Hey everyone! Just a quick notice that we are hiring a new team member for the support forum. In case you got some time to spare and some decent HTML/CSS/Wordpress Skills feel free to apply

Apply here

If you know someone who would be interested let them know! I would be grateful forever

Cheers – Kriesi

Edit: we no longer take applications, thanks for your interesst

Just wanted to let you know that I will be back at the beginning of 2009 with more posts, tutorials and themes. I’ll be on vacation (Egypt) until January 4th, so I will not be able to answer comments and support questions

All the best to you and your families, a merry merry Christmas and a happy new Year

When I am back I will release my first WordPress Theme which is nearly ready now, so stay tuned!
Best Regards to all of you

I dally with the idea of buying a new notebook for some time now, cause the look of the macbook is far from stylish ever since the white chassis turned into dirty dark yellow. Ok, I am not that kind of a brag that I would throw away my laptop only because of its looks, but the hard drive I bought 2 years ago is far to small, the RAM is too little, and the screen is to tiny for long lasting Photoshop works.

The chassis cracked now for the second time (the first time apple customer service fixed it but I didn’t extend for the 3-year Apple Care plan) and I think its time to get something better. I like to work with Apples OSX but I don’t really care which operating system I use, due to the fact that I was working on Windows XP for several years before.

I found a nice site doing laptop reviews in laptopical helping me through the jungle of vendors, prices and features. Some things that i especially like about the site are the short reviews for each Notebook, the pro and con list at the end of each summary and the listing of the cheapest vendor. This is especially interessting for me, because we are using Euro as currency here in Austria and with the current rate of exchange of Euro and US -Dollar I think I can save a good amount of money…

I must admit after browsing most of the review archives of HP-Laptops, Toshiba-Laptops and others I startet to like the Idea of bying a MacBook again, this time the Pro version of course. Appart from the neat look, they seem to fit my needs in a much better way than other companys notebooks.

What I want to know from you is:
Do MacBook Pros discolour and fall apart as well as the normal versions after 2 years?
Would you recommend buying one or something totally different?

Would be glad to hear some advice

I wish you all the best, have a nice week!
Kriesi

And since I love Firefox with its myriads of plugins and themes which make developing websites so much easier I thought I could spread the word.

Participating is really easy: just download Firefox3 the day it is released. Release date will be announced soon, if you want to you can pledge to download the browser, spreadfirefox will inform you via mail when to download…

I’m more than ever fascinated by the web and while i did struggle the last time I wanted to post on a regular basis, I will now try it again and hopefully succeed

Since most of my visitors seem to be from non-German speaking countries, I use this as an excuse to polish my English, since its getting worse every day. So the navigation, the blog and my tutorials section shall be written in English from this day on; rest of the site will remain German… at least for now.

Anyways, here are some tips for creating a similar menu: Head over to http://mootools.net and get a little familiar with this extraordinary Javascript Framework. In the demo section of the page, you will find a sub-menu entry called Fx-Elements which contains everything you need to build a so called “kwick menu”. By analyzing the HTML, CSS and Javascript you should be able to accomplish similar menus in almost no time.

Those who use Jquery (which is my prefered Framework atm, because of the steeper learning curve) can use the plugin, recently written by Jeremy Martin at jMars blog. I haven’t tested it for now but looking at the preview examples, it seems to work pretty well.

Hope I could help those of you who seek aid in creating a similar menu.

Update: I am using jQuery now, as well as jMars Kwicks plugin and it works like a charm

As i checked the incoming links it turned out that I was featured again, this time by the Japanese monthly magazine, “Web Designing“. It seems like someone over there liked my design, as well as the style of my CSS (at least i hope, could as well be a damning review, I’ll probably never find out)

All i could find out was: the article written by Miki Ofuji includes a CSS and XHTML analysis.
Well, enough with the bragging, just wanted to say hello to my Japanese Visitors
If you like, leave me a comment and tell me what Mr. Ofuji liked or disliked…

PS: sorry about my poor English, it’s been a while since I last wrote a non-German article