By nitin on February 2, 2010
Here is a Django Template tag which you can use to protect the E-mail address on your website against bots or spiders that index or harvest E-mail addresses. It uses a substitution cipher with a different key for every page load. Continue reading…
Posted in Django | Tagged bots, Django, Javasript, security, spam, spamming, spiders, template, template-tag |
By nitin on January 29, 2010
Firefox is my favorite browser. The biggest reason for this is its repository of useful plugins. The only problem which I see in its default installation is the screen usage. With this I mean, Firefox wastes a lot of screen real estate in unnecessary menus, buttons. The good news is that it also provides flexibility to customize its overall look and feel.
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Posted in Hack, Tips & Tricks | Tagged Customize, Firefox, productivity, UI |
By nitin on January 6, 2010
Drop Shadows adds extra glare to any design. They can be easily accomplished in any graphic editor, however its a little tricky in web programming. In this post I'll walk you through various ways in which you can add shadows to images without any extra markup used. Continue reading…
Posted in CSS, Tips & Tricks | Tagged box-shadow, CSS, css3, image, shadow |
By nitin on January 3, 2010
Google URL Shortener at goo.gl is a service that takes long URLs and squeezes them into fewer characters to make a link that is easier to share, tweet, or email to friends. [official announcement]
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Posted in Tips & Tricks | Tagged bookmarklet, google, Javascript, url, url shortner |
By nitin on January 2, 2010
How do I vertically center my stuff inside this area ?
If you are looking for an answer for the above question then possibly you've landed on the correct page. The very first solution for this is to have vertical-align:middle in your css. But unfortunately this CSS property only works on table-cell and img. Continue reading…
Posted in Javascript | Tagged align, CSS, Javasript, jquery, Middle, mootools, Position, vertical-align |
By nitin on November 21, 2009
Some days back I wrote a post regarding "Beautiful Thumbnail Hover Effect". On getting such a good response about the javascript effect I am again presenting a different thumbnail presentation.
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Posted in CSS, Javascript | Tagged CSS, Effect, hover, Javascript, mootools, Thumbnail |
By nitin on October 29, 2009
You would have often seen various attempts to make hyperlink more beautiful. One of my personal favorite is to have little icons beside links to let you know where they link to.
Different icons for external links, pdfs, images, etc. etc. You can find the tutorial for such link over here.
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Posted in CSS, Javascript | Tagged CSS, Hyperlink, Javascript, jquery, Link, mootools, Sexy |
By nitin on October 11, 2009
Torrentz.com is a great site. It is a basically a one stop destination for any torrent search. I personally find it very useful as it automatically syndicate all the torrents from various sites like piratebay, mininova, demonoid etc.
Before downloading any movie from torrent I usually check its rating, synopsis & star cast on IMDB. I find this process very cumbersome and boring to search each movie on IMDB. To ease out this process I searched for a GM Script(GreaseMonkey Script). I found one, but it wasn't perfect so I have modified it. Continue reading…
Posted in Hack, Javascript | Tagged Firefox, GM, GreaseMonkey, IMDB, Javascript, rating, Torrentz |
By nitin on October 11, 2009
I have always been fond of CSS wonders. Although We all have seen lots of buttons using CSS, using JS, but today I am bringing you a fresh implementation of buttons.
The real beauty of these buttons are in its background images. In this tutorial I have also included the photoshop(psd) file used in creation of these buttons, so feel free to come up with your own imagination.
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Posted in CSS | Tagged Beautiful, Button, CSS, hover, HTML |
By nitin on October 9, 2009
For one of my personal project OnlyAds.in , I wanted to implement search. The requirements I had were :
- Easy & Fast to Install / Setup
- Can perform reasonably complex searches
But until we have anything like django.contrib.search, we'll have to work with alternate applications. Continue reading…
Posted in Django | Tagged Daniel, Daniel Lindsley, Django, HayStack, Search, Whoosh, Xapian |