The best Image replacement method for hyperlinks, so far… Published on April 26, 2012

Last week I’ve came across with a new ‘method for image replacement (e.g. on hyperlinks), wich I’ve tested successfully in my latest project, and thus I now recommend its usage…

So far the most common method, was to use the -9999px left-margin, but this had a few drawbacks, since it had to “draw” a huge 9999px box offscreen.
This new “recipe” is cleaner and dramatically improves performance when compared to the old -9999px method.

So this is the code to use:

.hide-text {
text-indent: 100%;
white-space: nowrap;
overflow: hidden;
}

This method was discovered, apparently, by Scott Kellum, design director at Treesaver, and published in www.zeldman.com/2012/03/01/replacing-the-9999px-hack-new-image-replacement/ where you can read some more about it.

Lomo style images with Photoshop Published on November 15, 2011

Create your Lomo style images with Adobe Photoshop

Lomo images have a typical look: vignetted, highly contrasted and “overlayed-like” colors, this look was caused by the characteristic C-41 as E-6 cross-processing.

In this tutorial we’re going to try to achieve the same results using Adobe Photoshop and a modern digital picture.

Using Google Search tips and tricks Published on December 15, 2010

The following techniques are examples of shortcuts to getting the most out of Google Search and Voice Search. For the latest list of tips and tricks, visit the Google Help Center.

What you want What to type or say Examples
Sports information [team’s name] San Francisco Giants
Pictures Pictures of [topic] images of [topic] Pictures of San Francisco Images of cats
Convert measurements [original measurement] in [new measurement] 30 degrees Celsius in Fahrenheit
Movie showtimes Movie Movie [location] [movie name] Movie Movie Chicago The Horse’s Mouth
Word definition Define [word] Define campanile
Weather forecast Weather Weather [location] Weather Weather Detroit
Identify an area code Area code [###] Area code 215
Identify a Zip code Zip code [#####] Zip code 46202
Time Time Time [location] Time Time in London
Flight information [Airline] [flight number] American airlines flight 390
Translation Translate to [language] [phrase] Translate to Spanish, Where is the Palace Hotel?
Calculator [A math phrase] 75 divided by 6
Food [Type of food] [Type of food] in [location] Mexican food Mexican food in Urbana, Illinois

Code Snippets for WordPress Published on September 27, 2010

If you are a pro or amateur developer editing or upgrading your WordPress plugin or theme, if you are short of time (or knowledge) and you need a handy repository of code snippets, WordPress Snippets is the place to get them!

Save your precious time. – Don’t reinvent the wheel.

The idea behind WordPress Snippets is simple; to provide small snippets of code, helping you to create a magic WordPress Theme. The original documentation of WordPress is excellent, but not as straight forward as you may want. Straight forward is the lead word for WP Snippets. No talk, just Snippets.

Visit their website at: wp-snippets.com/

Google’s 200 ranking factors Published on September 21, 2010

Google algorithm cracked1. An insight into Google’s 200 ranking factors

Last week, Google’s Eric Schmidt said that listing Google’s 200 ranking factors would reveal business secrets. Although Google does not officially publish their ranking algorithms, there is something that you can do to crack Google’s secret algorithm.

Google’s 200 ranking factors

Google uses about 200 ranking factors to determine the position of a web page in the search results. Unfortunately, Google does not reveal the list of ranking factors and how exactly they are weighted.

Google’s ranking formula is a business secret. The problem is that your web pages must have all of these 200 elements if you want to see your pages on Google’s first result page.

Which factors are important to Google?

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