It seems that the long-awaited WordPress 3.0 is out and it also seems to have some new features that, in my opinion, brings WordPress closer to what a real CMS should be. I worked quite a lot with Drupal and now I consider WordPress to be a good alternative for all those projects. The most […]

I needed recently to overlap, on a web page, a text on an image, and the text was to be white, with a black background, with alpha. For this, the solution is to make two DIVs, both positioned in a container div. The container div has to have “position: relative”. The second div has to […]

When using AJAX, there is a cross-domain security restriction that does not allow accessing an URL with a different domain than the one of the page that contains the script (the script’s domain). For most AJAX applications, this is not an issue, as you can host the data on the same domain. But let’s consider […]

This post is about rotating an image on a web page – that is not rotating more images (slide-showing them). It’s about rotating an image with an angle. Why would that be useful? If you want to put an image rotated by an angle on a web page, the easiest would be to make a […]

For this site I wanted to use an imageflow-type gallery on the index page. There I will upload several pictures of mine 🙂 The first thing to try was searching an already-made module for wordpress. I couldn’t find one that was the way I wanted – either they were old, not working, bulky, slow, ugly, […]

When building this site, I thought I should add some color to it. And because I am a fan of DeviantArt, I looked for a way of showing several images from there in the sidebar. I discovered, after some search, the plugin deviant-thumbs, which actually got updated to version 1.9.2. It works great – it […]