to share their images. You don’t have to sign up to be able to download our images, but they’d like you to so anyway, just so you can gain access to special features. All images on the site are free for personal and non-commercial usage.

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Analytics: Piwik - open source web analytics
Piwik is a serious alternative to Google analytics. It gives interesting reports on your website visitors, your popular pages, the search engines keywords they used, the language they speak… and so much more. Get the demo.

piwik is different from the competition because:
- the features are built inside plugins: you can add new features and remove the ones you don’t need. If you are a developer, you can easily build your own plugins!
- you own your data. Piwik being installed on your server, the data is stored in your own database and you can get all the statistics using open APIs (publishing the data in many formats: xml, json, php, csv)
- the user interface is fully customizable, you can drag and drop the widgets you want to display, create the reports you want
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Marketing: Ein kostenloser Slogan Generator
Alles was Sie eingeben müssen, ist ein Wort nach Ihrem Belieben. Das kann Ihr Firmenname, Ihre Webadresse.de oder was Sie möchten sein. Einfach eingeben und schon wird ein Slogan ausgespuckt. Ist natürlich nicht einzigartig, je mehr den Generator verwenden, aber zum Glück erklärt sich ja der Anbieter bereit seine Dienstleistung auch individuell anzubieten. Dazu eine Empfehlung: Ein Satz mit Einsatz - Die Macht der Slogans
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