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Category Archives: Code/Design

The Sincerest Form of Flattery

March 11, 2010 – 10:09 pm

My wife owns (and at the time of this posting is selling) a dog training business in Negaunee township called Tandem Dog Training. A new-to-the-scene competitor (or her designer) apparently felt that my wife’s website was worth copying. Take a look…. My wife’s website (that we built): The ripoff: While the main difference is that [...]

By Nathan Lyle | Also posted in News | Comments (0)

Goodies

September 16, 2009 – 9:39 am

What’s nice about the internet is that there are so many sites out there that offer free resources for design. The thing is that sometimes they can’t be used for commercial purposes or maybe require credit to be given each time you use the download, which is a problem if you happen to be a [...]

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It’s Curtains! (Disguise long image load times with some javascript and CSS that pretends to be Flash.)

September 11, 2009 – 10:34 pm

If there’s no way around a few large images in your design, but you don’t want the page to load piecemeal, here’s a way to cover them up while they’re loading, with a familiar looking “flash” style curtain. Basically, what this does is use Javascript to cover the page with a styled DIV (the curtain) [...]

By Nathan Lyle | Also posted in Neat Ideas | Comments (0)