Monthly Archives: February 2012

Tinycon: Favicon Alert Bubbles

Tinycon is a neat script that manipulates the favicon of a page. Using a simple JavaScript call, you can add a little alert bubble over the icon, and change the number within. If the browser doesn’t support Canvas, it falls back to appending a number to the page title, like GMail does.

Very cool. Now I just need to think of something to use it for…

Tinycon – Favicon Alert Bubbles [GitHub]

BlogBuzz February 25, 2012

Adventures in Buying Expiring Domains

I recently tried my hand at buying a previously-owned domain name. There was a domain that I had wanted for years, but it had already been taken. On a whim, I ran a whois search on it a couple weeks ago for some reason…

BlogBuzz February 18, 2012

CSS1K: What Can You Do With 1KB of CSS?

Back in 2003, a website called CSS Zen Garden was launched by Vancouver web designer Dave Shea to showcase what could be done with pure CSS. Back then, the internet was full of table-based layouts and large, text-filled images. The Garden was a pretty…

How Much Does Amazon CloudFront Cost for a Small Blog?

You may have heard about how people speed up their websites by offloading images, CSS and JavaScript from their server to a Content Delivery Network like Amazon CloudFront. The CDN mirrors the files in separate datacenters and serves them up from the one closest…

Crowd Favorite’s WordPress Post Formats Admin UI

Back in WordPress 3.1, a new feature called Post Formats was added to enable theme developers to more easily denote different types of posts in order to make “tumblog” themes. But the feature is lacking as it stands today. The UI is simply not…

BlogBuzz February 4, 2012