This is the slogan spreadfirefox.com uses to promote the release of Firefox 3. The evil master plan is to make Firefox 3 the most downloaded software in 24 hours and therefore increasing its popularity.

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…

Finally I got the new design ready. A dark color scheme this time, because I really like it how dark backgrounds play together with vibrant colors. I wrote some nice wordpress plug-ins to make my life easier and switched from mootools to jQuery.

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.

Since the article Navigation Menus: Trends and Examples was released on Smashing Magazine in February, I got quite a number of mails from fellow designers, who asked how to accomplish the sliding effect of my main menu. Even enough mails, that I thought about writing a little tutorial, but I must admit I am to lazy at the moment =)

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

Well, as I recently checked my Google analytics account, I saw a heavy increase of site impressions.. from Japan!

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

Trends und Beispiele im Berreich Navigationsmenüs sind heute des Thema bei Smashing Magazine.

Und obwohl ich meine Hauptnavigation damals eher zum ausprobieren diverser JavaScript Techniken so umgesetzt habe wie sie nun ist, scheint sie genug Anklang zu finden um in dem Artikel eine kleine Erwähnung zu bekommen.

Auch sonst viele Interessante Beispiele und Konzepte also viel Spass beim durchforsten

Tjo, lange hats nicht gehalten, das Design das ich beim CSS Neustart gemacht habe. Schon nach wenigen Wochen gefiel es mir nicht mehr besonders und als dann noch etwas mehr Zeit verstrich fand ich überhaupt nur noch die Hauptgrafik hübsch.

Danach hatte ich natürlich auch keine Lust mehr die fehlenden Inhalte zusammenzutragen. Nun diesmal hab ichs anders gemacht und die Seite einfach nicht online gestellt als sie erst halbfertig war… mich sozusagen selbst überlistet =) Read more »