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“Mad Libs” Style Forms

Luke Wroblewski, Chief Design Architect at Yahoo! and author of “Web Form Design“, published a very interesting post about “Mad Libs” Style Forms and how he improved the conversation of vast.com by 25-40%. This is how Luke tweaked the contact form: Read the full post: “Mad Libs” Style Form Increases Conversion 25-40% I wondered whether there is...

Friday late night hacking

Pairing with Heineken on some cool stuff we will show you soon - live from Paris

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Make your buttons look super awesome

Back in April, ZURB published the super awesome buttons to showcase what can now be done with CSS and RGBA. They are so awesome! They still look like images but loading speed and maintainability continues to benefit from normal HTML buttons. Below is what they...

Stop wasting time – create Bug Tickets with Screenshots using Freshlog

I love bug reports with screenshots because you take one look and you know exactly what the problem is. There is no need to leave your ticket environment to reproduce the bug, you see it right there. You see the browser and you see the current site,...

Rotate Images and Stuff wit CSS only

Did you know you can rotate images (and all other html elements) by using nothing but CSS?

Simply add these CSS classes to your HTML elements for rotation in 90 degree steps.

  .rot0 {
    -webkit-transform: rotate(0deg); 
    -moz-transform: rotate(0deg);
    rotation: 0deg;
...

ReCSS – AJAX friendly CSS testing

Back in the days when the web didn't yet have a version number, David from dojotoolkit.org came up with a neat solution to reload your css without the need of reloading your page: ReCSS.

It's just a simple bookmarklet that walks through all linked stylesheets and reloads them. This omits page...