I just ran into a great website named curamaps. Curamaps is a -google maps like- website. You can search through all streets, guides, main roads, districts and hot spots on Curacao. Really nice app, because curaçao isn’t viewed nicely by googlemaps (yet).

Back in the day there was no standard way to publish video on the web. You could put any kind of video file you wanted on the server, but there was no guarantee that your readers would have the correct plugin required to view it. Everyone had to have a bunch of plugins installed to have any hope of...

The latest browsers are already implementing some of the updoming html 5 specification, so it’s a good time to start experimenting with what the next web will bring. HTML 5 is still working its way through the standards process, but some of its features are already in your browsers. If you’re...

I ran into an article that featured a number of websites that fulfilled all the wrong criteria for a successful website. Here is another example of web design that should really be put out of its misery. These sort of sites are becoming part of a dying breed and harder to find so make sure you pay a...

LearningjQuery.com has a pretty cool presentation of the dates of their blog posts. Check it: The typeface and the year being vertical should tip you off right away that images are being used to accomplish this. But also note that the date information is presented as text, as it should be, in the markup: ...

A hacker attack shut down Twitter on Thursday morning, and Facebook also said it was “looking into” possible site problems. Twitter said in its status blog Thursday that it was “defending against a denial-of-service attack,” in which hackers command scores of computers to a single...

The idea The idea is just to overlay some text over an image, but as blocks that stick out from the left with an even amount of padding all the way around the variable-length text. Here is a screenshot example: The Schematics The HTML <div> <img src="images/3754004820_91a5c238a0.jpg"...

About Cufón aims to become a worthy alternative to sIFR, which despite its merits still remains painfully tricky to set up and use. To achieve this ambitious goal the following requirements were set: No plug-ins required – it can only use features natively supported by the client Compatibility –...