Band Logo Design Contest

Are you a graphic / logo designer? The band I play for is looking for a skilled and imaginative designer to create our band logo. The contest begins today and the deadline for logo submissions is October 19, 2008. The winning logo and its designer will be announced on October 29, 2008. And yes… there [...]

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Controlling the CSS Opacity Rate of Child Elements in Transparent Parents in Internet Explorer

This article is rather old. Please, read the updated version for a cross-browser solution. The alpha transparency filter applied on parent elements is inherited by their children, which is not always the desired behavior and can create unwanted design effects. However, due to a browser bug in Internet Explorer, there is a cool hack that allows not only to [...]

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Welcome to the Acid Machine

I’ve just finished the website of my new music project – Acid Machine (a neoclassical-progressive band from Sofia, Bulgria). I built in on top of the AJAX content management system TinySite.XML I’m developing and I think the result is really good. Also, several of my AJAX widgets and tools are up and running, and their implementation was [...]

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Google Chrome Sucks Big Time

Yesterday I downloaded the highly promoted, long-awaited, great and rock-solid browser Google Chrome. Full of expectations, I installed it and gave it a try. And in about half an hour I removed it from my machine with an expression of ironical condescension. Because it sucks big time. As a matter of fact, in my opinion, the only other [...]

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